Found Any Good Information Lately?
by Bonita Wilson

Letters

The Return on Investment of Electronic Journals - It Is a Matter of Time
Jonas Holström, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

Virtual Remote Control: Building a Preservation Risk Management Toolbox for Web Resources
Nancy Y. McGovern, Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, William R. Kehoe, and Ellie Buckley, Cornell University

Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity
Brian F. Lavoie, OCLC Online Computer Library Center

Continuing Education, Libraries and the Internet (CELI) Project: Narrowing the Skills Gap in Southern African University Libraries
Paiki Muswazi, University of Swaziland

nestor: Network of Expertise in Long-term STOrage of Digital Resources - A Digital Preservation Initiative for Germany
Susanne Dobratz, Humboldt-University, Berlin and Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library

Report on the 3^rd OAI Workshop: CERN, Geneva, 12-14 February 2004
Chris Awre, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Sitting studio portrait of a Native American (Osage) man, identified as Paul Red Eagle, 1880 - 1910.
Copyright © Denver Public Library Western History Collection, Call number: R7100325867. Used with permission.

The image is from one of the partnering institutions of the Collaborative Digitization Project (CDP), D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.

Collaborative Digitization Project
Nancy Allen, Collaborative Digitization Project

Open GIS Consortium Online Standards Testing
Kurt Buehler, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.

The XGrain II Project
Sandy Shaw, EDINA National Datacentre

DigiStates
Kenneth Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University

In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

In Print

• Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Research Directions for Digital Libraries
• The Disability Portfolio
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
• University and Community Research Partnerships, a New Approach
• Museums and the Web 2004
• Journal of Digital Information: Special issue on New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems
• Choosing and Using Open Software
• JISC Strategy 2004 - 2006
• Digital Document Quarterly
• Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Economy: Interim Report (2004)

Point to Point

• 2004 Internet Impact Symposium: Identity Abuse in the Campus Environment
• Infography
• Nature, online special forum on the debate over access to the electronic scientific literature

Calls for Participation

• Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) Conference, 8 - 9 November 2004, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Call for papers. The submission date is 1 June 2004.
• ICDM 2004: The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 1 - 4 November 2004, Brighton, UK. Call for papers. The submission date is 1 June 2004.
• The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'04), 16 - 18 December 2004, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Call for papers. The submission date is 4 June 2004.
• The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2004), 13 - 17 December 2004, Shanghai, China. Call for papers. The submission date for abstracts is 10 June 2004.
• Request for Proposals for a National Research Study on the Future of Librarians in the Workforce, The Institute of Museum and Library Services Office of Library Services. The submission date is 15 June 2004.

Goings On

• ETD 2004 Conference, 3 - 5 June 2004, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
• Canadian Association for Information Science/L'association canadienne des sciences d l'information (CAIS/ACSI) 2004 Annual Conference, 3 - 5 June 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting 2004, 2 - 4 June 2004, San Francisco, California, USA
• 2004 (95th) SLA Annual Conferences, Special Libraries Association, 5 - 10 June 2004, Nashville, TN, USA
• JCDL 2004, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 7 - 11 June 2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• The Electronic Media Group 2004 Meeting, 9 - 14 June 2004, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Colleges, Code, and Copyright, 10 - 11 June 2004, College Park, Maryland, USA
• ALLC/ACH-2004, Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, 11 - 16 June 2004, Göteborg, Sweden
• SIGMOD/PODS '04, International Conference on Management of Data and Symposium on Principles Database and Systems, 13 - 18 June 2004, Paris, France
• The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science Technology, and Medicine, International Ticer School 2004, 13 - 18 June 2004, Geneva, Switzerland
• International Conference on Virtual Communities, 14 - 15 June 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands
• Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2004), 14 - 16 June 2004, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• 2004 CLA, Canadian Library Association, 16 - 19 June 2004, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• 2004 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '04), 17 - 19 June 2004, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
• NASIG 2004 Annual Conference, Growth, Creativity, and Collaboration: Great visions on a Great Lake, North American Serials Interest Group, 17 - 20 June 2004, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• 8th ELPUB Conference - Building Digital Bridges: Linking cultures, commerce and science, 23 - 26 June 2004, Brasilia, Brazil
• Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing, 24 June 2004, London, United Kingdom
• Joint Technical Symposium for Preservation of AV Materials, 24 - 26 June 2004, Toronto, Canada
• American Library Association Annual Conference, 24 - 30 June 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint Conference, 25 - 28 June 2004, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
• ICME 2004, IEEE 2004 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 27 - 30 June 2004, Taipei, Taiwan
• Return on Investment for Libraries and Information Services, International Ticer School 2004, 28 - 29 June 2004, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• 8th ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces For All", 28 - 29 June 2004, Vienna, Austria

Deadline Reminders

• ECDL 2004 - 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries
• Search Engine Meeting 2004
• IS&T Archiving Conference
• CFP2004, 14th Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
• Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity
• Buying & Selling eContent
• ISMIR 2004
• Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication
• RIAO 2004
• Creative Clusters Conference 2004
• The 19th CODATA International Conference - The Information Society: New Horizons for Science
• DC-2004 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
• FOIS-2004: International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
• ISMIR 2004
• IVIRA
• WSE 2004: 6th International Workshop on Web Site Evolution
• CUMREC 2004
• The Third IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference
• File Formats for Preservation
• Digital Preservation Management
• 1st International Workshop on "Data Processing and Storage Networking: Towards Grid Computing"
• Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals Workshop 2004
• ECDL 2004 - 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries
• Dialogues 2004
• National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o'2004)
• INFORM 2004 Conference on Professional Information Resources
• IASSIST 2004 - Data Futures: Building on 30 Years of Advocacy
• AVI 2004, Advanced Visual Interfaces
• Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2004
• PAKDD 2004, 8th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• ACRL 12th National Conference
• 4th WSEAS International Conference on Multimedia, Internet and Video Technologies
• From Papyrus to Print-out: The Book in Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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