D-Lib Magazine
May 1999

Volume 5 Number 5

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips & Pointers

European Visual Archive Project PUB1128

Contributed by:
Tim Harris
London Metropolitan Archives

The European Visual Archive (EVA) is a two-year, transnational project that began on 1 December 1998. It is being funded in part by the European Commission via DGXIII, the directorate responsible for telecommunications and the information market. The EVA project is one of 20 selected from a total of over 140 applicants under the INFO2000 programme call for initiatives to exploit Europe’s public sector information.

The EVA project is a European Strategic project involving both private and public sectors to stimulate the use of multimedia information content by exploiting resources in public archives. The principal aim is to enhance access to European Heritage through digital preservation of archival collections. In the case of EVA, this means photographs from 1900 to the present being digitised and displayed on the World Wide Web. The universal nature of the photograph makes an ideal subject for an international project. The dream would be for a researcher interested in a particular subject and time span to have ready access via the Internet to images held in many different archives across Europe. Thus, someone researching docklands pre-1914 could locate images in Antwerp and London and compare installations regardless of language or national barriers.

The initial stage of the project is to establish a large enough digital databank of photographs from the archives of two major cities, London and Antwerp, to examine the best methods of digitisation, levels of description, and presentation on a website.

A total of 20,000 photographic images will be made available to researchers. The EVA project aims to extend this to other European public archives who then will be able to benefit from the EVA project studies on description standards, image quality, metadata, copyright and pricing policies.

At the end of the project, a working model will be developed so that all European public archives will be able to use the system. This working model will have solutions to language barriers; will use appropriate search and navigation methods; will employ direct charging systems; and, thereby, will introduce a very easily accessible tool for the multimedia industry and all archive users.

The EVA partners are:

  • Telepolis Antwerpen (TA) Belgium
  • London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) UK
  • Stadsarchief Antwerpen (SAA) Belgium
  • Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschnappelijke Informatiediensten (NIWI) Netherlands
  • European Commission of Preservation and Access (ECPA) Netherlands
  • Lernout and Hanspie Speech Products (L+H) Germany

The project is worth approximately 1 million ECUs, of which the European Commission contributes 50%.

EVA will run in partnership with a number of other information projects including EUAN (the European Union Archive Network) from the INFO2000 programme. Whereas EVA is starting at item-level description of archives, the EUAN project is starting at series-level description of archives. It will be useful to construct an interface between these two projects each of which have similar challenges, both technical and legal, to meet.

EVA will work within international standards already established and looks forward to close co-operation with the International Council of Archives (ICA) and regional and national archives in the European Union. The results of the EVA project will be disseminated as widely as possible.

To find out more about EVA please visit the website at  <http://www.eva-eu.org/ >.

Or contact

Tim Harris, London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB
Tel + 44 171 332 3841
Fax + 44 171 837 4306

Building Earth's Largest Library:
Driving Towards the Future

(Searcher Magazine. Volume 7, Number 3, March 1999.)

Contributed by:
Steve Coffman
Director, FYI
County of Los Angeles Public Library

The purpose of my article, "Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving Towards the Future" was to explore what might happen if we applied the Amazon.com business model to the library world. You can read the full text of the article at http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/mar/searcher.htm, but the gist of it is this:

Amazon built Earth's Biggest Bookstore by allowing their customers to search one huge catalog listing all of the 4 million books, CDs, and videos they had a reasonable chance of getting, even though Amazon actually only maintains a few hundred thousand of the most popular titles in it's own inventories.

So, suppose we built Earth's Largest Library by allowing our patrons to search a huge catalog that listed all the books (and other materials) we could get, instead of just those few items that happened to be in our own collections? There are any number of ways you could build such a catalog, but probably the easiest and most straight-forward approach would be to take the OCLC Worldcat database and combine it with a list of current and forthcoming titles like that found on Amazon. That would give you a catalog of around 43 million items -- certainly enough to qualify as Earth's Largest Library, and enough to satisfy the needs of even your most discriminating patrons. (I know, I know, this catalog wouldn't include a lot of non-English language material, and it would be heavily focused on the US -- but we'd try to address those problems in the next phase.)

Suppose further, that we've gone through that catalog and, wherever possible, we've "enhanced" our cryptic bibliographic records by adding cover art, jacket copy, tables of contents, indexes, reviews, selections from the text, and anything else that might help our patrons evaluate and select the books they want -- just as Amazon has gone through and added all kinds of content, special browsing arrangements, recommendation "engines" and other features to try to make it as easy as possible for their customers to find what they want.

Finally, suppose we made this catalog available over the Web, so your patrons could logon and search it from anywhere in the world any time of the day or night -- just as they can now with the Amazon catalog. And when your patrons searched the catalog, they would get back a result set that showed -- not who owned the item, or where it was located (most could care less) -- but how quickly they could get it (e.g., this title available immediately from at your local branch; this title ships in 24 hours; this title ships in 2-3 days; etc.) When a person found what they were looking for, all they would have to do is "click" to check it out. They could arrange to pick it up at their local library or have it shipped directly to them for a small additional fee.

Of course, all of this would cost a lot of money -- Amazon spends around 12.5 million per year to develop and operate its catalog, Web site and transaction system -- but that is only a small percentage of the 465 million per year Library Journal estimates libraries are currently spending on automation systems alone. And the question is, how many catalogs and circulation systems do we need? Do we really each need to spend the millions we are spending to maintain separate, and often pretty rudimentary, catalogs and circulation systems at each institution, or wouldn't it be better to pool our funds and develop one really nice catalog and circulation system that would work for all?

The article goes on to explore the various ramifications such a system might have on library operations: how you might be able to use it to transform the way we do collection development; how libraries might be encouraged to make their collections available for loan; potential new revenue sources it might open up; and so forth -- all in much greater detail than I can relate here.

I am very gratified that the article has generated a substantial amount of interest and comment, -- enough so that the editor, Barbara Quint, has asked me to do a follow-up piece to try to address the various issues that have been raised. I would welcome comments, suggestions, and even criticisms, from the readers of D-Lib Magazine who might have an interest in this subject matter. The only thing I ask is that you please read the article first. It is over 10,000 words in length, and it is almost impossible for me to do the article justice in this forum. Also, I'll need to have any comments by June 1st in order to insure they are incorporated into the upcoming piece. You may email me at coffman@cerfnet.com, or phone me at 1-800-582-1093. Feel free to say whatever you'd like, I welcome any and all comments. Finally, if you would like to explore the subject in more depth, you should know that the Internet Librarian Conference is planning a full track on Building Earth's Largest Library at it meeting in San Diego this November. For further information, visit their Web site at http://www.infotoday.com/il99/il99.htm.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)

Contributed by
Richard Hill
American Society for Information Science
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
rhill@asis.org

VOLUME 50, NUMBERS 6, 7 and 8

To see the Tables of Contents, click here.

The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org> contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.

The John Wiley Interscience site http://www.interscience.wiley.com includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the Interscience site have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints. We are still working on restoring access for ASIS members as "registered users."

American Society for Information Science
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 495-0900 FAX (301) 495-0810
http://www.asis.org/

In Print

  • The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries by Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources, April 1999.

    This report was written for educators, university administrators, and scholars, and provides a summary of both the problems of preservation and progress that is being made. It also discusses the shortcomings of using digital technology alone as the total solution to the problems of preserving deteriorating materials since, although digitization increases access to research material, digitization also can be both costly and unreliable.

    Pointers to the abstract and full text (in either PDF or HTML formats) as well as an order form for the print version may be found at  <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/.

  • Museums and the Web 1999, Selected Papers Online

    The conference, "Museums and the Web 99", was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 11 - 14, 1999. The conference featured over 150 speakers from around the world, and now over 80 of the papers are available in full text on the web at  <http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/speakers/index.html >. The selected papers will soon be available in print form, and an order form for the print version may be found at  <http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html >. (The order form lists other publications from Archives & Museum Informatics as well.) A 50% prepublication discount applies to orders for Cultural Heritage Informatics 1999, Selected Papers from ichim99 if ordered before August 30, 1999.

  • Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference Papers

    A joint Rsearch Libraries Group (RLG) and National Presservation Office (NPO) conference, "Guidelines for Digital Imaging", was held on September 28 - 30, at the University of Warwick in England. RLG and NPO are committed to assisting the international preservation community in managing digital imaging projects. They have made the conference proceedings available online at  <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/confpapers.html >. Papers include:

    • Guidelines Versus Guidance for Digital Imaging: the Opportunity Before Us
      Anne R. Kenney, Associate Director for Preservation, Cornell University, US

    • Selection Guidelines for Preservation
      Janet Gertz, Director for Preservation, Columbia University, US

    • Guidance for Selecting Materials for Digitisation
      Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, University College, London, UK

    • Preparation of Materials for Digitization
      Ann Swartzell, Senior Preservation Program Officer, Harvard University, US
    • Protecting the Physical Form
      John McIntyre, Head of Preservation, National Library of Scotland, UK

    • Guidelines for Image Capture
      Stephen Chapman, Preservation Librarian for Digital Initiatives, Harvard University, US

    • Guidelines for Image Capture: a UK Perspective   [Powerpoint presentation. Full paper to come.]
      Jane Williams, Technical Advisory Service for Images, UK

    • Issues and Approaches to Preservation Metadata
      Michael Day, Research Officer (Metadata), UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

    • Issues and Approaches to Digital Archiving
      Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

    • Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities
      Seamus Ross, Director of Humanities, Computing & Information Management, University of Glasgow

    • Canadian Overview
      Karen Turko, Head of Preservation Services, University of Toronto, Canada

    • Closing International Reaction Panel Address: an Australian Perspective
      Colin Webb, Manager of Information Preservation, National Library of Australia

    • Weaving the Threads
      Peter Fox, University Librarian, University of Cambridge, UK

    A print version of the conference proceedings will be available from the National Preservation Office in the coming months.

  • NEDLIB News Sheet, Issue number 2, March 1999.

    The NEDLIB Project (Networked European Deposit Library) was started in January 1998, with funding from the European Commission Telematics for Libraries Programme. The project aim is to construct the basic infrastructure on which a networked European deposit library can be built. The NEDLIB newsheets provide updates of the project and related developments in the field. Issue 2 may be be found at  <http://www.konbib.nl/coop/nedlib/news2/index.html >, and the project web site is at  <http://www.konbib.nl/nedlib/ >.

Point to Point

  • Project Runeberg

    Project Runeberg was begun in 1992 to provide online access, free of charge, to old books from Sweden and the Nordic countries in several languages (most are in Swedish). Project Runeberg now lists more than 200 titles, cataloged alphabetically, and more titles are continuing to be added. The project is an open and voluntary initiative to make the texts available. For information about the project: who funds it, copyright issues, and how to become involved, please see the project web site at  <http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/.

    Project Runeberg's web site also has a collection of annotated links to other digital library projects. This list may be found at  <http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/foreign.html.

Deadline Reminders

Goings On

  • Searching and Researching in the Web Environment: Looking toward the Millennium, 4 June 1999, New York, New York, USA. Registration ends 1 June 1999.

    Four nationally known speakers will make up the panel of this one day seminar at the Donnell Library in New York City. The presentations include:

    • The Evolution of the Web as an Online Research Environment
      Reva Basch, Aubergine Information Services, The Sea Ranch, CA.

    • Finding and Organizing Your Reference Collection on the Web; or Lost in the Supermarket, I Can No Longer Shop Happily
      Marylaine Block, Associate Directory for Public Services, St. Ambrose University.

    • The Answer Machine
      Susan Feldman, Datasearch, Ithaca, NY

    • Natural Language Processing for Enhanced Information Access
      Elizabeth Liddy, President/CEO, Textwise, Syracuse, NY.
      •

    This seminar is also open to participants who may not be be members of NYLINK. Registrations to: Carol Donato, Nylink, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246, Phone: (518-443-5444 or 800-342-3353.

  • Communication in the Third Millennium: Which Way Africa? 28 - 31 October 1999, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Call for papers. Deadline for abstracts is 8 June 1999.

    The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to discuss how best improved communication can be adapted to enable African people and their institutions to function in the Third Millennium.

    Papers are sought on the following topics:

    • Culture and Communication: Religion; Identity; Philosphy; Morality/Corruption; Language.
    • The Arts and Communication: Fine Art; Music; Dance; Drama; Literature.
    • Science and Communication: Globalization; Library Science;
      • Communication Technology; Education and the Challenges of Development; Road, Air, and Water Communication.
    • Governance and Communication: Democracy; Law; Mass Media; Human Rights; Management; Trade and Communication.

    Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be mailed to: The Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Faculty of Arts, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.

  • ACH-ALLC'99 International Humanities Computing Conference, 9 - 13 June 1999, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

    This five day joint conference of the Association of Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Liguisitic Computing (ALLC) will follow three tracks with about twenty papers to be presented in each track. A sample from each of the tracks includes the following papers:

    • Track A:
      • "Word sense disambiguation using cross-lingual information"
      • "Non-traditional Authorship Attribution Studies"
      • "HyperPo: The Next Generation"
      • "Patterns of Hypertext and their Impact on Reading Activities"
    • Track B:
      • "Networked Moving Images"
      • "Expanding the Community: The Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) Project"
      • "Refining Our Notions of What (Digital) Images Really Are"
      • "Meaning and Metadata: Managing Information in a Digital Image Reference Collection for the Humanities"
    • Track C:
      • "Challenges in the Design of Online Full-Text Databases: Creating 'Rich' Text Encoding"
      • "The Pragmatics of Publishing a Scholarly Electronic Journal"
      • "The Reliability of Human Disambiguation in Text Markup"

    This is just a small sample, and the conference web site has a full listing as well as abstracts of papers at  <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/schedule.html >.

  • ACM SIGIR '99 Workshop on Customised Information Delivery, 19 August 1999, Berkeley, California, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 22 June 1999.

    Information delivery is customised when it is tailored or adapted to a specific user need or user profile. The Web provides good examples of customised information delivery with virtual documents and adaptive hypertexts. In Information Retrieval, information can be customised by means of user interaction, synthesized answers, etc. This workshops aims to bring together researchers from various communities that have worked on customised information delivery: the Web, Information Retrieval, Natural Language, etc.

    Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

    1. Information Retrieval and Filtering:
      • building a set of queries out of an information need, to address different aspects of that need
      • clustering answers around either information descriptors, or using self-clustering techniques
      • building tables of contents, and navigation tools
      • abstracting information from long documents
      • using better user models to describe information needs
      • using dialogue models to support interactive retrieval
        •

    2. Virtual Documents and Adaptive Hypertexts:
      • visualisation/results presentation of hypertext structure
      • user modeling on the Web
      • usability studies of hypertext
      • applications of adaptive/dynamic hypermedia (e.g. museum, digital libraries, electronic catalogues for e-business)
        •

    3. Natural Language:
      • text generation with a user profile
      • text generation on the web (generation of hypertext)
      • applications of context-sensitive text generation
      • multimedia generation; interaction of text and other media
        •

    For additional information, please see the SIGIR conference web site at  <http://www.ted.cmis.csiro.au/sigir99/ >.

  • OCLC Institute Events at the 1999 ALA Annual Conference, 25 - 27 June 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

    • The OCLC Institute will host three special events at the 1999 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. They are:

    • Using Metadata for Knowledge Management, ALA Preconference Workshop, Friday, June 25th.

      This one-day preconference provides an introduction to metadata and its applications for knowledge management, with an emphasis on Dublin Core metadata.

    • OCLC Institute Alumni Reception, Saturday, June 26th.

      Registration is requested, but the reception is free of charge.

    • Library Directors Forum, Sunday, June 27th.

      All Library Directors are invited to this special forum. Martin Dillon and Erik Jul will discuss lessons learned from the past year's seminars. Registration is requested, but the event is free of charge.

  • Special Issue: Imaging Visualization and Humanities Research, Call for papers.

    • Papers are requested for a special issue of Archives and Museum Informatics, the cultural heritage information quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal from Kluwer Academic publishers, that explores the application of imaging technologies in humanities research. Papers are invited that report on how imaging technologies were used in a humanities informatics project to further the research goals of the investigator.

    Full papers will be accepted for peer review and possible inclusion in this issue until June 30, 1999. For Guidelines for Authors, and instructions about submitting papers, please see  <http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/armu.guide.html >.

  • The Educause Institute Management Program, 10 - 22 July 1999, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

    The audience for this EDUCAUSE Institute is described as:

    The EDUCAUSE Institute Management Program is the foundational program of the Institute. Established in 1990, the Management Program has served more than 1,000 professionals in higher education. Attendees of the Management Program come from many professional domains and parts of the world. Past graduates have included campus information technologists, librarians, information resources professionals, and functional managers who depend on information technology. The curriculum of the Management Program has been designed to give participants a sound working knowledge of key management practices and techniques to allow them to lead intelligent and effective change at the departmental or functional level of the campus.

  • International Conference on Information Visualisation, 14 - 16 July 1999, London, England, UK.

    • The sponsors describe the scope of this conference thus:

    "There is a growing demand in establishing processes through which data and information can be best captured, archived, shared and explored. Visualisation of data, information and knowledge is at the forefront of these activities that has led to a convergence in the use of computing among various disciplines. The diversity and complexity of information and its applications has consequently created a domain of erosion of boundaries between information users and information originators. This revolution has in turn created new contexts, needs, and potential for interaction between users and information. Now the core question is, how will humankind tame this boundless potential?

    "The theme chosen for this conference is "A PROGRESS FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE". Information Visualisation'99 (IV’99) conference aims to focus on the interdisciplinary methods and affiliated research done among various science disciplines, medicine, engineering, media and commerce. This three day event will focus on the research and developments conjured to meet the roaring demand of today’s "Information Transfer" through the medium of computing, accentuating on the linkage that shapes academia and industry with the goal of stimulating views and providing a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss the latest developments linked to Information Visualisation."

    Please see the conference web site at  <http://www.it-link.demon.co.uk/IV99/ > for full program and registration details.

  • 6th International Symposium on Spatial Databases, 20 - 23 July 1999, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

    • SSD is held biennially at various locations throughout the world. The prime application area for the conference is geographic information systems; however, spacial database technology has been developing a wider application such as:

    • 2D or 3D geographic space; GIS, urban planning, geology, meteorology
    • the universe; astronomy
    • the human body; medicine
    • molecular structures; molecular biology
    • VLSI design spaces with electronic circuits
    • 2D images; image retrieval by content
    • 2D images + 1D time: video, multimedia objects
    • high-dimensional feature spaces; similarity search

    A preliminary program for SSD'99 may be found at  <http://www.cs.ust.hk/~ssd99/technical_program.html >.

  • The Second Asian Digital Libraries Conference, 8 - 9 November 1999, University Library of the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Call for papers. The submission due date is 31 July 1999.

    • he Asian Digital Libraries Conference (ADL) tries to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry and government to advance the research of digital libraries in Asia. The conference will be immediately followed by IRALˇ¦99 (Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, 1999), to further facilitate interchange between the DL and IR communities.

    Papers are being sought on the following topics:

    1. Collection
      • Archives
      • Arts
      • Geographic Material
      • Government Information
      • Humanities
      • Manuscripts
        •
    2. Digitalizataion and Preservation
      • Archiving
      • Authoring
      • Image Processing
      • Multimedia
      • OCR
      • Watermark
        •
    3. Information Organization
      • Data Modeling
      • Knowledge Representation
      • Metadata
      • Multimedia
      • SGML, XML, HTML, RDF
      • Thesaurus and Corpus<
        •
    4. User Interaction
      • Evaluation
      • Learning and Instruction
      • Presentation
      • User Feedback
      • User Study
      • Visualization
        •
    5. Information Retrieval
      • Automatic Indexing and Classification
      • Cross-Language Retrieval
      • Distributed Access
      • Information Extraction
      • Information Filtering
      • Intelligent Agent
        •
    6. System and Infrastructure
      • Content Management
      • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
      • Naming Scheme
      • Network
      • Security and Access Control
      • System Architecture
        •
    7. Cultural and Social Issues
      • Authentication and Authorization
      • Economic Issues
      • Education
      • Legal Issues
      • Policy
      • Publishing
        •

    For submission requirements and instructions, please see the conference web site at  <http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/adl99/ >.

  • Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing, 2 - 6 August 1999, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

    • This summer institute is designed to provide both theories and practical applications in cultural heritage information management and knowledge sharing. Planned are lectures, panel sessions, and workshops which will take place at the new Getty Center and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus.

    The course is aimed at professionals in museums, libraries and archives, and will emphasize team approaches to work across departmental and institutional boundaries.

    For additional information, or to register, please contact Madi Weland, Project Associate, Getty Information Institute at mweland@getty.edu.

  • 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 8 - 13 August 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA.

    • This five day conference will include presented papers, panels, courses, exhibitions, and a computer animation festival.

    Papers are classified under the broad headings of Rendering, Modeling, and Interactive Techniques, and they cover subjects such as efficient lighting; data captures; texturing; hardware; image-based rending; meshes & morphing; virtual reality; interactive techniques; and imaginative rendering.

    Panels explore the art and science of image and interface, and address technical, practical, aesthetic, and social challenges. After their presentations, authors and panelists will move on to practical demonstrations.

    Three days of courses for professional development are offered for everyone in computer graphics and interactive techniques, from first-job novices to 25-year veterans. The courses include full-day courses, half-day courses, and two-hour tutorials. Full Conference registration allows attendees to select from over 40 SIGGRAPH 99 Courses. Full descriptions, including indications of course level, may be found at  <http://www.siggraph.org/s99/conference/courses/index.html >. In addition, attendees who select the Full Conference registration option receive access to all SIGGRAPH 99 Courses and the Course Notes on CD-ROM.

    The computer animation festival will present stories and non-narrative works that reflect on the past and illuminate the future, in imagery and animations, film and video, live and interactive performances. The year's outstanding achievements in digital experience appear in the evening and matinée shows of the Electronic Theater and Animation Theaters.

    For additional conference information, including registration instructions, please see the conference web site at  <http://www.siggraph.org/s99/welcome/index.html >.

  • Strait to the Future, 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health, and Law Librarians Conference, 22 - 26 August 1999, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

    • This conference includes three tracks: the first for special librarians, the second for health librarians, and the third for law librarians. A sample of papers -- for just the first day of the conference -- in the three tracks include:

    1. Special libraries:
      • Outsourcing - giving librarians back to their isolated clients
      • Using external service companies to improve an information service - a positive view of outsourcing
      • From farmgate to knowledge gateway
      • The diffusion of IR research to the practice of librarianship
        •

    2. Health libraries:
      • Clinical Information Access Project (CIAP): A unique resource for all NSW Health Clinicians
      • The impact of hospital networks on hospital libraries in Melbourne, 1995 to 1999
      • Comparing the value and impact of information obtained by health practitioners undertaking literature searches with those undertaken by library staff
      • Strait to Recognition: practical client services benchmarking of hospital libraries in Queensland
        •

    3. Law libraries:
      • The future of the past, the development of Australian legal history
      • New Zealand legal material on the internet
      • One person libraries, islands or innovators?
      • Economic rationalisation and its effect on government services
        •

    For the full listing of papers for all days, including authors and brief descriptions, please see the conference program pages indexed at  <http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/strait/program/index.html >.

  • Society of American Archivists (SAA) 63rd Annual Meeting, 23 - 29 August 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

    • This conference is for SAA members. Preconference workshops for the SAA Annual Meeting include:

    • Archival Cataloging as a Component of Description
    • The Application of the USMARC Format
    • Encoded Archival Description
    • Digital Imaging Technology
    • Understanding Archives
    • Oral History: From Planning to Preservation
    • The Reformatting Challenge: Management Issues
    • Preservation Planning: Surveying, Selection and Holdings Maintenance
    • Probing Appraisal Practice: Contending with Methods, Mayhem and Madness
    • Writing Your Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Plan
    • Administration of Photographic Collections
    • Basic Electronic Records
    • Advanced Electronic Records

    For information about the Society of American Archivists, including membership information, please see the SAA home page at  <http://www.archivists.org/ >.

  • SCOPE 1, Information vs Meaning, 30 September - 1 October 1999, Vienna, Austria.

    • For two days, international experts in technology, design, economics and science will convene at the Vienna Hilton Hotel to present current research trends and innovative cutting-edge projects in the field of information technology.

    The main emphasis of scope1: information vs. meaning will be on recent developments in information technology and their impact on the way knowledge is handled and managed. Leading experts from fields such as computer science, physics, interface design and artificial intelligence will present inventive solutions and strategies which will profoundly change access to and use of knowledge in the future by providing simpler, faster and more efficient techniques.

    Online registration is now available. For more information please visit the scope website at  <http://www.scope.at >.

Pointers in this Column

26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 8 - 13 August 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA.

http://www.siggraph.org/s99/
http://www.siggraph.org/s99/welcome/index.html
http://www.siggraph.org/s99/conference/courses/index.html

6th International Symposium on Spatial Databases, 20 - 23 July 1999, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

http://www.cs.ust.hk/~ssd99/main.html

ACH-ALLC '99, International Humanities Computing Conference, 9 - 13 June 1999, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/index.html

ACM SIGIR '99 Workshop on Customized Information Delivery, 19 August 1999, Berkeley, California, USA.

http://www.ted.cmis.csiro.au/sigir99/

American Society for Information Science

http://www.asis.org/

Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving Towards the Future", Searcher Magazine. Volume 7, Number 3. March 1999.

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/mar/searcher.htm

CAIS 1999, Information Science: Where has it been, where is it going? 9 - 11 June 1999, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~turner/english/cais1999.html

Communication in the Third Millennium: Which Way Africa? 28 - 31 October 1999, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Call for papers. Deadline 8 June 1999.

Write to:
The Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Faculty of Arts, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.

EUNIS '99: Information Technology Shaping European Universities

http://www.hut.fi/Misc/EUNIS99/

European Visual Archive Project PUB1128

http://www.eva-eu.org/

ICHIM 99, International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, 23 - 26 September 1999, Washington, D.C., USA. Early registration deadline 30 May 1999.

http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/ichim.html

IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference '99, 19 - 21 May 1999, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/

International Conference on Information Visualisation, 14 - 16 July 1999, London, England, UK.

http://www.it-link.demon.co.uk/IV99/

Internet Librarian Conference

http://www.infotoday.com/il99/il99.htm

John Wiley Interscience

http://www.interscience.wiley.com

Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference Papers

http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/confpapers.html

Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Preconferences

http://www.ala.org/lama/events/preconference99/index.html

Making Sense of Digital Identifiers for Internet and Other Applications: 1999 LITA (Library &Information Technology Association) Preconference Workshop, 21 May 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

http://www.lita.org/ac99/precon99.htm

Museums and the Web 1999, Selected Papers Online

http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/speakers/index.html
http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html

Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing, 2 - 6 August 1999, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Contact Madi Weland, Getty Information Institute
mweland@getty.edu.

NASIG 14th Annual Conference, From Carnegie to Internet2: Forging the serials future, 10 - 13 June 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.library.cmu.edu/Conferences/NASIG/Schedule.html

NEDLIB News Sheet , Issue number 2, March 1999.

http://www.konbib.nl/coop/nedlib/news2/index.html

NEDLIB project web site

http://www.konbib.nl/nedlib/

OCLC Institute Events at the 1999 ALA Annual Conference, 25 - 27 June 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

http://www.oclc.org/institute

Project Runeberg

http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/foreign.html

SCOPE 1, Information vs Meaning, 30 September - 1 October 1999, Vienna, Austria.

http://www.scope.at

Searching and Researching in the Web Environment: Looking toward the Millennium, 4 June 1999, New York, New York, USA. Registration ends 1 June 1999.

Registrations to: Carol Donato, Nylink, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246, Phone: (518-443-5444 or 800-342-3353,

Society of American Archivists

http://www.archivists.org/

Society of American Archivists (SAA) 63rd Annual Meeting, 23 - 29 August 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.library.cmu.edu/SAA-PghHostCmte/

Strait to the Future, 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health, and Law Librarians Conference, 22 - 26 August 1999, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/strait/
http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/strait/program/index.html

The Educause Institute Management Program, 10 - 22 July 1999, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

http://www.educause.edu/inst/m992/m992.html

The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries, by Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources, April 1999.

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub82/pub82.text.html
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/

The Second Asian Digital Libraries Conference, 8 - 9 November 1999, University Library of the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Call for Papers. The submission due date is 31 July 1999.

http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/adl99/

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