It's Time for Wider Acceptance of e-Textbooks
by Bonita Wilson
doi:10.1045/september2009-editorial

Letters
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Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)
Gail Steinhart and Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University; and Ann Green, Yale University
doi:10.1045/september2009-steinhart

Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs
Ioannis Papadakis and Michalis Stefanidakis, University of Ionio; and Konstantinos Kyprianos and Rosa Mavropodi, University of Piraeus
doi:10.1045/september2009-papadakis

Analysing Selection for Digitisation: Current Practices and Common Incentives
Bart Ooghe, Heritage Cell Waasland; and Dries Moreels, Flemish Theatre Institute (BE)
doi:10.1045/september2009-ooghe

OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany
Uwe Müller, Robin Malitz, and Peter Schirmbacher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; and Thomas Severiens, Universität Osnabrück
doi:10.1045/september2009-mueller

Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula
R.S.R.Varalakshmi, Andhra University
doi:10.1045/september2009-varalakshmi

Report on OAI 6: CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva 17-19 June 2009
Elena Giglia, University of Turin
doi:10.1045/september2009-giglia

Purple Cows and Fringy Propositions: The Edinburgh Repository Fringe Festival 2009
Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University
doi:10.1045/september2009-morris

Volunteer Voices
Kenneth Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University; and Tiffani Conner, Lincoln Memorial University
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File Information Tool Set (FITS): A New Tool for Digital Preservation Repositories
Spencer McEwen and Andrea Goethals, Harvard University
doi:10.1045/september2009-inbrief

Meet RODA, an Open-source Repository for Digital Preservation
Luis Faria and Miguel Ferreira, Portuguese National Archives
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The New Zealand Public Sector Digital Continuity Action Plan
Stephen Clarke, Archives New Zealand
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In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

Maxine A. Smith at downtown business boycott. Courtesy of Memphis Public Library. Used with permission.

This month's featured collection is Volunteer Voices.

In Print

• Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age
• Online Learning as a Strategic Asset: Volume I: A Resource for Campus Leaders
• Online Learning as a Strategic Asset: Volume II: The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences with Online Learning
• The Internet and Civic Engagement
• Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies
• The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations
• Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today: Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability
• Effective Practice in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching
• The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Shoots Up
• Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings under State Law and Its Impact on Use by Nonprofit Institutions: A 10-State Analysis
• Proceedings of the DigCCurr2009 Conference
• Wireless Internet Use
• A future for our digital memory: permanent access to information in the Netherlands, English-language summary
• Technology Watch Report: Preserving Geospatial Data
• Video Use and Higher Education: Options for the Future
• 7 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (September)
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (August)
• PARSE.Insight Newsletter
• nestor Newsletter
• Planetarium: The News Bulletin of the Planets Programme

Point to Point

• Web2practice user guides
• Webjunction Social Networking & Web Tools
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB)
• Google Book Search Bibliography

Calls for Participation

• International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 09), 4 - 12 December 2009. This is an online conference. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 12 October 2009.
• International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2010), 23 - 26 February 2010, New Delhi, India. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 October 2009.
• emtacl10 - emerging technologies in academic libraries, 26 - 28 April 2010, Trondheim, Norway. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 15 October 2009.
• International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), 7 - 10 April 2010, Valencia, Spain. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 21 October 2009.
• International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), 7 - 10 April 2010, Valencia, Spain. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 21 October 2009.
• FOIS 2010 6th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, 11 - 14 May 2010, Toronto, Canada. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 23 October 2009.
• Electronic Resources & Libraries 2010, 1 - 3 February 2010, Austin, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 October 2009.
• IADIS International Conference e-Society 2010, 18 -21 May 2010, Porto, Portugal. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 October 2009.
• IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010, 19 - 21 March 2010, Porto, Portugal. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 October 2009.
• IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) Call for 2010 Museums for America Grant Applications. The submission deadline is 2 November 2009.
• Twelfth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 9 - 13 May 2010, Toronto, Canada. Call for papers. Submit title and abstract by 20 November 2009 and full papers by 30 November 2009.
• 2nd International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications (IMAGAPP), 17 - 21 May 2010, Angers, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 22 November 2009.
• 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 17 - 21 May 2010, Angers, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 22 November 2009.
• 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), 17 - 21 May 2010, Angers, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 22 November 2009.
• Joint Technical Symposium 2010: Digital Challenges and Digital Opportunities in Audiovisual Archiving, 2 - 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway. Call for papers. The preliminary submission deadline is 1 December 2009.

Goings On

• Internet Librarian International 2009, 15 - 16 October 2009, London, United Kingdom
• Fall Forum: An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age, 15 - 16 October 2009, Washington, DC, USA
• First International Conference on Cloud Computing, 19 - 21 October 2009, Munich, Germany
• LIBER - Digitization of Library Material in Europe, 19 - 21 October 2009, Copenhagen, The Netherlands
• Digital Preservation Training Programme, 19 - 21 October 2009, London, United Kingdom
• The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), 21 - 23 October 2009, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
• International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009), 22 - 24 October 2009, Beijing, China
• 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 22 - 25 October 2009, New York City, New York, USA
• The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2009), 25 - 27 October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA
• 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), 25 - 29 October 2009, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
• Internet Librarian 2009: Net Initiatives for Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices, 26 - 28 October 2009, Monterey, California, USA
• 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 26 - 30 October 2009, Kobe, Japan
• E-LEARN 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education, 26 - 30 October 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Fifth International Symposium on Digital Libraries (V SIBD), 27 - 28 October 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
• The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'09), 27 - 30 October 2009, Lyon, France
• International UDC Seminar 2009: Classification at a Crossroads, 29 - 30 October 2009, The Hague, The Netherlands
• The Universal Repository Library and guarantees for the sustainability of the digital copy, 29 - 30 October 2009, Kuopio, Finland
• Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2009), 1 - 4 November 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2 - 6 November 2009, Hong Kong, China
• 2nd International Conference The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture), 4 - 6 November 2009, Zagreb, Croatia
• RuleML 2009: 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability, 5 - 7 November 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• 9th Annual Brick and Click Libraries, 6 November 2009, Maryville, Missouri, USA
• Thriving on Diversity - Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World ASIS&T 2009 Annual Meeting, 6 - 11 November 2009, Vancouver, Canada
• 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2009 (ICITST-2009), 9 - 12 November, London, United Kingdom
• 2009 Conference and Members' Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 9 - 15 November 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• Center for Intellectual Property Online Workshop: Licensing Digital Course Materials, 9 - 20 November 2009, (Register by November 2, 2009.)
• Access Services Conference 2009, 11 - 13 November 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• 37th Annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) Conference, 11 - 14 November 2009, Portland, Oregon, USA
• International Conference on Information Theory and Engineering (ICITE 2009), 13 - 15 November 2009, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
• Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), 14 - 16 November 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 14 - 18 November 2009, San Francisco, California, USA
• Thirteenth International Conference and Exhibition LIBCOM-2009, 16 - 20 November 2009, Moscow Region, Russia
• The Semantic Web: Fact or Myth? (A One-Day Conference Co-sponsored by CENDI, FLICC and NFAIS), 17 November 2009, Washington, DC, USA
• 2009 NSDL Annual Meeting: From Digital Libraries to Cyberlearning, 17 - 19 November 2009, Washington, DC, USA
• IADIS International WWW/Internet 2009 Conference, 19 - 22 November 2009, Rome Italy
• IADIS International Conference: Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2009), 20 - 22 November 2009, Rome, Italy
• National Digital Forum 2009 Conference - Being online now: culture, creativity and community, 23 - 24 November 2009, Wellington, New Zealand
• International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software, 23 - 24 November 2009, Kunnamangalam, Calicut, India
• Alliance for Permanent Access Annual Conference, 24 November 2009, The Hague, The Netherlands
• The 5th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems (SITIS'09), 29 November - 4 December 2009, Marrakech, Morocco

Deadline Reminders

• IADIS International WWW/Internet 2009 Conference
• IEEE 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD-II 2009)
• eHealth 2009 Second International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century
• The Fifth Australasian Ontology Workshop
• Fall Forum: An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age
• Europe's Fifth Information Architecture Summit
• 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries
• Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: "Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines"
• The 8th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT 2010
• Museums and the Web 2010
• Third International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'09)
• Access 2009 Conference
• ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, & Policy
• 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval
• WEMIS 2009: Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces
• Second Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries"
• 12th Annual LITA National Forum: Open & Mobile
• International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2009)
• International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence
• nternational Conference on Academic Libraries (ICAL-2009)
• IC3K- International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
• International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC): Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content
• REMIS Implementation Fair 2009
• Internet Research 10.0 - Internet: Critical: 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
• NISO Forum Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities
• The 2009 International Conference on Distance Education and Open Learning (DEOL 2009)
• Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information
• DC-2009 "Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data"
• The 9th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
• Workshop on Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems
• Southeast CONTENTdm Users Group 2nd Annual Meeting
• DSpace User Group Meeting 2009

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