archives at: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln

Digital Library News is published by the IEEE Computer Society three times each year. It is a brief alerting/reporting service for those working in the diverse fields which digital libraries comprise. While we monitor a number of Digital Libraries sources, coverage can only be as complete as your submissions are. Please send contributions, comments and suggestions to me at sef2@cornell. Be sure to keep the report brief, and include a contact name, email address and a URL so that readers can find more extensive information.

• Sue Feldman, Editor

Advances in Digital Libraries 1998: Conference Report

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• Sue Feldman
• Conference report: European Science and Technology Forum: Electronic communication and research in Europe Seeheim/Darmstadt April 15-17, 1998. This conference addressed the impact of electronic communication technology on communication and research in Europe. It identified the following needs: rigorous quality assessment; higher bandwidths; dedicated academic bandwidth; creation of a distributed European library system. Further recommended in a number of areas, including the relationship between conventional (printed) and electronic publishing; the economics of electronic publishing; privacy and data protection; and intellectual property rights and copyright issues. The Academia Europaea was founded in 1988 and has 1700 members from 33 European and five non-European countries. For further information: {boecker,neuhold}@darmstadt.gmd.de. See also the Web pages of the Academia Europaea: http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de/ and the conference pages: http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de/seeheim.
• Heinz-Deiter Boecker and Erich J. Neuhold

NASA POC: Michael Nelson <m.l.nelson@larc.nasa.gov> NTRS: http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS NCSTRL+:

http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/1998/mtg/NASA-98-ieeedl-mln.pdf

ODU Digital Library Group: http://dlib.cs.odu.edu:8000

• The INDIANA UNIVERSITY DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM incorporates: The Victorian Women Writers Project (electronic editions of works by 19^th century British women) <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html>;

The Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), which provides access to electronic texts in literature, history, philosophy and linguistics, and also provides reference service in its facility in the Main Library. <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/>; VARIATIONS , which provides CD-quality digital audio to campus workstations and is a testbed for real-time multimedia networking at Indiana University.

<http://www.music.indiana.edu/variations/>. The Digital Library Program is also engaged in a series of image and sound digitization projects in partnership with special collections libraries at Indiana University. Indiana University has been awarded an Internet2 research grant from IBM, for work in the areas of digital library applications and advanced audio and video services. <http://www.hied.ibm.com/internet2/projects.html>.

• The UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MAKING OF AMERICA site http://www.umdl.umich.edu/ moa/ now contains 1,601 books and ten journals with more than 49,069 articles documenting America’s social history. Based on feedback solicited in earlier announcements for the resource, as well as local user studies, the current implementation adds functionality in a number of areas. System features include full text search and browsable bibliographies for journal articles and monographs. Future plans:

Integration with the Making of America materials at Cornell University (http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/); Improved markup and presentation of raw text; new works added. We hope to work with other institutions and funding agencies to make more significant additions to the MoA site. Please send expressions of interest to moa-info@umich.edu.

• CHINESE PILOT DIGITAL LIBRARY: Under a grant from the Chinese government, the National Library of China and Shanghai Library, together with libraries in Nanjing, Zhongshan, Liaoling, and Shenzhen will develop the Chinese Pilot Digital Library. Together these libraries house over 30 million volume, including resources from 1911 to the present, as well as Chinese rare books, records, manuscripts, and special collections originally held in the imperial libraries of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are unique inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Yin-Shang Dynasties (16^th-11^th century B.C.), and scarce Dun Huang manuscripts ranging from Wei and Jin to Sui, Tang, and the Five Dynasties. (Report submitted by Sally C. Tseng, Head, Serials Cataloging, University of California, Irvine Libraries, voice: (949) 824-6832, fax: (949) 824-2059, e-mail: sctseng@uci.edu.)
• PROJECT CIRCE (Community Information Research Resource), will create a network of public libraries to increase access to core community information in Great Britain: clubs and societies council services, health services, citizen’s rights, etc. Access will be the responsibility of the participating authorities, most of whom are already implementing strategies to open up public access to the Internet throughout their communities. The technical side of the project will by handled by UKOLN, the UK Office for Library Networking, who are funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre and by JISC. UKOLN are working with various tools including their ROADS software for networking information. They are also heavily involved in metadata projects including Dublin Core, MODELS and RDF. For details, contact Helen Leech, CIRCE Project Officer, e-mail: hleech@gloscc.gov.uk, or see http://www.gloscc.gov.uk/circe/.
• VideoTalk—the Australian Digital Video Libraries Technology site: A resource directory providing technical content on video standards and formats, storage technology, media servers, and communication bandwidth, also links to Australian video libraries, archives, and research centers: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/DMIS/VideoTalk/VideoTalk.html
• The Thomas MacGreevy Hypertext Chronology project creates a digital archive about the life, work and relationships of Thomas MacGreevy. It will provide a test bed for the INTENTS project which is developing intelligent navigation tools for Hyper Documents. Contents include documents, images, sound and video recordings—an excellent corpus for developing a model for managing a large hypermedia archive. Further information at: http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei
• The CEDARS project aims to address strategic, methodological and practical issues and will provide guidance for libraries in best practice for digital preservation. CEDARS is a three year project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) through the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).CURL (The Consortium of University Research Libraries) will lead th project. Under the overall direction of the CURL Management Board, Cedars will be based across three lead sites (Oxford, Leeds and Cambridge). Wider involvement from the community will come through focus groups, workshops and discussion lists. CEDARS will identify, document and disseminate strategic frameworks within which individual libraries can develop collection management policies which are appropriate to their needs and which can guide the necessary decision-making to safeguard the long-term viability of any digital resources which are included in their collections. Http://www.curl.ac.uk email: k.l.russell@leeds.ac.uk
• China’s 211 PROJECT-CALIS: The China Academic Libraries Information System (CALIS) will be a resource network based on the China Education and Research Net (CERNET), providing Internet resource sharing for China and other countries. The CALIS Project will preserve and build resources in digital and electronic formats from their existing resources in each participating library, and provide mirror sites at each national and regional center. There will be eight regional centers in China. They are:

1) Beijing: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Medical University, and Beijing Agricultural University; 2) Eastern-South: Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University; 3) Eastern-North: Nanjing University; 4) Central: Wuhan University; 5) Northwest: Xian Jiao Tong University; 6) Southern: Zhongshan University; 7) Southwestern: Sichuan University; and 8) Northeastern: To be determined. CALIS is expected to be completed in the year 2010. (Report submitted by Sally Tseng, sctseng@uci.edu.)

*DIGITAL INITIATIVES DATABASE: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC),is developing a database of digital initiative projects underway at its member institutions. The database will include digital projects of all sizes and scope together in one place. The web site at http://www.arl.org/did/ is searchable, and lists projects by host institution, technical focus and subject area, and includes fuller description of the project, contact information, and a URL. The database aims eventually to include projects from non-ARL institutions. For more information, contact: Karen H.

Zuidema, Assistant Catalog Librarian, of Illinois at Chicago. E-mail: khz@uic.edu

*UMI DIGITAL VAULT INITIATIVE. UMI has announced a massive effort to digitize its 5.5 billion page archive containing documents going back to the first texts printed in English. "When the initiative is completed-which will take years of scanning-the UMI archive will be the deepest standing resource of historical documents on the Net." For more information see: http://www.umi.com/hp/Features/DVault/ Wired magazine’s story on this announcement can be found at: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/13298.html

*EUROTEXT provides access to an electronic resource bank of learning materials on Europe via the internet (http://eurotext.ulst.ac.uk). It is funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) established by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Eurotext was initially funded for three years and was recently awarded further transitional funding to facilitate the change from project to service. For further information about Eurotext contact the project co-ordinator, Freda Carroll at Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom. For technical information contact Clare McClean, Educational Services, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, BT30 0QB, Northern Ireland.

• INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PROJECT, an Educom (now EDUCAUSE) NLII (National Learning Infrastructure Initiative) project, is developing a specification and software for managing online learning resources. The specification includes a small set of required labels (including those proposed as the Dublin Core by OCLC), lists of optional labels, and a process for extending the lists of metadata. See http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/index.html

*Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO): http://www.amico.net ; or, contact Jennifer Trant, jtrant@archimuse.com, or David Bearman, dbear@archimuse.com, Archives & Museum Informatics (AMICO’s management consultants). AMICO is a not-for-profit association of institutions engaged in building a joint digital library which documents their collections, to be made available to the university, public library, and kindergarten-through-grade-12 educational communities.

*Next WAVe(sm), a clearinghouse of projects, research, products, and services devoted to "Auditory Browsing in Web and Non-Web Databases": Next WAVe(sm), a clearinghouse of projects, research, products, and services devoted to "Auditory Browsing in Web and Non-Web Databases": http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Wave.htm.

• Documenting the American South: THE SOUTHERN EXPERIENCE IN 19^TH-CENTURY AMERICA, a full-text database of primary materials offering Southern perspectives on American history, literature, and culture, with initial emphasis on North American slave narratives, first-person narratives, and Southern literature http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/index.html.
• Playa Lakes/Ogallala Aquifer Digital Library Initiative, a bibliographic database and full-text resource on the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest aquifer in the world, and on playa lakes elsewhere, compiled by Texas Tech University Libraries: http://www.lib.ttu.edu/playa/playa.htm.

DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE - PHASE 2. Announcement Number NSF 98-63. This initiative supports Digital Libraries research, in amounts up to $200,000 per year for 1 to 3 years for individual investigators, or $1,200,000 per year for multi-disciplinary groups for 1 to 5 years. Topics: development, management, and accessibility of digital content or collections, serving new user communities, HCI, and creating digital library testbeds. See: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm DUE DATES: FY 1999 Competition: Letters of Intent: February 15, 1999;

D-Lib Working Group on Digital Library Metrics seeks to develop appropriate metrics to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of digital libraries and component technologies. Initial emphasis will be on (a) information discovery with a human in the loop, and (b) retrieval in a heterogeneous world. See http://www.dlib.org/metrics/public/index.html.

http://www.museumlicensing.org

Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library, report from the international conference organized by the UK Office of Library Networking on behalf of JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), CNI (Coalition for Networked Information), BLRIC (British Library Research and Innovation Centre), EDUCAUSE, and CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians), held on June 16 and 17, 1997 in London, UK: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html.

"Towards the Digital Library", edited by Leona Carpenter, Dr Andrew Prescott and Simon Shaw, published by The British Library, price £20, ISBN 0 7123 4540 X. The book gives a detailed account of the Library’s Initiatives for Access programme, which explored the application of digital and networking technologies for the storage, retrieval, display and transmission of information in order to widen access to items in the Library’s collection and enhancing Library services. These include: the Electronic Beowulf project, the Patent Express Jukebox, the prototype for Turning the Pages, winner of the 1998 BIMA Interactive Displays Award , and Inside, a current awareness and document delivery system. Towards the Digital Library gives a detailed account of the projects in the Initiatives for Access programme and examines future needs. Review copies can be obtained from Dr Bart Smith in Press and Public Relations at The British Library, tel 0171-412 7111, fax 0171-412 7168, e-mail bart.smith@bl.uk

Further information about the British Library Digital Library Programme is available on the Library’s website, http://www.bl.uk/diglib "Observation and Measurement in Evaluating Digital Libraries", Paul B. Kantor from SCILS, Rutgers, the State University. Most of the problems of evaluating digital libraries have clear counterparts in the evaluation of traditional libraries, which therefore provides a good foundation for dealing with digital libraries. URL: http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/seminar.htm This lecture is available as a RealAudio broadcast at http://zuul.ncsa.uiuc.edu/arrott2/media/kantor.ram. You will need the RealPlayer 5.0 to view and listen to the lecture.

http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/

http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/

• AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter supports scholars, librarians, and researchers engaged in developing text or image databases in Asian/EurAsian Studies. Published quarterly (March, June, September, December) on the WWW.

See http://asiandoc.lib.ohio-state.edu/

• Computing And The Humanities: Promise And Prospects, National Arts and Humanities Computing Roundtable, Summary Report, published by the American Council on Learned Societies: http://www.acls.org/op41-i.htm.
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Working Draft, July 20, 1998: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax/. Additional information on RDF can be found at http://www.w3.org/RDF. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a foundation for processing metadata (that is, in the context of this specification, data describing web resources).
• Up and Running: Implementing Z39.50. Edited by Sara L. Randall. ISBN: 1-880124-33-5. 64 pages. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. Cost: $35.00 (US). Order from: NISO Press Fulfillment, voice: 800-282-6476 (US/Canada) or 301-567-9522, fax: 301-567-9553, e-mail: nisopress@niso.org. The edited proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the State Library of Iowa, held on November 26, 1996. Six articles explain how the standard works and illustrate how 25 Iowa libraries have used the standard to link their catalogs.
• Virtually New Creating the Digital Collection: A Review of Digitisation projects in local authority libraries and archives. Final Report to the Library and Information Commission. Prepared by Consultants to the Review, Information North (the Development Agency for Library and Information Services in the Northern Region of England). Report by David Parry. Library and Information Commission. London. 1998. 129 pages. ISBN: 1 902394 003. £15.45 (inc. UK post & packaging; international at cost). To download the report in Word 6.0/95 or Word 97 format: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/.
• Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information, by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC). Presents an international perspective on consortial licensing and the purchasing of electronic information by libraries: http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html.
• Guidelines on best practices for using electronic information.

Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. 1997. 60 pp. ISBN: 92-828-2285-0. To view or to download in PDF format: http://www2.echo.lu/dlm/en/gdlines.html.

• FYI FRANCE, a monthly electronic journal published since 1992 by Jack Kessler,. kessler@well.sf.ca.us. A number of issues have analyzed digital libraries in France. Archives are at http://infolib.berkeley.edu (search fyifrance), or http://www.cru.fr/listes/biblio-fr@cru.fr/ (BIBLIO-FR econference archive), or http://www.fyifrance.com, or http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/pacs-l.html.
• A Summary Report on the SPRING 1998 TASK FORCE MEETING OF CNI (Center for Networked Information), including an account of its plenary panel on digital archiving issues: http://www.cni.org/. (This site also provides information on current and past projects and reports on other CNI meetings.)
• Standards for Digital Information Interchange and DIGITAL PRESERVATION, two publications of the UK Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS): http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/standards.html; http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/preserve.html
• CLIR Issues is published by the Council on Library and Information Resources. This is one of two publications, along with the Preservation and Access International Newsletter, which superseded the Commision on Preservation and Access Newsletter at the beginning of 1998. Both are sources for digital library development updates and research.CLIR Reports cover a wide-range of issues pertaining to digitization, library systems, preservation, and other issues. All CLIR Publications can be found at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/pubs.html
• Biblio Tech Review provides library automation technology news and reviews to librarians, information scientists, and other professionals: http://www.biblio-tech.com/.
• THE DIGITAL LIBRARY TOOL KIT is the newest library white paper published by Sun Microsystems: http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries/whitepaperindex.html.
• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and NPACI (the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) publish a a biweekly Web newsletter—Online (http://www.npaci.edu/Online); a quarterly research magazine—enVision (http://www.npaci.edu/enVision)project that describes such projects as Digital Library integration that joins four of the NSF/DOE/DARPA digital library initiatives (Stanford, Michigan, Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara). Subscribe at http://www.npaci.edu/News/subscriptions.html

General Conference, August 16-21. Contact: Johan van de Walle, e-mail: vandewalle@stb.tno.nl or jvdwalle@bart.nl.

August 13-15. Sheffield, United Kingdom. INFORMATION SEEKING IN CONTEXT: an International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use in Different Contexts. Hosted by The Department of Information Studies at Sheffield University.. For additional information: http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/groups/disc/ISIC/isic2.html. Contact: David Allen, voice: +44 (0) 114 222 2641+, fax: +44 (0) 114 278 0300, e-mail: D.K.Allen@Sheffield.ac.uk.

August 14-16. Baltimore, Maryland. Advances in Social Informatics and Information Systems (Mini-Track of the Association for Information Systems [AIS] 1998 Americas Conference). Contact: Roberta Lamb, Case Western Reserve University, voice: (216) 368-3914, fax: (216) 368-4776, e-mail: rel@po.cwru.edu.. For additional information about AIS ‘98, see the Conference home page at: : http://www.isworld.org/ais.ac.98.

August 16-21. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Creating Electronic Texts & Images: Second Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick. A practical, hands-on exploration of the research, preservation, and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. Instructor: David Seaman, University of Virginia. http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm _ Contact: Karen Maguire, voice: (506) 453-4740, e-mail: kmaguire@unb.ca.

August 24-28. Melbourne, Australia. SIGIR’98: 21^st Annual International ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGIR (Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval) Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/sigir98/.

August 25-29. Lille, France. Structures and Relations in Knowledge Organization. The Fifth International Conference of The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO 5) will focus on knowledge structures as represented in the human mind, in the formation of categories, in information handling tools, including classification schemes, thesauri and indexing systems, knowledge structures as represented in computers and intelligent systems, indexing systems. For further information: http://WWW.univ-lille3.fr/www/isko/isko2.htm. Contact: Widad Mustafa Elhadi, Conference Chair, Universite Charles De Gaulle, Lille, France, voice: 33 3 20 41 64 08, fax: 33 3 20 41 63 79, e-mail:

mustafa@univ-lille3.fr. ISKO 5 e-mail address : isko.conf@univ-lille3.fr.

November 2-4; November 9-11; and December 7-9). Dublin, Ohio. Understanding and Using Metadata. This seminar provides an intensive theoretical and practical, project-based exploration of metadata and its applications. For more information and to register online, see http://purl.org/oclc/institute. Contact: Erik Jul, OCLC Institute, voice: (614) 764-4364, fax: (614) 718-7132, e-mail: jul@oclc.org.

A conference for creators, users, distributors, and curators of digital resources. Email: enquiries@drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

September 16-18. College Park, Maryland. Afterimages: Reformatting Visual Materials in a Digital World. A conference presented at the Archives II site of the National Archives and Records Administration. Funded by the National Park Service Cultural Resources Training Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the National Archives and Records Administration. A course designed to teach managers of picture collections how to plan and manage projects to reformat endangered visual materials. Contact: Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA, voice: (978) 470-1010, e-mail: tracy@nedcc.org..

September 19-23. Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Co-sponsored by the European Union; the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics; ICS-FORTH (Institute of Computer Science-Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas); and the University of Crete. Conference Web page: http://www.csi.forth.gr/2EuroDL. Contacts: Rena Kalaitzaki and Maria Stavrakaki, , University of Crete, Computer Science Department, voice: +30 81 393504, fax: +30 81 393501, e-mail: ecdl@cc.uch.gr.

September 23-26. Nantes, France. 2^ND EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY (PKDD’98). http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98. Contact: Jan Zytkow, Program Co-Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, e-mail: zytkow@uncc.edu.

September 23-26. Santa Monica, California, Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. KNOWLEDGE CREATION, KNOWLEDGE PRESERVATION, KNOWLEDGE SHARING. The Museum Computer Network Annual Conference, held in 1998 at. An international event on all aspects of technology use in museums. Contact: Michele Devine, Museum Computer Network, Silver Spring, Maryland, voice: (301) 585-4413, e-mail: mcn@mcn.edu..

October 18-23. Ithaca, New York. Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives Workshop. A week-long workshop on the use of digital imaging technology, presented by the Cornell University Library’s Department of Preservation and Conservation. New workshop sections address image quality assessment, image databases, color management, digital archiving, legal issues, and user evaluation http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/digital.htm.

Contact: Oya Y. Reiger, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, voice: (607) 254-5160, e-mail: oyr1@cornell.edu.

October 25-29. ASIS (American Society for Information Science) annual meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel. Includes ASIS SIG/CR (Special Interest Group on Classification Research) Classification Research Workshop on all aspects of classification theory and application, including creation, development, management, representation, display, comparison, and compatibility. http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/asis.sigcr/crwork.shtml. Contact: Elin K. Jacob, Workshop Chair, Indiana University, e-mail: ejacob@indiana.

October 27-29. Ann Arbor, Michigan. TO FILM OR TO SCAN: REFORMATTING FOR PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD. A Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) workshop on preservation microfilming and digital imaging. Emphasis divided equally among general principles of reformatting, preservation microfilming, and digital imaging for preservation. Contact: Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA, voice: (978) 470-1010, e-mail: tracy@nedcc.org

December 7-9. New Orleans, Louisiana. SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: ISSUES OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS FOR PAPER-BASED COLLECTIONS. This conference will train participants in: 1.The Basics of Digital Technology; 2. Deciphering Digital Jargon; 3. Content Selection for Digitization; 4. Legal Issues of Digital Technology; 5. Text and Image Scanning; 6. Quality Control and Costs; 7. The Essentials of Metadata; 8. Digital Preservation: Theory or Reality; 9. World Wide Web Publications; 10. Multi-versioning . Cost: $255 for early bird registration, post marked by October 15, 1998, and $325 for late registration, deadline November 18, 1998.Contact: Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA, voice: (978) 470-1010, e-mail: tracy@nedcc.org.

THE HYBRID LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE. The HyLiFe Project aims to provide seamless access to both traditional and digital resources. Project teams are developing six customised interfaces to match the particular needs of a range of client groups. http://www.unn.ac.uk/~xcu2/hylife/. Contact: Peter Wynne, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, e-mail: p.wynne@mmu.ac.uk.

January 5-8, 1999. Maui, Hawaii. GENRE IN DIGITAL DOCUMENTS. Part of the Digital Documents Track of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-32). This minitrack addresses the digital analogues of print forms like the newspaper, the annual report, the how-to manual, and the scholarly journal, including new and emergent genres which may not have existed in print form. http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss. Contact: Michael Shepherd, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, voice: (902) 494-3686, fax: (902) 492-1517, e-mail: shepherd@cs.dal.ca.

January 19-21. Sydney, Australia, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. INFORMATION ONLINE & ONDISC 99: STRATEGIES FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM.. Sponsored by the Information Science Section of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online99/. Contact: Mary Anne Kennan, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, voice: 61-2-9931-9380, e-mail: M.Kennan@unsw.edu.au.

May 23-26. Dubrovnik, Croatia. DIGITAL LIBRARIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES. A CoLIS (Conceptions of Library and Information Science) conference. http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/colis3 or http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/colis3. Contact: e-mail: colis3@ffzg.hr.

May 24-26. Pasadena, California, Pasadena Hilton Hotel. EVALUATING AND USING NETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES. ASIS (American Society for Information Science) 1999 Mid-Year Conference. Conference seeks to identify what we know and don’t know about use of networked information services and resources. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/my99call.html.

Contact: Charles McClure, Program Co-Chair, Syracuse University, e-mail: cmcclure@mailbox.syr.edu.

November 1-4. Washington, D.C., J. W. Marriott Hotel. KNOWLEDGE: CREATION, ORGANIZATION, AND USE. ASIS (American Society for Information Science) 1999 Annual Conference. This conference will look at current (and imminent) knowledge creation, acquisition, navigation, correlation, retrieval, management, and dissemination. It will consider appropriate operational policies, relevant legal issues (including legislation and the European Union Directive), and international and domestic policies and regulations. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/am99call.html. Contact: Richard Hill, Executive Director, ASIS, Silver Spring, Maryland, e-mail: rhill@asis.org.

http://www.digitallibrary.net hosts links about digital libraries andrelated technologies, including metadata and information retrieval.

International Journal on Digital Libraries: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm.

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval: http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/index.html.

National Digital Library Federation (Library of Congress): http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf.

IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions): extensive list of "DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Metadata Resources": http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/metadata.htm.

American Memory from the Library of Congress: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (36 collections now available in these categories: textual collections, photographs, early motion pictures, sound recordings, maps, multiformat collections; collection previews also accessible): http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/.

The New York Public Library’s Digital Library Collections: http://digital.nypl.org/.

D-Lib Magazine, a monthly compilation of contributed stories, commentary, and briefings: http://www.dlib.org/.