There's still time to register for this conference.

If your campus is beginning to implement or thinking
of developing an electronic theses and dissertations
program, I encourage you to attend.  An excellent
roster of speakers and projects will be featured.

Joan Lippincott
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Dear Colleagues:

We invite you to attend The Third International Symposium on Electronic
Theses and Dissertations, March 16th-18th, 2000, University of South
Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida.  Preconference: March 15, 2000.

This symposium is organized by the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library
of Theses and Dissertations), a consortium of research universities
committed to improving graduate education by developing digital
libraries of theses and dissertations.  This conference will serve
as a multi-disciplinary forum for graduate deans and their staff,
librarians, faculty leaders, and others who are interested in
electronic theses and dissertations, digital libraries, and applying
new media to scholarship.

Featured keynoters and plenary workshop leaders include Ed Fox,
Director, NDLTD; Clifford Lynch, Director, CNI; Ann Hart, Provost,
Claremont Graduate School; Gerry Lang, Provost, West Virginia
University; John Eaton, Associate Provost, Virginia Tech; Eugene
Garfield, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Scientist; Delphine
Lewis, Director of Dissertations, UMI; Roy Tennant, Digital Library
Project Manager, University of California, Berkeley; David Balatti,
Director, National Library of Canada; Stuart Weibel, Senior Research
Scientist, OCLC; Michael Piersa, Vice President, Xerox Corporation.

Concurrent sessions will introduce participants to world-wide ETD
initiatives, including presentations by Jean-Claude Guedon, Universite
de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Felix Ubogu, Rhodes University,
South Africa; Peter Diepold, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Tony
Cargnelutti and Fred Piper, University of New South Wales, Australia;
Christine Jewell, University of Waterloo, Canada; David T.  Palmer,
University of Hong Kong.  Concurrent sessions also include reports from
leading ETD universities, including VT, UWV, USF, MIT, and Emory.
Workshops in computer classrooms will provide hands-on training in
Adobe PDF, XML, SGML, and Microsoft Office 2000.

On the symposium Web site(<http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference>), you can
view the program or download the registration materials.  The Council of
Graduate Schools, the NDLTD, and West Virginia University Libraries are
cosponsoring this year's publication of the Symposium Proceedings.

Please note that we expect to limit the number of registrants.  Because
March is such a popular time in Florida, we encourage you to make your
reservations early, whether you stay at the conference hotel or along
the Gulf beaches.

For registration questions, contact the Division of Conferences:
813 974 2403.

Conference Web Site: <http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference/>




Conference Sponsors: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations;
Council of Graduate Schools; Microsoft; Adobe, Dell

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Joseph M. Moxley, Ph.D.
Professor of English
University of South Florida
http://etd.eng.usf.edu/moxley/
v: 813 974 9522
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