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If your institution is interested in moving towards
electronic theses and dissertations or is already
implementing such a program, you will find this symposium
of interest.
Joan Lippincott
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Dear Colleagues:
We invite you to attend The Third International Symposium on ETDs
(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; Delphine Lewis, Director of Dissertations, UMI; Roy
Tennant, Digital Library Project Manager, University of California,
Berkeley; Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC.
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. 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, Microsoft Office 2000.
On the symposium Web site (<http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference/>), you
can view the program or you can submit an online proposal to present
a paper, poster, demonstration, tutorial, or discussion. 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. Please email Joe Moxley if you have questions:
moxley@chuma1.cas.usf.edu <mailto:moxley@chuma1.cas.usf.edu>
Conference Web Site: <http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference/>
Deadline for Submissions: 12/1/1999
Note: Preference will be given to online submissions. See
<http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference/tsubmissions.asp>
Conference Sponsors:
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations; Council
of Graduate Schools; Microsoft; Adobe, Dell, University of
South Florida
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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
f: 813 974 2270
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