Jeff Mackie-Mason at the Unversity of Michigan has passed on an announcement of  a Conference on the Economics and Usage of Digital Library Collections, March 23-24, 2000, in Ann Arbor, Michigan

The conference Web page, where additional information will be posted as
available, is: <http://www.si.umich.edu/PEAK-2000/>.

Last summer, as part of the ACM SIGIR meeting, I had the opportunity to participate in a really excellent workshop on Reccomender Systems. Ian Soboroff of the University of Maryland has prepared a nice summary of the meeting, whch he's given me permission to publicize. This is at <http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian/sigir99-rec/summary.html> and is well worth reading as a perspective on the state of the art of this technology.


Clifford Lynch
Executive Director, CNI