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Dear cni-announce subscribers:
This conference will be valuable to those institutions
beginning to plan for electronic theses and dissertations
and for those implementing programs. An excellent program
will cover all aspects of the topic.
Joan Lippincott
CNI
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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; Peter D.
> Syverson, Council of Graduate Schools; Eugene Garfield, President
> Elect of American Society for Information Science and Editor-in-Chief
> of The Scientist; Delphine Lewis, Director of Dissertations, Bell and
> Howell Information and Learning; 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; 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
> Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia products as well as XML, SGML.
>
> From 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;
> Macromedia
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