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A full-day workshop aimed at digital library (DL) professionals, researchers, and educators to address important issues surrounding digital libraries education will be held at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2007 Conference in Vancouver, BC. This event will be the third one in a series of workshops held in the recent years. The last two workshops were held as part of the previous two JCDL conferences. The workshop is organized by members of four universities: Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and Virginia Tech. The workshop is partially funded with a grant that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) provided to IUB and UIUC. At IUB and UIUC, we have spent the past year recruiting the second group of Digital Library Fellows, placing our first year Fellows in internships and professional positions, developing new courses, and continuing our exploration of the requirements of the digital library profession. The workshop will bring together a number of speakers on topics of interest to digital library educators and working professionals. The event will provide the opportunity for representatives of the universities organizing the workshop, other DL education grant recipients, students, and several members of other DL programs and organizations to report on project details, requirements analysis, curriculum development, and program evaluation. Specific topics to be covered include: Core Curriculum IT applications in teaching DL Practice vs. Theory Evaluation of curriculum Sustainability Workshop details: Date & Time: June 18th, 8:30A-4P Location: Conference Hotel (please check the site below for further details) Lunch and refreshments included. http://jcdl2007.org/workshops/workshop1.htm Thank you very much and we hope to see you at the JCDL Conference! Organizers: Javed Mostafa, Indiana University; Jerome McDonough, William Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech; Jeffrey Pomerantz, Barbara M Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Questions: Please contact Dan Albertson ([log in to unmask]) ----- Jerome McDonough, Asst. Professor Graduate School of Library & Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel Street, Room 202 Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 244-5916 [log in to unmask]