Apologies for cross-posting -------------------- Arizona State Univeristy ECURE 2000 Conference For Immediate Release Monday, August 28, 2000 Contact for Press Release: Barbara Sowden, Information Dissemination, (480) 965-2136 [log in to unmask] Experts Examine College E-Records Issues Leading research and development projects in institutional record keeping will be reviewed this fall at "ECURE 2000: Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records," an annual conference sponsored by Arizona State University. Educational administrators and government officials, technologists and systems managers, archivists, librarians and records managers will discuss reliability and accessibility of electronic records for higher education at a major conference to be held October 5-6 in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The ECURE 2000 conference brings a unique blend of expertise to bear on the challenges of controlling access, use, retention and destruction of the electronic products of teaching, learning, educational administration and research. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information and a past president of the American Society for Information Science, will open the conference with a keynote presentation assessing the landscape of current and future electronic recordkeeping issues. Dr. Lynch's presentation will be followed by an introduction to electronic recordkeeping offered by Professor Anne Gilliland-Swetland of the University of California at Los Angeles, and a presentation on management issues for electronic courseware by Jeremy Rowe of Arizona State University. Other featured presenters include Steve Worona of the Cornell University Center for Computer Policy and Law Program, John Phillips of Information Technology Decisions, and David Wallace of the University of Michigan. Many of the conference speakers will host small group discussion sessions after their presentations. Additional topics that will be addressed include the implications of electronic records on portal development, digital signatures, system security, and progress reports on several ground-breaking electronic records projects. Just as a reminder, early conference registration ends September, 1. For more information about the ECURE 2000 program and registration materials, visit the conference website at http://www.asu.edu/it/events/ecure