An upcoming symposium entitled "Sustaining Digital Libraries" will be held
on Friday, October 6, 2006, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. As
digital libraries have rapidly evolved over the last decade, the question of
how to sustain these new services has become a major concern for a wide
range of institutions. This conference will bring together digital library
leaders and other interested professionals to explore the key issues
involved in sustaining digital libraries.
The symposium will feature panels of leaders responsible for preserving
information and making it accessible to widely varying communities. Funding
agencies such as the new NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure will articulate
the perspective of sponsoring groups. Included will be major programs such
as the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
(NDIIPP), the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), and the Digital
Library Federation (DLF). There will also be representatives from groups
that have been successful in similar digital library functions, but which
are not always included in such discussions, such as Amazon.com, the
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and
the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA).
The symposium URL is:
http://www.metascholar.org/events/2006/sdl/
Registration for the symposium is $150, which includes meals. Registration
is limited to 60 people, so consider registering soon.
Many of the participants at this symposium are also planning to write
articles subsequently for a monograph to be entitled, "Strategies for
Sustaining Digital Libraries". If you would be interested in contributing
to this monograph, please see the attached call for papers to this monograph
for details.
Best regards,
Martin Halbert, PhD, MLIS
Director for Digital Programs and Systems
Robert W. Woodruff Library
540 Asbury Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
(ph) 404-727-2204
(fax) 404-727-0827
(web) http://martin.library.emory.edu
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