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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is organizing a conference, Life and Literature, that will convene librarians, biologists, computer scientists, publishers, students, and other stakeholders to set the agenda for biodiversity literature digitizing and its networked environment for the next four to five years. The purposes of the Life and Literature Conference are: 1. Engagement of current and future constituencies concerned with biodiversity literature. 2. Integration and interoperability with major biodiversity and digital library programs. 3. Further innovative integration of digitized literature with biodiversity databases. 4. Publishing models and legacy scientific literature. 5. Setting the agenda for the BHL for the next 4 - 5 years. The conference will be held at the Field Museum, a leading biodiversity research and education center, in Chicago from November 14 to November 15. Though the exact program schedule is being worked out, in addition to plenary sessions with noted speakers, there will be split concurrent tracks covering such themes as biodiversity informatics, publishing models, digital libraries, and humanistic and artistic intersections with biodiversity literature. Please keep your calendars open for this important conference. We will be updating this site regularly. http://www.lifeandliterature.org/ Thomas Garnett Biodiversity Heritage Library Program Director Smithsonian Institution Libraries Rm. 22 MRC 154 PO Box 37012 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 202-633-2238 202-786-2866 fax [log in to unmask]