"Organizing the Global Digital Library II" Proceedings Now Available (fwd)

[Elizabeth F. Miller]

The Conference on Organizing the  Global Digital Library II  took
place at  the Library of Congress on  May  22, 1996, sponsored by
the  National Digital  Library Federation, LC's  National Digital
Library  Program,  and  the  Corporation  for  National  Research
Initiatives. Chaired  by  Sarah Thomas, then  acting director for
public service collections at  LC and now University Librarian at
Cornell,  the conference featured  speakers  Deanna  Marcum,  Stu
Weibel,  Erik   Jul,  Jennifer  Younger,  Dr.   Thomas,   Rebecca
Guenther, Barbara Tillett,  and  Helena Zinkham.  Topics included
the work  of  the NDLF, the ALCTS Task Force on  Meta Access, and
the IFLA Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records; recent metadata meetings, including Dublin  and Warwick;
MARC and the digital world; and the Encoded Archival Description.
A preconference the  day  before focused on digital object naming
conventions used by LC's National Digital Library Program.

Full conference proceedings are  now available on  LC MARVEL  and
via the Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate WWW Home Page.
The URL is: gopher://marvel.loc.gov/00/loc/conf.meet/ogdl2