Electronic Theses & Dissertations

[Gail McMillan]

Conference Announcement

Third International Symposium On Electronic Theses & Dissertations:
	Applying New Media to Scholarship

Conference Web Site: <http://etd.eng.usf.edu/conference>

DATES:			March 16-18, 2000
CONFERENCE SITE:		University of South Florida, St. 
Petersburg, Florida
CONFERENCE HOTEL:	St. Petersburg Hilton (walking distance to USF)
			1 888 843 6929
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:	813 974 2403

Topics: Here is a wonderful opportunity to learn a lot about and 
discuss the issues surrounding ETDs (electronic theses and 
dissertations), including archiving, distance education, project 
management, federated searching of the NDLTD,* and how publishers 
feel about ETDs. Participants will have all levels of experience with 
ETDs. You can find out how other institutions got started as well as 
how projects have been sustained for several years.

Featured keynoters and plenary workshop leaders include
Clifford Lynch, Director, CNI; Eugene Garfield, Pres. and 
Editor-in-Chief of The Scientist; Ann Hart, Provost, Claremont 
Graduate School; Henry Gladen, Research Scientist, IBM Almaden 
Research Center; Delphine Lewis, Manager Dissertations and Books 
Online, UMI; Ed Fox, Director, NDLTD; John Eaton, Assoc. Provost, 
Virginia Tech; Gail McMillan, director, Digital Library and Archives, 
Virginia Tech; Peter Syverson, V.P. Research and Information, Council 
of Graduate Schools; Roy Tennant, Digital Library Project Manager, U. 
of California, Berkeley; David Balatti, Director, National Library of 
Canada; Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC; Michael 
Piersa, V.P., Xerox Corporation; Janet Fisher, Associate Director for 
Journals, Publishing,  MIT Press; Gerald Lang, Provost, West Virginia 
University

Concurrent Sessions & Workshops in Adobe, Microsoft, Macromedia Tools
Concurrent sessions will introduce participants to world-wide ETD 
initiatives, including presentations by Jean-Claude Guédon, 
Université de Montréal; Felix Ubogu, Rhodes U., South Africa; Peter 
Diepold, Humboldt U., Berlin, Germany; Tony Cargnelutti and Fred 
Piper, U. of New South Wales, Australia; Christine Jewell, U. of 
Waterloo, Canada; David T. Palmer, U. of Hong Kong. Concurrent 
sessions also include reports from leading ETD universities, 
including VT, UWV, USF, MIT, Emory, UIowa, UGeorgia, and others. 
Workshops in computer classrooms will provide hands-on training on 
Adobe, Microsoft, and Macromedia tools as well as PDF, XML, and SGML.

Sponsors: *Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations 
(NDLTD); The Council of Graduate Schools, University of South 
Florida, West Virginia U. Libraries, Adobe, Dell, Microsoft, 
Macromedia.

March is a popular time in Florida, so make reservations early, 
whether staying at the conference hotel or along the Gulf beaches.


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Gail McMillan
        director, Digital Library and Archives
        http://scholar.lib.vt.edu                 (540) 231-9252
University Libraries,  Virginia Tech 
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