[PADG:549] Re: Extra Large Flatbed Scanners

[Yvonne Carignan <carignan@xxxxxxx>]

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The University of Maryland Libraries is delighted to announce a
digital library symposium (29 September 2005) entitled 'The Library
in Bits and Bytes', an official event celebrating the 150th
anniversary of the University of Maryland, College Park, and
pre-symposium workshops, Introduction to XML and the TEI (27-28
September) and 'Demystifying EAD (28 September).
http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/symposium


This one-day symposium will reflect on how library practice has
embraced and is challenged by digital library initiatives. Plenary
speakers are:

-- Deanna Marcum (Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library
of Congress) speaking on 'Creating an Organizational Culture to
Support Digital Library Initiatives';

-- Anne Kenney (Associate University Librarian, Cornell University
Library) on 'Five Organizational Stages of Digital Preservation';

-- Paul Conway (Director, Information Technology Services, Duke
University Libraries) on 'Why Is IT So Hard to Do?';

-- G. Sayeed Choudhury (Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge
Center, Johns Hopkins University) on 'The Cutting Edge: The Next
Generation Digital Library'

The symposium will close with a panel discussion entitled 'Pattern
Recognition: Trends, Forecasts, and Fragments of a Future', chaired
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, with Ben Bederson, Allison Druin, Judith Klavans, and 
Stuart Moulthrop.

Pre-symposium workshops (which may be registered for independently)
are a two-day hands-on 'Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding
Initiative (27-28 September) and a one-day (28 September)
introduction to Encoded Archival Description entitled 'Demystifying EAD'.

Full symposium and workshop details are available at
http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/symposium

Susan Schreibman, PhD
Assistant Dean
Head of Digital Collections and Research
McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone: 301 314 0358
Fax: 301 314 9408
Email: sschreib@xxxxxxx



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Yvonne Carignan
Head of Preservation
McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone:  301-405-9343
Fax:  301-314-9971
email:  carignan@xxxxxxx