FYI Joan
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From: Rebecca Dunkle [mailto:rdunkle@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 1:02 PM
To: acqselectors@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Symposium THIS week!
Please help us spread the reminder about the "Google Symposium" this Friday
and Saturday at Rackham. It is free and open to all (formal registration is
no longer needed, it is now open for walkins). Please help spread the word
by either emailing a version of the message below, or encouraging people to
print and post the attached flyer, or by posting the flyer yourself on
bulletin boards or other strategic places you know about. We can provide a
supply of printed copies of the flyer if you need them.
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The University of Michigan University Library and the U.S. National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science are sponsoring a national
symposium this Friday and Staurday, March 10-11, 2006 to discuss the impact
of mass digitization projects on libraries, universities, government,
information policy, publishing, and education.
Entitled, "Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the
Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects," the symposium will provide an
opportunity for faculty, students, librarians, publishers, information
specialists, policy makers, and the broader academic community to discuss
the changing information environment.
Keynote speakers include Tim O'Reilly Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media, and
Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).
Twenty national and international panelists will engage the audience in
conversation and share various perspectives about the impacts of mass
digitization initiatives.
The free symposium will be held at the Rackham Auditorium at the University
of Michigan. Formal registration is now closed, but free walk-in, onsite
registration is available for both Friday and Saturday.
For more information, visit http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium.
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Rebecca Dunkle
Head of Onsite Access and Distributed Services, University Library
209 Hatcher N, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
phone: 734-482-9330
Attachment:
flyer.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document