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The article offers information on several upcoming conferences in the digital information services sector in the U.S. in 2012 including the annual Data Harmony Users Group meeting, the O'Reilly's TOC Conference, and the annual WebWise Conference.

The article offers information on several conferences in the information industry in 2010 including the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) in Glasgow, Scotland in September, 4th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval in Voronezh, Russia in September, and the 3rd international E-Reading and Tablet Conference in Hamburg, Germany in October.

The article discusses the highlights of the Libraries in the Digital Age meeting held last May 24-28, 2010 in Zadar, Croatia. The keynote speech of Rutgers University professor Tefko Saracevic focused on the global growth of electronic books and the development of digitization programs. Another speech is presented by Gary Marchionini, dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill about the preservation of personal data by digital libraries.

The article presents announcements of several 2008 and 2009 conferences of interest to professionals in the information technology services industry including the 4th International Digital Curation Conference: Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?, scheduled for December 1-3, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland; the Gilbane Boston Conference: Where Content Management Meets Social Media, to be held December 2-4, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts; and the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries to be held December 2-4, 2008 in Bali, Indonesia.

The article offers information on several information technology (IT) conferences in September 2008, including the Autumn Conference of the Information Today Inc. (ITI) in Washington, D.C. on September 22-23, the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries in Denmark on September 14-16, and the Science in the 21st Century: Science, Society, and Information Technology conference in Ontario on September 8-12.

The article discusses the highlights of the ninth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) event which was held in Croatia from June 2 to 6, 2008. In his keynote speech titled Galileo's Blog: The Digital Library as a Repository of Knowledge, Paolo Galluzzi noted that the web is introducing implications more revolutionary than those produced by the invention of the printing press. The conference covered the theme of Education and Training in Digital Libraries and Reference in Digital Environments.

The article presents highlights from the De Lange Conference held from March 5 to 7, 2007 at Rice University in Houston, Texas, which focused on emerging libraries. Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford University, highlighted how research methods and scientific policy are affecting libraries. A panel discussion focused on digitization projects and scalability. Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle discussed the need for libraries to provide universal access to the world's knowledge.

The article focuses on the first Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) conference held in March 2006 at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta and the second ER&L conference held February 22-23, 2007 at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology. The ER&L has a Web site, set up as a wiki, where visitors can discuss any relevant topic. Keynote speaker Richard Luce from Emory University during the second conference, focused on verbal access to computers, among other topics.

This article provides information on the 2004 annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) in Providence, Rhode Island. The conference presented sessions organized into seven major topics, such as disciplinary issues, digital libraries, user behavior, system design, information organization, knowledge management and use, and resources and services. More than 400 authors and speakers presented contributions to the conference. And what was particularly significant about this year's event is that more than 25 countries outside the U.S. was represented. There were 66 sessions held this year. One noteworthy change was a significant expanded series of poster exhibits, with nearly four times the usual number of posters distributed over three sessions. J. C. Herz, principal of Joystick Nation Inc., spoke of knowledge management being the cult of documents. Herz said that posting a white paper without offering rewards for doing so is one of the fundamental failures of knowledge management. Meanwhile, speakers Jenny Fry and Sanna Talja argued that it is erroneous to use the physical science communication model as the gold standard, thereby treating the applied sciences, social sciences, and the humanities as second cousins who will catch up to the standard given enough time.

Reports on the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002 in Portland, Oregon. High attendance rate; Keynote speakers; Subject areas for digital libraries; Affects of digitization; Details about research in progress.

Offers observations on the proceedings of the 2001 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Roanoke, Virginia. Details of the events offered, including tutorials about issues pertinent to digital librarianship; Details of the keynote address by Brewster Kahle, creator of the Wayback Machine digital archive; Workshops at the conference.

Presents information on the 1998 Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL) conference, held April 22-24 in Santa Barbara, California. Introduction of information systems and tools by the national digital library projects; Details on the California Digital Library (CDL); Topics discussed at the conference; What the CDL offers; Details on the conference.

A calendar of international conferences and trade shows for the information technology industry scheduled for September to October 2009 is presented, including the First Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) in Lund, Sweden, the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) in Corfu, Greece, and the Outsell's Signature Event: No Guts, No Glory in County Wicklow, Ireland.

The article discusses the highlights of the Libraries in the Digital Age conference held in Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia. Tefko Saracevic of the New Jersey's Rutgers University discussed on the benefits of digital libraries to librarians. Themes of the conference were "Reflections: Changes Brought by and in Digital Libraries in the Last Decade," and "Heritage & Digital Libraries: Digitization, Preservation and Access."

The article discusses the highlights of the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2007 conference, held from May 28 to June 2, 2007 in Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia. Donald W. King, research professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, said that researchers are not only relying more on libraries, but they seem to be reading more. He replicated a previous study he did with Carol Tenopir from the University of Tennessee, explaining that this increased usage was caused by a decrease in personal collections, more articles being read than can be identified by online bibliographic searches, along with broadened access to articles through electronic collections. He surveyed 6,000 households for the study, titled "The Cost and Use of Electronic and Print Journal Collections."

A calendar of events related to information science is presented from July to September 2006. These include the 6th International Meeting of the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Coalition for Networked Information on July 6-7, the National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries in Kharagpur, India on August 2-4 and the 29th Annual Inter. national ACM SIGIR: Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval at the University of Washington-Seattle on August 6-11.

This article provides information on several professional society conferences in 2005. Conferences and trade shows play an important role in the commercial world. Not only they provide an opportunity for sellers and product developers to show their wares but they also give buyers a chance to learn about new and upgraded products and services. The Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education takes place from June 7 to 11 in Denver, Colorado. Among the keynote speakers announced were Hector Garcia-Molina, Deanna Marcum and Guy Tribble. The Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval will be held from August 15 to 19 in Salvador, Brazil. Its Web site has a wealth of information for those interested in the information retrieval field. The conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval. The Hypertext 2005 conference is set for September 6 to 9 in Salzburg, Austria. It will have sessions on Hypermedia in Digital Libraries, Hypermedia and Information Retrieval and Literary Hypermedia. The annual conference of the American Society for Information Science & Technology will be held from October 28 to November 2 in North Carolina.