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The article presents a schedule of events for the Thursday session of the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, from April 17-20, 2012 in Houston, Texas, including presentations on web-based catalog searching and digital libraries.

Presents the author's keynote speech at the 1999 ACM Digital Libraries conference held in Berkeley, California. Inclusion of an outlook for digital library research and development; Historical information on the sense of purpose of academic and research libraries in the United States; Communities shaping the digital library faith; Agenda set by the computer science community.

The article offers information on the ninth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2008. "Reference in Digital Environments" and "Education and Training in/for Digital Libraries" were this year's tracks. For the first three days, participants of the conference met at the Inter-University Center, and the last two days at the Hotel Odisej. Tefko Saracevic of Rutgers University and Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic of University of Zadar opened the conference by reviewing the short history of LIDA and the longer history of its topics. Kathleen Kern, Helle Lauridsen, and Caleb Tucker-Raymond all stressed the role of the user in determining digital library services.

The article offers information on the 11th annual Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) conference held at AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin from April 3-6, 2016. Topics discussed at the executive session of the conference include true cost of electronic (e)-resource lifecycle, sharing and reuse of scientific and research data, and how to create a course content student affordability program in the campus.

The article gives information about the 2014 Electronic Resources & Libraries conference which will take place in Austin, Texas on March 16-19, 2014.

The article discusses the highlights of the virtual event "The Digital Shift (TDS): Reinventing Libraries" that was held on October 16, 2013. The event was participated by several individuals including Digital Public Library of America founding director Dan Cohen and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) director Susan Hildreth. Cohen emphasized the importance of beta testing and experimentation.

The article offers information on several archival conferences which include the workshop focusing on the best practices in preservation by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts on November 10, 2010, the conference on digital libraries by the International Conference on Digital Library Management on January 11-13, 2011, and the annual meeting of Maine Archives and Museums on October 29, 2010.

The article discusses the Digital Library Federation (DLF)'s Liberal Arts Colleges Pre-Conference, the 2016 DLF Forum and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)'s Digital Preservation 2016 featuring DLF's Community Capacity Awards, talks by writer Jarrett Drake and Ally Skills Workshop.

Information on the workshop of the Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries (ABTAPL) which was held at the Birmingham Central Library in England on June 4, 2009 is presented. It notes that the main topic of the workshop is about the use of web 2.0 applications by digital libraries and electronic journals. It adds that Leicester University Library's Evelyn Cornell presented the networking sites to the members which can be applied for library use such as facebook and twitter.

An excerpt from the article "DLF Forum Update" is presented, which focuses on the attendance of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Liberal Arts Colleges Preconference in the DLF Forum in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The article offers information on the 2015 DLF Forum to be organized by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) on October 26, 2015.

Photographs of several participants from the 2014 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, held from October 27?29 in Atlanta, Georgia are presented and mentions that the 2015 DLF Forum will be held from October 26?28 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The article offers information on the 2014 Forum of the organization Digital Library Federation (DLF) to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on October 27-29, 2014 featuring presentations and panels, workshops, and research updates for digital libraries, museum and archives services.

The article discusses the conference 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, which was held from November 3-6, 2013 in Austin, Texas. It mentions that a seminar on liberal arts colleges and digital scholarship was held before the formal opening of the conference on November 3, 2013. It further states that professionals related to libraries including Carrie Ramp, of Bucknell University and Kelcy Shepherd, of Amherst College deliberated on issues related to library science.

The article reports that those who are not able to attend the 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum to be held in Austin, Texas on November 4-6, 2013, can watch the livestream of the Forum on November 4 and November 6, 2013, that includes keynote addresses by R. David Lankes and Char Booth.

The article offers information on the Content and Scope workshop for the Digital Library of America (DPLA) to be held on February 28, 2013 in Washington D.C.

Presents information on topics discussed at the Internet Librarian conference in Pasadena, California from November 6 to 8, 2002. Damages sought by writers for past uncontracted use of their work in database; Topics on electronic learning; Desirability of digitizing the complete holdings of the Library of Congress.

Reports developments related to Chinese culture as of January 2002. International symposium on digital libraries and information technology; Discussion on World Bank loans to protect cultural heritage; Organization of modeling performance art creation and research fund.

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.