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Information about the Public Library Association (PLA) 2012 conference held March 13-17 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the 27th Annual Computers in Libraries (CIL) 2012 conference held in Washington, D. C. is presented. The PLA conference discussed topics including community engagement, digital content, and user experience and featured librarians such as Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. The CIL event discussed topics on library websites, web usability, and student engagement.

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.

The Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories convened in Austin, Texas on June 8, 2011, bringing people from all over the world together to focus on how repositories might be more closely integrated into the technically and community-driven digital scholarly landscape. The program consisted of 24 general track presentations and four blocks of 24/7's (24 slides presented in 7 minutes) under the broad theme of "Collaboration and Community". Institutional repositories do not stand alone - they are mechanisms for advancing policy and best practices that must co-exist with other systems. This conference showed that in order for repositories to continue to meet the changing needs of knowledge organizations, there is much interesting work to be done to develop repository communities and collaborations, in support of preserving the scholarly record in open repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the second workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDLs) which took place at the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries held October 2, 2009 in Corfu, Greece, is presented. Topics include the utility-based digital library system, multi-dimensional information spaces, and object authenticity in VLDLs. The workshop also featured several researchers and presenters including Julie Verleyen, Hussein Suleman, and Irina Astrova.

Information about the Workshop on Digital Curation in the Human Sciences which took place in conjunction with the European Conference of Digital Libraries held September 30 and October 1, 2009 in Corfu, Greece, is presented. Topics include the projects for digital infrastructure in human sciences and development and functions of these infrastructures. The workshop also featured several speakers such as Costis Dallas, Rene van Horik, and Panos Constantopoulos.

Information about the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) in Corfu Island, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009 is presented. Topics include the aggregation and reuse of metadata from digital libraries, knowledge organization system in digital libraries, and digital preservation. The conference also featured librarians, computer scientists, and data curators including Gary Marchionini, Thomas Gottron, and Nicola Ferro.

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 inaugural conference of the United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association (USETDA) was held in Orlando, Florida, May 18-20, 2011. Themes from the conference are discussed, including Copyright and Publication, ETD Workflow, and ETD Preservation and Discovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization, to be held on February 14-16, 2011 in Gurgaon, India.

Information about the Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces (WEMIS) at the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries held October 1 and 2, 2009 in Corfu, Greece, is presented. Topics include the development of music digital libraries and problems in music information retrieval. The workshop, which was organized by Nicola Orio, Andreas Rauber, and David Rizo, was also divided in two different days to develop socialization among the participants to encourage the exchange of ideas.

Information about the 1st Workshop on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations in Corfu, Greece on October 1, 2009 is presented. Topics include the challenges and priorities for archiving digital library (DL) interoperability and global DL infrastructures. The workshop, which was held in conjunction with the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, also featured participants such as Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, and Yannis Ioannidis.

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.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the Reproducible Open Science held in Hanoever, Germany in September 2016.

The article lists digital library meetings, workshops, and conferences that occurred in 2016 which include American Library Association Midwinter Conference; 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms; and Digital Book World.

The article presents a call for bids from potential conference hosts to run iPRES 2014, 2015 and 2016. Having been held yearly since 2004, the iPRES is involved in the main international conference on the preservation of digital objects. It invites potential hosts to submit proposal for hosting any of those tree editions of iPRES before or on October 16, 2011 at 12 p.m.

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.

Information on the meeting of World Digital Library (WDL) partners held on June 22-23, 2010 in Washington D.C. is presented. The meeting centered on the plan of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to have further expansion for the WDL initiative. The meeting also established an Executive Council with seven members, which include UNESCO and the U.S. Library of Congress as ex-officio.

An introduction to articles published within the issue is presented which were selected from papers presented at the 5th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, held in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Newark, New Jersey.

The author announces the publication of a special issue on text and data mining of scientific publications based from the 5th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications held in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2016.

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.

A calendar of events relevant to digital library research is presented which includes the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Boston, Massachusetts on January 8-11, 2016 and the Beyond CTRL+F: Text Mining Across Discplines conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Febrary 1, 2016.

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.

The article discusses the organization Music Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Users Group (MOUG)'s annual meeting that was held from March 1 to March 12, 2016 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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.

The article offers information on the 2015 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference "Pew Library Research Update Program" session to be held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on June 28, 2015.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2nd International Workshop in Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets held in London, England on September 12, 2014 with speakers including Professor Andreas Rauber, Stefan Karamer and Doctor Iain Hrynaszkiewicz involving 4 full-paper session that explores interwoven facets of present and future challenges for data publishing.

The author references a workshop held in conjunction with Digital Libraries in September 2014 in London, England where most of the papers comprising the whole full papers from the work constitute the bulk of the issue followed by an article on the history of DataCite.

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.