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Information about several papers discussed at a forum on digital libraries during the Joint Conference in Digital Library 2007 is presented. Topics of the forum focus on the challenges for improving digital library education. Information technology applications in digital library teaching is also addressed.

Information about several papers discussed at the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) 2007 that was held in Sweden is presented. The topics presented focus on the challenges that confronts digital libraries including open access policies, institutional repositories, and electronic publishing. Attendees of the conference are from Austria, Australia, and Bangladesh.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) on digital libraries is presented. Topics discussed at the conference include building digital collections, project management for digital collections, and digital curation and preservation. Also discussed are the subjects of traditional thesauri and ontologies in digital libraries.

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.