>
> Openings remain on the panel I'm assembling as chairperson of the
graduate student caucus at the 1999 ASECS annual meeting in Milwaukee,
March 24-28:
>
> "At Our Fingertips?: Issues and Developments
> in the Digitalization of Academia"
>
> Ideally, the panel discussion will blend the theoretical and the practical:
> How do any of us decide what, if any, use to make of the ever-increasing
and sometimes overwhelming array of electronic resources for scholarship?
How do we filter information and put it into a form that is useful for our
own research and/or teaching? Under what circumstances and for what
reasons, if any, are we better off using traditional methods? More
theoretical commentary on the wider implications of academia's electronic
revolution might include issues of access; cost/benefits in an age of
tightening budgets for higher education; quality, accuracy, and
peer-review of electronic publications and visual images.
Rather than preparing a standard conference paper, each panelist will
arrive prepared (audiovisual aids if necessary; equipment can be arranged
with sufficient advance planning) to discuss these issues with fellow
panelists and with the audience.
>
> Participants will include not only graduate students but also faculty --
> as well as, I hope, at least one person working directly with a project that
> unites academia and the world of electronic resources. At this point, I'm
> still open to recommendations and/or self-nominations of people who would
> have something substantive and practical to contribute to this panel:
> librarians, curators, webmasters, and so on.
>
> Readers of this list will recognize this session as one of two
> computer-related titles from the general call for papers. For this
one, contact Jenifer Elmore, <[log in to unmask]> by Sept. 15
(my e-mail address was printed inaccurately in the ASECS summer
newsletter, so be sure to use this one).
Jenifer Elmore
Florida State University
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