From: Terry Kuny <[log in to unmask]>
The 1999 LITA Preconference will take place on Friday, June 25 from
9a.m. - 4p.m. at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans. Early registration
deadline is May 21, 1999. "Making Sense of Digital Identifiers for
Internet and Other Applications," will highlight the growing need for
digital identifiers as presented by a formidable group of experts.
Electronic identifiers are extremely important in the management of
digital objects, both on and off the Internet, and affect services
such as library operations, copyright privileges, tracking, discovery,
linking, commercial interactions, and archiving. This workshop will
include information on the DOI, SICI, URN, URI, PII, ISWN and several
other high profile identifiers
Scheduled speakers include:
William Arms, Vice President, Corporation for National Research
Initiatives
Helen Barsky Atkins, Director of Database Development, Institute for
Scientific Information
Leslie L. Daigle, Vice President for Research & Development, Bunyip
Information Systems, Inc.
Brian Green, Executive Director, Book Industry Communication (BIC)
and EDItEUR
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, CNI
Dr. Norman Paskin, Director of International DOI Foundation
Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist for OCLC's Office of
Research
For more details and registration information visit
http://www.lita.org/ac99/precon99.htm
Program made possible with support from ISI.
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January 26, 1999 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced today that its Sun
Enterprise(TM) servers, StorEdge(TM) RAID storage systems, and Solaris
operating environment(TM) software have been selected as the computer
platform for the Library of Congress' new integrated library system.
January 26, 1999 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced today that the
University of Wisconsin System has chosen Sun (TM) technology to power
their integrated library and information access system. The
University of Wisconsin System will run Endeavor Information Systems'
Voyager library automation solution on a variety of powerful Sun
systems and technologies servicing 26 campuses state-wide.
For full press releases see: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/
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