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* Apologies for cross-postings LIBRARIES WITHOUT WALLS 5: The Distributed Delivery of Library and Information Services An international conference organised by CERLIM - The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. A provisional programme, further details and booking form are now available on the conference website at: http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww5/ The fifth Libraries Without Walls conference, to be held in Lesvos, Greece from September 19th - 23rd 2003, continues the tradition of the LWW Conferences by bringing together international perspectives on the delivery of library and information services to users who are not in the physical library. When the first LWW Conference was held in 1995, the focus was primarily on distance learning and geographical dispersion. Since then, however, rapid advances in the development of ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) based infrastructures and services have led to a situation where many library users now routinely access services remotely - even when 'remotely' means 'within sight of the library building'. As a previous conference attendee observed, "we are all distance learners now". Lawraine Wood Department of Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building Rosamond Street West Manchester M15 6LL Email. [log in to unmask] Tel. 0161 247 6144