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A major international conference will be taking place at the British Library Conference Centre in London on 28-29 January 2010: Subject Repositories: European collaboration in the international context The conference, which is the first of its kind, will explore the development of subject repositories worldwide and will see the launch of Economists Online, the key output of an EC-funded subject repository project managed by the Nereus consortium of top European economics libraries. Nereus members will showcase this subject repository in both plenary and parallel sessions, sharing lessons learned and engaging delegates in discussions of the main issues such as content recruitment, search and retrieval services, usage statistics and data sets. The two-day programme will also put Economists Online into the wider context and will allow delegates to hear about repository trends across three continents. Among the speakers are Chuck Henry, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources, Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, Cathrine Harboe-Ree, University Librarian at Monash University, who led the ARROW project and is involved in leading the ANDS project, and Christian Zimmerman, Economics professor at the University of Connecticut. Professor Nick Barr of the London School of Economics will launch the Economists Online portal. The delegate fee is £155 and includes attendance at plenary and parallel sessions, refreshments during breaks, two lunches and VAT. For further information about how to book, speakers, travel information and hotels, please visit: www.neeoconference.eu Please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment! -- Kieron Jones Subject Librarian for Economics & Public Policy UCL Library Services University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel: +44 020 7679 3078 (Ext. 33078) Fax: +44 020 7679 7373