FYI Joan
-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Dunkle [mailto:rdunkle@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 1:02 PM
To: acqselectors@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Symposium THIS week!
Please help us spread the reminder about the "Google Symposium" this
Friday and Saturday at Rackham. It is free and open to all (formal
registration is no longer needed, it is now open for walkins). Please
help spread the word by either emailing a version of the message
below, or encouraging people to print and post the attached flyer, or
by posting the flyer yourself on bulletin boards or other strategic
places you know about. We can provide a supply of printed copies of
the flyer if you need them.
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The University of Michigan University Library and the U.S. National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science are sponsoring a
national symposium this Friday and Staurday, March 10-11, 2006 to
discuss the impact of mass digitization projects on libraries,
universities, government, information policy, publishing, and
education.
Entitled, "Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about
the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects," the symposium will provide
an opportunity for faculty, students, librarians, publishers,
information specialists, policy makers, and the broader academic
community to discuss the changing information environment.
Keynote speakers include Tim O'Reilly Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media,
and Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI).
Twenty national and international panelists will engage the audience
in conversation and share various perspectives about the impacts of
mass digitization initiatives.
The free symposium will be held at the Rackham Auditorium at the
University of Michigan. Formal registration is now closed, but free
walk-in, onsite registration is available for both Friday and
Saturday.
For more information, visit http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium.
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Rebecca Dunkle
Head of Onsite Access and Distributed Services, University Library
209 Hatcher N, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
phone: 734-482-9330
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