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March 05, 2006
Google Symposium This Week, Open Registration
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.
Posted by pfa at March 5, 2006 01:06 PM