Tilburg 02.-14. August'98. programme Summer School on the Digital

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Programme third International Summer School on the Digital Library now
available!

The third International Summer School on the Digital Library will be
held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from Sunday 2 up to and
including Friday 14 August 1998. The course provides an excellent
refreshment opportunity for librarians from university, college,
research and business libraries as well as for teachers at library
schools. Some 30 lectures, case studies and demonstrations will be
presented by international experts. The programme of the Summer School
is now available at http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/summer98/. You can also
find a list of lecturers and a list of participants. The maximum
number of participants is 45.

Lecturers include:
- David Alsmeyer (British Telecom, UK)
- Bill Arms (Corporation for National Research Initiatives, USA)
- Roland J. Dietz (Elsevier Science, USA)
- Hans Geleijnse (Tilburg University, NL)
- Emanuella Giavarra (Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy, UK)
- John A. Hearty (OCLC, Inc., USA)
- Richard Luce (Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, USA)
- Prof. John Mackenzie Owen (Ticer B.V., NL)
- Eugenie Prime (Hewlett Packard Company, USA)
- Albert Prior (Swets & Zeitlinger, UK)
- Herbert Van de Sompel (University of Ghent, BE)

Themes include:
- the changing information chain (publishers, subscription agents,
scientists)
- the future role of libraries
- strategic planning
- organisational and financial issues
- electronic documents (formats, journals, research papers,
licensing)
- information technology (networks, CD-ROMs, integrated
desktops)
- Internet and WWW
- users in an electronic environment
- preparing your library staff

The Summer School is organized by Ticer (Tilburg Innovation Centre for
Electronic Resources) in cooperation with Tilburg University.

More information: Ticer B.V., P.O. Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, the
Netherlands, telephone +31-13-4668310, telefax +31-13-4668383,
electronic mail ticer _at__ kub.nl, http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/