Archive for March, 2004

Lankes Invited to China for Digital Library Conference

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

From the invitation:

On 6th-8th September 2004, the National Library of China will hold the international conference of ‘Digital Library-Advance the Efficiency of Knowledge Utilization’. The honorary director of the conference organizing committee is Mr. Zhou Heping, Deputy Cultural Minister of the People Republic of China, and the director is Mr. Ren Jiyu, Director of the National Library of China. We will invite about 30 experts in the field of digital library as the invited speakers.

Due to your outstanding achievement in the field of digital library, we are pleased to invite you as the invited speaker to make a 40 minutes speech about Digital Reference Service.

Click here to see the conference website.

The Digital Reference Transition

Monday, March 15th, 2004

“The Digital Reference Transition” University of Maryland Digital Dateline Lecture, College Park, MD.

Abstract: An AskERIC case study and discussion of induction in libraries.
Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2004/UMD.pdf