The Southampton Bargate located in the midst of downtown shops, is part of the old town walls dating back to the Saxon era.
The Third Annual Open Repositories Conference (OR08) opened at the University of Southampton, UK, on April 1, 2008 with an observation by conference co-chair Les Carr. He suggested that the collective efforts […]

A key question pondered by many presenters at the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech in Atlanta was trying to get at what the combination of those two concepts meant. Georgia Tech does not have a school of journalism, but invited speakers from many well-respected news organizations to weigh in about how they saw […]

The One Laptop Per Child logo is as bright, hopeful and open as the project itself. OLPC is laying the groundwork for a world where every child will have the opportunity to take advantage of cyber learning opportunities.
AAAS’s tag line, “Advancing science, serving society,” was evident in many presentations at their Annual Meeting in […]

The intersection of science and the human condition as a “global enterprise” was the subject of AAAS President Dr. David Baltimore’s opening address to attendees at the Annual Meeting Opening Ceremony on Feb. 14, 2008 in Boston. Baltimore is a leading biologist and a California Institute of Technology Professor of Biology who was co-recipient of […]

The Conference Center in Washington, D.C was the site of the NSF Workshop. Robert Payo, NSDL Outreach Specialist speaking with an attendee.
A friendly-looking person, often laden with SWAG (stuff everyone gets at conferences) approaches the NSDL exhibit booth. Opening pleasantries commence—“Where are you from? What do you do?”— before demonstrations and conversation about the […]

Each year Lee Zia, NSDL’s program director, sums up our collective Annual Meeting experience with a few elegant lines of haiku. This year’s offerings have been published in Zia’s new Expert Voices blog entitled, “A View from NSF.” Read his blog introduction here.
The 2006 Zia Annual Meeting Haiku can be found here.

A team of collaborators led by Alan Wolf, University of Wisconsin and Flora McMartin that included Glenda Morgan, Cathy Manduca, Joshua Morrill, and Ellen Iverson surveyed 4,678 faculty members from 115 two, four, and gradutate level colleges and universities during the Fall of 2005 to find out how they used or did not use digital […]

You will find lots of information about the Annual Meeting in a Special Issue of Whiteboard Report. Please use this blog to share your Annual Meeting reports, personal impressions, photographs and restaurant recommendations. Contact Brad Edmondson , or Carol Minton Morris (or talk to them in person) for registration information.
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John Willensky gave the keynote address on June 21 at JCDL 2007 while waving a sheaf of paper notes to emphasize his departure from Power Point presentation technology in the interest of communicating directly with the audience assembled in Vancouver. He referred to this style as, “An homage to openness.”
Willensky, a professor in the Department […]

JCDL 2007 is being held at The Westin Bayshore on Coal Harbor in Vancouver.
The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007 got underway with blue skies overhead as sea planes taxied along Coal Harbor on the edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. Daniel M. Russell, Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness […]