When the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing convened on Monday morning, the difference was apparent. Most of the 400 people in the room were younger than 30, and pale-skinned guys were in the minority. There was a roughly equal mix of black and Latino students, and there were more women than men. […]

(L-R) GameCATS: Michael Eagle, Lane Harrison, Eve Powell
Eve Powell has loved computer gaming as long as she can remember, and she knew long ago that she wanted to learn computer game design in college. There weren’t many opportunities for game enthusiasts at the University of North Carolina- Charlotte (UNCC) when she arrived, so Powell […]

Tammy Sumner, Assistant Professor, Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, the University of Colorado at Boulder presented a conceptual framework that guides the development of content-rich, adaptable, and adaptive learning environments powered by digital libraries along with concrete examples of this infrastructure, such as the Strand Map Service, a programmatic web service that can […]

Waves wash up on red sandstone pebbles at Greenwich Beach on Prince Edward Island, and a pastoral view towards Nova Scotia.
The colorful red dirt patchwork of potato farms is evident as you fly into Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island (PEI) located in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Locals bemoan the lack of economic opportunity while in […]

Sandy Payette, Executive Director of Fedora Commons, and CIS Dean Robert Constable address well-wishers about the impacts that Fedora Commons will have on information access and management into the future. Photographs by Rosemary Adessa.
Friends and colleagues gathered at Cornell Information Science on Aug. 13 at a reception to honor the creation of the […]

(From Dean Krafft)
Slides from Dan Russell’s JCDL keynote talk on “Searching For the Mind of the Searcher” are now available on his web site at
http://dmrussell.googlepages.com/.
There’s another nice blog report on the talk From Deborah Kaplan at http://gnomicutterance.livejournal.com/17413.html.
Here are some short, but nice, highlights at
http://frankmccown.blogspot.com/2007/06/jcdl-2007-day-2.html
JCDL 2007 on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=jcdl+2007

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 […]

A panel discussion about the Open Archives Initiative Object Re-use and Exchange (ORE) was chaired by Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information. Panelists included Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University, Neil Jacobs, Joint Information Systems (JISC) UK, and Carl Lagoze, Cornell University on June 20 at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Vancouver.

Carl Lagoze speaking […]

What happens when a web site goes missing either due to technical or organizational reasons? This happens every day for lots of different reasons–fires, floods, computer viruses, no legacy plan or interest after the death of a specialized content provider, inattention, or lack of back-ups can all mean that a favorite web destination disappears. Frank […]

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 […]