News Release

Conference on digital libraries
set for June 11-15 at UNC

CHAPEL HILL — Nearly 500 technology experts from more than 25 countries will visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill next week for the sixth annual Association of Computing Machinery/Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, the conference, to be held Sunday through Thursday (June 11-15), will feature panel discussions, research papers, workshops, demonstrations, poster sessions and tutorials.

Anyone interested in attending the conference may register at the event. Limited space is available. Information is available online at: www.jcdl2006.org. For directions to the Medical Biomolecular Research Building, visit http://dragonstar.med.unc.edu/facilities/buildings/mbrb.

Conference highlights will include the panel discussion “Getting Books Online: Practices and Strategies,” beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building auditorium at 103 Mason Farm Road. Clifford Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked Information, will moderate the discussion. The panelists will be:

• Daniel Clancy, engineer director for Google Print;
• David Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon director and chief executive of The Research Libraries at The New York Public Library; and
• Daniel Greenstein, University of California, California Digital Library.

Tuesday’s events will feature a keynote presentation by Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. His talk, “Open Information: Redaction, Restriction and Removal,” will begin at 9 a.m. in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building auditorium.
With a theme of “Opening Information Horizons,” the international conference will encompass the many meanings of the term “digital libraries,” including new forms of information institutions:

• operational information systems with all manner of digital content;
• new means of selecting, collecting, organizing and distributing digital content;
• digital preservation and archiving; and
• theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing.

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School of Information and Library Science contact: Wanda Monroe, (919) 843-8337, wmonroe@unc.edu