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In this issue:

• HIGHLIGHTS
• SPECIAL FOCUS
• NEW RESOURCES
• EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
  

HIGHLIGHTS

Exploiting the Internet/Web Potential - EIP 2003 (July 10 - 13, 2003)

(http://www.dirf.org/eip2003)

During the EIP 2003, the  Electronic Resources Librarian/Assistant Professor of Library & Information Science,  Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), Dr. Edward Proctor will take sessions on Internet Searching for Scholarly Research; Evaluated Directories; Creating  Scholarly Resource Collections; The Invisible Web, and New developments in the Internet.

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http://www.dirf.org/eip2003

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SPECIAL FOCUS

You can suggest a topic for discussion. 

In the next issue we will bring an interesting discussion on how to offer interface between the existing online catalogues available in the libraries with the new digital information processing and storage packages. If you have two catalogues, one for print collection listing and another for digital collection, how users resort to two catalogues. How do you offer interface? Send your comments to: info@dirf.org

NEW RESOURCES

New list server on Collection  Management

Mrs. Mrs Gurdish Sandhu of University of Salford has started a new list server for collection management. To join the list please go to:

 http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/LIS-COLLECTION-MANAGEMENT.html

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related
Web sites) is available at:

http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DIGITAL LIBRARY APPLICATIONS MINITRACK Part of the Digital Documents Track  at the Thirty-seventh Annual  HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES on the Big Island of Hawaii  January 5 - 8, 2004

Additional detail on the web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

 Third Workshop on Operational Text Classification (OTC-03)
August 27, 2003
Washington, DC (co-located with KDD 2003 Conference)

http://www.daviddlewis.com/events/otc2003

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DIW is  the newsletter of the Digital Information Research Foundation , the scholarly research society working together to help people access digital information and promote the use of it and to foster communications technologies towards equitable, sustainable development.