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Dear colleague,
 
Please consider attending the CoLIS 3 conference with the theme "Digital
Libraries." The Preliminary Program is provided below.  We would
appreciate if you forward this to interested colleagues and post it on
listservs to which you subscribe.
 
Thanks for the consideration,
Tefko Saracevic
 
 
 
                     Third International Conference
                                   on
             Conceptions of Library and Information Science
                               (CoLIS 3)
 
                           DIGITAL LIBRARIES:
        Interdisciplinary Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities
 
                  Dubrovnik, Croatia, 23 - 26 May 1999
 
 
Organized by:
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* University of Zagreb, Croatia;
* University of Tampere, Finland;
* Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
* Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
 
 
Program Chair:
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Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University, USA.
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                          Preliminary Program
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Registration and detailed information available at
 
                          http://www.colis3.hr
 
                                   or
 
                    http://scils.rutgers.edu/colis3
 
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For description of Dubrovnik, the venue city, see:
 
                    http://www.tel.fer.hr/dubrovnik
 
 
 
Sunday, May 23, 1999
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Preconference Tutorial - full day.
 
* Ed Fox, USA: Digital libraries: An overview
* Evening - WELCOME RECEPTION
 
Monday, May 24, 1999
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+ Opening session
+ Session 1: CONTEXT - the big picture
* Michael Buckland, USA (Invited speaker):
  Vocabulary as a central concept in library and information science
* Bryce Allen, USA:
  Digital libraries and the end of traditional information systems
* Christine Borgman, USA:
  What are digital libraries, who is building them, and why?
 
+ Session 2: RELATIONS
* Raphael Capurro, Germany (Invited speaker):
* Amanda Spink & Colleen Cool, USA:
  Developing digital library education: international perspectives on
  theory and practice
* Paul Sturges & Jesica Sambok, UK:
  Humanities scholarship, the research library and the digital library
 
+ Session 3: EVALUATION
* Louise Su & Hsin-liang Chen, USA:
  User evaluation of Web search engines
* Wanda Dole & Jitka Hurych, USA:
  Evaluating libraries in the electronic age: New ways of measuring
  collection and use.
* Jane Reid, Scotland:
  A new task-oriented paradigm for information retrieval: Implications
  for evaluation of information retrieval systems
* Evening - CULTURAL EVENT
 
Tuesday, May 25, 1999
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+ Session 4: MANAGEMENT
* Michael Gorman, USA (Invited speaker)
* Christine Dugdale, UK:
  Managing digital collections: New opportunities and new roles for
  librarians
* Robert Hayes, USA:
  The economics of digital libraries
 
+ PANEL: International cooperation in digital libraries:
  Harold Thimbleby , UK, Moderator
 
 
Short papers with posters: DIGITAL LIBRARY CONCEPTIONS & APPLICATIONS
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* William Adams, Bernard Jansen & Todd Smith, USA:
  Planning, building, and using a distributed digital library.
* Jasna Dravec-Braun,Croatia:
  Is it possible to build an online union catalogue without a library
  system?
* Gordon Dunsire, UK:
  Evolving the learning landscape at Napier University.
* Emmanouel Garoufallou, Greece:
  The impact of information technology on Greek academic libraries and
  librarians: Preliminary results
* Marianne Hummelsh=F8j & Nanna Skovtrup, Denmark:
  Internet reference services in a digitalized public library
* Damir Kalpic, Jasenka Anzil & Hrvoje Zokovic, Croatia:
  From the traditional to a digital academic library.
* Maria Kocojowa & Wanda Pindlowa, Poland:
  A digital library for LIS researchers and students: General concepts.
* Michael Middleton, Australia:
  Meta-information incorporation in library digitisation projects.
* Paul Nieuwenhuysen* & Wouter Mettrop=A4, *Belgium, =A4Netherlands:
  Internet information retrieval tools: which ones to use?
* Trine Schreiber & Camilla Moring, Denmark:
  Danish research libraries in a networked learning environment.
* Jadranka Stojanovski & Aida Slavic,Croatia:
  Electronic bibliography: its reliability and impact on the concept of
  bibliography in general
* Yin Leng Theng,, UK:
  Framework for an application development model to build user-centered
  digital libraries
* Branko Zebek & Tvrtko Sercar, Slovenia: The use of internet in special
  libraries in Slovenia.
 
+ Evening:- BANQUET
 
Wednesday, May 26, 1999
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+ Session 5: DESIGN
* Diane Sonnenwald et al., USA:
  Collaboration services in a preparatory digital library: An emerging
  design
* Philip Doty & Sandra Erdelez, USA:
  A digital library of legal case documents
 
+ Session 6: REPRESENTATION
* Bryn Lewis, Australia:
  Automatic electronic document organisation
* Zheng Wang, Linda Hill, Terrence Smith:
  Alexandria Digital Library metadata creator with extensible markup
  language.
 
+ Session 7: INTERACTION
* Preben Hansen, Sweden:
  User interface design for IR interaction: A task oriented approach
* Nils Pharo, Norway:
  Web information search strategies: A method for classifying Web
  interaction
 
+ Session 8: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
* Ian Ruthven* & =A4Mounia Lalmas, *Scotland & =A4Germany:
  Selective relevance feedback using term characteristics
* Kai Korpimies & Esko Ukkonen, Finland:
  Term frequency-based identification of FAQ-articles
* Per Ahlgren, Sweden: On a cognitive search strategy
 
+ Session 9: DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND MASS MEDIA
* Denis McQuale, Netherlands (Invited speaker):
* Sussanne =D8rnager, Denmark:
  Image archives in newspaper editorial offices: A service activity.
* Jerome Aumente, USA:
  Digital libraries within the context of mass media structures
 
Thursday, May 27, 1999
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Postconference WORKSHOPS (free for registrants)
 
* Workshop 1.
  Sanda Erdelez; Philip Doty, USA:
  Developing a small-scale digital library with Adobe Acrobat: Techniques
and issues
* Workshop 2.
  Paul B. Kantor, USA:
  Metrics and evaluation for Digital Libraries.
 
Postconference TOURS (to be announced)
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Radovan Vrana
Member of the CoLIS3 Local Organizing Committee
Research Assistant
Department of Information Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy
I. Lucica 3
10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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