The conference brought together experts from both the United States and the United Kingdom with keynote addresses from speakers from the National Science Foundation, the British Library, CNI and the JISC. Parallel sessions explored and contrasted major developments happening on both sides of the Atlantic in fields such as Intellectual Property Rights, Digital Preservation, Middleware, access to digital resources and virtual universities. Of interest to all senior management in information systems in the education community, and those responsible for delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research, the conference followed immediately after a NSF/JISC Workshop on the NSF Digital Libraries initiative, being held at the same venue.

Materials from this conference:

• Conference Programme
• Presentations from the speakers
  • Reg Carr, Director of University Library Services, University of Oxford. Chair of JISC Committee for Electronic Information
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  • Gregory Crane, Professor in Classics, Tufts University
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  • Greg Janee, US Alexandria Project University of California, Santa Barbara
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  • SPARC, Michael Hannant, Royal Society of Chemistry,
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  • John Haynes, Institute of Physics Publishing, Colin Rourke, Geometry and Topology
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  • Lynne Brindley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Leeds University and Chief Executive Designate of the British Library
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  • Justine Kitchen, Information and Training Manager, Resource Discovery Network
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  • Emma Place, Research Officer, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol
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  • Christopher Peebles, Associate Vice President and Dean for Information Technology,
    Professor of Anthropology Indiana University
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  • Neil Beagrie, JISC Digital Preservation Focus
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  • Lorcan Dempsey, DNER Programme Director
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• Synopses
• Biographical Notes
• Addenda

• Further Information and Useful Links
  • Coalition for Networked Information - CNI
  • Joint Information Systems Committee - JISC
  • UK Office for Library and Information Networking - UKOLN
  • National Science Foundation - NSF
  • The British Library