PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS

SPARC: Open Access to Scholarship: New Solutions
Chris Bailey, University of Glasgow: "Introduction"
Stephen Pinfield, University of Notthingham: "Creating Institutional Repositories"
Bas Savenije, University of Utrecth: "Creating Open-Access Journals"
Chris Bailey, University of Glasgow: "Creating Change in Scholarly Communication"

ETDs: Electronic Theses and Dissertation
Building an Institutional Asset in a Global Context
Gail McMillan, Director, Digital Library and Archives, Virginia Tech
Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D. Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
John MacColl, Sub-Librarian, Edinburgh University Library & Director of the SELLIC Project:
" Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK"

WELCOME
David House, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Brighton, Member of JISC and chair for Committee on Awareness, Liaison and Training (JCALT)

Opening Plenary

Divided by a Common Language: Digital Library Developments in the US and UK

Lorcan Dempsey, VP Research, Online Computer Library Center, Inc

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Shaping the e-future? Grids, Web Services and Digital Libraries
Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN
Tony Hey, Director UK e-Science Core Programme

The Open Archives Initiative: Progress and Practice
Carl Lagoze, Digital Library Scientist, Cornell University
Andy Powell, Assistant Director Distributed Systems and Services, UKOLN, University of Bath:
"RDN, e-Prints and NOF-Digitise: a (very) small sample of UK OAI activity ".
Martin Halbert, Director, Library Systems, Emory University, Robert Woodruff Library:
"The MetaScholar Initiative: Harvesting, Organization, and Discovery Services built on the OAI PMH"

Engaging national information infrastructure with learning environments
Debbie Campbell, Director, Co-ordination Support Branch, National Library of Australia

PARALLEL SESSIONS

The Big Picture: Digitising Cultural Heritage Resources on a National Scale
David Dawson, Senior ICT Adviser, Resource: "Creating Content Together: practicalities and partnerships"
Dr. David L. Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage: "Practice, Practice, Practice: copyright, culture and interoperability"
Dr. Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services: "Help! How Will We Digitize Cultural Heritage in the U.S.?"
Jerry Goldman, Professor, Politicial Science Department, Northwestern University:
"Listen Up: Digitizing Oral Heritage"

Challenges of Digital Preservation: Do we have a roadmap?
Maggie Jones, Researcher, JISC: "Challenges of Digital Preservation - do we have a road map?"
Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard University Library:
"The Harvard E-Journal Archiving Study"
Meg Bellinger, Vice President, Digital & Preservation Resources, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.:
" Building a Digital Archive through Collaboration: A Report from OCLC"
Kevin Guthrie, President, JSTOR:
"Challenges of Building a Trusted Electronic Archive: A Proposed Organizational Approach"

Developing Information Environments for Communities
Susan Haigh, Manager, Program Development, National Library of Canada:
"Toward a Digital Library of Canada: Limping, Lurching and occasionally Leaping
Phillip D Long, Ph.D, Senior Strategist, Academic Computing Enterpris, MIT:
"The Open Knowledge Initiative - building a framework for educational applications"
Catherine Grout, Programme Director, JISC Development Group:
"A Common Information Environment: New Challenges for the UK Education Community"

PARALLEL SESSIONS

The Big Picture: Digitising Cultural Heritage Resources on a national scale
David Dawson, Senior ICT Adviser, Resource: "Creating Content Together: practicalities and partnerships"
Dr. David L. Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage: "Practice, Practice, Practice: copyright, culture and interoperability"
Dr. Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services:
"Help! How Will We Digitize Cultural Heritage in the U.S.?"
Jerry Goldman, Professor, Politicial Science Department, Northwestern University:
"Listen Up: Digitizing Oral Heritage"

Challenges of Digital Preservation: Do we have a roadmap?
Maggie Jones, Researcher, JISC: "Challenges of Digital Preservation - do we have a road map?"
Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard University Library:
"The Harvard E-Journal Archiving Study"
Meg Bellinger, Vice President, Digital & Preservation Resources, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.:
" Building a Digital Archive through Collaboration: A Report from OCLC"
Kevin Guthrie, President, JSTOR:
"Challenges of Building a Trusted Electronic Archive: A Proposed Organizational Approach"

Developing Information Environments for communities
Susan Haigh, Manager, Program Development, Digital Library of Canada Task Force, National Library of Canada: "Toward a Digital Library of Canada: Limping, Lurching and occasionally Leaping
Phillip D Long, Ph.D, Senior Strategist, Academic Computing Enterprise, MIT:
"The Open Knowledge Initiative - building a framework for educational applications"
Catherine Grout, Programme Director, JISC Development Group
"A Common Information Environment: New Challenges for the UK Education Community"

Pre-dinner drinks and conference dinner
With after dinner speaker Professor Derek Law, University of Strathclyde

PARALLEL SESSIONS

NSDL project
Dr William Arms, Professor, Computer Science, Cornell University:
"The National Science Digital Library: the Challenge of Scale"
Jane Prey, PhD. Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation

Middleware
Alan Robiette, Authentication and Security, Programme Director, JISC Executive:
"New developments in access management - setting the scene".
Ed Zedlewski, Executive Director, Eduserv:
"Athens: Single Sign On and devolved authentication services."
Diego Lopez, Co-ordinator of middleware services, RedIRIS, The Spanish NREN:
"PAPI: simple and ubiquitous access to Internet information servers"

User Studies
David House, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Brighton:
"Use of electronic information services: fact and fiction"
Leigh Watson Healy, Vice President & Chief Analyst, Outsell Inc:
"The Voice of the User: Where Students and Faculty go for Information"

PARALLEL SESSIONS

JISC/NSF Initiative
Stephen Griffin, Program Director, National Science Foundation

Service Quality in the Information Environment: The LibQUAL + Protocol
Duane Webster, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries
Dr Fred M Heath, Dean of Libraries, Texas A & M University
Joseph F Boykin, Dean of Libraries, Clemson University

METS: Metadata Standards for Digital Library Objects
Jerome McDonough, Digital Library Development Team Leader, New York University

Closing Plenary and conclusions
Bruce Royan, CEO, SCRAN: "Cultural Multimedia for the support of Learning"
Dr. Clifford A Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)