Founded by Stephen Cole in January 1997 as eBooks.com, the eBooks Corporation announced on May 28, 2003 at Book Expo America that it is "collaborating with leading international university and research libraries to develop an ebook lending platform. Ebook Library or ‘EBL’ is scheduled for release in select university and research libraries in September 2003 and will be officially launched in January 2004."

A lending model called Non-linear Lending allows multiple borrowers to check out the same ebook.

The company also offers wholesale distribution through its eBookengine service that is very similar to OverDrive's Digital Kiosk. 

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From the DIGLIB mailing list, 02003-04-27:

ADVANCED REGISTRATION EXTENDED UNTIL 2 MAY 02003

Dear Colleagues,

The Third Annual IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '03) is being held at Rice University in Houston, Texas from 27 - 31 May 2003. JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all types 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.

The conference offers a range of tutorials, workshops, paper presentations, posters, and demos. Please visit the JCDL '03 website at http://www.rice.edu/jcdl03/ to view the full program for the conference and to register for the conference, tutorials, and/or workshops. We hope to see you there!!

Tutorials and workshops can also be attended independent of the full conference. For a complete listing please consult the JCDL ’03 website.

Tutorials include:
-- Overview of Digital Libraries
-- How to Build a Digital Library Using Open-Source Software
-- Usability Evaluation of Digital Libraries
-- How to Build a Geospatial Digital Library
-- Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries I & II
-- XML
-- Open Content Licenses and Copyright

Workshops include:
-- Cross-Cultural Usability for Digital Libraries
-- International Workshop on Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (IVIRA)
-- Building a Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools The 6th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop
-- OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop

JCDL ’03 is generously sponsored by:
Association for Computing Machinery
-- Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)
-- Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Web (ACM SIGWEB)

Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE Computer Society)
--Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL)

In cooperation with:
-- The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
-- Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
-- Delos Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries
-- Rice University

Geneva Henry, Conference Chair, ghenry@rice.edu
Cathy Marshall, Program Chair, cathymar@microsoft.com

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The OpenURL from the NISO Committee AX site. OCLC Research announced its OpenURL Registry

Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02003-04-25

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Centre for Technology and the Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, has a number of interesting research projects involving digital library collections or electronic texts. Peter Robinson, Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Director of the Centre for Technology in the Arts, developed the texual-editing program Collate and the Anastasia electronic publishing system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996). In 2000 he founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions, specializing in high-quality electronic publications.

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CLIOH (Cultural Digital Library Indexing Our Heritage) (http://clioh.informatics.iupui.edu/) is an unusual multimedia digital library that includes a virtual reality (VR) component. CLIOH is a project of the "Informatics Research Institute (IRI), an academic research and development entity of the Indiana University School of Informatics. CLIOH is [also] a collaboration between the IUPUI School of Informatics, IU Library system, the Mathers Museum in Bloomington, IN and the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana."

"CLIOH is a searchable collection and digital archive housing original multimedia acquired from threatened world heritage cultural sites. Currently, the collection contains multimedia from the Mayan city of Uxmal in Yucatan, Mexico and a Native American Mississippian site, Angel Mounds." U.S.A.

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Electronic Resources in Libraries (ERIL)

is a community of librarians concerned with the practical aspects of managing electronic resources in libraries. We are from acquisitions, administration, archives, collection development, cataloging, reference, serials, systems, and beyond. We frequently fulfill many of these roles simultaneously, and at times we even blur these designations to better serve our library users.

This community gathers at whatever forum presents itself to combine our experiences providing electronic information services to library customers. We do this not only to learn from others, but to also tap collective power through which we can contribute to and create solutions across the electronic information universe.

At present the listserv is open to library professionals who work in libraries or library services and ask that library professionals who work for vendors not join. We debate this issue periodically and welcome feedback.

A wiki and a Weblog might be communication enhancements to be considered by ERIL members. [Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 102, Mar 02003]

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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 20 (U.S. Newswire) -- The National Archives and Records Administration will host its 18th annual preservation conference on Thursday, March 27, 2003. This year's theme will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of digital and analog formats in the context of reformatting archival information
from one medium to another - such as paper to microfilm or to digital images - for the purpose of preserving permanently valuable information. The conference is open to interested members of the public and the media.

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ALBANY, NY (February 20, 2003)- "Scholarly Publishing and Archiving on the Web: New Opportunities"  will be held on April 7, 8:45 am-4 pm, at UAlbany's Campus Center. Reservations for the symposium are due Tuesday, April 1, 2003.
  The day-long symposium will focus on the changing nature of academic publishing and scholarly communication.  Digital full-text and image files are becoming the norm for academic communication. Scholars now use world-wide networks to distribute articles, data, and images to colleagues. Commercial publishing is no longer the only option for disciplinary peers and the scholarly community.
  This symposium, the fifth in the last several years to be offered by Albany's University Libraries, will explore emerging models for Web publishing and archiving electronic scholarship using institutional venues. The symposium will present several  options to facilitate self-publishing and institutional  archiving by scholars.  Aditionally, speakers will discuss various implications and issues surrounding scholarly electronic publishing and the creation of repositories.
  Speakers will include Professor Steven Harnad , Director of  the Cognitive Sciences Centre of the University of  Southampton, who will present the keynote talk regarding scholarly publishing and archiving. Other speakers include: Simeon Warner, from Cornell University; Nancy Harm, from Luna Imaging Inc.; Professor Rob Kling, from Indiana  University; Maria Bonn, Director of the Scholarly Publishing  Office of the University of Michigan ; Susan Gibbons from the  University of Rochester Institutional Repository System; Catherine Candee, from the California Digital Library; and  Professor Timothy Stephen, from the University at Albany Communications Department.

Source: Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List, 24 Feb 02003

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Sun is now announcing the launch of its Knowledge Enterprise Special
Interest Group (KESIG), a forum for Sun to communicate with
institutions and firms worldwide involved in E-Learning, Portals,
Digital Libraries, and Content Management. KESIG members will get
periodic messages from Sun on relevant Sun and third party
technologies, new publications, and leading edge projects in Higher
Education. All communications will be screened and moderated by Sun to
avoid spamming and inappropriate advertisements. To join please go to:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/commofinterest/elearning/sig/

Source: Part of DIGLIB mailing list message colophon, 2003-02-24.

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