"Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries" Conference!

Time: September 8 - 9, 2003 Place: Espoo, Finland

The focus of the conference

• digital library users - their experience and expectations
• the digital library - the possibilities it creates, the challenges we must meet

The topics include:

• New developments and future visions in the digital library environments
• Digital library users and usage patterns
• Evaluation of digital library programmes and digital services
• Usefulness and validity of digital resources in research
• Towards Open Access to scientific publications
• etc.

The speakers are leading experts in their fields. Keynote speakers:

Linda Banwell, University of Northumbria; Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee; Tapio Varis, University of Tampere; Sakari Karjalainen, Ministry of Education, Science Policy Division; Mel Collier, Tilburg University.

For the full programme see at http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/digilib/programme.html

Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 27 May 02003