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We invite you to attend The Third International Symposium on ETDs
(Electronic Theses and Dissertations), March 16th-18th, 2000, University of
South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida. Preconference: March 15, 2000.
This symposium is organized by the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of
Theses and Dissertations), a consortium of research universities committed
to improving graduate education by developing digital libraries of theses
and dissertations. This conference will serve as a multi-disciplinary forum
for graduate deans and their staff, librarians, faculty leaders, and others
who are interested in electronic theses and dissertations, digital
libraries, and applying new media to scholarship. Featured keynoters and
plenary workshop leaders include Ed Fox, Director, NDLTD; Clifford Lynch,
Director, CNI; Ann Hart, Provost, Claremont Graduate School; Gerry Lang,
Provost, West Virginia University; John Eaton, Associate Provost, Virginia
Tech; Delphine Lewis, Director of Dissertations, UMI; Roy Tennant, Digital
Library Project Manager, University of California, Berkeley; Stuart Weibel,
Senior Research Scientist, OCLC.
Concurrent sessions will introduce participants to world-wide ETD
initiatives, including presentations by Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de
Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Felix Ubogu, Rhodes University,
South Africa; Peter Diepold, Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany; Tony Cargnelutti and Fred Piper, University of
New South Wales, Australia; Christine Jewell, University of Waterloo,
Canada. Concurrent sessions also include reports from leading ETD
universities, including VT, UWV, USF, MIT, and Emory. Workshops in computer
classrooms will provide hands-on training in Adobe PDF, XML, SGML, and
Microsoft Office 2000.
Conference Sponsors: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations;
Council of Graduate Schools; Microsoft; Adobe, Dell, University of South
Florida
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