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IP: Creating the 21st Century Library at Penn Talk in the SF area
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:25:29 -0400
ng one of the following events: "Creating the 21st Century Library at Penn" Presented by Dr. Paul H. Mosher, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Palo Alto: April 28, 1999, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto Reception, followed by live-link program. San Francisco: April 29, 1999, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sheraton Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco Reception, followed by live-link program. "Creating The 21st Century Library at Penn" will cover both the "glamorous" aspects of the Digital Library, and the advanced technology that Penn is using to do "knowledge management" for scholars. The Library at the University of Pennsylvania is considered to be one of the best "Digital Libraries" in North America, and has the modest goal of becoming the best academic digital library. Our current partners include Verity, Inc., Endeavor Information Systems, and Oxford University Press, among others. New partnerships are being sought. For a preview of Penn's Digital Library, and to register for one of the events, see http://www.library.upenn.edu/vision For more information about the events, one can also contact Lara Turner, University of Pennsylvania Western Regional Office (310) 442-7800. Or email turner () ben dev upenn edu There viewers will find an assortment of exciting projects, including a stunning Shakespeare site, a history-books-on-line project (with Oxford University Press), songs from Marian Anderson, a never-before-published audio of Maestro Leopold Stokowski playing the Passacaglia for Organ in C Minor, and other wonderful surprises. Dr. Paul Mosher has been Vice Provost and Director of Libraries for the University of Pennsylvania since 1988. Before coming to Penn, he held senior administrative positions with Stanford University Libraries, including Deputy Director (1985-1988). Dr. Mosher holds degrees from Portland State University (BA 61) and the University of California at Berkeley (M 62, Ph.D. 69). He is a member and past chair of the Board of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and has served on special committees for RLG, the American Library Association, and the Association of Research Libraries. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Digital Library Federation.
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