A Few Words of Appreciation for Conference Reporters
by Bonita Wilson
doi:10.1045/july2009-editorial

Letters
doi:10.1045/july2009-letters

Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness: Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive
Simon Tanner and Trevor Muñoz, King's College London; and Pich Hemy Ros, Digital Divide Data
doi:10.1045/july2009-munoz

21st Century Shipping: Network Data Transfer to the Library of Congress
Michael Ashenfelder, Library of Congress
doi:10.1045/july2009-ashenfelder

Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile
Irene Lourdi and Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University; and Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
doi:10.1045/july2009-papatheodorou

Report on the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Austin, Texas June 15-19, 2009
Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University
doi:10.1045/july2009-nelson

JCDL 2009 Workshop Report: Lightweight User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians
Michael Khoo, Drexel University; George Buchanan, City University, London; and Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato
doi:10.1045/july2009-khoo

Report on the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009)
Frank McCown, Harding University; and Hannes Kulovits and Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
doi:10.1045/july2009-mccown

Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity 2009
Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University
doi:10.1045/july2009-shipman

Doing So Much More: The Fourth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09)
Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University
doi:10.1045/july2009-morris

ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies
Elena Giglia and Paola Galimberti, Università degli Studi di Torino
doi:10.1045/july2009-giglia

Report on the 2nd African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference
Martie van Deventer, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); and Heila Pienaar, University of Pretoria
doi:10.1045/july2009-vandeventer

East Carolina University, Joyner Library Digital Collections
Gretchen Gueguen, East Carolina University
doi:10.1045/july2009-featured.collection

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award
Steven Bergen, U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
doi:10.1045/july2009-inbrief

High Precision and Recall: Focuss.Info as Community-driven Search Engine
Richard Lalleman, Focuss.Info Initiative
doi:10.1045/july2009-inbrief

In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

1910 Postcard of Dr. Hardy's drugstore on the Pamlico River, Washington, N.C. Depicts a dock and shipping. Courtesy of East Carolina University. Used with permission.

This month's featured collection is the East Carolina University, Joyner Library Digital Collections.

In Print

• Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow
• Beyond 'Fortress America':National Security Controls on Science and Technology in a Globalized World
• The Social Life of Health Information
• Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles
• Open Access - What are the economic benefits? A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark
• Data Management Plan Content Checklist Draft Template for Consultation
• Digital Britain: The Final Report
• Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace
• M-Libraries: Information use on the move: A report from the Arcadia Programme
• A Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher
• ssues in Science & Technology Librarianship
• DPC What's new in digital preservation
• ARIADNE
• Information Research
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (June)
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (July)
• ScieCom info
• Digital Document Quarterly (DDQ)
• Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA) Newsletter

Point to Point

• Google Book Search Bibliography

Calls for Participation

• Fifth International Symposium on Digital Libraries (V SIBD), 27 - 28 October 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 2 August 2009.
• AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research 2009, 14 - 16 December 2009, San Diego, California, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 2 August 2009.
• Workshop on Multilinguality in Information Access to Digital Libraries - MLIA4DL 2009, 9 September 2009, Trento, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline for extended abstracts is 5 August 2009.
• Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010, 4 - 6 February 2010, New York City, New York, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 6 August 2009.
• Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge, 25 October 2009, Fairfax, Virginia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 10 August 2009.
• The First International Workshop on Living Web: Making Web Diversity a true asset, 25 October 2009, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 11 August 2009.
• The Fourth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009), 25 October 2009, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. (Co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference.) Call for papers. The submission deadline is 11 August 2009.
• 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving, 28 - 30 April 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 31 August 2009.
• 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010) Special Track on: Information Access and Retrieval , 22 - 26 March 2030, Sierre, Switzerland. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 8 September 2009.
• 2nd ISPIM Innovation Symposium - Stimulating Recovery - The Role of Innovation Management, 6 - 9 December 2009, New York City, New York, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 13 September 2009.
• International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2010), 23 - 26 February 2010, New Delhi, India. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 September 2009.
• Fourteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2009), 4 December 2009, Sydney, Australia Call for papers. The submission deadline is 28 September 2009.
• Future Internet: Special Issue on Web Information Behavior. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 October 2009.

Goings On

• Emerging trends in technology: libraries between Web 2.0, semantic web and search technology, (an IFLA satellite preconference sponsored by the Information Technology Section), 19 - 20 August 2009, Florence, Italy
• IFLA Satellite Conference on Serials Preservation - Preserving the Cultural Legacy of Serials: from Conservation (Print and Manuscript) to Reformatting (Many Formats) to Digital (Bytes), 19 - 21 August 2009, Bolzano, Italy
• The 1st IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 23 - 25 August 2009, Dalian, China
• alford Data Mining Conference 2009, 23 - 25 August 2008, San Diego, California, USA
• World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council: Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage, 23 - 27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
• The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 29 - 31 August 2009, Vancouver, Canada
• Kaleidoscope-2009: Innovations for Digital Inclusion, 31 August - 1 September 2009, Mar del Plata, Argentina
• I-KNOW - 9th International Conference for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, 2 - 4 September 2009, Graz, Austria
• The 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL), 7 - 11 September 2009, São Carlos, Brazil
• Third International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 09), 8 - 11 September 2009, Wrexham, North East Wales, United Kingdom
• The International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) , 8 - 11 September 2009, Trento, Italy
• 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 10 - 11 September 2009, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• 3rd Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval, 11 - 16 September 2009, Petrozavodsk, Russia
• 12th International Conference of Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2009, 12 - 18 September 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic
• 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), 14 - 16 September 2009, Lund, Sweden
• University of Maryland Center for Intellectual Property Online Workshop - Copyright Education Programs: Teaching the Ethical and Legal Use of Information, 14 - 25 September 2009. (This is an online conference. Register by September 7.)
• 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'09) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), 15 - 18 September 2009, Milan, Italy
• XI All-Russian Scientific Conference RCDL'2009, 17 - 21 September 2009, Petrozavodsk, Russia
• IEEE 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD-II 2009), 21 - 25 September 2009, Bangalore, India
• eHealth 2009 Second International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century, 23 - 25 September 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
• 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, 27 September - 2 October 2009, Corfu, Greece
• Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: "Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines", 29 September - 2 October 2009, Nice, France
• Third International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'09), 30 September - 2 October 2009, Milan, Italy
• 2009 IDF Open Meeting: "Ensuring Persistence", 7 October 2009, San Francisco, California, USA

Deadline Reminders

• 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
• Sixteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning
• 5th International Digital Curation Conference "Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity"
• IADIS International Conference: Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2009)
• ECDL 2009 Workshop: BooksOnline'09
• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2009
• The First International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies'
• Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009
• International Conference on Academic Libraries (ICAL-2009)
• Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2009)
• Second International Workshop on Logics for Agents and Mobility (LAM'09)

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