CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The top ranked library/information science school in the nation - the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) - is offering a free clinic to any UIUC student, faculty or staff member on one of today's hottest topics: electronic commerce.
The clinic, "Electronic Commerce in the Information Industries," will be held April 2-3 at the UI Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana.
Distinguished speakers from across the country will examine electronic publishing; new media; ways of assembling information collections and repositories; organizational, market and business models; and social and institutional transformations and impacts.
Allen Renear, director of the Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, and a participant in the Open E-Book Initiative, will give the keynote talk on "E-Books and Beyond: Information Content Standards for Encoding and Exchange" at 7 p.m. on April 2. Some of the other speakers, all on April 3, and in order of appearance, include:
Vicki Reich, assistant director, Highwire Press, Stanford University, "Electronic Journals: The Highwire Experience";
Ramnath Chellapa, Marshall Business School, University of Southern California, "eBusiness Models for Digital Products";
Lucio Soibelman, professor, UI department of civil engineering,
"Cross-Organizational Information Logistics";
Edmond Gaible, EOE Foundation, "Sharing Educational Objects in Distributed Repositories: A Joint Virtual Learning Environment for the U.S. Military";
Carl Lagoze, digital library scientist, Cornell University, "Defining and Creating Collections in Distributed Digital Environments"; and
Craig Knoblock, Information Sciences Institute, USC, "Information Aggregation and Consolidation."
For more information, see the program Web site or contact Kathy Painter, (800) 982-0914 or (217) 244-3274 or painter@illinois.edu.