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THREE CONFERENCES

David Green (david@cni.org)
Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:51:15 -0400 

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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 14:05:48 -0400
To: current@artswire.org
From: Beth Kanter <kanter@artswire.org>
Subject: CA Governor's Conference on the Arts


The California Arts Council's 1997 CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON
THE ARTS (http://www.govcon.org) is examining the increasingly important
issue of the globalization of the world economy, the telecommunications
revolution, and the importance of the marketplace of ideas as they affect
the arts.   An online component, implemented by Arts Wire at
http://www.artswire.org/reg/gov_reg.cgi
provides an opportunity for anyone interested to participate
        Beth Kanter    Arts Wire Network Coordinator    kanter@artswire.org

                 <http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/spiderschool/spider.htm>

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    Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe

                                  presents

                                 ICHIM 97

                            in partnership with

                             le Musee du Louvre

            The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and
                   Interactivity in Museums will be held

                             1-5 September 1997

                   at Le Musee du Louvre, Paris, France.

     Two days of pre-conference workshops and events are followed by
     three days of presentations by over 60 experts from around the
     world. Theme days feature Multimedia Publications, Geographic
     Information and the World Wide Web. Three days of rotating
     exhibits include dozens of demonstrations by developers of museum
     projects and commercial firms active in museum computing and
     cultural publication. Numerous opportunities will be provided for
     social interaction.

     The Preliminary Program and Registration details for ICHIM 97 are
     available at:

                         www.archimuse.com/ichim97

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THE SPECIALIZED SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH IN CRISIS

OR

HOW CAN I GET TENURE IF YOU WON'T PUBLISH MY BOOK?



SEPTEMBER 11-12, 1997
WASHINGTON, DC



CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY:

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRESSES
ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES



"Saving 'Tenure Books' From
a Painful Demise"
Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/1/96

"Profit Squeeze for Publishers
Makes Tenure More Elusive"
New York Times, 11/18/96


Recent headlines in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher
Education warn of the dangers posed by the threat to the specialized
scholarly monograph.  The primary market for specialized
monographs--research libraries--has been burdened over the past decade
with significant increases in the costs of science and technology
journals, resulting in dramatic decreases in monographic purchases.
Faced with this eroding market and declining subsidies from both
universities and funding agencies, university presses can no longer
afford to publish the specialized research which is central to their
mission.  As a consequence, young faculty are not getting tenured or
promoted, undermining the future of education and scholarship in the
humanities and social sciences.

This conference on the specialized scholarly monograph brings together
faculty, administrators, publishers, and librarians to focus attention
on an issue central to the entire academic enterprise.  It examines the
current state of scholarly communication and explores the potential of
new technologies to provide both new means of dissemination and new
formats for conducting research and communicating the results.

The conference examines:
* the issues involved in the creation and dissemination of scholarly
communication from the perspectives of a university administrator, scholar,
publisher, and librarian;
* the functions and costs involved in the scholarly communication process,
examining the factors which have contributed to the endangered status of the
monograph;
* expectations for young faculty, and how and why they are changing;
* how the issues differ across fields and disciplines and how these 
variables affect the decisions made by the presses;
* current experiments in monographic publishing;  and
* new frameworks in scholarly communication and how these might provide
new models for creation and dissemination of research.


INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
John D'Arms, ACLS
Scott Bennett, Yale University Library
Stanley Chodorow, University of Pennsylvania
Sandria Freitag, American Historical Association
Joanna Hitchcock, University of Texas Press
Peter Nathan, University of Iowa
Marlie Wasserman, Rutgers University Press


For more information or to register online, see
<http://arl.cni.org/scomm/epub/program.html>

--

   Mary Case, Director
   Office of Scholarly Communication
   Association of Research Libraries
   21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 800
   Washington, D.C.   20036
     (202) 296-2296 X112
     Fax:  (202) 872-0884
     Internet: marycase@cni.org

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