UKOLN News

UKOLN currently has a vacancy for a Resource Co-ordinator. The post is available on a maternity-leave cover basis for up to a year.

Issue 6 has an Eastern European theme and contains articles on the Russian State Library, the potential the Open Archives Initiative may hold for museums and content-based multimedia information handling.

coordinated by UKOLN is to be held on 26th – 27th June 2002 at the Edinburgh Marriott. Parallel sessions will explore and contrast major developments that are happening on both sides of the Atlantic. It should be of interest to all senior management in information systems in the education community and those responsible for delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research. Keynote speakers will include: Lorcan Dempsey, Bruce Royan and Cliff Lynch.

The third Collection Description Focus workshop is being held on Thursday 21 March 2002 at the Wolfson Suite, University of Edinburgh Library, Edinburgh. The workshop will concentrate on the issue of content standards and terminological control for collection-level description, with particular emphasis on the use of subject terminologies and thesauri.