Forum on Scholarly Electronic Publishing

[Jennifer Kostelnik <jennifer.kostelnik@YALE.EDU>]

The first forum in the SCOPA Fall Series on Scholarly Electronic
Publishing will take place on Monday, October 23.


Forum I -- Trends and Visions

        

Date:
Monday, October 23, 2000

        

Time:
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

        

Location:
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall

        

Topic:
The speakers will provide a "big picture" perspective of trends
in electronic scholarly publishing. From his or her unique perspective,
the speaker will provide an overview of the most interesting recent
developments in electronic scholarly publishing and will deliver a vision
of the direction scholarly publishing is headed. The speakers will
discuss what they deem to be the most  important question that
should be asked as we begin to think about how scholarly
communication  will take place in the future.

        

Speakers:

        

Wendy P. Lougee, Associate Director for Digital Library
Initiatives, University Library, University of Michigan

        

Robert E. Apfel, Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Visiting Professor of Architecture, Yale University 


This is the first forum of three.  The forums are designed to build
upon one another, but you do not need to be present at all of them to
benefit from one.

Forum II- Models, Trials and Theories - Thursday, November 9, SML
Lecture Hall, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.  
Forum III - Impact on Information Services, - Monday, November 23,
SML Lecture Hall, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 

For more information on the series, please visit
http://www.library.yale.edu/scopa/fallseries

There will be an opportunity for questions and discussions following each
forum.  Refreshments will be provided.

Please plan to join your colleagues in these informative and enlightening
sessions.  As this is an open forum series, feel free to forward
this message to colleagues in other Yale departments and schools who may
be interested in attending these forums.