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        Road Trips: Recent Presentations by OCLC Researchers
        Brian Lavoie, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ed O'Neill, Thom Hickey, and Lorcan Dempsey have been on the road this spring, speaking on WorldCat data mining, a systemwide view of library collections, information management, and the roles of metadata in managing digital assets.
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        April 18, 2005

        <P><STRONG>Brian Lavoie, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, and Ed O'Neill</STRONG><BR><A href="../presentations/lavoie/acrl2005.ppt"><STRONG>Mining for Digital Resources: Identifying and Characterizing Digital Materials in WorldCat</STRONG></A> <SPAN class=small>(PowerPoint:112K/15slides)</SPAN><BR><A href="http://www.acrl.org/acrlconftemplate1.html"><ACRONYM title="Association of College and Research Libraries">ACRL</ACRONYM> 12th National Conference: Currents and Convergence: Navigating the Rivers of Change</A>, 7-10 April, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)</P>
    <P><STRONG>Brian Lavoie and Roger C. Schonfeld (Ithaka)<BR></STRONG><A href="../presentations/lavoie/cni2005.ppt"><STRONG>A Systemwide View of Library Collections</STRONG></A> <SPAN class=small>(PowerPoint:300K/35slides)</SPAN><BR><A href="http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005a.spring/"><ACRONYM title="Coalition for Networked Information">CNI</ACRONYM> Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting</A>, 4-5 April 2005, Washington, DC (USA)</P>
    <P><STRONG>Thom Hickey</STRONG><BR><A href="../presentations/hickey/icim2005.ppt"><STRONG>Information Management in a Knowledge Society</STRONG></A> <SPAN class=small>(PowerPoint:438K/17slides)</SPAN><BR><A href="http://www.icim2005.org/">International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society</A>, 21-25 February 2005, Mumbai (India) </P>
    <P><STRONG>Lorcan Dempsey</STRONG> <BR><A href="../presentations/dempsey/clirmetadata.ppt"><STRONG>Metadata: Practice and practice</STRONG></A> <SPAN class=small>(PowerPoint:3.7MB/58slides)</SPAN><BR><ACRONYM title="Council on Library and Information Resources">CLIR</ACRONYM> workshop, <A href="http://www.clir.org/activities/registration/feb05_managing.html">Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators</A>, 4-6 February 2005, Charleston, South Carolina(USA)</P>
    <P><STRONG>OCLC Research Presentations</STRONG><BR><A href="http://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/">http://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/</A></P>

        Bob Bolander
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        Communications &amp; Programs Manager
        OCLC Research