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VALA presentation by Michael Seadle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Huggard)
Tue Jun 23 20:03:09 1998
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:50:01 -0500
From: Simon Huggard <Simon.Huggard@lib.monash.edu.au>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Simon.Huggard@lib.monash.edu.au
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Simon
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Dear Colleague,
NOTICE OF VALA MEETING
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
INK, E-TEXT AND LIBRARIES AS PUBLISHERS
Talk by Michael Seadle, editor of Library Hi Tech
How has technology turned libraries into publishers and what does
this mean for us in the library world?
Etext, a new and aggressive species of publishing, has emerged on the
Internet in the last decade.The idea of libraries as publishers is
uncommon. But digitization has in fact quietly transformed
libraries into active etext publishers of out-of-print works and
facsimile editions. These works directly encroach on an established
preserve of ink-based publishing. It is one of the first cases in
which the old species and the new have come into direct competition.
This talk examines that competition as it is playing out today. It
first approaches the question historically, to see how the competition
developed. Then it looks synchronically at how the competition
affects each of three communities within the scholarly world:
librarians, publishers, and researchers. The effect on physically
isolated communities (such as Australia) is an underlying theme.
Speaker: Michael Seadle, editor of Library Hi Tech,
published by Pierian Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
About the Speaker:
Michael Seadle has written 25 articles, chapters, and books on a wide
range of subjects from German history to computing management. He has
a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, a library degree from
the University of Michigan, and he worked for over a decade as a
computer professional. At present he is editor of the peer-reviewed
academic journal Library Hi Tech and a librarian at Michigan State
University. While in Australia he is interested in contacting
potential authors for a special issue of Library Hi Tech on the use of
technology in Australian libraries and by Australian scholars.
An example of the July 1996 issue of Library Hi Tech is available on
the Web at: http://www.netpubsintl.com/LHTN.html
Venue: Seminar Room, 4th Floor, State Library of Victoria, Australia
(Enter from La Trobe Street, Entrance 3).
Date: Wednesday 15 July 1998
5:30 for 6:00pm.
Duration: One and a half hours.
Refreshments provided
All welcome
Public Transport: Train to Melbourne Central
Station. Tram to same venue.
Parking: On-street parking is free but crowded.
Commercial parking available off Little Lonsdale
Street, between Russell & Exhibition Streets.
Simon Huggard
VALA Committee Member
VALA Administration
Victorian Association for Library Automation Inc.
P.O. Box 282
Croydon Vic 3136
Phone: (03) 9725 2725 Fax: (03) 9723 6097
Email: vala@vicnet.net.au
http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~vala/
