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January 1996

 
9     Dr. Helen Shen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
      Dan Atkins, Bill Birmingham, Randy Frank, Wendy Lougee, Greg Peters
 
9     Bob Rossbach, WTVS Detroit (television station)
      Wendy Lougee, Elliot Soloway
 
10-11 Defense Information Enterprise Technology (DIET) Program PI meeting
      Sunnyvale, CA
      Bill Birmingham
 
16-19 Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference
      San Antonio, Texas
      Dan Atkins, Olivia Frost, Laurie Crum
 
19-25 ALA Midwinter
      San Antonio, Texas
      Dan Atkins, Olivia Frost, Laurie Crum
 
29-2/2 Patrick Finn, La Plaza de Taos
      Semnar on the Le Plaza de Taos (community network)
      Dan Atkins, Joan Durrance
 
         
 

February 1996

 
      MAME (Michigan Association of Media in Education)
      Grand Rapids, Michigan
      Keynote Presentation:  Elliot Soloway
      The Role of Digital Libraries in Supporting Inquiry Learning
 
1     Carlene Ellis, Intel
      Dan Atkins
 
5     Roland Dietz, Senior VP, Elsevier Science
      Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin, Dave Rodgers
 
9     Ontario Library Association
      Toronto, Canada
      Speaker:  Dan Atkins
 
16    Carol Moore, Director University of Toronto Library
      Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin
 
26    Sang-Wan Han, Sung-Hyuk Kim, Sung-Bin Moon
      Korea
      Dan Atkins
 
29    Academic Press Library Advisory Group
      Orlando, FL
      Wendy Lougee
 
 
         
 

March 1996

 
3-8    OMG (Object Management Group
      David Richardson
 
4-5   ERCM meeting
      Nice, France
      Bill Birmingham, Kathy Willis
      Presentation:  Bill Birmingham
 
5     Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Chief Information 
      Officers and Library Directors
      Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank, John Price-Wilkin
 
 Rank Xerox
      Grenoble, France
      Bill Birmingham, Kathy Willis
 
5-7   Netscape Developers Conference
      Greg peters
 
8     George Shipman, University of Oregon
      Dan Atkins
 
15    School of Information is officially launched
 
15    MACUL (Michigan Association of Computer Uses in Learning)
      Lansing, Michigan
      Keynote Presentation:  Elliot Soloway
      The Role of Digital Libraries in Supporting Inquiry Learning
      Speaker:  Raven Wallace
 
18    National Digital Library Federation, Washington, DC
      Wendy Lougee
 
19    Research "Science Fair"
      Capitol Hill, Washington
      Raven Wallace
 
19    Ken Perlin, Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Digital Multmedia
         Media Research Laboratory, New York University
      AI Seminar:  Two research Projects:  PAD and Improvisational Animation
 
20    Jerry Butters, A T & T
      Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank
 
21-22 7th Annual IPoSCE Review
      The University of Michigan
      Ann Arbor, MI
      Speakers:  Jose Vidal  (Building and using agent models in an agent-based digital 
      library); Tracy Mullen (Exchangng goods and services in a digital library); Ansoara 
      Nica (Resource discovery in large-scale distributed library systems)
 
26-4/5 Joerg Haake, Anja Haake
       GMD, Darmstat
       UMDL team
       Seminar (4/4/96):  Hypermedia-based Collaboration Support
 
31-4/1 OCLC Authority Control Conference
       Dublin, Ohio,
       Speaker:  Karen Drabenstott
       "Beyond Online Catalogs: The Role of Authority Control in Digital Libraries
 
         
 

April 1996

 
1     Leif Hansen, Copenhagen Business School
      Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin
 
1     Chuichi Tanaka, Takanori Hayashi, Hatsuhito Mitsuhashi
      Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
      Dan Kiskis, Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin
 
2     IBM Steering Committee
      Speaker:  Dan Atkins
 
14-15 Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine
      UMDL Team
 
14-18 CHI '96:  Common Ground
      Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
      George Furnas
 
14-18 NAB '96
      Las Vegas, NV
      Bill Birmingham
 
22    Sue Corbett, Blackwell Publishers
      Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin
 
25    W3C Workshop on High Quality Printing from the Web
      Spencer Thomas
 
         
 

May 1996

 
2      Lu Kabir, Oracle
      Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank
 
5     Tom Kalil, White House
      Dan Atkins, Mike Wellman, Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank
 
6     NSF/ARPA/NASA Site Vist
               Ann Arbor, MI
      UMDL Team
 
6     Les Gasser, NSF
      UMDL Team
 
8     Maria Luisa Arenas-Franco, Pantificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
      Wendy Lougee
 
16-17 All Project Digital Library Initiative Workshop
               University of Michigan
      Ann Arbor, MI
      UMDL Team
 
22    Media Union Dedication
 
31    Mark Abel, Intel
      Dan Atkins
 
         
 

June 1996

 
3     Liz Turgeon, Addison Wesley 
      Dan Atkins
 
3     James Wells, Real Video
      Dan Atkins
 
10-14 CARIS '96
      Federicton, Newe Brunswick
      Bill Birmingham
 
13    Lorrin Garson and additional representatives 
      American Chemical Society
      Dan Atkins, Wendy Lougee
 
17-22 E D - M E D I A   &   E D - T E L E C O M  96:  World Conference on 
      Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and World Conference on Educational 
      Telecommunications
      Boston, MA
 
21-22 International Symposium on Technology and Society '96 (ISTAS)
      Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
 
25-28 INET '96
      Montreal, CANADA
      Jeff MacKie-Mason
 
28    Alexandra Jankovich, Elsevier Science
      Jeff MacKie-Mason
 
         
 

July 1996

 
4-10  American Library Association Annual Meeting
      New York
      Dan Atkins and other members of the UMDL team
 
7     Publishers Meeting
      Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
      Dan Atkins, Wendy Lougee, Mike Wellman
 
11    Dr. Sajjad Ur Rehman, Department of Library and Information Science
      International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur
      UMDL Project Staff
 
11    Dr. Ahmet Celik, Hacettepe University, Turkey
      UMDL Project Staff
 
26    Kakugyo S. Chiku and Mr. Moroya
      Kanazawa Institute of Technology Library Center
      UMDL Project Staff
 
         
 

August 1996

 
         

September, 1996

3     Michigan Library Association Summit on Public Policy and
Information Access, Keynote Speaker, (Daniel Atkins)   5 Alfred Scheidegger, Urs Spiess, & Oliver Strohm ,
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, (Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology) (Wendy Lougee)   9 Visitors from Japanese Universities (Daniel Atkins, Wendy Lougee)   10-11 ALA visitors, Prudence Dayrymple & Elizabeth Martinez (Daniel
Atkins)   12 Carnegie-Mellon, Marvin Sirbu, NetBill in UMDL (Michael
Wellman)   16-20 Object Management Group (OMG) Meeting, Hyannis, MA (David
Richardson)   16-18 IITA Workshop, NASA Communicating Science, Washington, DC (Dan
Kiskis and Raven Wallace)   18-19 National Digital Library Federation Task Force, Washington, DC
(Wendy Lougee)   20 Conrad Guetter, Journals Director, Cambridge University Pres.
(Wendy Lougee)   24 Roland Dietz, Vice President, Elsevier Science (Wendy Lougee)   26 Jane White, Sales Representative, Wiley & Sons (Wendy Lougee)   26 Presentation to Warner-Lambert staff (Wendy Lougee)   26 NSF COV meeting with Dr. George Lee (Daniel Atkins)   28 Digital Library Workshop for President's Weekend (Wendy Lougee
and Daniel Atkins)   30 Keynote address at Michigan Library Association meeting
(Daniel Atkins)

 

October, 1966

2     Michael Simmons, Santa Fe Institute (Daniel Atkins)
 
3     Mario Gonzalez, Vice Chancellor, University of Texas (Wendy
Lougee)   3 Columbia University External Advistory Board meeting (Daniel
Atkins)   5 Plymouth-Canton School District, Technology Day (Joe Krajcik)   6-7 DARPA/ITO PI meeting (Michael Wellman)   7-8 DELOS Workshop on Metadata and Interoperability, Bad Honnef,
Germany (Gene Alloway and Dan Kiskis)   9 Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, MIT (Daniel Atkins, Wendy
Lougee)   11 The Community of Learner's Project, an NSF sponsored NIE
project in New Brunswick, Maine (Elliot Soloway)   12 North High School, Omaha, NE, workshop on the use of the UMDL
(Joe Krajcik)   15 Iowa's Computing Using Educators State Conference (Elliot
Soloway)   17 John Evans, formerly of CSPAN (Wendy Lougee)   23 George Needham, Jeff Johnson, Library of Michigan (Wendy
Lougee)   23 ASIS Conference, Baltimore, Maryland presentation on Planning
Curriculum for the Information Professionals of the 21st
Century (Daniel Atkins)   24 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, K-12 Science Projects (Elliot
Soloway)   24 NSA, Columbia, Maryland, presentation on Socio-Technical
Prospects and Challenges for Supporting Distance-Independent
Knowledge Work (Daniel Atkins)   25 CAMLS Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, presentation on Major
Changes in Library Profession: Education for Pre and Post
Graduates (Daniel Atkins)   28 Roland Dietz,Vice President, Elsevier Science (Wendy Lougee)

 

November, 1966

1     John Seely Brown, Xerox Park (Daniel Atkins)
 
4     Doug Smith, Dorothy Heyart, VPs, Walsh Business College (Wendy
Lougee)   6 Presentation at ECOINFORMA Conference (Wendy Lougee)   8 ERCIM Board of Directors meeting speech, Prague (Daniel
Atkins)   11 Technical University at Darmstadt, Germany lecture on
Knowledge Work Environments of the Future: Experiences and
Projects in the USA (Daniel Atkins)   15 Presentation to representatives of the Society for Automotive
Engineers at Ford (Wendy Lougee)   18 Charles Ellis, President, John Wiley Publishing (Wendy Lougee)   18 Edwards Brothers board meeting (Daniel Atkins, Wendy Lougee)   18-21 USENIX E-Commerce workshop, Oakland, CA (Tracey Mullen & David
Richardson)   19 Paul Beavers, Assistant Director, Purdy/Kresge Library, Wayne
State University (Wendy Lougee)   19-21 Carnegie-Mellon University, payment mechanisms in UMDL (W.
Walsh)   20 Wendy Lougee presented Keynote address at Michigan Library
Consortium Conference   20 UMDL presentation at the Technology Day in Lansing, MI (David
Lyons)   21 Greg Badger, Bowker International/Reed Reference (Wendy
Lougee)

 

December, 1996

14    National Digital Library Task Force Meeting, San Francisco, CA
(Wendy Lougee)   15-17 Digital Library Initiative All Projects Meeting, Stanford,
(Atkins, Birmingham, Durfee, Frost, Furnas, Kerr, Kiskis,
Lougee, Wellman, Vidal, Weinstein)

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