IP: Creating the 21st Century Library at Penn Talk in the SF area

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>ng one of the following events:
>
>"Creating the 21st Century Library at Penn"
>Presented by Dr. Paul H. Mosher, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries
>
>Palo Alto:
>April 28, 1999, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
>Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto
>Reception, followed by live-link program.
>
>San Francisco:
>April 29, 1999, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
>Sheraton Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco
>Reception, followed by live-link program.
>
>"Creating The 21st Century Library at Penn" will cover both the
>"glamorous" aspects of the Digital Library, and the advanced technology
>that Penn is using to do "knowledge management" for scholars.
>
>The Library at the University of Pennsylvania is considered to be one of
>the best "Digital Libraries" in North America, and has the modest goal
>of becoming the best academic digital library.  Our current partners
>include Verity, Inc., Endeavor Information Systems, and Oxford
>University Press, among others.  New partnerships are being sought.
>
>For a preview of Penn's Digital Library, and to register for one of the
>events, see
>
>http://www.library.upenn.edu/vision
>
>For more information about the events, one can also contact Lara Turner,
>University of Pennsylvania Western Regional Office (310) 442-7800.   Or
>email turner@ben.dev.upenn.edu
>
>There viewers will find an assortment of exciting projects, including a
>stunning Shakespeare site, a history-books-on-line project (with Oxford
>University Press), songs from Marian Anderson, a never-before-published
>audio of Maestro Leopold Stokowski playing the Passacaglia for Organ in
>C Minor, and other wonderful surprises.
>
>Dr. Paul Mosher has been Vice Provost and Director of Libraries for the
>University of Pennsylvania since 1988.
>Before coming to Penn, he held senior administrative positions with
>Stanford University Libraries, including
>Deputy Director (1985-1988).  Dr. Mosher holds degrees from Portland
>State University (BA 61)
>and the University of California at Berkeley (M 62, Ph.D. 69).  He is a
>member and past chair of the Board of the Research Libraries Group (RLG)
>and has served on special committees for RLG, the American Library
>Association, and the Association of Research Libraries.  He is a member
>of the Steering Committee of the Digital Library Federation.