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.