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Alan Burk, Director, Electronic Text Centre, UNB

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Registration Reminder- 2005 Summer Seminar Series/University of New
Brunswick/ Fredericton, New Brunswick/August 2-13, 2005

The registration deadline for the Summer Seminar Series is approaching
and there are still spaces available.

Canadian Initiatives on Digital Libraries (CIDL) is offering a $500.00
bursary towards travel costs to attend the Summer Seminar Series.  The
bursary is available to anyone with a CIDL 2005 Membership just provide
the CIDL secretariat with your name, job title, contact info, your
employer's name, and work location.  Send your reason/s why attendance
to the Summer Seminar Series will benefit your work.  Applications and
further information can be sent to:  Michelle Landriault, CIDL
Coordinator, e-mail: [log in to unmask], Fax:  (819)
934-5839.  The deadline is Friday, June 28, 2005.

The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick is
offering for the ninth consecutive year a summer seminar series of five
workshops exploring issues in scholarly communication. The series is
designed to offer introductory and advanced level courses that
effectively balance technical components with theoretical and practical
"hands-on" learning opportunities in state-of-the-art, information
technology labs. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the
latest techniques, tools and standards while expanding their communities
of practice.

2005 Course Offerings are:

1.    Introduction to Text Encoding; Lisa Charlong, ETC at UNB
2.    Advanced Topics in Building Electronic Texts; David Seaman,
    Digital Library Federation (DLF)
3.    Building Metadata Application Profiles; Diane Hillmann, National
Science Digital Library
4.    Advanced Web Publishing; Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
5.    Fundamentals of Digital Imaging; Marc Bragdon, ETC at UNB

Visit our Summer Seminar Series Website at:
http://www.lib.unb.ca/workshop2005 for registration, workshop and
accommodation information.

Preparations are well under way and we look forward to welcoming you in
August.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
Please contact Susan Oliver
Program Coordinator - 2005 Summer Series
Phone:  (506) 452-6103 OR Lori Tozer (506) 452-6325
Fax:    (506) 453-4595
Email:  [log in to unmask]
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