Sunday, June 27, 1999, 2:00-5:30 p.m.  Marriot New Orleans

 The conference program will explore what we know about the information-seeking behavior of today’s digital library users. Keynote speaker Ann Bishop from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will discuss research on the digital library user and draw on her work with the NSF funded Digital Library Iniative. Academic librarians, Peggy Seiden from Swarthmore and Tom Abbott from the University of Maine at Augusta, will highlight the implications of their work for academic library instruction and distance education. Two students from the New Orleans area will talk about how they use the digital library. A poster session will follow and will showcase innovative responses to the instructional needs of digital library users.   (co-sponsored by IS and DLS)

Betsy Park (co-chair, IS 1999 Conference Program Planning), ehpark@memphis.edu