Welcome to Screening Shakespeare! During the next four months (April 20-August 31), as part of the citywide celebration of everything Shakespeare, the Library of Congress will present an unprecedented series of films and TV shows based or inspired by the Bard's works (for complete list of titles see Shakespeare Screenings in the Pickford Theater). From the early silent images of three men in kilts re-enacting a scene from ‘Macbeth’ to Kenneth Brannagh's sumptuous four-hour Hamlet, the program will showcase the full breath of Shakespearean screen adaptations of the past one hundred years. Included are classics with Olivier, Welles and Burton, Maurice Evans's legendary Hallmark Hall of Fame performances and other broadcasts from the golden age of live television, superb BBC adaptations, even Shakespeare-inspired animated films and sitcoms.......More

Meet your peers in the GIS community at the 2007 ESRI EdUC to connect, learn, and share June 16-19 at the Marriott Marina and Hotel in San Diego, California. ......More

June 18, 2007, 10:00 to 12:00 noon
Mumford Room, 6th floor James Madison Building

Four years ago, the Preservation Directorate initiated collaboration with Dr. Carl H. Haber to capture sound from damaged phonographs, and similar 2 D grooved recordings, by developing a device to image groove configurations. The prototype device, the "I.R.E.N.E. Machine," has now been delivered and installed at LC for fidelity evaluation by two Library Divisions: Preservation Research and Testing, and Motion Picture, Broadcast and Recorded Sound. Dr. Haber will discuss the status of the I.R.E.N.E. project, as well as future plans to develop a second device for high resolution surface profiling of 3 D grooved media, such as wax cylinders.

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GIS users will gather at the 2007 ESRI UC to connect, learn, and share June 18–22 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.

The ESRI UC is unlike any other event. It the largest conference in the world devoted to GIS. Users from more than 120 countries come to learn new skills, share information and discover best practices and tips and tricks that they can
instantly use. Be a part of this exceptional event.

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Every four years a plenty of scientists, experts widely known in the cartographic community, students participate in these ICA event to communicate about activity of the academic institutes, universities, representatives of the national cartographic services (agencies), which are responsible for cartography in their countries, and also companies whose activity is connected with cartography, remote sensing and GIS.

 

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The Asia and Pacific region is the largest developing region in the world in landmass, population and aggregate income. Its 48 countries have nearly three fifth of the worlds total population. Each country in the region abounds in rich natural capital and has comprehended the true potential of Geospatial information in leveraging this capital to its utmost economic viability.......More

SIGIR 2007 in Amsterdam is the 30th SIGIR conference in a row. In 30 years of SIGIR, the avid SIGIR attendee would have accumulated about 138,430 frequent flier miles (222,836 km) just going from one conference location to the next.......More

The 9^th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 07) and the 4^th IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE ' 07) are the flagship annual conferences of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce.......More

EVA conferences have been held since 1994 in over 25 cities and countries. They are a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, local & global set of events for people interested in new technologies in the cultural sector. The main four annual EVA conferences are held in Florence (March), London (July), Berlin (November), Moscow (December).

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The 11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007) will be held from 25 to 29 of June 2007 at the five-stars Corfu Holiday Palace hotel, in Corfu, Greece. UM 2007 will be co-organised by the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" and the Ionian University, under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc.

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Here we list all the exhibitions details for you to refer to.

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This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, mediating cultural difference. All are encouraged to register and attend this significant and timely conference. A range of accommodation options is also available.......More

The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development is stimulating debate about learning and change. Most significant is the reminder to re-think learning in a changing world. What role does environmental education have to play in this process? ......More

The Learning Conference is held annually in different locations around the world, each selected for the particular role education is playing in social, cultural and economic change. In recent years, the conference has been held with the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia 1999, with RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia 2000, with the University of Athens in Spetses, Greece 2001, with Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China 2002, the Institute of Education, London University in London, UK 2003, the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, Havana, Cuba 2004, the University of Granada, in Granada, Spain 2005 and the Sam Sharpe Teachers College and Montego Bay Community College in Jamaica 2006.......More

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries”, including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all types of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, retrieving and distributing digital content; digital preservation and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing.......More

This E-Newsletter is a communicating approach between all the projects and sub-projects of NDAP. [Resounding] is a special column for the readers to share their experiences which contributions related to digital archives are always welcomed. It would be better if the contributors are knowledgeable and interesting. In addition to general discussion and report, topics which are explorative, debated, even controversial are also welcomed.......More

[Digital Gallery] chiefly introduces digitized archives. In addition to display the achievements of NDAP, [Digital Gallery] also wishes to bring the audiences visual feast on the attractiveness of digital archives.......More

American Treasures of the Library of Congress

Southwest Gallery and Pavilion, 2nd Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building, Ongoing Exhibition
Monday - Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm

The "American Treasures" exhibition showcases some 300 items that represent the breadth and depth of the Library's American historical items.

This exhibition is free and open to the public. No reservations are needed.

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