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Sym: 0206.38
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:29:43 +0200
From: Marieke van Delft <Marieke.vanDelft@kb.nl>
Subject: Sym: 0206.38: Congres Bibliopolis over de toekomst van het
boek van do 7 tot za 9 november 2002 te Den
Haag
Conference 'The future history of the book'
7-8 (9) November 2002, KB The Hague (Netherlands)
Announcement and Second Call for Papers
Since 1998, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the
Netherlands, has been engaged in a project to create an electronic
information system on the history of the printed book in the
Netherlands. This project has resulted in an interactive tool, entitled
Bibliopolis, based on World Wide Web technology. Bibliopolis consists
of various components: a concise history of the printed book in the
Netherlands; an image database; biographical and bibliographical data;
full text digital copies of important book-historical studies; and
various bibliographic tools. This project of the KB has been developed
in close co-operation with the universities of Amsterdam, Leiden,
Nijmegen and Utrecht, and the Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging.
Financial support was provided by the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research (NWO).
Bibliopolis will be presented during an international conference on 7-8
November 2002 at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague. The theme of
this conference, entitled The future history of the book, will be: the
influence of new media on book-historical research and new directions
in book history. The conference language is English. On 9 November an
optional excursion will be organised to the KB's major exhibition on
children's books in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam.
Robert Darnton (Princeton University, NJ) and David McKitterick (Wren
Librarian, Trinity College, Cambridge) will be our keynote speakers.
The plenary morning sessions will be devoted to Bibliopolis and the
history of the book in the Netherlands. In the afternoon sessions,
parallel workshops will be held. One session will be organised by CERL
(Consortium of European Research Libraries) and one session will be
devoted to Bibliopolis itself.
For the other sessions we invite you to contribute to the discussion by
submitting a short paper on one of the following topics:
- Changing copyright issues
- The function of books versus that of hypermedia
- Interfacing: codex versus electronic text
- Historical resources of the future
To facilitate the workshop discussions and the preparation of papers,
we have put forward some theses and questions. These can be found at
http://www.kb.nl/coop/bibliopoliscongres.
It is our intention to publish the papers on the Internet prior to the
conference and they will be presented and discussed in the workshops,
followed by a plenary discussion.
Discussion papers should not exceed two pages (i.e. 1,000 words) and
should include a title and a brief (max. 100 words) biographical
identification. Submitting a paper will grant you free entry to the
conference on 7 and 8 November. We are, however, unable to reimburse
you for travel expenses.
The deadline for submissions is 1 July. Papers should be sent by e-mail
to: BibliopolisConference@kb.nl
Further information can be obtained at the above mentioned e-mail
address, web site or postal address (Koninkijke Bibliotheek, Department
of Special Collections, Bibliopolis Conference, Postbus 90407, 2509 LK
The Hague, The Netherlands).
For registrating to the Conference a registration form is available at
http://www.kb.nl/coop/bibliopoliscongres.
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