3.285 conference report; conference reminder (114)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Wed, 26 Jul 89 08:28:30 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 285. Wednesday, 26 Jul 1989.


(1) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 12:19 BST (56 lines)
From: Lou Burnard's 400 lines <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: conference report - a bit long but quite interesting

(2) Date: Wed, 26 JUL 89 10:10:35 BST (39 lines)
From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: Reminder - NewOED Conference at Oxford University

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 12:19 BST
From: Lou Burnard's 400 lines <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: conference report - a bit long but quite interesting

Information Technology and the Research Process.
Cranfield Institute of Technology, 18-21 July 1989
Conference Report
Lou Burnard

All academic communities define themselves partly by regular
gatherings dedicated to self-examination; the community of
"information scientists", i.e. those skilled in the management
and exploitation of library and analogous resources in research,
is no exception. During the seventies there had been a regular
series of such gatherings known as the Cranfield Conference.
These having now fallen into desuetude, when <n>Brian Perry</>,
head of the British Library's Research and Development
Department, welcomed us to this reborn version he naturally
proposed that it should be called "Not the Cranfield Conference".
The four day event, jointly sponsored by the British Library, the
University of Pittsburgh's Department of Library Science, and the
UK Computer Board, attracted a small but agreeably heterogenous
audience. Attendance at sessions averaged 60 from a total
registration of just under a hundred, largely composed of
information science professionals, computerate librarians, human-
factors computing theoreticians, a sprinkling of civil servants
and various other varieties of professional research support
people, drawn fairly even handedly from universities and
polytechnics, with even a few token representatives of industrial
concerns such as Shell. Although the British formed the
majority, followed by the Americans and the French, several other
countries were represented including Sweden, Eire, Canada,
Netherlands, Turkey and Bophutatswana. The conference bore every
sign of having been carefully arranged to maximise opportunities
for informal contact and discussion: there were no parallel
sessions, and the timetable was not a tight one, with five
keynote speakers, one panel session and a paltry 20 presentations
spread over four and a half days. The venue, Cranfield Institute
of Technology, notorious for its sybaritic charm as a conference
centre, also contributed something to this end. As befits experts
in the research process, the organisers had gone out of their way
to create a stimulating, agreeable, thought-provoking environment
in which creativity and information flow would flourish. But what
were we supposed to talk *about*?



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Date: Wed, 26 JUL 89 10:10:35 BST
From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: Reminder - NewOED Conference at Oxford University

This is a reminder that registrations for the NewOED conference
at Oxford University on 18-19 September 1989 must be received by
31 August 1989. Registrations received after that date will be
subject to a surcharge of 20 pounds and will only be accepted if
there is room.

Susan Hockey

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DICTIONARIES IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE

Fifth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED

Jointly presented by Oxford University Press
Oxford University Computing Service
University of Waterloo

St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England -- 18-19 September 1989

(For associated workshops on Dictionary Assessment and Criticism and on
Developing Lexical Resources, see below.)



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