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Thank you! Eimee Lagrama *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * *DIGITAL FUTURES AUSTRALASIA* The University of Technology , Sydney and King's College London are pleased to announce the Digital Futures 5 day training event: *Digital** Futures Academy : from digitization to delivery, Sydney , Australia, 2nd - 6th February 2009* Book early as places are limited! http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/ * * *Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in co-operation with PALINET , USA . Digital Futures Australasia is made possible with the co-operation of the Library of the University of Technology, Sydney .* Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting 5 days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues involved in developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery. Digital Futures will cover the following core areas: - Planning and management - Fund raising - Understanding the audience - Metadata - introduction and implementation - Copyright and intellectual property - Sustainability - Financial issues - Visual and image based resource creation and delivery - Implementing digital resources - Digital preservation There will be visits to two Sydney based institutions to see behind the scenes and receive expert presentations. Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30 delegates and every delegate will have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate. The Digital Futures leaders are: * Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ * Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, PALINET http://www.palinet.org/ The leaders have over 30 years of experience in the digital realm between them. Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of expertise. What past delegates say about Digital Futures: * "Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a digitization program" * "The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly and personable." * "Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you." * "Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience." * "A really useful course and great fun too!" *TO REGISTER: * * * *Please register at:* http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/digiregaus.htm *Early bird registration (before 22nd December 2008): AU$ 2,250* * Full registration (after 23rd December 2008): AU$ 2,500* * Late registration (after the 30th January 2009): AU$ 2,600* *Venue: Library, University of Technology , Sydney* http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/ -- Eimee Rhea C. Lagrama Special Collections Section, The University Library, Gonzalez Hall, Roxas corner Apacible Street, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101 PHILIPPINES Tel# (+63.2)926.1877 (+63.2)981.8500 ext. 2855 Mobile# (+63.917)508.1877 Fax# (+63.2)926.1876 URL http://www.mainlib.upd.edu.ph --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FilipinoLibrarians?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
