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ECDL2000, the Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced
Te- nology for Digital Libraries, is being held this year in
Lisbon, Portugal, following previous events in Pisa (1997),
Heraklion (1998), and Paris (1999). One major goal of the ECDL
conference series has been to draw information professionals,
stakeholders, and user communities from both the research world and
from - dustry into a discussion of the alternative technologies,
policies, and scenarios for global digital libraries. The success
of previous conferences makes them a hard act to follow. The eld of
digital libraries draws on a truly diverse set of scienti c and
technical disciplines. In the past three years, moreover, global
cooperation on research and development has emerged as an urgent
priority, particularly in the new European Framework Programme and
in the Digital Library Initiative in the United States. Because of
this diversity, the eld is perhaps still struggling for an
identity. But this struggle for identity is itself a source of
energy and creativity. P- ticipants in this eld feel themselves to
be part of a special community, with special people. Each of us may
claim expertise on a narrow issue, with speci c projects, but the
choices we make and the methods we use in local solutions can have
unforeseen impacts within a growing universe of interconnected
resources.
Sean McAllister is engaging on a journey. The year is 1968, a time
in America that speaks for itself. From political assassination to
Woodstock; from hitchhiking the highways of an American continent;
before arriving upon the back-to-land counterculture of the Great
Northwest, a young man gradually comes of age. Within the
background musical setting of an imaginative and progressive era,
McAllister lives and observes the hopes, ironies, and conflictions
of a generation that will never exist again.
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