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        The Third Great Lakes Information Science Conference

        Conference Announcement

A doctoral student conference hosted by the University of Michigan School
of Information will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 24-25,
1997.  The conference will provide a forum for the exchange of research
among doctoral students from all information science related fields.  In
addition to student presentations, two invited speakers will address the
attendees and several social events are planned to increase networking
opportunities.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

        abstracting and indexing
        archival theory and practice
        digital libraries
        electronic documents
        history of publishing, authorship, and reading
        human-computer interaction
        information management
        information needs and users
        information policy
        information retrieval
        information systems
        Internet and multi-media
        knowledge management
        management of information in organizations
        media and communication studies
        museum studies
        systems architecture


A call for abstracts and detailed information about conference
arrangements will be issued later this spring.  If you would like to be
sure to receive this information, please send a message to either of the
addresses given below, and the information will be forwarded to you when
it becomes available.

For further information, contact:  [log in to unmask]

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School of Information
University of Michigan
304 West Hall
550 East University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092