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GL6 CONFERENCE NEWS _____________________________________________________
"James G. Neal of Columbia University will present the Keynote Address"
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James G. Neal, University Librarian and Vice President for Information
Services at Columbia University, will present the Keynote Address at
the Opening Session of the Sixth International Conference on Grey
Literature entitled "Work on grey in Progress". GL6 is hosted by the
New York Academy of Medicine and will be held at their Conference
Center on December 6-7, 2004. http://www.textrelease.com/pages/3
"Neal is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences,
and a consultant and published researcher in the areas of scholarly
communication, intellectual property, digital library development,
organizational change, human resources development and library
fundraising. He served on the Board of Project Muse, the electronic
journal publishing program at Johns Hopkins;
on the advisory boards for the e-history book project at the American
Council of Learned Societies and PubMed Central at the National
Institutes of Health, and on the steering committee for SPARC, the
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
He has represented the American library community in testimony on
copyright matters before congressional committees and was an advisor
to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright. He serves on copyright
policy and advisory groups for Hopkins, American Library Association,
Association of Research Libraries, American Association of
Universities and the International Federation of Library Associations.
Neal has also served on the Council and Executive Board of the
American Library Association; was president of the Association of
Research Libraries and chair of OCLC's Research Library Advisory
Council in 1997-98, and was selected as the academic research
librarian of the Year in 1997 by the ALA's
Association of College and Research Libraries."
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/08/jamesNeal_librarian.html
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