1 CoLIS 3 Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science Digital Libraries: Interdisciplinary conceptions, challenges, opportunities Dubrovnik, Croatia May 1999

2 Purpose F …critically explore and analyze library and information science as a discipline and as a field of research from historical, theoretical and empirical perspectives F Theme: digital libraries  several of these perspectives present  but as yet no meta theory  but elements present  here is a historical perspective:

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4 Some statistics F Participants:  114 registered plus some 5 guests  from 19 countries F Proceedings:  23 research papers  12 short papers  foreword, preface, indexes  400 pages

5 Contributing F Book exhibit  270 books  71 journal titles F Book seller F Data base vendor

6 Content part F Tutorial F Opening & closing F 20 presentations F Panel F Posters and demo F Workshop = 6 hours = 1 hour = 11.5 hours = 2 hours = 3.5 hours TOTAL = 27.5 hours

7 Important part F Reception F Coffee breaks F Concert F Banquet = 2.5 hours = 4 hours = 2 hours = 5 hours TOTAL = 13.5 hours

8 Ratio Content vs. Important 2:1 F By the way - the winner is: THE BLUE TEAM!!!!!!!!!

9 Scientific translation META THEORY CONTRIBUTION F Content part: ~ 28 hours 2080 minutes at 100 words/minute = 200, 000 words at ~ 5 bytes/word= 1 GB F Important part ~ 14 hours incl. Coffee breaks, banquet, my remarks AND Pertti’s talk = 1 Tera byte

10 More META THEORY F Drank coffee, tea F Drank wine, travarica F Ate dinner F Listen to chamber concert & students singing = 6 GB = 12 GB = 60 GB =. 89 TB TOTAL =.908 TB

11 Conclusion new meta theory for conceptions of libray & inf. science Content has the least amount of bytes

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13 … and now on to some views and happy faces F Compliments of Jadranka Stojanovski