Life and Literature Conference

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is
organizing a conference, Life and Literature, that will convene
librarians, biologists, computer scientists, publishers,  students, and
other stakeholders to set the agenda for biodiversity literature
digitizing and its networked environment for the next four to five
years. The purposes of the Life and Literature Conference are:

1. Engagement of current and future constituencies concerned with biodiversity literature.
2. Integration and interoperability with major biodiversity and digital library programs.
3. Further innovative integration of digitized literature with biodiversity databases.
4. Publishing models and legacy scientific literature. 
5. Setting the agenda for the BHL for the next 4 – 5 years.

The conference will be held at the Field Museum, a leading
biodiversity research and education center, in Chicago from November 14
to November 15. Though the exact program schedule is being worked out,
in addition to plenary sessions with noted speakers, there will be split
concurrent tracks covering such themes as biodiversity informatics,
publishing models, digital libraries, and humanistic and artistic
intersections with biodiversity literature. Please keep your calendars
open for this important conference.