In this section, occasional reports on conferences and workshops are presented, as well as details of significant forthcoming events.

Down Under with the Dublin Core: Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra.
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library: Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking pla ce this June in London.
Unique Identifiers in a Digital World: Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communica tion and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking on the use of uniq ue identifiers in electronic publishing.
Disabil-IT? Conference: Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities.
Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students with Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues: Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed.
ELVIRA 4: Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library Visual Information Research Conference, to be held this May in Milton Keynes, UK.
eLib and Telematics: Projects and Partnerships: Jill Beard announces a conference for this August in the south of England that aims to bring together people and ideas from the UK eLib and European Telematics communities.

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