For those of you involved in or contemplating developing electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) programs, you will find a lively overview of the ETD2009 conference via the link below as well as lots of very useful conference presentations.

--Joan Lippincott

Dear Colleagues,

"ETD2009: Bridging the Knowledge Divide," the 12th international symposium on electronic theses and dissertations, was held June 10-13 at the University of Pittsburgh. The ETD2009 Conference was organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and co- sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University.

Conference organizers received over 200 researchers, librarians, graduate school administrators and information technology professionals from 23 nations who participated in the conference to share their knowledge about digital library collections, learn about latest trends and standards or to gain insight into how to establish ETD programs at their institutions.

An illustrated conference summary is now available to help you retrace the steps of the ETD2009 journey. Conference highlights reconstituted from the Blog and other sources are presented in chronological order. Hyperlinks will take you to online resources, conference papers and presentation slides, etc. Video is forthcoming for all plenary sessions. An index to online resources about this conference is available at the end of the report. For more information, view the ETD2009 Conference Summary or visit http://www.ndltd.org/Members/john/ETD2009 Conference Summary.pdf. Enjoy! - John

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John H. Hagen Manager, WVU Institutional Repository Program / Coordinator, Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Program Board Member, NDLTD Co-Chair, ETD 2009 Symposium

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Acquisitions Department Wise Library, Room 2510 P.O. Box 6069 / 1549 University Ave. Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 (304) 293-5267 http://www.wvu.edu/~thesis/