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ELPUB2004: 8th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Building Digital Bridges: Linking Cultures, Commerce and Science

When: June 23, 2004 all-day
Where: International Council for Computer Communication (ICCC), Department of Information Science, University of Brasilia, Brazil

[bring[s] together researchers, developers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts…Conference themes include the human, cultural, economic, social, scientific, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects of electronic publishing]

2004 SLIS Conference: IZAZI ze AFRICA : Innovating Services for the 21st Century

When: July 21, 2004 all-day
Where: Special Libraries & Information Services Group (SLIS) and the Organisation of South African Law Libraries (OSALL), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa

[Custodians of knowledge in Africa (iZazi) were walking libraries. They were Elders – older people with experience, traditional healers and herbalists, counsellors with expertise called upon to advise the chief or king, midwives who were summoned during difficult births. They…