Beth Sandore
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grainger Library
454 Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
1301 W. Springfield Ave.
Urbana IL
61801 USA
Email: sandore@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
http://images.grainger.uiuc.edu/

Beth Sandore is Head, Digital Imaging and Multimedia Technology Initiative program and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Her professional experience and research focus on technology development and evaluation in libraries, including experimental work with image and multimedia databases. Her recent publications include a user evaluation study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing image database, a book on technology and management in libraries co-authored with F. W. Lancaster, and a Fall, 1999 issue of Library Trends devoted to digital image access and retrieval. Her research has been supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the National Science Foundation, and the Intel Corporation. She has served in an advisory capacity for a number of groups on imaging and technology evaluation projects, including the U.S. Department of Education, the Getty Information Institute, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Oregon Historical Society.

Beth will present Now That We've Found the 'Hidden Web' What Can We Do With It? The Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Experience