**** FYI. Apologies for cross postings **** Call For Participation The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) November 27-30, 2006, Kyoto, Japan The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual Asian event of international participation focusing on digital libraries and related technologies. Inaugurated in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has since been hosted in Taipei, Seoul, Bangalore, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Bangkok. The 9th ICADL (ICADL2006) will be held in Kyoto, Japan in the late November. It will provide an international forum for sharing experiences and up-to-date technologies among researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and policy makers from a variety of disciplines. ICADL2006, as well as the previous ICADL conferences, focuses on the use, adoption and adaptation of digital libraries, which include work surrounding digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. This year, we will have the following invited talks. (in the order of presentation). The Age of Content and Knowledge Processing Makoto Nagao (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Cyber Science Infrastructure and Scholarly Information for the Promotion of e-Science in Japan Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Working Together in Developing Library and Information Science Education in the Asia Pacific Schubert Foo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) (To be announced) Daniel Clancy (Google, USA) One Billion Children and Digital Libraries: With your help, what the $100 laptop and its sunlight readable display might enable Mary Lou Jepson (MIT, USA) Dr. Nagao is one of the most famous information science researchers in Japan, who is also well-known for his contributions to digital libraries. Professor Adachi is one of the leading researchers of digital library systems. His talk will be on promoting e-Science using digital libraries. Professor Foo is a leading researcher of digital library systems in Singapore. He will talk about library and information science education in the Asia-Pacific region. Singapore is well known for their advanced education on information science. Dr. Clancy is the engineer director who is in charge of Google Book Search Project (originally known as Google Print), which is attracting much attention recently. Dr. Jepson is one of the leading members of the $100 laptop project, which aims to provide inexpensive but effective laptop computers for children's education. She will talk about the architecture that enables children to read books through their laptops. For more information, please see the conference website at http://www.icadl2006.org/ Early registration is available on or before October 27th. The final deadline for registraion is 18:00 of November 13, 2006, Japan Standard Time (GMT+9). Kyoto, which is globally known as the historical city and the heart of Japan, will welcome you to ICADL2006 in a very beautiful autumn. We look forward to seeing you at this invaluable occasion. Taro Tezuka Publicity Co-chair of ICADL2006 (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)