[SCC_Active_Members] FYI: SIGMOD/VLDB Digital Library Donation Program (fwd)

[H.M. Gladney]

Possibly a useful software collection shortcut. 

Best wishes, Henry
 
H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.   http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/

P.S.  VLDB ==> "Very Large Database", the name of a long-standing annual
conference
	[ACM] SIGMOD ==> "ACM Special Interest Group for Management of Data"

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Subject: [DIGLIB] SIGMOD/VLDB Digital Library Donation Program (fwd)

>            SIGMOD/VLDB DIGITAL LIBRARY DONATION PROGRAM
>
>                http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> ACM SIGMOD and the VLDB Foundation have established a joint program to 
> donate database literature to universities in developing countries, 
> with the goal of assisting in the expansion of the database community 
> in those countries. Currently available literature includes SIGMOD's 
> Silver Edition and the SIGMOD 2003 DiSC, both on DVDs.
> The Silver Edition is a comprehensive collection of 30 years of 
> database research literature and related materials; the complete table 
> of contents for the Silver Edition can be found at 
> http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/anthology.html.
> The 2003 DiSC contains the proceedings of many database research 
> conferences that took place in 2002, plus database research journal 
> issues from that year and other related materials; see 
> http://sigmod.discgenesis.net/ for the complete table of contents.
>
> A request for a donation should be made by visiting our website
> (http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd) and filling out an application 
> form. An explicit designation that the applicant agrees to the rules 
> is required. The rules are as follows.
>
> (1) The donated material is for the use by all patrons of the
>     recipient library.
> (2) The library will make the donated material available for
>     reference/limited circulation to the patrons.
> (3) The library will take all conventionally accepted steps to
>     abide by the copyright restrictions on the material.
>
> Note that the donations will be made according to the following criteria.
>
> (1) Donations will be made to libraries in universities in developing
>     and undeveloped countries according to their UN classification.
> (2) Donations to universities in developed countries will be made
>     only in the context of demonstrated need, at a lower priority.
> (3) Only one packet per University library will be donated.
> (4) Graduate degree awarding departments and universities will get
>     priority over non-graduate degree awarding departments and
>     universities.
>
> *** Requests will be processed in the order in which they arrive.
> *** To apply for the 2-DVD Silver Anthology set and the SIGMOD 2003 DiSC,
>     please visit http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd and
>     fill out an application form.
>
> ------------------------- Digital Library Donation Program Co-Directors
>
> Amr El Abbadi
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Califormia
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106 U.S.A.
> amr at cs.ucsb.edu
>
> Myung Kim
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ewha Womans University 
> Seoul 120-750, Korea mkim at ewha.ac.kr