Kaye Howe to deliver keynote address

Ubiquity, Interdependence, and the Age of Collaboration.

The JA-SIG Spring 2008 conference planning committee is very pleased to announce that Kaye Howe, Executive Director, National Science Digital Library, will be the Wednesday keynote speaker at JA-SIG's upcoming St. Paul conference.

Kaye's keynote address is scheduled for Wednesday, April 30, at 11:30am.

Abstract:

Collaboration has been the elegant gesture of generous and practical minds. Now it reflects the compelling ubiquity and interdependence that are the keynotes of our world.

Bio:

Kaye Howe is currently Executive Director of the Core Integration group of the National Science Digital Library. She has held that position since May of 2004 and joined NSDL in October of 2001.

She was a long time faculty member and administrator at the University of Colorado at Boulder, serving as Chair of the graduate program in Comparative Literature and Vice Chancellor for Academic Services. She was President of Western State College in Gunnison,. Colorado and was also President of Jones International University, a regionally accredited distance learning organization.

Dr. Howe received both her B.A. and her Ph.D., in Comparative Literature, from Washington University in St. Louis and has served on the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She is currently a Colorado Commissioner on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. She has also served on, among others, the boards of Boulder Community Hospital, The I Have A Dream Foundation of Boulder County, and the board of the Boulder Valley YWCA.