2East eNewsletter

Welcome to the monthly eNewsletter from one of Northwestern's experts in resource, instruction and research issues that impact faculty.

Dear Northwestern Faculty:
Please join us for the Winter/Spring Quarters 2East: New Technology Series Seminars for Faculty. This is a special series of seminars for NU faculty interested in learning about and experiencing cutting edge research and instructional technology in an easy-to-use format. Each seminar is free and lasts for one hour unless otherwise indicated. Refreshments will be provided.

Please check out the upcoming Presentations or email us at 2eNTS@atlas.northwestern.edu for registration, location and description information.

Virtual Briefing -- The Future of Virtual Collaboration:
Perspectives on an Agenda for Action
Virtual collaboration technologies are emerging as a major driving force in the evolution of tomorrow's Internet. Through efforts like the Internet2 Commons and Internet2's series of virtual events, the high- performance networking community is actively exploring virtual technologies for simulation, discussions, experiments, and many other uses. Please join this virtual session on January 24th, from 1:00 - 2:30p EST, as several individuals from Internet2 talk about the impact of virtual technologies on their work, their discipline, their campus, and their business.

Fabrica Online project begins
2East University Library and Academic Technologies staffs have begun work on an electronic edition of a new translation of Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica. The Fabrica, whose Latin title translates to On the Fabric of the Human Body, is a landmark 16th Century anatomy text.

eHRAF, the electronic version of the Human Relations Area Files
Northwestern University Library is a member of the Human Relations Area Files consortium, which gives members of the Northwestern University community access to eHRAF, a Web-accessible database. eHRAF is a unique cross-cultural database, which contains more than a quarter-million pages which have been digitized from significant and representative publications (books, journal articles, and dissertations), which contain descriptive information on all aspects of the cultures of the world.