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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:43:52 -0500
From: Christina Bellinger <christina.bellinger@unh.edu>

This announcement has been cross-posted on several lists.  Please excuse
the duplication.

Announcing the NETSL spring 2000 Conference

User-Oriented Technical Services: All Things to All People

The  Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
April 14, 2000

Featuring:

Walt Crawford, Information Architect, Research Libraries Group,
Inc., and

Thomas Mann, Reference Specialist, Humanities and Social
Sciences Division, Library of Congress

Technical Services has always been essentially a user-oriented
service, because it acquires, organizes, and distributes the library's
collections.  However, Technical Services has not always been
user-friendly.  As we have come to rely on integrated, automated
systems for Technical Services functions, and as libraries are
assuming the role of electronic resource mediators, instantaneous
access to records and to electronic resources  is transforming the
library catalog from a finding tool for materials in one library to a
gateway to a universe of materials.   In order to satisfy users'
growing expectations, Technical Services has to provide user-
friendly services without diminishing its traditional functions.  How is
Technical Services responding to service demands that require
speed, convenience, and personalized assistance? What should
we be doing to support today's users and those of future
generations?

Featured speakers Walt Crawford and Thomas Mann will look at
how changes in technology are changing our own attitudes and
ways of bringing Technical and Public Services even closer
together.

Four breakout sessions will focus on practical ways to enhance
access to our print and nonprint collections.

Breakout Sessions

- IRIS, an effort to standardize visual resources cataloging by
Norine Duncan, Brown University

- Access to Forms and Genres: It's What They Want! by David
Miller, Curry College

- The Public Face of Authority Control, by Martha Beshers,
Providence College

- Metadata for cataloging and linking to World Wide Web sites, by
Bill Ghezzi,  Dartmouth College, and Matthew Beacom, Yale
University

Registration Information

Registration forms and programs will be mailed in January.
Conference registration will cost $40.00 for NETSL members, $50.00 for
nonmembers, and $20.00 for library school students.
Register early, space is limited to 275.

For directions to Holy Cross, please see their Webpage at URL:
http://www.holycross.edu/about/about.htm

You can download the form for the April NETSL
Conference at:

http://www.nelib.org/netsl/spring00.html

and mail it to:

Penny Schroeder, NETSL Treasurer, 3000 College Station,
Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, ME 04011-8421.
Phone: 207-725-3134.

If you are a NELA member you will also receive a flyer
through regular mail.

Please send inquiries to: Penny Schroeder at pschroed@bowdoin.edu

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