Updates on the 2000 ALCTS Preconference on Metadata Sally C. Tseng 30 May 2000 13:45 UTC
Dear Colleagues: The 2000 ALCTS Preconference on Metadata: Libraries and the Web--Retooling AACR and MARC21 for Cataloging in the Twenty-first Century will be held on: Dates: Thursday, July 6, 2000, 7:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Friday, July 7, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Location: Palmer House, Grand Ballroom. We are very pleased to let you know that we are expecting around 400 participants at the ALCTS Preconference on Metadata. This is almost double what we originally estimated. The Preconference will be a big and popular one. Please send your registrations to ALA as soon as possible if you plan to attend. The deadline is June 7, 2000. For those who have sent their registrations we are pleased to report that ALCTS will send a confirmation to you after June 7th. ALCTS executives have been expanding the conference space to its maximum capacity to accommodate the popularity of this Preconference. Both ALCTS and the Preconference Planning Task Force are working very hard to make everyone feel welcome, comfortable and rewarded. We are presenting to you topnotch speakers, timely topics, enthusiastic sponsors and excellent participants. Because of the large audience ALCTS will set up computers, projectors and special AV equipment to project the speakers and to display the PowerPoint presentations on two large screens simultaneously. These arrangements are similar to what ALA does at the President's Programs, Membership or Council meetings. Those of you who are attending will be very happy to meet our enthusiastic speakers and will be impressed by the high tech arrangements at this event. We want to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of this Preconference. They are: EBSCO Information Services, ISI, the NetLibrary, Inc., and OCLC, Inc. There will be two continental breakfasts, four coffee breaks for both days (July 6-7), and a reception on Thursday, July 6, 2000, 5:30-6:30 pm. Furthermore, a delicious lunch will be provided on Thursday, July the 6th. We hope you will have many opportunities to meet and to talk with the speakers, the sponsors and the participants at the Preconference. We want to thank our speakers for their hard work. We also want to thank Karen Muller, Charles Wilt, Yvonne McLean and ALCTS leaders for their guidance, assistance and support. We want to thank our Preconference participants as well for your earnest support! ALCTS and the Preconference Task Force members should be very proud of our achievements thus far. We are very pleased to have this extremely exciting opportunity to work with you. This will be one of the most significant Preconferences for us to welcome the 21st Century. We are pleased to report that ALA will publish the Metadata Preconference Proceedings. Brad Eden, Wayne Jones, Judith Ahronheim and Josephine Crawford will be working on the Proceedings. We believe it will become one of the keepsakes of the 21st Century. For more information please visit ALCTS Preconference Web site at: http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/metadata.html We look forward to the pleasure of sharing a quality and productive Preconference with all of you. See you in Chicago. Sally C. Tseng Mary L. Larsgaard Co-Chairs, ALCTS Preconference on Metadata Sally ******************************************************************** Sally Tseng Head, Serials Cataloging Telephone: 949-824-6832 Science Library #331 Fax: 949-824-2059 University of California, Irvine FAX (H): 949-857-1988 P.O. Box 19557 email: sctseng@uci.edu Irvine, CA 92623 ********************************************************************