Meeting Announcement

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004
From: Karen Matthews (Dartmouth College) <Karen.R.Matthews_at_dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Meeting Announcement

New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) announces the program for
our Spring 2004 Conference: Keeping Up:  What We Need to Know in Technical
Services and Where We Can Learn It.  The conference will be held on Friday,
April 30, 2004 at the Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, Massachusetts.

The keynote speaker will be Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services, Henry
Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.  His topic will be
Technical Services in the LIS Curriculum.  The afternoon speaker will be
Heidi Lee Hoerman, Instructor Specializing in Technical Services, School of
Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina.  Her topic
will be Education for Technical Services: the Possiblities of Distance
Education.

There will also be a choice of breakout sessions: 1) "Online Learning
Options
for Staff", George Needham, Vice President, Member Services, OCLC, Inc.;
2) "Paraprofessional Certification: Past, Present, and Future
Possibilities",
Dorothy Morgan, Business Manager/Administrative Assistant, Liverpool (N.Y.)
Public Library;  3) "Mentoring in the Library: Inspiring Growth and Sharing
Ideas", Jodi C. Williams, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Library and
Information Services Program, College of Natural and Social Sciences,
University of Maine at Augusta; and 4) "Discussion Group: Local Strategies
for
Developing and Fostering Professional Development in Technical Services",
facilitated by Judith Brink, Head of Collection Development, University of
New
Hampshire Library and Karl Fattig, Technical Services Manager/Cataloger,
Bowdoin College.

Advance registration is highly recommended for the NETSL Spring Conference.
The conference schedule and registration form is available on the nelib.org
site at:

http://www.nelib.org/files/netsl2004flyer.pdf


Karen Matthews
Librarian/Bibliographer
National Center for PTSD
VA Medical Center (116D)
White River Junction, Vermont 05009
karen.matthews_at_dartmouth.edu

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