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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006
From: Marsha Paiste (Tufts Univ.) <Marsha.Paiste_at_tufts.edu>
Subject: New England Technical Services Librarians
Please excuse cross posting.
The New England Technical Services Librarians Board (NETSL) is now
accepting registration forms for the 2006 Spring Conference to be held
Thursday, April 6^th , at the Hogan Campus Center of the College of
the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
The theme for this year is: Exploring the "Open" Universe: A
Librarian's Guide.
The keynote speaker will be Eric Lease Morgan, Head of Digital Access
and Information Architecture Department, University of Notre Dame. His
topic will be: The State of "Openness": Trends, Challenges, and
Opportunities of Working in "Open" Environments. The afternoon
speaker will be Kat Hagedorn, OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian,
DLXS Bibliographic Class Coordinator, Digital Library Production
Service, University of Michigan. Her topic will be: The Open Archives
Initiative and OAIster: Past, Present, and Future.
There will also be a choice of breakout sessions:
Open URL: Implementation and Impact, Amira Aaron, Digital Content and
Access Services, Office for Information Systems, Harvard University
Library;
Playing Tag: Cataloging by the Crowd, Elizabeth Thomsen, Member
Services Manager, NOBLE, North of Boston Library Exchange;
Open Access to Science Content: A View from the 'Hole',
Ann Devenish, MBLWHOI Library Data Library & Archives
Automating Metadata Creation with Open Source Software, Patrick
Yott, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Center for Digital Initiatives,
Brown University.
Advance Registration is required, and no "onsite" registration please!
Registration ends March 24, 2006. The conference program, schedule, and
registration form is available at:
http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference.htm.
Contact Anne Meringolo at anne.meringolo_at_simmons.edu for questions,
problems, and/or special arrangements
_______________________________________________________________________
Marsha Starr Paiste
Catalog Librarian
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
(617) 627-4086
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