Registration is now open for the 2008 meeting of the Ohio Valley Group of
Technical Services Librarians.
This year's meeting will be held May 14-16 at the Hope Hotel and Conference
Center, Dayton, Ohio, and is hosted by the University of Dayton and Wright
State University
The meeting will be bookended by general sessions featuring two speakers at
the center of current issues in cataloging and access:
Karen Calhoun, VP for OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, and Dr. Thomas
Mann, veteran Reference Librarian at the Library of Congress.
In between will be an excellent program of breakout sessions both practical
and philosophical.
Registration forms are available online at:
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/conference/ovgtsl/registration.htm
Located in southwest Ohio, Dayton is near the center of OVGTSL's "official"
3-state region, and Interstates 70 & 75 along with a fine international
airport make it easily accessible for folks from other places as well.
The Hope Hotel and Conference Center is situated on the edge of
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and is the site where the Dayton Peace
Accords were negotiated among the nations of the former Yugoslavia. Local
sites of interest for Friday afternoon or staying into the weekend include:
Dayton International Peace Museum: http://www.daytonpeacemuseum.org
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Park (including Wright Brothers Memorial
and Huffman Prairie Flying Field):
http://www.nps.gov/archive/daav/pla_fac_huffmanprairie.htm
National Museum of the US Air Force: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
Dayton Art Institute: http://www.daytonartinstitute.org
and many more.
For more information, go to
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/conference/ovgtsl/
Received on Fri Feb 22 2008 - 09:42:43 EST