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NETSL 2001 Spring Conference
Friday April 20, 2001
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, Mass.

Shaping up the Web: Subject Access and other Technical Services Fitness Tips

        The New England Technical Services Librarians annual spring
conference will take place on Friday April 20, 2001 at the College of the
Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

        Our keynote speakers will be Lois Mai Chan, author of Library of
Congress Subject Headings and Cataloging and Classifiction
(among other books) and Professor at the School of Library and Information
Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington,  and Karen G. Schneider,
"Internet Librarian" columnist for American Libraries, author of The
Internet Acces Cookbook, and Director of Technology at the Shenendehowa
Public Library in Clifton Park, NY.  Patricia Oyler, Professor, Graduate
School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College will make a
presentation on technical services at the upcoming IFLA conference in
Boston.
        There will be breakout sessions covering digitization for
preservation, vendor-supplied bibliographic records, search engines, and URL
maintenance.
        Registrations forms will be mailed to NETSL members.  They are also
available on the Web at:
        http://www.nelib.org/sec_events.html

        Directions to Holy Cross are available at:
        http://www.holycross.edu/about/directions.htm

Registration forms must be returned by Thursday, April 5.  Seating is
limited to 275.