Proposal submission date has been extended to February 14.

Call For Proposals OVGTSL 2003:
The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians
Presents: OVGTSL 2003: Racing to a Bright Future

May 14-16, 2003
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN

http://panther.indstate.edu/ovgtsl/

Sponsored by ISU's Cunningham Memorial Library

We invite you to submit proposals for 30-minute presentations with
10-minute discussion sessions in the areas of trends and issues of
technical services and information access. Presentations in the
following areas are especially
welcome:

Interoperability across heterogeneous systems by utilizing open source
tools

Unified access/Federated searching across repositories, OPACs, etc.

Technical services reorganization; Emerging roles of tech services
librarians

Collection development of electronic resources

Integrating Internet resources into OPACs/Enriching cataloging records

Cataloging electronic resources/web resources including DVD by utilizing
revised AACR2 chs.9 and 12 or other tools

OCLC Connexion: migration progress among libraries, its impact on
technical services workflow, etc.

Roles of the technical services unit in building digital libraries

Abstracts Deadline: February 14, 2003

Contact Information:    Steve Hardin (shardin@indstate.edu)
                        Jung-ran Park (libpark@isugw.indstate.edu)
                        Conference Program Committee

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

SUBMISSIONS:

Abstracts should be sent electronically and attached to an email.
MS-Word format is preferred. Abstracts should be sent to:
shardin@indstate.edu

DEADLINE:

All abstracts must be received by February 14, 2003.

FORMAT:
The e-mail and attached abstract must include the following: Presenter's
Name(s) Presenter's Affiliation(s) Title of the Presentation E-mail
address of the primary presenter The abstract should be no more than one
page (ca. 500 words) and no less than 11-point font. A second page is
permitted for references and/or data.