Subject:  Update - 2003 ALCTS Preconference on Knowledge Without Boundaries
From:  Sally Tseng <sctseng888@yahoo.com>
Date:  Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Colleagues:

The 2003 ALCTS Preconference on Knowledge Without Boundaries: Libraries
in Collaboration will be held from Thursday to Friday, June 19-20, 2003
at the Westin Harbour Castle, in Toronto, Canada, preceding the 2003
ALA/CLA Joint Annual Conference. The address of the hotel is:  One
Harbour Square, Toronto, ON M5J 1A6, Phone:  416-869-1600; Fax:
416-869-1420.   It is ALA hotel no. 28.  Everyone is welcome!  We also
want to cordially invite our Canadian colleagues to join us at this very
important Preconference.  Please note that you DO NOT have to register
for the ALA/CLA Joint Conference to attend this Preconference.

Learn about:  Adapting AACR and MARC 21 to Accommodate Electronic
Resources, Integrating Resources, Bibliographic Control in the New
Millennium, Metadata at the Crossroads, Metadata Harvesting in a Digital
Library, From SCHEMAS to CORES:  Metadata Interoperability, Authority
Files, ONIX and Its Implications; Semantic Web, and many more.

Keynote Speakers:  Dr. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for
Networked Information; Beacher J.E. Wiggins, Acting Associate Librarian
for Library Services, Library of Congress.

Dynamic Internationally acclaimed speakers also include: Dr. Thomas
Baker, Chair of the Dublin Core Usage Board; Dr. Howard Besser,
Professor and Director, Moving Image Archive and Preservation Program,
New York University; John D. Byrum, Jr. Chief, Regional & Cooperative
Cataloging Division, Chair, Bibliographic Enrichments Advisory Team,
Library of Congress; Robin L. Chandler, Manager, Online Archive of
California, the California Digital Library, University of California;
Michael A. Chopey, Catalog Librarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Libraries; Dr. Makx Dekkers, Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative and Head of Scheme; Dr. Thomas J. Delsey, Consultant; Carl
Lagoze, Digital Library Scientist, Director of Technology, NSF National
Science Digital Library Program, Cornell University; Wei Liu, Director,
System and Network Center, Shanghai Library; Eric Miller, W3C World Wide
Web Consortium; Steven Jack Miller, Head, Monographs Department,
University of Wiscons!
  in-Milwaukee Libraries; Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Chief, Cataloging
Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress and Chair, IFLA
Cataloging Section.

For further information please visit ALCTS Web Site at:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/

Click on Preconference, then click on Knowledge Without Boundaries.

For Registration:  https://cs.ala.org/annual/2003/

Click under III.  Preconference.  Program Code is:  ALCTS-AS 2.

Entire form must be completed with credit card information, and received
or electronically submitted by May 9, 2003.  Forms will not be processed
after May 19, 2003, and you must register onsite.

We would like to thank Sage Publications for their generous support of
this Preconference!

We look forward to sharing a very productive Preconference with you in
Toronto.

Planning Committee

Don Butcher, Executive Director, Canadian Library Association,
dbutcher@cla.ca

Kate Harcourt, ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section, CC:DA
Representative, Columbia University Library,  harcourt@columbia.edu

Mary Lynette Larsgaard, Task Force on the Review of ISBD(CR)
Representative, University of California, Santa Barbara,
mary@library.ucsb.edu

John Radencich, ALCTS Serials Section, Committee to Study Serials
Cataloging Representative, Florida International University radencic@fiu.edu

Sally C. Tseng, Chair

ALCTS 2003 Preconference on Knowledge Without Boundaries

CALA Executive Director, sctseng888@yahoo.com

Dr. Mary S. Woodley, Co-Chair

ALCTS 2003 Preconference on Knowledge Without Boundaries

ALCTS Networked Resources Metadata Committee Representative, California
State University, Northridge,  mary.woodley@csun.edu

ALCTS

Charles Wilt, ALCTS Executive Director, cwilt@ala.org

Julie Reese, ALA/ALCTS Meetings and Continuing Education

50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611-2795
Phone: (800) 545-2433, ext. 5034, Fax:             (800) 280-5033,
jreese@ala.org

Andrea N. Tobias Phone: 1-800-545-2433 ext. 5038, Fax: 312-280-5033,
atobias@ala.org

Sally C. Tseng. Chair
ALCTS 2003 Preconference on Knowledge Without Boundaries
     ALCTS AACR2 2002 Revision & Matadata Regional Institutes
CALA Executive Director
P.O. Box 4992, Irvine, CA 92616-4992
Phone: 949-552-5615, Fax: 949-857-1988 Email: sctseng888@yahoo.com