On behalf of the ALCTS Serials Section Serials Standard Committee (formerly
the Committee to Study Serials Standards), I would like to announce the
following program at ALA Annual 2006 in New Orleans:

Serials Standards Update Forum
Sunday, June 25, 2006
10:30 a.m.-noon
(Place to be announced later)
ALCTS-SS
Track: Collection Management & Technical Services, Management, Systems &
Standards
Generously supported by: Swets Information Services
http://informationservices.swets.com/

With the increasing uses of link resolvers and electronic resources
management software, interoperability among standards has been in
discussion among libraries, publishers and vendors. This forum will present
updates on serials standards developments affecting library serials
management. The topics include ISSN revision; ONIX for Serials transactions
(Serials Release Notification, Serials Online Holdings, and Serials
Products and Subscriptions); the Digital Library Federation's Electronic
Resource Management Initiative (ERMI); and the Standardized Usage
Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI).

Speakers: Regina Romano Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program (U.S.
ISSN Center), Library of Congress; Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for
Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation; Tim
Jewell, Head of Collection Management Services, University of Washington
Libraries

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Alice J. Rhoades
Serials Catalog Librarian
Fondren Library MS44
Rice University
P.O. 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892

phone:  (713) 348-8713
fax:    (713) 348-5862
email:  alicer@rice.edu
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