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Just a meeting reminder for ALA Annual 2007 in Washington DC:

Serials Standards Update Forum

Sunday June 24, 2007
10:30am - 12:00pm
JW Marriott:  Salon II

Presented by the ALA /Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services (ALCTS), Serials Standards Committee

With generous sponsored support from Swets Information Services

The Serials Standards Update Forum is an annual presentation covering
current serials standards and the status of standards  development in
key areas of library and publisher related work.  The forum's focus is
on standards that affect library serials  management.  This year we
invite you to hear about the latest progress on three National
Information Standards Organization  (NISO) initiatives that are of
particular interest to online serial formats:

1. Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) - Oliver
Pesch
http://www.niso.org/committees/SUSHI/SUSHI_comm.html

2. License Expression Working Group - Nathan Robertson
http://www.niso.org/committees/License_Expression/LicenseEx_comm.html

3. Shared Resource Understanding (SERU) - Karla Hahn
http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/index.html

Doug Kiker
Assistant Librarian for E-Resources
Smathers Libraries / University of Florida
Ph: 352-392-0355
dkiker@ufl.edu