The 12th North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual
Conference will be held May 29-June 1, 1997 at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor. The conference theme is "Experimentation and Collaboration:
Creating Serials for a New Millennium."

     The conference will take advantage of the Ann Arbor location to
draw "local" speakers with national reputations. Wendy Lougee, Assistant
Director for Digital Library Initiatives, University of Michigan, will
open the conference with her perspectives on the challenges of digital
libraries. The University of Michigan will also be represented in the
conference's Projects sessions, including CORE and JSTOR journal access
projects, the Collaboratory for Electronic Work (CREW), and the Humanities
Text Initiative. It will also draw on resources throughout the region,
with Erik Jul of OCLC speaking about the Internet Electronic Library
Project and metadata, as well as speakers on OhioLINK and the National
Library of Canada's electronic collection.

     Plenary speakers Dan Tonkery and Arnold Hirschon will examine the
future and present challenges that serials and serialists face with the
approach of a new millennium and technological shifts. Other conference
topics to be covered in workshops and concurrent sessions will include
Internet publishing, archiving of electronic journals, licensing of
electronic products, electronic publishing and the Web, cataloging topics,
preservation, training, management, and publishing concerns.

     The registration deadline is May 1, 1997. Registration after this
date is subject to availability.

        For further conference and registration information, please visit
the Conference homepage located at
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/acqser/nasig/index.html or contact
Leighann Ayers at (313) 763-3425 (email: layers@umich.edu), or
Thomas Champagne at (313) 763-3426 (email: champagn@umich.edu).

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 Thomas E. Champagne, Serial Electronic Resources Cataloging Librarian
           and 1997 North American Serials Interest Group
              Conference Planning Committee Co-Chair
 320 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library North  e-mail: champagn@umich.edu
 University of Michigan                      phone:   (313) 763-3426
 Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1205                     fax:   (313) 763-5080