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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:29:08 +0000
From: "by April 24, 1998 to be eligible for the Early" <mgcurran@UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject: CLA Annual Conference: Serials Interest Group Workshop (Rev.)

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATE OF EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
SHOULD READ APRIL 28, 1999

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CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 54th ANNUAL CONFERENCE :
                                Toronto, Ontario : June 16-20, 1999
FACING THE CHALLENGES: A PRACTICAL SURVIVAL GUIDE

Register by April 28, 1999 to be eligible for the Early
Bird Discount.   CLA members will shortly receive the Conference
program booklet.  For nonmembers and for further details see the CLA99
Conference Site at http://www.yonahs.com/cla99/ or from  the CLA
website at  http://www.cla.amlibs.ca

The Serials Interest Group (SIG) of the Canadian Library
Association  is hosting a workshop (session 312)  at CLA Toronto  that
is of interest to Serialists, Cataloguers and Technical Services
librarians.  Circle  Friday June 18, 1999, 9-noon  on your CLA
conference calendar:

FACING THE "SERIALITY" CHALLENGE: A PRACTICAL
GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE AACR SERIALS RULE REVISION
PROCESS"

SIG is delighted to have four eminent speakers from different types of
libraries  and backgrounds to share their views and expertise  on the
ongoing AACR revisions for serials.  Join us on June 18th as the
speakers help us unravel the maze of the revision process and offer
practical advice on how we can prepare to meet the challenge. SIG is
having it's 20th birthday!  We encourage all former convenors and
members of SIG  to attend the workshop to commerate this occasion.

SPEAKERS:
1. Tom Delsey, Director General, Corporate Policy and Communications,
National Library of Canada
 2. Wayne Jones ,Head, Serials Cataloging Section,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 3. John Leide,Associate Professor,GSLIS,  McGill University
4.  Elena Romaniuk,Head, Serials Services,University of Victoria
Libraries

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION (SESSION 312):

The serials revisions initiated at the International Conference on
 the Principles and Future Development of AACR in 1997 are closer to
 becoming a reality.  Is your Cataloguing Department poised to
 incorporate the changes suggested by the AACR Serial Review group?
 Are serials as we know them to disappear and be subsumed as a subset
 of "ongoing entities"?  The digital world dicates a reexamination of
 the cataloguing of ongoing publications and the greying of the line
 between monograph and serials.  The speakers will discuss the
 implications and timeline of AACR serial revision and suggest ways
 your library can prepare to meet the "ongoing entities" (serial)
 challenge.
Mary Curran
Coordinator, Bibliographic Standards
University of Ottawa, Morisset Library, TSD,
65 University St., Ottawa, ON K1N 9A5
phone: 613-562-5800 ext. 3590
fax: 613-562-5196
email: mgcurran@uottawa.ca