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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:34:40 -0500
From: Karen Muller <kmuller@ALA.ORG>
Subject: 1999 ALCTS President's Program: Collections,              Access and Preservation in our Digital Future

For the ALA Annual Meeting this year, the 1999 ALCTS Presidents
Program Committee will present a program entitled: Collections, Access
and Preservation in our Digital Future, which will feature the
following speakers: Pat Schroeder, former Congresswoman and current
Executive Director of the Association of American Publishers; Bill
Hannay, Partner in the Intellectual Property Group of Schiff Hardin &
Waite, Chicago; Kate Nevins, Executive Director, Southeastern Library
Network (SOLINET). Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Head and Chairman of the
Board of MIT Press, will moderate.  The program will take place from
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Monday, June 28.

Pat Schroeder will address the issues of electronic resources and
publishing; William Hannay will talk on the legal implications of the
digital future; and Catherine Nevins will speak to the issues of
networking in the digital future. The program will deal with such
issues as the following: libraries purchasing and lending electronic
resources; the book as a metaphor for the electronic book; legal
implications of electronic access including copyright, fair use,
licensing; libraries working together to lease or contract electronic
resources, etc.