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RUSA President's Program at ALA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laine Farley)
Fri Jun 12 20:51:17 1998
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:17:49 -0500
From: Laine Farley <laine.farley@ucop.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Please post announcement for American Library Association conference,
Washington, D.C.
Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) President's Program presents:
"Books, Bytes and Bots: Reference Librarians and Users Confront the
Information Age"
Monday, June 29, 1998, 2-4 p.m.
Capital Hilton- President's Balllroom
As you struggle to cope with "information overload", do you ever find
yourself wondering, "Does information exist? How does it relate to
meaning? Are we informing ourselves to death?"
RUSA President Caroline Long's program addresses these and other
thought-provoking questions by focusing on the theoretical world of
information theory and the practical experience of librarians in the field.
Mr. Stephen L. Talbott, will offer an overview of current models of
information theory and information seeking behavior. He will also offer his
views on the impact technology is having on society and libraries.
Talbott is editor of NETFUTURE, a free newsletter on Technology and Human
Responsibility (http://www.oreilly.com/~stevet/netfuture), and author of
the book "The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in our
Midst" (O'Reilly, 1995), which Choice (January, 1997) selected as one of
its six "Outstanding Academic Books" for 1996 in the field of Information
and Computer Science."
His keynote address will be followed by the perspectives of two practicing
librarians: Cheryl La Guardia (Harvard University), who is Coordinator of
the Electronic Teaching Center in the Harvard College Library and writes
the column "CD-ROM Reviews" for Library Journal; and James LaRue (Douglas
Public Library (Castle Rock, Colorado), who has written on technology and
libraries for American Libraries, Software in Libraries, and the Wilson
Library Bulletin.
A bibliography of current and historically important materials will be
available.
