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WNY/O ACRL Spring Conference 2003 Announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Coe)
Wed Mar 12 20:02:21 2003
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WNY/O ACRL Spring Conference 2003
PDAs and Portals: Technologies and Interfaces Transforming Academic
Libraries
Friday May 2, 2003
Buffalo Conference Center
Six Fountain Plaza
Buffalo, New York
The Western New York / Ontario Chapter of the Association of College and
Research Libraries (WNY/O ACRL) invites you to a one-day conference that
will explore the impact that new technologies, such as PDAs and
handheld computing devices, and new interfaces, such as scholars
portals, are having on academic libraries. Join us at the Buffalo
Conference Center, located adjacent to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in
Buffalo's theater district, to hear about these exciting developments
that are transforming academic libraries across North America.
**NOTE: DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 80
PAID REGISTRATIONS RECEIVED.**
Conference Program:
Session One
"PDAs in Academic Libraries: We've Got the Whole World in our Palms"
Megan Fox, Web and Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College
Libraries, Boston MA
Session Two
"Scholars Portal: An Information Infrastructure for Ontario"
Alan Darnell, Project Manager, Scholarly Information Resources Project,
University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto ON
Session Three
"Portals in Research Libraries: Improving Collection Access"
Mary E. Jackson, Senior Program Officer for Access Services, Association
of Research Libraries, Washington DC
For more detailed information on the conference program and a
registration information, please visit our chapter website at
http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/upconf.html
A special note for Library School Students:
The WNY/O ACRL Chapter would like to encourage participation in regional
professional associations. For this reason, students are offered a
reduced conference registration fee. At each conference, a draw is held
and two library school students are awarded conference scholarships in
the form of free registration.
