NETSL 2001 Spring Conference
 Friday April 20, 2001
 College of the Holy Cross
  Worcester, Mass.

  Shaping up the Web: Subject Access and other Technical Services Fitness
Tips

       The New England Technical Services Librarians annual spring
 conference will take place on Friday April 20, 2001 at the College of the
 Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

       Our keynote speakers will be Lois Mai Chan, author of Library of
 Congress Subject Headings and Cataloging and Classifiction
 (among other books) and Professor at the School of Library and Information
 Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington,  and Karen G. Schneider,
 "Internet Librarian" columnist for American Libraries, author of The
 Internet Acces Cookbook, and Director of Technology at the Shenendehowa
 Public Library in Clifton Park, NY.  Patricia Oyler, Professor, Graduate
 School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College will make a
 presentation on technical services at the upcoming IFLA conference in
 Boston.
       There will be breakout sessions covering digitization for
 preservation, vendor-supplied bibliographic records, search engines, and
 URL maintenance.
       Registrations forms will be mailed to NETSL members.  They are also
 available on the Web at:
       http://www.nelib.org/sec_events.html

       Directions to Holy Cross are available at:
       http://www.holycross.edu/about/directions.htm

 Registration forms must be returned by Thursday, April 5.  Seating is
 limited to 275.