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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 14:02:23 -0400
From: Christina Bellinger <cb1@HOPPER.UNH.EDU>
Subject: ACRL/NEC SPRING CONFERENCE

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There are still some spaces left at the ACRL/NEC Spring Conference.  The
Conference will be of interest to any librarian who is involved with
Technical Services, Collection Development and Electronic Publishing.

For further information, please contact Helen Rodriquez, Director,
Johnson & Wales University Library.  Her address is on the attached
registration form.
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             PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT AND ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM

       ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES/NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
       SPRING CONFERENCE, JOHNSON AND WALES INN, SEEKONK, MASSACHUSETTS
                             APRIL 20 - 21, 1995

                "STRATEGIC ALLIANCES FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES:
                  PUBLISHERS, VENDORS & POLITICAL PARTNERS"

Thursday, April 20

   12:30 - 1:30     Conference Registration and Coffee
                       Johnson & Wales Inn

   1:30 - 1:45      Welcome
                    Helena Rodrigues, Dean of University Libraries,
                      Johnson & Wales University
                    John Collins, President, ACRL/NEC
                    Helen Shuster, Vice President, ACRL/NEC

   1:45 - 2:15      "Information Commerce:  Any Buyers? "
                    Mary Grace Smith, Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc.

   2:15 - 2:45      "Scholarly Communications:  From the Producer to the
                      Consumer"
                    Paul Kobulnicky, Chair of ALA/ALCTS Scholarly
                      Communications Committee

   2:45 - 3:00      Break

   3:00 - 3:30       "Issues in Scientific Publishing"
                     Karen Hunter, Vice President & Associate to the
                       Chairman, Elsevier Science

   3:30 - 4:00      "Weaving the Web for Information Access and Delivery"
                     Terry Noreault, Director, Office of Research and
                        Special Projects, OCLC

   4:00 - 4:30      Questions

   4:30 - 4:45      Business Meeting

   4:45 - 6:30      Reception - Johnson & Wales University Library

   7:00 - 9:00      Dinner - Johnson & Wales Inn

Friday, April 21

   8:30 - 9:30      Coffee, pastries, registration

   9:30 - 10:00     "Menage a Trois or Bermuda Triangle? Strategic Alliances
                     with Vendors,Information Providers and Other Libraries
                     for the 1990's"
                    Arnold Hirshon, University Librarian, Wright State
                     University

   10:00 - 10:30    "The Wondrous Web Revisited:  New Reflections on
                     Library/Vendor Relationships"
                    Gary M. Shirk, Chief Information Officer, Yankee Book
                      Peddlar, Inc.

   10:30 - 10:45    Break

   10:45 - 11:15    "Document Delivery for Today and Tomorrow"
                    Joseph J. Fitzsimmons, Chairman, UMI

   11:15 - 11:45    "Vanishings and Transformations:  Libraries, Vendors
                     and the Information Marketplace"
                    Marshall Keys, Executive Director, NELINET, Inc.

   11:45 - 12:15    Questions

   12:15 - 2:00     Lunch

   2:00 - 2:30      "State Alliances"
                    Keith M. Fiels, Director, Massachusetts Board of Library
                     Commissioners

   2:30 - 3:00      "The New Political Climate:  Opportunities and Threats"
                    Carol Henderson, Executive Director, Washington Office,
                     American Library Association

   3:00 - 3:30      Questions

   3:15 - 3:30      Closing Remarks

   3:30 - 4:00      Refreshments

    ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES/NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
                 SPRING CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
NAME________________________________________________ORGANIZATION_____________

PHONE (DAYTIME)_____________________________________EMAIL_____________________

_____Member ACRL/NEC     $45.00         _____Member Daily        $25.00
____Non-Member           $50.00         _____Non-Member Daily    $30.00
_____Library School Student   $10.00
Friday buffet lunch is included in the registration.

Dinner at Johnson & Wales Inn, Thursday evening (please choose one)
_____Chicken Oscar  $15.50____Baked Scrod with Lemon Butter  $12.95
 _____Manicotti Marinara  $12.95
All meals include soup, salad, vegetable, rice or potato and dessert.

Make check payable to ACRL, New England Chapter  Total enclosed___
Send form and payment to:  Helena Rodrigues
                           Johnson & Wales University Library
                           8 Abbott Park Place
                           Providence, RI  02903    Phone: (401) 598-1887
                           Email:  helenar@pobox.jwu.edu
Please register by April 14, 1995.  No meals guaranteed and no refunds after
that date.
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ACCOMMODATIONS

A block of rooms  is being held for the conference at
             The Johnson & Wales Inn
             213 Taunton Avenue
             Routes 114A & 44
             Seekonk, Massachusetts 02771.
Telephone:  (508) 336-8700 or out of state (800) 232-1772

Refer to ACRL/NEC to receive a special rate of $59.00 - $79.00.
Reserve rooms by Thursday, March 31, 1995.
Johnson & Wales Inn will direct you to other hotels in the area if
    they no longer have rooms available.

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DIRECTIONS:
(Traveling East on I-195)
Take exit 1 in MA.  Take a left onto Rt. 114A and continue to junction of 44.
  The Johnson & Wales Inn is located a few hundred yards on your right.

(Traveling West on I-195)
Take Exit 1 in MA.  Exit right onto Rt. 114A and continue to the junction
 of Rt. 44.  Turn right onto Rt. 44.  The Johnson & Wales Inn is located
 a few hundred yards on your right.