Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 12:54:34 -0500
From: Christina Bellinger <cb1@HOPPER.UNH.EDU>
Subject: ACRL/NEC SPRING PROGRAM 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.