ACRL New England Chapter News Online
Winter 2001, No. 92




ANNOUNCEMENTS





Shaping Up The Web: Subject Access and Other Technical Services Fitness Tips
Presented by New England Technical Services Librarians
Date: Friday, April 20, 2001
Location: Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Featured speakers:
Lois Mai Chan, Professor, School of Library and Information Science,
University of Kentucky, Lexington - Subject Organization of Web Resources;
Karen G. Schneider, Director of Technology, Shenendehowa Public Library - Public Library Issues: E-Books, Filtering, and Access
Breakout sessions:
Pete Merrill-Oldham, Acme Bookbinding and John Wingate, Ridley's Book Binding - Digitizing books for preservation
Karl Fattig, Bowdoin College and John Harrison ,Bates College - Vendor-supplied bibliographic records;
Betsy Like, Nelinet, Inc. - Subject-oriented search engines;
Amy Benson, Nelinet, Inc. - Maintaining URLs

Registration information will be available in February 2001




Brown University Women Writers Project Program
Presented by the ACRL/NEC Women Studies Interest Group's
Date: Friday, March 2nd
Location: Rockefeller Library Hecker Center.
The program will feature speakers Julia Flanders, the Project Director, and Professor Elizabeth Hageman, Chair of the Women Writers' Project Advisory Board plus librarians Dominique Coulombe and Ann Caldwell who will talk about the library's role in the project. Come hear about the electronic technology and archival scholarship partnership that has become "a model for text encoding projects all over the world." Find out what the Women Writers Project learned from its survey on the economic impact of electonic text on academic research and how academics view the use of electronic resources in research and teaching.

Details about the start time, travel, and directions to the Brown University Rockefeller Library will be forthcoming. Check the ACRL/NEC Women Studies Interest Group web page at
http://www.acrlnec.org/sigs.html in January.