Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006

From: Alice J. Rhoades (UTEP)

Subject: Meeting Announcement



PLEASE EXCUSE DUPLICATION



Dear Colleagues,



You are cordially invited to attend the following program sponsored by

the ALCTS Serials Section Serials Standard Committee at ALA Annual 2006

in New Orleans:



Title: Serials Standards Update Forum

When: Sunday, June 25, 2006, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Where: Sheraton New Orleans, Napoleon Ballroom B1/B2

Generously supported by: Swets Information Services

http://informationservices.swets.com/



Speakers:

Regina Romano Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program (U.S. ISSN

Center), Library of Congress

Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services,

Florida Center for Library Automation

Tim Jewell, Head of Collection Management Services, University of

Washington Libraries



Abstract: With the increasing uses of link resolvers and electronic

resources management software, interoperability among standards has been



in discussion among libraries, publishers and vendors. This forum will

present updates on serials standards developments affecting library

serials management. The topics include ISSN revision; ONIX for Serials

transactions (Serials Release Notification, Serials Online Holdings, and



Serials Products and Subscriptions); the Digital Library Federation's

Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI); and the Standardized

Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI).



To get copies of the presentation handouts, go to

http://www.ala.org/alcts/events and click on the link for the Serials

Standards Update Forum Program, or go directly to:

http://tinyurl.com/kyz7o







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Alice J. Rhoades

Serials Catalog Librarian

Fondren Library MS44

Rice University

P.O. 1892

Houston, TX 77251-1892



phone: (713) 348-8713

fax: (713) 348-5862

email: alicer@rice.edu

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