June 17: LC/RUSA Forum on Digital Reference/Bibliographic Control

[digiref at loc.gov]

***Don't miss this groundbreaking meeting in San Francisco:***

LC/RUSA Forum on Digital Reference and Bibliographic Control: Options for
Collaboration
Sunday June 17
4:30-6:30 pm
Grand Hyatt - Dolores Room

	Struggling to integrate Internet resources into your library
service?  Add them to the OPAC? Bookmark them? Create a separate
database? Overwhelmed and tempted just to ignore them?

	Interested in proposals to use digital technologies to enhance
services and share the workload within and among institutions? 
 
	Looking for concrete ways that technical and public services staff
can work together to improve service?

	Add your voice - whether you're in public services or work on the
technical services side - and join Beacher Wiggins and Diane Kresh,
directors for cataloging and public service collections at LC, in a lively
discussion of proposals for collaboration.    

Topics for discussion, including options for follow-up action after ALA,
include specific proposals relating to the bibliographic control of World
Wide Web resources in library collections, as well as a prototype
KnowledgeBase being developed as part of the model for digital reference
service, any time, anywhere, provided by the Collaborative Digital
Reference Service that is currently under development by LC, OCLC, and
partner libraries.  
  
Intended as an opportunity for both public and technical services
librarians, as well as other interested parties, to share their views on
issues of mutual interest relating to public service and the bibliographic
control of World Wide Web resources in library collections, the forum is
an outgrowth of a recommendation made at the Library of Congress
Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium,
held November 13-15, 2000, sponsored by the Cataloging Directorate.

---Carolyn S. Larson (for Diane Kresh and Beacher Wiggins) 
Business Reference Librarian
Science, Technology & Business Division
Library of Congress