Digital Reference and Bibliographic Control, at ALA

[digiref at loc.gov]

	FORUM ON DIGITAL REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AT ALA

	The Library of Congress and RUSA, the Reference and User Services
Association of the American Library Association, will sponsor the 

			LC/RUSA
	Forum on Digital Reference and Bibliographic Control: 
		Options for Collaboration 


during the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco.  The forum
will take place on Sunday, June 17, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Dolores
Room of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco.  

The program will address needs for bibliographic control of World Wide Web
resources in library collections.  Topics will include the uses made of
CORC (OCLC's Cooperative Online Resource Catalog) by reference and
cataloging librarians and a model for digital reference service, anytime,
anywhere, to be provided by the Collaborative Digital Reference Service
that is currently under development by LC 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 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.  The forum will build on the
momentum generated by the planning for the Collaborative Digital Reference
Service.