ASSOCIATES (vol. 10, no. 1, July 2003) - associates.ucr.edu

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See the format at the end of the column to assist you in submitting your Calendar items.

DATE: August 3-6, 2003
PLACE: Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
SPONSOR: Ohio Library Support Staff Institute (O.L.S.S.I.) and Several other sponsors
EVENT: Ohio Library Support Staff Institute 2003 - "Support Staff: Growing Together to Improve the Future..."
REGISTRATION: Fees are $225.00 per person; price includes meals, lodging, and instructional materials
CONTACT: Douglas Morrison (330) 264-3911 x1291 or morrison.244@osu.edu
URL: http://www.olssi.lib.us/index.htm

O.L.S.S.I. 2003 is a 3 1/2 day in-residence institute for library support staff from all types of libraries in Ohio and surrounding states, that provides personal development, skills improvement, knowledge enhancement, and networking opportunities. For more details visit the website or call Doug.

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DATE: August 13-14, 2003
PLACE: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
EVENT: Branch Out 2003: Grounded and Growing
REGISTRATION: See the website for complete details
CONTACT: Kathie Martin at kmartin@gac.edu
URL: http://www.branchoutmn.org/index.html

Cindy Ahrens, Library Journal's 2002 Paraprofessional of the Year, and Cindy Mielke, Library Mosaic's 2002 Paraprofessional of the Year will keynote the upcoming Branch Out Conference. Cindy Ahrens, Administrative Assistant to the Director of Hennepin County Libraries is featured in Library Journal, March 1, 2002, and Cindy Mielke, a library associate in acquisitions at Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, appeared in the May/June 2002 issue of Library Mosaics. The title of their presentation will be "Where have I been and how did I get "Here"! A conference web site is currently under construction so check the URL for updated information.

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DATE: August 13-15, 2003
PLACE: Boise, Idaho
EVENT: Conference of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, "Dream Weavers: Bringing Cultures, Ideas & Services Together."
REGISTRATION:http://www.pnla.org/events/conference03/Regpay.htm
URL: http://www.pnla.org/events/conference03/banner.htm

You are invited to experience an engaging variety of programs pertaining to all areas of library service, presented by interesting and skilled professionals from around the Pacific Northwest and beyond; keynoted poet, author, and screenwriter Sherman Alexie. Whether you are a library manager, youth or adult services librarian, school or academic librarian, automation personnel or support staff in any type of library setting, you will find benefit in programming set within five tracks as well as in networking opportunities.

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DATE: August 14, 2003
PLACE: Receptions Conference and Banquet Center, Erlanger, KY
SPONSOR: Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium (GCLC)
EVENT: 13th Annual Support Staff Symposium "Mind Over Matter: Developing Personal and Group Creativity."
REGISTRATION: Registration Fee $40.00, Registration Deadline Friday, August 8, 2003. Register online at: http://www.gclc-lib.org/ce/index.html?id=173
CONTACT: GCLC Phone:513.751.4422; Email: gclc@gclc-lib.org
URL: http://www.gclc-lib.org/

Presenter: Charlaine Ezell. In this time of daily challenges to provide new and improved patron service on smaller and smaller budgets, library managers look to support staff for creative problem solving and innovation as they never have before. Learn to tap your own creativity by learning creative processes, techniques that take advantage of innate intuitive and undemonstrated abilities, techniques that channel these abilities to create new or enhanced patron services or to streamline more efficient work processes.

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DATE: August 15, 2003
PLACE: Regis University, Dayton Memorial Library, Denver, Colorado
SPONSOR: Mountains & Plains Parapros
EVENT: 12th Annual Mountains and Plains Parapros Conference "Staying Afloat."
REGISTRATION: Registration will be accompanied by a continental breakfast. The cost is $20 and lunch is provided. Registration deadline is July 30, 2003
CONTACT: Caren Clarke: cclarke@regis.edu or (303)458-4068; Registration information: Stephen Sweeney: ssweeney@regis.edu or (303)0964-5236
URL: http://academic.regis.edu/mgarnar/

The schedule for the day varies a bit from past years. There will still be 6 programs offered across two different sessions. Pat Wagner, founder of Pattern Research, will give the keynote address, which will take up the morning. Each participant can attend the keynote plus two programs in the afternoon. Networking possibilities abound all day. Dennis Gallagher, Denver City Councilman and Assistant Professor of Communication at Regis University, will delight the audience with his talk on Denver history. Another repeat will be Derek Wolfgram, one of the committee spearheads for the Denver Public Library's 24/7 Reference Service, SmartyPants. Bruce Hanson, from the Western History and Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library, will be presenting on the Photodigitization Project taking place. Kathe Fletcher, fiction buyer for Westminster Public Library, provides an offering in one session on Readers' Advisory. Anita Williams, founder of Williams Design Group, will present on spam email, email security, and keeping yourself safe online from your home computer.

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DATE: September 9-12, 2003
PLACE: Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Brisbane, Queensland
EVENT: 2003 ALIA National Library Technician Conference, "Bridging Services - Embracing Reality"
CONTACT: Yvonne Brock: Yvonne.Brock@acgs.qld.edu.au
URL: http://www.alia.org.au/groups/libtnat/conferences/2003/

With the theme of "Bridging services - embracing reality", the main objective of the Conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas relating to the Library and Information Industry, while bringing current issues and "Customer Service" to the forefront. In addition to a very comprehensive education program which will include many workshops, there will be outstanding keynote and invited speakers, library visits, peer paper presentations, and plans which will make for a very exciting social program. The conference will also provide an opportunity for you to explore the latest resources and tools of the profession at the trade exhibit.

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DATE: September 28 - October 2, 2003
PLACE: Seattle, Washington
EVENT: Dublin Core 2003 Conference
CONTACT: Carol Hixson at chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu
URL: http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html

Registration is open for the 2003 Dublin Core Conference to be held in Seattle, WA, Sept. 28 - Oct. 2. The conference will provide participants with a forum for intensive interaction with researchers, practitioners and decision makers concerned with advances in metadata for resource discovery, retrieval, management and use. The DC-2003 Conference theme "Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice: Metadata Research & Applications" provides a framework in which researchers can share inquiries, research methodologies, and results from their latest studies and in which system implementers can share application developments and display their tools through the DC-Lab. The scope of matters addressed by the contributed papers is not confined to the Dublin Core metadata element set but extends across all metadata schemas and application domains. The Conference Track will present refereed papers on metadata and related areas of concern including the following:

* Conceptual models and fundamental principles
* Globalization and localization
* Community or domain metadata (statistical, government, geo-spatial, etc.)
* Enterprise metadata
* Metadata registries and registry services
* Interoperability among metadata systems and standards
* Search engines and metadata
* Implementation of systems and tools for metadata applications

In addition to the main conference, two pre-conference workshops on metadata related topics will be offered on September 28:

Metadata Primer - you will learn metadata's role in resource discovery, management, and interoperability. The basic questions -- "What is metadata?" "What can metadata do?" "How does XML figure into this?" -- will be covered through interactive lectures and hands on computer lab-based mini-projects. The primer will be team-taught by members of the community of the Information School of the University of Washington and other select instructors who actively work with metadata.

Metadata and Search - emphasis will be on internal or site search technology as opposed to external, Internet or web search technology (although some technology is applicable to both internal and external search applications). There will be presentations by experts, implementation case studies, demonstrations by search technology vendors, and lots of time for Q&A. Organized by the DCMI Global Corporate Circles Special Interest Group.

For online registration and further information about the workshops and conference, see: http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html

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DATE: October 2-4, 2003
PLACE: Yakima, Washington
SPONSOR: Washington Association of Library Employees an interest group of the Washington Library Association
EVENT: WALE 2003 Conference, " Challenges, Choices, Change."
REGISTRATION: Registrations at the early rate must be postmarked by August 15, 2003. Registrations received after September 20, 2003 cannot be guaranteed meals. One-Day registration is available for Friday only.
For specific information on registration fees please go to our webpage at http://www.wla.org/wale/conferences.html
CONTACT: Lori Portugal: lportugal@mcl-lib.org
URL: http://www.wla.org/wale/conferences.html

Library support staff in Washington State have been organized for thirty years. The group began as CLEWS in January 1973 and has been going strong ever since. (see http://www.wla.org/wale/history.html) In 1992, WALE held its first conference in Chelan, Washington. It was an overwhelming success! We are planning another great conference and want you to be there with us. Yakima in October is beautiful and there are many things to do in the surrounding area. Bring the family and enjoy! The conference begins Thursday afternoon and continues through to Saturday at 11:00. We will enjoy keynote speakers, breakout sessions, good food and entertainment.