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Program Committee Minutes -- Orlando/Chicago-2004/2005
January 10, 2004

Present: Mischa Buczkowski (Oregon), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), Steve Corrsin (Wayne State), Inna Gudanets (Stanford), Jared Ingersoll (Columbia), Rafal Kasprowski (Houston), Soobum Kim (Stanford), Sandra Levy (Chicago), Tatiana Lorkovic (Yale), Miranda Remnek (Illinois), Terri Miller (Michigan State), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Andy Spencer (Wisconsin), Marek Sroka (Illinois)

This meeting included the 2004 Program Planning for Orlando in June, 2004 and the 2005 Program Planning for Chicago in June, 2005. The program planned for the Toronto conference in June, 2003 was also discussed.

2004 Program: Terri Miller distributed a publicity leaflet about the program, "Library Catalogs and Non-Roman Scripts: Development and Implementation of UNICODE for Cataloging and Public Access", jointly sponsored with CCAAM (Cataloging Committee on Asian and African Materials) of ALCTS. The program will be held on Saturday, June 26, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Terri will moderate the program and CCAAM's David Nelson (Pennsylvania) will do the introductions. The program is fully funded.

The main focus of the discussion was publicity for the event. Comments included:

• ACRL will take our 75-word "blurb" and will track the program
• Ideas for where to publicize included
  • CRL News
  • American Libraries
  • Slavlibs
  • CEAL (Council for East Asian Librarians)
  • An organization or listserv for librarians who work with Middle Eastern language materials, including Jewish Studies
  • CORMOSEA (Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia)
• The "blurb" is due Jan. 16th. Suggestions for improving the draft were given.
• So far, there is no sponsor for beverages for the program, which is expected to draw approximately 350 people

2003 Program: Jared Ingersoll gave information on the rescheduling of this program, "The Square Peg Problem: Specialized Material in a Streamlined World. It was postponed from the Toronto Annual Conference in 2003, because of low attendance due to the SARS outbreak there. Jared reported that the speakers (Steve Corrsin, Brad Schaffner, and Jim Neal) will still participate in the program, and Jared will chair it. It will be publicized via Slavlibs and LAMA, and it will be tracked as Administration. The date and time of the program was not known.

2005 Program: Janice Pilch reported that a committee has been formed to plan a program for the 2005 Annual Conference in Chicago. Committee members are Inna Gudanets, Marek Sroka, Joanna Dyla, and Janice. The program, "European Integration and Libraries" will be co-sponsored by SEES, WESS (West European Studies Section of ACRL), and LPSS (Law and Political Science Section of ACRL). Janice reported that forms are due on May 1st for the program. Proposed speakers include:

• Someone from the European Union Office in D.C.
• A West European Studies librarian
• A Slavic Studies librarian

Janice reported that this is just preliminary planning and does not commit SEES to have the program, should the section decide otherwise. However, Janice did say that planning programs with other sections is a way to increase our audience. Although SEES has traditionally had a program, it is not a requirement.

Submitted by Jackie Byrd

Last updated 5/18/04