ANNOUNCING
POTOMAC TECHNICAL PROCESSING LIBRARIANS 
85th ANNUAL MEETING

October 16, 2009
9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Plaza Dining Hall
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue NE
Washington, D.C.

Open Source, Open Sesame!
For Online Registration go to PTPL Website: 
 http://web.mac.com/ptpl/PTPL/Annual_Meeting.html

Keynote Speakers
 
Marshall Breeding
Director for Innovative Technologies and Research,
Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

Bradley Daigle
Director of Digital Curation Services,
University of Virginia

 Panelists

Andrea Buntz Neiman and Karen Collier
Kent County Public Library
Chestertown, MD
Amy Begg De Groff
Director of Information Technology,
Howard County Library
Columbia, MD
Abby Blachly
LibraryThing
Cambridge, MA

Meeting Schedule

  08:00 - 09:00      Registration and Continental Breakfast
  08:30 - 08:50      Tour of Library Archives and Deaf Collection
  09:00 - 09:15      Welcome
                             Polly Khater, Chair, PTPL
                              Sarah Hamrick, Director, Library Public Services, Gallaudet University
  09:15 - 10:15          Keynote Speaker
                     “Open Source Alternatives in the Discovery Interfaces and Library Automation Arena”
                       Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research,
                       Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University                 
 10:15 - 10:30           Break
 10:30 - 11:30           Keynote Speaker
                “Catch the Hydra by the Tail:  Cooperative Open Source Development for Digital Curation”
                    Bradley Daigle, Director of Digital Curation Services, University of Virginia
 11:30 - 12:45    Lunch
 12:45 - 01:00    Business Meeting
    Panelists
 01:00 - 01:45        Andrea Buntz Neiman and Karen Collier, Librarians, Kent County Public Library
 01:45 - 02:30        Amy Begg De Groff, Director of Information Technology, Howard County Library
 02:30 - 02:45         Break
 02:45 - 03:30         Panelist 
                               Abby Blachly, Head Librarian, LibraryThing
 03:30    Passing the Gavel and Close of Meeting
 03:45 - 04:45    Tour of Gallaudet University campus


Vote on the Proposed Bylaws Amendment, Article IV, Section 4, at the Business Meeting

(4) The Association year shall be November through October.
(for full text of Bylaws, see http://web.mac.com/ptpl/PTPL/-Bylaws.html 

Open Source, Open Sesame!

PTPL 85th Annual Meeting – October 16, 2009

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM

 
Name of Attendee: ______________________________________________________________

Institutional registration contact: __________________________________________________

Preferred address: ______________________________________________________________

                                 ______________________________________________________________

Institution:  __            __________________________________________________________________

 
Email: ________________________________________   Phone: ________________________

Registration fee includes PTPL membership, conference, continental breakfast, and lunch.
Please note deadlines below.

·         Early Bird registration deadline Sept. 11      $65      _____

                                    (Must be postmarked by Sept. 11)

·         Registration deadline Oct. 2                         $75       _____

                                    (Must be postmarked by Oct. 2)

·         Student member:                                         $45       _____

                        (For students enrolled in a Library

                             or Information Science program)

·         Membership only:                                         $10       _____

                                    (Dues only; does not include conference)

·         Would you like to make an additional
             contribution to the PTPL scholarship fund?    $ _______

                                                                 

          Total enclosed:                   $ _______

 Receipts will be available at the Registration table on October 16.

Forms of Payment:
PayPal                                                                                                        

Online registration and payment may be made using PayPal at the PTPL website: http://web.mac.com/ptpl/PTPL/Annual_Meeting.html 

Check

            Send your completed registration form and check made out to “PTPL” to:

            Linda Wirth, PTPL Treasurer, 5250 Signal Hill Road, Burke, VA 22015

            Phone: (703) 978-0831      e-mail:  llw@gwu.edu

Please let us know if you will need any special assistance or have special dietary needs:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

   I plan to attend a tour of the Gallaudet campus after the conference

 
For further information, please contact Polly Khater:  khaterp@si.edu


-- 
Suzanne Picken
Integrated Library Systems Specialist
Washington Research Library Consortium
901 Commerce Drive
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Ph: 301 390-2039
Fax: 301 390-2020
email: picken@wrlc.org