*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 <mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Ptpl-l mailing list Ptpl-l@list.wrlc.org http://list.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ptpl-l