announcement

[Eva Sartori <evas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

Mark your calendars!  On Monday, June 29, 9:30-11:30, the ACRL/WESS
program at ALA, cosponsored by ACRL's Arts section, will  address an
important and very timely issue.  "Digitizing a Continent: National-Level
Planning  for European Libraries" will feature 3 speakers:

Kurt DeBelder, Senior Project Manager for Electronic Services, University
of Amsterdam Library, will speak on "Digital Library Developments in the
Netherlands: Centralization, Local Developments, and Competition."

Jack Kessler, Editor, FYI France, will speak on "France: National
Patrimony, 'Foreign' Digits."

Elmar Mittler, Director, Library of the State of Lower Saxony and
Gottingen University, will speak on"Digitizing Germany: A Shared Venture."

Deanna B. Marcum, President of the Council on Library and Information
Resourcw, will serve as respondent.  The program will be chaired by WESS's
Barbara Halporn. 


We look forward to seeing you on June 29.

Eva Sartori
Love Library 201AD
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln,  NE 68588-0410
(402)472-6987
Fax #: (402)472-5131
evas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx