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Portico Participants' Meeting at ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC

Saturday, June 23, 2007
8:30 - 10:00 AM EST

Continental Breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m.
Formal Program from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel
1000 H Street NW, Washington D.C.

Portico is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to our second Portico Participants' Meeting to be held during this year's ALA Annual Conference in Washington D.C. The meeting – open to those interested in learning about Portico and to all participating libraries and publishers – will take place on Saturday, June 23rd in the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel. A continental breakfast will be offered at 8:00 a.m., and the program will run from 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. A detailed agenda is provided below.

So we can make appropriate arrangements for breakfast, it would be helpful if you could let us know by June 20th if you or your colleagues will be in attendance. Please email us at participation@portico.org or call us at (212) 358 6442.

If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to learn more about Portico's activities, several members of Portico's senior staff are available to meet during the conference from Friday, June 21st thru Sunday, June 24th: Eileen Fenton, Executive Director; Ken DiFiore, Associate Director for Library Relations; Toni Tracy, Director of Publisher Relations. Please send an email to participation@portico.org to schedule a meeting.

We look forward to seeing you in Washington D.C.!

Agenda

Welcome
Eileen Fenton, Executive Director, Portico
A presentation on the major findings of the e-journal archiving initiatives survey published by the Council on Library and Information Resources Report in September 2006
Anne Kenney, Interim University Librarian, Cornell University Library
A presentation of one college's perspective on the digital preservation challenge and its impact upon the library
Richard Fyffe, Librarian of the College, Grinnell College
An update on the expanding archiving services that Portico is pursuing
Eileen Fenton, Executive Director, Portico

Last updated on June 12, 2007