FLICC Meeting Announcement MA 2002-3

FEDLINK Fall Membership Meeting

See Agenda below.

Join your FEDLINK colleagues at the Fall Membership Meeting for an
update on the FEDLINK Revolving Fund, details on the Library of
Congress Veterans History Project (http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/),
and reports from FEDLINK staff and the FLICC working groups.

The meeting will also feature Kristen Vajs, the Director of the
Scientific and Technical Information Center, U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, which won the FLICC 2000 Federal Library/Information Center of
the Year Award for *increasing examiner knowledge of, and access to,
electronic and print resources by determining mandatory search
sources, identifying alternative information resources, creating
desktop tools, developing and delivering training on framing search
strategies and on searching commercial databases and full text
Internet tools.*

Date
Thursday, October 25, 2001

Time
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. There is no
entry to the Library of Congress prior to 8:30 a.m.) The FEDLINK Fall
Membership Meeting precedes the afternoon How to Use FEDLINK program,
rescheduled from August 14. See Meeting Announcement 2002-4 at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/flicc/ma/2002/ma0204.html
for more information.

Place
Mumford Room, 6th floor, Madison Building, The Library of
Congress--Use the Main Entrance at 1st Street and Independence Avenue,
S.E., Washington, DC

Metro
Capitol South (Orange and Blue lines)

Sponsor
FEDLINK

Registration
Free--Open to all FEDLINK members but registration is required. Call
the FLICC Office to register at (202) 707-4800 or visit the FLICC
Educational Programs Web site at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/flicc/mmeduc.html.

ADA accommodations will be provided if requested five (5) business
days in advance. Please contact (202) 707-4800 or [log in to unmask]

Information
Call FEDLINK Network Operations (202) 707-4848; TTY (202) 707-4995

Cancellations
Please notify FLICC at (202) 707-4800 if you are unable to attend to
allow those on the waiting list to register.

AGENDA

* Welcome and Introductions
Denise Lomax, Librarian, Federal Bureau of Prisons and Vice-Chair,
FEDLINK Advisory Council

* Patent and Trademark Office Scientific and Technical Information
Center
Kristen Vajs, Director

* FEDLINK Revolving Fund and FY2002 Budget
Susan Tarr, Executive Director, FLICC

* Veterans History Project of the LC American Folklife Center
Ellen Lowell, Director

* FLICC Working Group Reports

* Status of FLICC and FEDLINK
Susan Tarr

* FLICC/FEDLINK Update
Lynn McDonald, FEDLINK Network Coordinator

* Contracts Update
Joan Fitts, Contracting Officer,  LC Contracts & Logistics, FEDLINK
Unit