Network Bulletin No. 05-64
Date: December 23, 2005
Subject: National Conference of Librarians
Handicapped Individuals, 2006
Index Term: Agenda and registration information
Attached for your information is a draft agenda for the 2006 National Conference of Librarians
Serving Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals, to be held in Portland, Maine, April
30 May 4, 2006.
The conference will be preceded by a workshop on local digital recording, to be held Saturday,
April 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
__Hotel Registration__
Persons attending the conference must make reservations at the Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland,
no later than March 28, 2006. The daily room rate is $77.00, single or double, plus 7 percent tax
(tax subject to change without notice). To obtain the conference rate, please state that you are
making reservations for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
conference. The hotel telephone number is 1-800-345-5050.
__Conference Registration__
NLS has created an online registration form for your convenience. Please register online by March
28 at:
http://www.loc.gov/nls/networkdocs/conference2006/index.html
Attachment
For further information contact:
Stephen Prine
Head, Network Services Section
Telephone: (202) 707-9245
Fax: (202) 707-0712
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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DRAFT
Days are set but meeting times may change in final schedule
__Saturday, April 29, 2006
2006 Pre-conference Schedule__
8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
Preconference registration
9:00 a.m. noon
Digital recording at network libraries
Noon 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Program continued
4:00 p.m.
Adjourn
__Sunday, April 30, 2006
2006 National Conference Schedule__
11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Conference registration
1:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
Welcome and announcements
NLS update
4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
Regional meetings
6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Reception
__Monday, May 1, 2006
2006 National Conference Schedule__
8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Registration
7:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.
Continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
Roll call
Pledge of allegiance
Song
Keynote speaker
10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Program and speakers
11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
Program and speaker
3:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
Program and speaker
6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
Reception and tour of harbor
__Tuesday, May 2, 2006
2006 National Conference Schedule__
8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Registration
7:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.
Continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. 10:0 a.m.
Implementation of digital technology
10:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Implementation of digital technology continued
11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
Buses to Augusta, Maine
2:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
Program and tour
Maine library for the blind and physically handicapped
5:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Reception
7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Buses return to hotel from Augusta
__Wednesday, May 3, 2006
2006 National Conference Schedule__
8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Registration
7:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.
Continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. noon
Automation activities
Noon 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m.
User group meetings
Consortium of User Libraries (CUL)
Keystone Library Automation Services (KLAS)
Reader Enrollment and Delivery System (READS)
2:45 p.m. 3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
Program and speakers
5:30 p.m.
Trip to evening event
6:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
Evening event
__Thursday, May 4, 2006
2006 National Conference Schedule__
8:00 a.m. noon
Registration
8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
Program and speakers
10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.
Program and speakers
11:00 a.m. noon
Program and speakers
Noon
Adjournment
1:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
Post-conference tour
Tour of the Massachusetts Braille and Talking Book Library
Watertown, Massachusetts
5:30 p.m. 7:45 p.m.
Return to Portland, Maine
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