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FEDLINK Spring Membership Meeting Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Meeting (To view the meeting announcement, point your browser to http://www.loc.gov/flicc/meeting_announcements/2010/ma201021.pdf.) Join your colleagues at the FEDLINK Spring Membership meeting for updates on: ~ The Army Corps of Engineers' test of a proxy server for remote access to the library's resources ~ The US test of Resource Description and Access (RDA) ~ The National Science Foundation's implementation of an open source ILS. The agenda will also include: ~ Steven W. Sutton will describe the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), print on demand and how the landscape is changing for printed and e-book delivery. For more information, please check out http://www.ondemandbooks.com. ~ Marybeth Dowdell, Chair of the FLICC Budget and Finance Working Group, will present the proposed Fiscal Year 2011 FLICC/FEDLINK budget. ~ FLICC/FEDLINK will provide further updates on services. In the afternoon, FLICC will co-host with CENDI and FADGI, Workshop #1 - Digitization Deconstructed: A Survey and Census of Digital Repositories Being Built by Federal Libraries with Deborah Keller, US Army Corps of Engineers. The FLICC Preservation and Digitization Working Group Survey Committee has adopted the mission of assessing the federal library community to determine what digitization projects are currently being undertaken within federal libraries, the infrastructure that is being used to support these efforts, and the ongoing needs of the libraries as they pursue digital initiatives. Ms. Keller will share the planning and early data collection stages of a multi-year effort to survey the federal library community about its digitization efforts. For more information and registration for this workshop, point your browser to http://cendievents.infointl.com/cendi-flicc-fadgi_2010/. The afternoon workshop is free but separate advanced registration is required. Date Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Time 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Meeting Place Mumford Room, 6th Floor Madison Building Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC 20540 Metro/Directions Capitol South Orange/Blue lines Sponsor FEDLINK Network Operations Information Call FLICC (202) 707-4813 TTY (202) 707-4995 Request ADA Accommodations five business days in advance at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Registration Free, but advanced registration is required. Register for the FEDLINK meeting at http://www.loc.gov/flicc/feveform.html. Cancellations Please notify FLICC at (202) 707-4813 if you cannot attend to allow those on the waiting list an opportunity to register. Web Conferencing Opportunity If you would like to participate via conferencing software, send email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> no later than June 4, 2010.