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Number 232: March 2003

Events for March and beyond

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Monday, 3 March URLs 12:15pm. Monthly meeting of URLs group in the ACT at University House (in the cellar eating area) at ANU. All welcome. Inquiries: Nancy Clarke, secretary URLs, ph 02 6209 1117, n.clarke@signadou.acu.edu.au.

Monday, 3 March The fourth annual Manning Clark Lecture will be given by actor Judy Davis in the Hall of University House, ANU at 8:00pm. Tickets are $20, and will go on sale through ANU ticketing, anu.ticketing@anu.edu.au ph 02 6125 5491 (open 10:00am-5:00pm weekdays).

Wednesday, 12 March ACTive ALIA All members of ALIA in the ACT region are warmly invited to attend a talk After the bushfires by Paul McNamara from the ANU Library and a speaker from the War Memorial. 5:30pm in the 4th floor Conference Room, NLA. Contact Secretary Judy Brooker on ph 02 6230 2266 or judith.brooker@alianet.alia.org.au.

Tuesday, 18 March URLs The 2003 Bennett Lecture, The Future of Research Libraries, will be delivered by Michael Keller, Librarian of Stanford University and Director of Highwire Press at 12:30pm on 2003, in the McDonald Room, Menzies Library, Australian National University. For further information, please contact Colin Steele: colin.steele@anu.edu.au.

Thursday 20 March APSIG's Travellers' Tales 12:30pm-1:30pm in the NLA Conference Room. Dr Colin Webb, Head of the NLA's Preservation Branch, will give a presentation on his UNESCO-funded project to prepare guidelines on digital preservation suitable for the Asia/Pacific region. Anya Dettman from NLA's Asian Collections will report on a conference she attended in Penang, Malaysia, last year. All welcome. Refreshments will be served. Contact Marie Sexton ph 02 6247 7795 (h).

... and later in the year

28-31 October 2003 8th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference Breaking barriers: reaching users in a digital world. The conference aims to encompass new ways to deliver services to users as well as ways to make our operations more efficient. To be held at NLA Canberra. For more details, please see the website at http://www.nla.gov.au/ilds/.

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