SSP June events: Annual Conference and *first* PDR Corporate Library/Scholarly Publisher Forum

["October Ivins" <october.ivins@mindspring.com>]

SSP June events: 1) Annual Conference and 2)*first* 
Pharma-Documentation Ring Corporate Library/Scholarly Publisher 
Forum

1) Librarian Rate for SSP Annual Meeting, June 7-9, 2006 
Washington DC

Librarians are invited to register for the SSP Annual Meeting for 
$300. (These rates will increase after May 10th.)

SSP is the Society FOR Scholarly Publishing, not OF Scholarly 
Publishers, and librarian viewpoints and input are welcomed. 
Our conference theme this year 'Beyond Borders and Bindings' 
focuses on international and technological developments of 
formats old and new.  Librarian and consultant Marshall Keyes 
delivers the keynote and many sessions of shared interest are 
offered, concluding with a Town Hall discussion 'The Impact of 
Search Technologies on Scholarly Publishing'.

For an additional fee, five half-day seminars are available on 
June 7th, providing state of the art advice on access 
authorization, consortia sales, benchmarking and authoring tools.

If you want to learn more about the business environment of 
publishers and are interested in influencing publishers' 
decisions as an informed customer, this meeting is a great 
opportunity to meet the publishers who want to meet you.  If you 
are working in digital library initiatives, starting an open 
access journal, planning or managing institutional repositories, 
handling access and authorization, managing federated search 
engines, new content formats and more, you'll find many areas of 
practical advice.

Please view our web site for a full description of the conference 
venue, programs, speakers and exhibits, and for registration 
information: https://www.sspnet.org

Please note that hotel rooms must be reserved by May 9th for the 
conference rate. The venue is the spacious, newly renovated 
Marriott Crystal Gateway one Metro stop from Reagan National 
Airport in DC.

2) SSP/PDR Corporate Library/Scholarly Publisher Forum

The FIRST Pharma-Documentation Ring Corporate Library/Scholarly 
Publisher Forum is coming up on June 15th in Baltimore 
immediately following the SLA Annual Meeting.  Since many 
European and U.S. scientific, biomedical and technical librarians 
from corporate, pharmaceutical and academic sites will be in 
Baltimore, the Education Committee has assembled an expert group 
of librarians and publishers to discuss purchasing and licensing 
requirements, pricing models, rights and copyrights and new 
technology.  Registration for this full-day event is limited to 
50 attendees.  Sign up now to insure your attendance.

Please view our web site for a full description of the conference 
venue, agenda, and speakers, and for registration information: 
https://www.sspnet.org

(Ms.) October Ivins, MLS
Board Member, Society for Scholarly Publishing
Ivins eContent Solutions
telephone 781-793-9283 (EST)
october.ivins@mindspring.com