9th Annual PIALA Conference

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(1999), "9th Annual PIALA Conference", Asian Libraries, Vol. 8 No. 10. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1999.17308jab.006

9th Annual PIALA Conference

9th Annual PIALA Conference

Koror, Palau, 17-19 November 1999

The Ninth Annual Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA) Conference will be held on 17-19 November 1999 in the Palau Community College Cafeteria, Koror, Republic of Palau. The keynote speaker will be the Honorable Senator Sandra Sumang Pierantozzi, who will address the conference theme, "A meleketek a didil a chais" ("Building information bridges"). The closing ceremony will feature Patrick Ubal Tellei, President, Palau Community College, who will speak on "The role of libraries and archives in micronesia's educational system".

A pre-conference training workshop on library automation will be conducted on 15-16 November by Larry Gilbert of the Follett Software Company, made possible through the generous contributions of Palau Community College and the COM-FSM Title III Program. A two-part Library Skills Workshop will be held during the conference by Wendy Maxwell, Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, with assistance from PIALA President Mary Silk,and Albious Dawos, both of the College of the Marshall Islands Library. A post-conference workshop, "Is the answer on the Internet? Using the Web for Reference Questions", will be offered on 21 November by Eileen Herring, Science and Technology Reference Librarian at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Space is limited for the pre- and post-conference workshops so participants are encouraged to register early.

Conference sessions will cover such diverse topics as starting an archive, oral history collections, reading games, telemedicine, regional ILL development, micronesian bibliography, image collection preservation options, information networks, and publishing in the Pacific. The programme will offer sessions for personnel from every type of library and archives ­ academic, public, school and special.

For further information about the conference and workshops, registration fees, and hotel and car rental, please contact: Jane Barnwell, co-Chair of the Planning Committee janeb@belau.org. Make reservations with PIALA Logistics Chair, Imengel Mad imengelm@belau.org. Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA), c/o Palau Association of Libraries, PO Box 9052, Koror, Republic of Palau 96940. Fax: 680 488 2447.