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Tuesday, October 5

1:00—8:00

Midwest Chapter Board Meeting

Wednesday, October 6

8:00—5:00

MLA CE - Licensing Electronic Resources, (full-day course)
Presenter: Laurie Thompson, Harry Youtt

8:00--12:00

Anatomy of a Plug-in, (half-day course)
Presenter: Michael Simmons

1:00—5:00

"Exploring Technology: Collaboration between Library and Information Technologists", (half-day course)
GMR Technology Awareness and Training & Education Committees

6:30--8:00

Welcome Reception

Thursday, October 7

8:45--9:00

Welcome Address

9:00--10:00

Plenary Session I - Internet II and the Future of the Internet
Doug Van Houweling, President of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development

10:30--12:00

Plenary Session II
Richard Wiggins and Charles Severance, Hosts of a TV show Nothin' but the Net.

12:00--1:15

Lunch and Midwest Chapter Business Meeting

1:30--3:30

Electronic Journal Futures Panel
presenters: Ed Hueckel, Elsevier
Wendy Lougee, University of Michigan
Chip Nilges, OCLC
Beth Salzwedel, Henry Ford Hospital

1:30--3:30

Deciphering the 'L's: HTML, SMGL, DHTML, XML
James Droscha has been a professional database developer since 1994, and joined the Library of Michigan staff in 1997 as Database Programmer. His most recent project work at the library includes co-development of MichiganLegislature.org, a popular interactive legal research website.

3:45--5:00

Contributed Papers
Concurrent sessions

6:00--9:00

Midwest 50th Anniversary Reception & River City Improv
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

Friday, October 8

9 a.m.--10:30

Keynote: The Future of Medical Libraries: an environmental scan of trends and issues that may affect medical libraries. Michele Bowman

10:30--12:00

Exhibitors & vendors

10:45--12:00

MHSLA Business Meeting

12:00--1:30

Lunch with Vendors

1:30—2:45

MLA/NLM/GMR Update
Updates by Eve-Marie Lacroix, Chief of NLM's Public Services Division who directs MEDLINEplus and system reinvention projects, plus MLA and GMR representatives.

3:00--4:00

GMR Technology Awareness Forum
Panel and open forum discusssion

3:00--4:30

Poster Session and Exhibitors

Saturday, October 9

8:00--5:00

CE: Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures for Your Medical Library
Full-day course
Presenter: Michele Bowman

MLA CE Evidence-Based Health Care: A Practicum,
Full-day course
Presenter: Dorice Vieira

8:30--1:30

HealthWeb Meeting