Nelinet Annual Meeting
May 10, 2002
Holiday Inn, Worcester, MA
• Board of Directors' Report, Merrily Taylor, Chair
• Executive Director's Report, Arnold Hirshon
• Treasurer's Report, Margo Crist
– Membership and Fees Schedule (vote)
• Proposed Bylaws Changes, Kendall Wiggin, Chair, Bylaws Committee (vote)
• Nominations to Board of Directors, Jim Hogan, Chair, Nominating Committee
Opening Keynote: "Digital Innovation and the Effects on Organizational Relationships"• Michael Schrage, Co-director, MIT Media Lab eMarkets Initiative
• Electronic Information Track: Electronic Licensing: Critical and Emerging Issues
(Ellen Finnie-Duranceau, Digital Resources Acquisitions Librarian, MIT Libraries and
Kathryn Poliseno, Program Coordinator)
• Service & Technology Delivery Track: Successful Fundraising Ideas
(Grace Kotter Regan, Director, Alumni Association, Boston College)
• Library Directors Track: Hot Technologies to Watch
(Paul Gandel, Vice Provost for Information Services and Dean of Libraries,
University of Rhode Island)
• Vendor Exhibits
• Electronic Information Track: Creating and Archiving Digital Collections
(Richard Lucier, College Librarian, Dartmouth College; Amy Benson,
Program Coordinator)
• Service & Technology Delivery Track: Virtual Reference at the Boston Public Library (Susan Godlewski, Boston Public Library)
Evolving Reference Services: From Virtual Reference to 24 X 7
(Betsy Like, Program Coordinator)
• Library Directors Track: Why Assumption College Chose SerialsSolutions
(Carol Maksian, Head of Reference & Instructional Services, Assumption College)
Productivity Solutions: ILLiad (Pamela Skinner, Reference/Interlibrary Loan Librarian,
Smith College)
(Laura Walters, Tufts University and Kathryn Poliseno and Susan Abell, Program
Coordinators)
• Vendor Exhibits
• Electronic Information Track: Planning and Renovating Libraries - Technology
Issues (Stephen Hale, Stephen Hale Architects and Associates)
• Service & Technology Delivery Track: Campus Pipeline (John Collins, Head of
Periodicals Department, Community College of Rhode Island)
Web Portals in N.E. Libraries: Two Case Studies
(Mary Jo Boland, Program Coordinator)
• Library Directors Track: Marketing Your Library - A Quick Overview
(Brinley Franklin, Director, University of Connecticut Libraries)
Effective Library Marketing (Susan Abell, Program Coordinator)
• Vendor Exhibits
NELINET Award Presentation and NELINET Distinguished Lecture: "Writing and the Process of Research"• Tracy Kidder, author and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize