I am cross-posting this announcement at the request of 
Lorraine Freeman.  Apologies to those who will receive it more 
than once.

Adrian Machiraju,
Royal Holloway

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JIBS User Group Meeting, July 1st 1999, UMIST, Manchester

Subject wise: JIBS subject oriented User Group meetings

The JIBSUG Committee is pleased to announce a day of open meetings
aimed at both users and librarians. The meetings form some of the pre
session activites for the Library Association Umbrella 5 Conference
http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/training/u5/ Those attending our
meeting will also have the opportunity to visit the exhibition at U5.

In line with the developing notion of the "national resource"  
[http://www.jisc.ac.uk/cei/dner_colpol.html] , there are separate
meetings for Social Sciences, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Arts
and Humanites and Biomedical/Life Sciences in addition to a general
meeting. The meetings will also give participants the opportunity to
hear from the resource providers themselves about future developments.

Provisional Programme

11.00 Welcome & Introduction

11.15 Engineering and Physical Sciences Meeting 

12.15 Social Sciences Meeting. 

13.15 Arts and Humanities Meeting

14.15  Biomedical/life sciences Meeting

The major data centres will be present at these subject meetings to
discuss the range of resources currently available and future plans.
The subject meetings will also give participants an opportunity to
help identify gaps in current provision.

15.15  General meeting
JISC Collections Development Manager Alicia Wise will brief the 
meeting on just how the DNER concept is developing in terms of 
collection development, and also how the RDNC and the DNER fit 
together.
In particular at this meeting we will discuss new multi disciplinary
services such as PASCAL and Web of Science. There will also be an
opportunity to look at other existing services.

We regret that the timing of this meeting has clashed with MIDAS Open
Forum. It is hoped, however that users of MIDAS bibliographic and full
text e-journal services may be able to attend parts of both meetings.
Maps/directions from UMIST to the MIDAS meeting will be available at
the JIBS meetings on the day.

Booking Information

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 To reserve a place at this meeting please email Jill Lambert 
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I wish to attend the following sessions:
11.15 Engineering and Physical Sciences Meeting  	 Y/N
12.15 Social Sciences Meeting. 				Y/N
13.15 Arts and Humanities Meeting			Y/N
14.15  Biomedical/life sciences Meeting			Y/N
15.15  General meeting						Y/N

Lunch may be booked if required. It will be in the form of a 
vegetarian packed lunch which can be collected from 11am onwards at a
cost of #7. Please bring a cheque (payable to JIBSUG) with you to the
meeting.

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Lorraine Freeman
Electronic Resources Librarian 
Joule Library
UMIST
PO Box 88
Manchester
M60 1QD

Tel: 0161 2004918
Fax: 0161 2004941
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