Washington, DC - ALA Event, June 25, 2007

The American Libraries Association's annual conference is in Washington, D.C. in late June.
Smithsonian Libraries is planning to set aside June 25 for informational briefings and other meetings. I envision this as an opportunity to accomplish two tasks, 1) meet with other interested parties that may be in Washington during this time and, 2) promote BHL in the library community.
Please let me (Martin) know as soon as possible if you or other members of your library staff will be attending ALA. If you have any ideas for agenda items/program events and/or would like to assist with any of the events, please let me know as soon as possible.
Here are some thoughts as to what could be done:

PUBLC EVENTS

General overview of BHL
Demonstration of BHL portal

MEETINGS

OCLC analysis tool
Infrastructure discussion with vendors
Discussion of open source solutions (specifically Fedora)
Meeting with publisher/aggregators (BioOne, JSTOR, etc.)

DETAILS

Time: June 25, between 10 am and 4:30 pm
Place: National Museum of Natural History