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Renewable Resources Program for ABSS

The Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association is pleased to announce that they will have Dr. Robert Z. Callaham, director of forest environment research in the U.S. Forest Service, as a guest speaker for their annual meeting on Wednesday, July 21, 1976, to be held at the Museum of Science and Industry during the ALA Annual Conference. Dr. Callaham is responsible for the creation and emergence of the Renewable Resource Technical Information System presently being developed by the U.S. Forest Service and its cooperators. He has been an editor of Silυa Genetica and is now divisional coordinator of forest plants and forest protection for the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations.

Dr. Callaham’s presentation will consider the Renewable Resource Technical Information System in terms of local, state, federal, and international cooperation; the present and future capabilities in information analysis and document delivery within the system; the role of libraries in an information network for forestry. A selected panel of librarians will interact with

Dr. Callaham’s presentation and field questions from the audience.

Advance tickets will be $7.00 for the program, luncheon, business and membership meeting of the section, a tour of the Museum of Science and Industry, and round-trip bus transportation. To obtain tickets, mail a stamped self-addressed envelope and your check made out to the American Library Association to: Linnea Sodergren, 1401 E. 55th St. #314N, Chicago, IL 60615. This all-day program is open to all but limited to the first 100 people making paid reservations; tickets may be transferred to another individual but are nonrefundable. Any remaining tickets may be available at the Meal Ticket Desk beginning on Friday, July 16, during the Annual Conference through 9:30 a.m. on Monday, July 19. Buses will depart for the museum promptly at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21 from the State Street side of the Palmer House, picking up other participants directly thereafter at the Eighth Street side of the Conrad Hilton. Return buses will leave at 3:30 p.m. from the museum to return to both downtown stops.

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