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March

5-6—Serials: “Who’s Afraid of Serials?”, the annual Librarians’ Association Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This is a preview of an ALA Preconference planned for Dallas in the summer. Fee: $20 for members, $25 for non-members, $10 for library students and retired librarians. Contact: Marcia Tuttle, Serials Department, Walter R. Davis Library 080-A, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 962-1067.

16- 17—Instruction: “Bibliographic Instruction on the Earlham Model,” a workshop to be held at Whittier College, California. Featured speaker will be Evan Farber, Earlham College. Contact: Philip O’Brien, Librarian, Whittier College, Whittier, CA 90608; (213) 693-0771.

17— User Surveys: Conducting library use or user surveys is the topic of a conference sponsored by the University of Iowa School of Library Science at the Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City. George D’Elia is the featured speaker. Fee: $25. Contact: Ethel Bloesch, School of Library Science, University of Iowa, 3087 Library, Iowa City, IA 52242; (319) 353-3644.

21—Microcomputers: “Micro Update, 1984,” an ASIS Spring Information Seminar sponsored by the Metropolitan New York Chapter of the American Society for Information Science, at the Roosevelt Hotel, New York. Contact: Carol Tschudi, New York Power Authority, New York City; (914) 681-6363.

April

10-12—New Technology: Fifth National Online

Meeting, sponsored by Learned Information, Inc., at the Sheraton Centre Hotel, New York. Presented papers, product review sessions, and exhibits are the three main events. Contact: National Online Meeting, Learned Information, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055; (609) 654-6266.

13—Leigh Hunt: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, will celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), English man-ofletters, with a symposium on his life and times. The meeting will include talks by Richard D. Altick, Carl Woodring, David H. Stam, and others. Contact: Robert A. McCown, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 52242; (319) 353- 4854.

15- 17—New Technology: “Telecommunications: Making Sense Out of the New Technology and New Legislation,” the 21st annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, Jumer’s Castle Lodge, Urbana, Illinois. Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Contact: Elizabeth Bussert, Conferences and Institutes, 116 Illini Hall, 725 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820; (217) 333-2882.

May

1-3—Population:“World Population Year,” the 17th annual conference of the Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers (APLIC)-International, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference will provide an overview of the progress of population and information services over the last decade. Contact: Gloria Roberts, Head Librarian, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019; (212) 541-7800.

16- 18—Personnel:“Coping with Crisis: Strategies for Survival,” the 13th annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, co-sponsored by Saint Lawrence College and Queen’s University, will be held at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Topics covered will include burnout, staff and budgetary cutbacks, job sharing, time management, and computer-assisted instruction. Contact: Barbara Love, St. Lawrence College Library, King & Portsmouth Aves., Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5A6.

June

4-29—Bookmaking:Three workshops will be sponsored by the Institute for the Book Arts at the Graduate School of Library Service, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. The topics are: Japanese papermaking, printing on Japanese papers, and Oriental and non-adhesive bindings. Enrollment in each course is limited to 14. Tuition is $150 for the first and third workshops, $275 for the second, and $500 for all three. Contact: Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486; (205) 348-4610.