SCHEDULE OF PAM-SPONSORED MEETINGS & EVENTS

   MINNEAPOLIS - JUNE 1999

Many of the summaries from the below sessions can be located at the recent PAMnet Archives

||Saturday, June 5, 1999||

7:00 p.m.    PAM Dutch Treat Dinner - or also known as

   PAM Early Bird Dinner.  A chance to get together with

   your colleagues early in the conference.  Minneapolis

   Cafe, 111th St. & Hennepin Ave.  $33 per person. If

   attending, please email Kris Fowler, Hospitality

   Chair:  fowler@math.umn.edu

   ||Sunday, June 6, 1999||

10:30-12:00  PAM Wide Roundtable, Nancy Anderson, Moderator

   CONVENTION CENTER 213 AB

   Mentor Program

   PAMnet analysis

   BI ideas

1:30-3:00

   PAM Vendor Update, Joe Kraus, Moderator

   CONVENTION CENTER 213 AB

   7:00-10:00   PAM Open House - Hilton

   Sponsor: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.

   HILTON - VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE - 23RD FLOOR

||Monday, June 7, 1999||

   9:00-10:15   SLA NO CONFLICT TIME - General Session

10:30-1:15

   Astronomy Roundtable, 

   Sarah Stevens-Rayburn, Moderator

   HILTON DIRECTORS ROW #3

   10:30-11:45  Data Mining (Sci-Tech - Lead Division, PAM & IT)

   An Overview of Data Mining and its Importance to Librarians:

   Presentor: Dr. Caroline Crouch, Univ. Minnesota, Duluth

   CONVENTION CENTER 103 AB

   Data Mining by Caroline Crouch

   Marketing A Science Library by Tina Chrzastowski - Univ. of Illinois

  Peter Hoey, Royal Society of Chemistry

1:30-2:45
Gardening Tips for Painless Collection Weeding,

Experiences from the Fermilab and NOAA Libraries

Sara Tompson, Fermilab; Doria Grimes & Steve Quillen,

NOAA Library  (PAM, Lead Division)

Sponsor: Majors Scientific Books

CONVENTION CENTER 209 AB

3:00-4:30    Math Roundtable, Carol Hutchins, Moderator

CONVENTION CENTER 209 AB

7:00-10:00   PAM Open House - Hilton

Sponsor: SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

HILTON - VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE - 23RD FLOOR

||Tuesday, June 8, 1999||

7:30-8:45     PAM Annual Business Meeting and Breakfast

All PAM members are encouraged to attend

Sponsor:  American Physical Society

HILTON - MARQUETTE

9:00-10:15
Sci-Tech 75th Anniversary Speaker - Dr. Kathryn Sullivan

(Sci-Tech, Lead Division with PAM)

Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, astronaut (including a Hubble

Space Telescope deployment mission), oceanographer,

and former Chief Scientist of NOAA.  She is currently

president and CEO of COSI (Center of Science and Industry).

CONVENTION CENTER 101 IJ

10:15-12:00   SLA NO CONFLICT TIME - Exhibits

l:30-2:45

Physics Roundtable, Bob Michaelson, Moderator

Sponsor:  IOP - Institute of Physics

HILTON - DIRECTORS ROW #3

Marketing BI in Physics Libraries
Michael Fosmire, Purdue University

Charlie Muller's slides

Ann Dixon's slides

3:00-4:15     (Leave open so PAM members can hear Stewart Brand on

"Time and Bits" or other programming)

CONVENTION CENTER BALLROOM AB

7:00-10:00    PAM Open House - Hilton

Sponsor: INSPEC

HILTON - VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE - 23RD FLOOR

||Wednesday, June 9, 1999||

9:00-11:00    SLA NO CONFLICT TIME - SLA Business Meeting

     11:30-12:45   Babbage Institute (NOTE:Time in printed Prelim.Prog.incorrect)

     (Sci-Tech, Lead Division with PAM)

     Bruce Breumer will take you on a "tour" of the

     Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History

     CONVENTION CENTER 103 D

     1:00-2:15

     Computer Science Roundtable, Ann Jensen, Moderator

     (PAM, Lead Division with Sci-Tech)

     CONVENTION CENTER 103 D

     2:30-3:45
      Showcasing New Talent II

     [PowerPoint Slides]

     PAM's Joe Kraus is one of the 3 speakers for this session.

     Division Chairs were asked to nominate a member who

     who had received a library degree within the past

     5 years. Nominees included those "who have undertaken

     innovative projects in our field, have led significant

     initiatives or have used technology in an innovative way".

     Joe was one of the 6 "New Talent" nominees chosen to present

     a paper at SLA in these special sessions.

     CONVENTION CENTER 101 CD