Darla Carras
Interim Head, Acquisitions Management Unit

ALA Midwinter Conference,  New Orleans, LA, Jan. 10-12, 1998 

•  Automated Bibliographic Control Committee, Slavic and East European Section, ARL

ALA Annual Conference,  Washington, D.C.,  June 26-29, 1998

• Automated Bibliographic Control Committee, Slavic and East European Section, ARL

Jean Ann Croft
Preservation Librarian

ALA Midwinter Conference,  New Orleans, 1998

ALA Annual Conference, Washington D.C., 1998

Book Illustration to 1890, Rare Book School,  University of Virginia

Doris S. Hayashikawa
Coordinator, Digital Research Library

ALA Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 26-30, 1998

TEI and XML in Digital Libraries, Library of Congress, June 20-July 1, 1998

Guidelines for Digital Imaging, University of Warwick, Sept. 28-30, 1998 

Ray Anne Lockard
Head, Frick Fine Arts Library

Art Libraries Society of North America, Vancouver, BC, March 1999

• Local Arrangements Chair, Pittsburgh conference, March 2000
• Gave slide lecture on Pittsburgh at membership meeting
• Organized and chaired session entitled CALLING THE TENDER:  THE  HISTORY OF ART LIBRARIANSHIP IN CANADA
• Organized and chaired session entitled WHEN FINALLY AROUSED ADVOCATING AGAINST ART AND BOOK CENSORSHIP.

• Chaired the Academic Libraries Division
• Co-chaired a panel entitled PINK PAPERS AND LAVENDER FILES: PRESERVING LESBIAN / GAY ART HISTORY IN ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS and developed a bibliography on the topic that is published on the Gay and Lesbian Interests Round Table web page which I author and update.
• North American Relations Committee, 1996-1998 and served as the Liaison to the College Art Association
• Standards Committee, 1998+ (Activities relate to collection development, accreditation, preservation and professional status issues.)

• Developed the ARLIS-Oh List-Serv for the chapter
• Developed and update the chapter Web Site
• Organized and hosted Spring 1998 meeting in Pittsburgh in May

• Liaison to CAA from ARLIS/NA - in this position I sought out

and mentored the following session at the 1998 CAA conference
in Toronto:

        THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND THE VISUAL ARTS:
        CONTRIBUTIONS TO "THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
        PROJECTS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

• Co-Chair of the CAA Gay and Lesbian Caucus, 1998+                          with Dr. Joseph Thomas, Clarion University

Rush G. Miller
University Librarian/Director, University Library System

American Library Association Conferences

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference, 
Detroit, MI,  April 1999

• ALA/ACRL - Colleagues Committee, Status of Academic Librarians Committee (Outgoing Chair)

Susan Neuman, Head, Business Library

American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. New Orleans.

American Library Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.

• Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) 
• Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) Past Chair

Sachie Noguchi
Japanese Bibliographer & Japan Information Center Coordinator

Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 1998

• As chair of the Commitee on Japanese Materials of the Council on East Asian Libraries, planned, organized, and ran the Committee meeting.
• Report available at: http://www.pitt.edu/~snoguchi/cjmw/home.htm

Ammon Ripple
Reference/Public Services Librarian, Information Sciences Library

American Library Association Annual Conference; Washington, D.C., June 1998

Karen Rondestvedt
Slavic Bibliographer

Slavic Librarians' Workshop, University of Illinois, June 1998

Annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies (AAASS), Boca Raton, RL, September 1998. 

• Chair of Bibliography & Documentation Committee
• Secretary of Slavic & East European Microfilming Project 
• Organizer of panel "Book Fairs"

Kate Thomes
Head, Bevier Engineering Library

American Society for Engineering Education, Seattle WA, June 1998

Tom Twiss
Reference/Instruction Librarian, Hillman Library 

New Jersey Library Association Annual Spring Conference, 
April 29-May 1, 1998. 

Eve Wider
Reference/Public Services Librarian, Business Library

SLA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, June 7-10, 1998

ALA Annual Conference, Washington D.C., June 26-30,1998

• Attended preconference:  Going Global: Business and Government Information Partnering June 26, 1998
• Participated in Experience LC June 30, 1998

ALA Midwinter Conference,  Philadelphia, January 29-February 1,1999

•  Member of BRASS 2000 Program Planning Committee

Agnes C. Wen
Public Services Librarian, East Asian Library

 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. March
 24-27, 1997

•  Invited by CEAL/Chinese Materials Committee to participate an electronic union list project on non-print Chinese Newspapers.
•  CEAL/ Public Services Committee member, helped to coordinate the annual meeting.

Peter Zhou 
Head, East Asian Library

Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies and
Council on East Asian Libraries, Washington, D.C., March 1998.

International Conference on New Missions of Academic
Libraries in the 21st Century, Beijing, China, October 1998.