Librarians schedule D.C. session (06/13/99)

Librarians schedule D.C. session

by Jurij Dobczansky

WASHINGTON - "Reassessment and Renewal" is the theme for this year's annual meeting of the Ukrainian Library Association of America (ULAA) to be held Friday, June 25, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. The meeting is one of several concurrent gatherings of major Ukrainian American professional organizations across the Potomac from the nation's capital.

On-site registration opens at 8 a.m. and the meeting convenes at 8:45 a.m. featuring opening remarks by Jurij Dobczansky, ULAA president.

Presentations will be made by:

Aletta Waterhouse, Congressional Research Service, "The program of Library and Information Assistance to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 1993-1996";
Lynn E. Brooks, Information Technology Services, Library of Congress, "Digital Scanning of Library Collections" and a report from the recent (June 5-13) Crimea '99 Library Conference;
The Rev. Dr. Andrew T. Onuferko, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Ottawa, "Ukrainian Theological Libraries in North America"; and
Areta Halibey, Ukrainian National Museum, Chicago, "Library and Archives at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago."

Themes of the ULAA's afternoon business meeting are: reassessing the association's goals; renewing the association's activities; forming special- interest groups; establishing communication standards; developing human resources - membership; and working with the library profession in Ukraine.

In addition, the following subject areas will be explored: academic research, Ridna Shkola (Ukrainian studies schools), community and church libraries, Ukrainian resources on the web, museums and special collections.

The ULAA, a tax-exempt, non-profit organization founded in 1961, is committed to promoting Ukrainian libraries and librarianship. Following nearly a decade of inactivity, the ULAA's activity was revived in 1997 during the 16th annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A board of directors was elected and a Ukrainian library electronic listserv was expanded to include new members. An open house for Ukrainian librarians was held at the Library of Congress during the 1998 annual convention of the American Library Association in Washington.

Advance registration until June 20 and additional information pertaining to all events of the joint conferences is available at: conference hotline: 1-888-798-6262; http://www.brama.com/conference99. To contact the Ukrainian Library Association of America by email [email protected] or subscribe to the Ukrainian library listserv: http://www.brama.com/lists/biblioteka. The ULAA webpage (currently under construction) is located at http://www.brama.com/ulaa/.

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