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Dear colleagues and friends, Please join us for: New York Technical Services Librarians Spring Meeting & Program Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Online registration is now open! http://www.nytsl.org<http://www.nytsl.org/> Space is limited so please register early. Registration deadline: Friday, May 14, 2010. TOPIC: Communities of Interest : A New Model for Institutional Repositories SPEAKER: Kate Wittenberg As Project Director, Client and Partnership Development at Ithaka, Kate focuses on building partnerships among scholars, publishers, libraries, technology providers, and societies with an interest in promoting the development of digital scholarship and building and sustaining innovative initiatives. Before coming to Ithaka, Kate was the Director of EPIC (the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia) a pioneering initiative in digital publishing, and a model partnership for libraries, presses, and academic IT departments. Some of the ventures produced by EPIC include CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online), Gutenberg-E (a reinvention of the monograph as an electronic work), and Jazz Studies Online. WHERE and WHEN: South Court Auditorium NYPL Humanities & Social Sciences Library Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, N.Y. 10018 Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Refreshments, 5:00-6:00 PM Meeting & Program, 6:00-8:00 PM REGISTRATION and PRICING: NYTSL now offers PayPal as a preferred payment method. Please go to http://www.nytsl.org<http://www.nytsl.org/> for more information. Mail-in registration forms are also available on the website. Program (Members): $15.00 Program + Membership (Non-members and renewals), Sept. 2009-Aug. 2010 Academic Year: $20.00 Program only (Non-members): $25.00 For questions about membership status, please contact Lisa Genoese, lgeno...@nyam.org <mailto:lgeno...@nyam.org>