"Migrations in Society, Culture and the Library" March 22-26, Paris

["Monika Moravetz-Kuhlmann" <moravetz-kuhlmann _at__ bsb-muenchen.de>]

Die Kollegin Helene Baumann (Duke) hat mich gebeten, Sie auf folgende
Veranstaltung hinzuweisen:

Join members of the Western European Studies Section (WESS), the
Association des Bibliothécaires Français, the Bibliothèque Nationale de
France, and European and American colleagues at the WESS European
Conference: Migrations in Society, Culture, and the Library, in Paris
during the Salon du Livre  (www.salondulivreparis.com), March 22-26, 2004.
We very much welcome an international audience and would like to attract
librarians and scholars from as many countries as possible.

The program will address opportunities and tensions that migrations -
demographic, technological, cultural, intellectual and literary - bring to
Western Europe and libraries supporting Western European studies.

Keynote Speakers:
Roger Chartier, École des Hautes Études, Paris, and the University of
Pennsylvania
Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal, Canada
Friedrich Heckmann, University of Bamberg and Director of the European
Forum for Migration Studies
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, University of Saarbrücken
David Seaman, Director of the Digital Library Federation in Washington, DC

We will be meeting on different days at three venues: the Bibliothèque
Nationale de France (site Mitterand), the Salon du Livre (Porte de
Versailles), and a conference center, the Espace Georges Bernanos (between
the Gare St-Lazare and the Opéra).

For more details about the program (details will be listed soon),
registration, hotels (for which discounted registration is separate), and
other local information, please see our website at:
http://www.library.jhu.edu/rsd/other/wess2004/wess2004.html.  You may
register online from the website or at: https://cs.ala.org/acrl/wess/
For questions about registration, please contact Margot Sutton at
msutton _at__ ala.org.

Registration costs:
   Advance Registration                      $ 275 until December 1, 2003
   Regular Registration                      $ 325 until February 23, 2004
   On-Site Registration (subject to available space)        $ 375
   Daily Rate                                $ 175

We look forward to seeing you next spring in Paris!

The Planning Committee:
Jeffry Larson, Chair   jeffry.larson _at__ yale.edu
Caroline Szylowicz, Local Arrangements  szylowic _at__ uiuc.edu
Sarah Wenzel, Program   swenzel _at__ mit.edu
Helene Baumann, Publicity    helene.baumann _at__ duke.edu
Susanne Roberts, Budget   susanne.roberts _at__ yale.edu
Jeffrey Garrett, Fundraising    jgarrett _at__ northwestern.edu


Dr. Monika Moravetz-Kuhlmann
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek /
Bestandsaufbau und Erschließung
80328 München
Tel.: 089/28638-2304
Fax:  089/28638-2309
e-mail: moravetz _at__ bsb-muenchen.de