Octoberfest in Milwaukee: Simply Wunderbar!
October 5-9, 2001 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Preliminary Daily Program

Preliminary Program (PDF)

1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Registration

1:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Harley tour

8:00 am – 4:30 pm
CE: Building and Managing Your Digital Library
Instructor: Scott Garrison
8 contact hours
Cost: $130.00 ($160.00 nonmember)

8:00 am – 12:00 pm
CE: Palmtop Computers in the Library
Instructor: Mari Stoddard
4 contact hours. 
Cost: $75.00 ($90.00 nonmember)

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
CE: Presentations: Tips and Tricks to Make You Look Good
Instructor: Joy Shong
4 contact hours. 
Cost: $75.00 ($90.00 nonmember)

12:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Library Tour

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Welcome Reception at Sprecher Brewing

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Keynote:
Informationists, Cybrarians & Beyond: Reflections On 21st Century Health Sciences Librarianship
Speaker:  Valerie Florance

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Contributed Paper Session I
Concurrent Sessions

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Poster Session

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Sense and Sensibility: How to Recognize, Organize, Preserve and Promote Your Institution's Historical Material
Speaker:  Micaela Sullivan-Fowler

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Bioethics panel

4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Health Science Libraries of Minnesota Business Meeting

5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Exhibit Opening and Reception
Join us in welcoming vendors to our conference at the dinner reception and exhibit opening.

7:00 am - 8:00 am
Benchmarking Network

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Plenary Session
Information Technology: Impact on Clinical Practice
Speaker: Joel Buchanan

10:30 am – 11:45 am
Contributed Paper Session II
Concurrent Sessions

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Plenary Session
Fraud and Quackery on the Internet
Speaker: Stephen Barrett

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Meeting Planners´ Discussion
Future meeting planners are invited to join the 2001 Conference Committee members and the Midwest Chapter´s Annual Meetings chair in a discussion about planning chapter meetings. 

8:00 am – 12:00 pm
CE: Virtual Collection Development
Instructor: Jane Pearlmutter
4 contact hours. 
Cost: $75.00 ($90.00 nonmember)

8:00 am – 12:00 pm
CE: Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
Instructors: Tammy Mays and Winn Theirl
4 contact hours. 
Cost: $75.00 ($90.00 nonmember)

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
CE: Ovid Applications Training
Instructor: Anne Gervais, Training Manager, Ovid Technologies, Inc.
4 contact hours.
Cost: Free to conference participants
This new Continuing Education course has been added recently.  The CE is being offered by Ovid Technologies and the normal charge of $45.00 will be waived for this conference.  To register, send a message to Robert Koehler.   Registrations must be received by September 30, 2001.  Ovid reserves the right to cancel the course if less than eight people sign up to attend.