Registration is now OPEN! Reserve your space at the 1st Annual Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference on June 5 and 6, 2014 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Perrysburg, Ohio. You can register for the conference here: https://members.mcls.org/~webmaint/glrsc/glrsc_registration.cfm **Deadline for Registration is: May 23, 2014 Schedule in brief: NEW – Tour Opportunity Thursday, June 5, 2014 – 11:00am and 12:30pm - Tours of the Northwest Ohio Regional Book Depository - an off-campus storage and retrieval facility for Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo Libraries. The storage facility is a 5 minute walk from the conference hotel. Thursday, June 5, 2014 – 2:00PM to 4:30PM – Preconference: OCLC Update Thursday, June 5, 2014 – 5:00PM to 7:00PM – Opening Reception Friday, June 6, 2014 – 9:00AM to 3:45PM (Keynote and concurrent sessions, continental breakfast and lunch included) Keynote Address: Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University Concurrent Sessions: · The future of Interoperability for ILL and Resource Sharing · Copyright Essentials for Resource Sharing · Spinning Plates: Managing a Resource Sharing Operations · Open Access to the World: Locating International Publications to Fill ILL Requests · Tips, Tricks, and Change: Getting your Resource Sharing Department Out of the Storm and Into Calmer Waters · And many more! Conference Rates: The conference registration fee is $75 and includes the preconference on Thursday June 5, all sessions continental breakfast, and lunch on Friday June 6. Join your resource sharing partners and “navigate rough waters” with us!! For hotel reservations and other information, please see our website: www.glrsc.org ========================= Randy Dykhuis Executive Director Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) 1407 Rensen Street Lansing, MI 48910 Phone: (800) 530-9019 x119 Fax: (517) 492-3879 Cell: (517) 927-5121 E-mail: dykhuisr@mcls.org Twitter: @mclsrandy