The Eighth Annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference will be held September 17th-18th 2009 at Portland Community College’s Sylvania Campus. The early registration and scholarship application deadline for the Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference is next Tuesday, September 1.

Designed for staff in libraries of all types and sizes, this conference aims to help you streamline processing, utilize new tools and solve problems. Attendees will discuss how individuals and groups can improve missions, goals, codes and standards through technology, policies, practices and people. Attendees will:

• Discuss the future of resource sharing and ILL
• Obtain practical information for a variety of resource sharing operations
• Discuss issues and solutions with colleagues from the Northwest and beyond
• See demonstrations of resource sharing tools, including free resources

For more information about the conference, visit http://nwill.org. Online registration is available. Also, please direct any questions to the conference Chair: Chelle Batchelor, [email protected].

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