<div dir="ltr"><table style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" width="601" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_sendtofriend.png" alt="Forward to a Friend" height="22" width="600" border="0"></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://alaac15.ala.org/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_header.png" alt="American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition, June 25-30, 2015" height="143" width="600" border="0"></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://alaac15.ala.org/rates" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_reg.png" alt="Registration" height="35" width="200"></a><a href="http://alaac15.ala.org/faq" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_geninfo.png" alt="General Info" height="35" width="200"></a><a href="http://alaac15.ala.org/steps-in-making-the-case" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_attend.png" alt="Make your Case to Attend" height="35" width="200"></a></td></tr><tr><td><table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" align="left"><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:29px;text-align:left;line-height:29px;color:rgb(229,27,36);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left"><img src="http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/images/ALCTS_logo_300x102.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 102px;" align="right"></span>Preconferences from ALCTS</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left">Exciting preconferences are coming your way during this year's American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference from ALCTS. Join your colleagues online or at conference for these events that meet a range of needs.<span class=""> </span><br><br><strong>Follow the conversation on Twitter: #alctsac15</strong><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/grayline.jpg" height="30" width="580"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,93,170);text-align:left;font-weight:bold"><img src="http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/images/blank_box149x119.jpg" alt="" height="119" width="149" align="right">Virtual Preconference<br><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:left;line-height:19px;color:rgb(229,27,36);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Planning for the Evolving Role of Metadata Services</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left"><i>June 2–4, 2015. Three 90 minute sessions over three days<br></i><br><strong>Tuesday:</strong><span class=""> </span>Metadata Services for Research Data Management<br><strong>Wednesday:</strong><span class=""> </span>Assessing Metadata Staffing and Workflows<br><strong>Thursday:</strong><span class=""> </span>Techniques and Technologies for Developing Local Controlled Vocabularies |<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/060215" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)">more</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:left;line-height:19px;color:rgb(229,27,36);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Registration Fees (series of 3 sessions)</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left">    <strong>$109</strong><span class=""> </span>for ALCTS members<br>   <strong> $149</strong><span class=""> </span>for nonmembers<br>    <strong>$ 50</strong><span class=""> </span>for retired members and student members<br><br><em>Single session registration is also available. See<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/060215" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)">Web site</a><span class=""> </span>for more information.</em></span></p><hr noshade size="1"><p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:left;line-height:19px;color:rgb(229,27,36);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left"><span style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d Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) best practices cataloging guides for DVD/Blu-ray discs and streaming media. |<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/ac/2015/video" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)">more</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:left;line-height:19px;color:rgb(229,27,36);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left"><img src="http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/images/blank_box149x119.jpg" height="119" width="149" align="right"></span>Registration Fees</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left"><i>Register through the<span class=""> </span><a href="http://alaac15.ala.org/register-now" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)">ALA Annual Conference website.</a></i><br><br>The price of each full-day preconference is:<br>    <strong>$219</strong><span class=""> </span>for ALCTS members^*<span class=""> </span><br>   <strong> $269</strong><span class=""> </span>for ALA members<br>    <strong>$ 99</strong><span class=""> </span>for retired members and student members<br>    <strong>$319</strong><span class=""> </span>for nonmembers<br>^*(ALCTS members: remember to use code ALCTS2015 to receive the discounted price.)</span></p></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_connect.png" alt="Connect with us:" height="42" width="600"><br><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_footersocial.png" alt="" height="48" width="71"><a href="http://bit.ly/alaac15fb" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_fb.png" alt="Facebook" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="http://twitter.com/alaannual" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_twitter.png" alt="Twitter" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/alaannual" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_pin.png" alt="Pinterest" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups?trk=hb_side_g&gid=40592" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_linkedin.png" alt="Linked In" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="https://plus.google.com/+americanlibraryassocaition/posts" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_gplus.png" alt="Google +" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AmLibraryAssociation" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_ytube.png" alt="YouTube" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="http://americanlibraryassoc.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_tumblr.png" alt="Tumblr" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="http://instagram.com/americanlibraryassociation" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_insta.png" alt="InstaGram" height="48" width="48"></a><a href="http://connect.ala.org/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_alaconnect.png" alt="ALA Connect" height="48" width="74"></a><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_footersocial.png" alt="" height="48" width="71"><br><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_footertag.png" alt="" height="50" width="225"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23alaac15&src=tyah" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_tracktag.png" alt="Track the Tag #alaac15" height="50" width="150"></a><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_footertag.png" alt="" height="50" width="225"><br><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_footer.png" alt="" height="20" width="225"><a href="http://www.ala.org" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_alahome.png" alt="ALA Home" height="20" width="75"></a><a href="http://alamw15.ala.org/contact-us" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(99,159,204)"><img src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/conferences/AC15_contact.png" alt="Contact" height="20" width="75"></a><img sr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