Come one, come all, Alaska beckons!

Start making plans to attend the PNC/MLA Annual Conference, September 16-20, 2000 at the Alyeska Prince Hotel in Girdwood, Alaska.

Come early! Stay late! Take advantage of this opportunity to explore the magnificence of The Last Frontier.

Need more information about Anchorage or Alyeska? Log on to http://www.anchorage.net . Click on Get a free Visitors Guide, fill in the form at the bottom of the page, and a 120 page guide to Southcentral Alaska (Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Kenai Peninsula) will be mailed to you free of charge.

Want to know more about the hotel? Log on to http://www.westin.com/cgi/t3.cgi/property.taf?prop=1000&lc=en. View the slide show. Check out their links to the Girdwood area. Room rate for PNC/MLA attendees is $135/night single or double occupancy until 30 days prior to arrival. (Hotel Reservation forms will be mailed out with the preliminary program.)

We'll leave the Northern Lights on for you.

Anne Girling agirling@anmc.org
PNC/MLA 2000
Registration Coordinator

      

Alaska in 2000 September 16-20

submitted by Kathy Murray

A Quick Glimpse at the Meeting Program Speakers

 

• Linda Stone, Director, Virtual Worlds Group, at Microsoft will be our keynote speaker.  She began her career as a librarian working at Apple Computers.  Since joining Microsoft Corporation in December of 1993, she has focused on improving human social interactions in
  cyberspace. She created and now directs Microsoft's virtual worlds team, a joint effort by engineers, designers, and sociologists to develop technologies and interfaces for the construction of social environments that really work on a human level. Her group's approach to virtual worlds blends sociology, design and technology with the goal of enhancing net-based relationships.  One of their prototype models is being tested at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
• Rob Burgess is past director of Alaska's Community Health Aide Program.  This innovative program brings women from the villages to centers for three different intensive courses. They then act as the first level of triage for medical problems. The Community Health Aide Program's inital system was developed by the Russians.  The Alaska Health Aide Program: A Tradition of Helping Ourselves documents the intensive efforts 25 years ago to develop a common curriculum that could be used statewide. This booklet includes a description of the evolution of the program from the time of the Sanitation Aides and Chemotherapy Aides through the present sophisticated Community Health Aide Program.
• Jim Henderson is the Library Director of the Medical Library Service of the at College of Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia located in Vancouver, BC.
• Martha Leredu is the Director of Knowledge Management at Moss Adams LLP, Seattle, WA.  Martha was recently promoted to her new position as Director of Knowledge Management which overseas research services, web development, and document managment.
• Lea Starr is the Manager of the The Western Operating Partner (Vancouver, BC) of the Canadian Health Network. This is a group of organizations led by Vancouver Public Library, and joined by The Medical Library Service of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.  The Canadian Health Network (CHN) is a national, bilingual Internet-based health information service. Health Canada, its founding Partner, provides funding for CHN.  One of Lea's main responsibilities is to create and expand health information networks in her region. Her group also co-ordinates efforts to collect and share regional resources on how to promote health and prevent disease.
• Leslie Wykoff is Director of Vancouver Information Services and WSUV Campus Library in Vancouver, WA.

Travel Update

 

Flight Information

We have an Alaska Airlines meeting fare code.  Using this code will give a 5% discount on excursion fares and a 10% discount on full fares or anyone choosing to fly first class.  The code is CMR4423.  The dates that are valid for flying with this code are September 12th through September 27th.  I have a favor to ask; after booking your flight, please email me the ticket number.  We will get one free ticket for every 25 tickets purchased.  We will use these free tickets to fly speakers to Anchorage.

 

Last March, I looked for roundtrip tickets for mid-September 1999, and found that leaving Seattle at 2:30 pm on the 16th of Sept and returning from Anchorage on the 21st of September at 6:30 pm would cost $336.20, $437.20 from Portland, and only $465.20 from Boise.  Prices have gone up since that time ... back in May, roundtrip tickets from Seattle for those dates was $357, Portland was $318, and Boise was $518.  Depending on your dates, when you travel, and when you buy your ticket, your prices will likely vary.   Visit the Alaska Airlines web page to get specifics and remember to use CMR4423 to get your discount.

 

Ground Transportation

Please note that Girdwood is 40 miles south of Anchorage.  Ground transportation from the airport to the hotel can be arranged using the Borealis Shuttle service.  They accept reservations only 24 hours prior to your flight (907.276.3600), or you can call from the baggage claim area at the airport and a van will be waiting by the time your luggage is delivered.  Their rate is:

Number of Passengers	Fare (one way)
1	$50
2	$65
3	$80
4-11	$10 for each additional person

Quebec City, May 6-8, 2001

The Committee has selected some charming small hotels in the old city of Quebec and close to all conveniences for the delegates. All of these hotels are located within 5 minutes to the Conference Site (breakfast is included in the price of all these hotels):

• Hotel le Priori--105$ single or double occupation
  http://www.quebecweb.com/lepriori
  (418) 692-3992   
  1-800-351-3992
  Fax: (418) 692-0883
  
  
• Auberge St-Pierre--169$ single or double occupation
  http://st-pierre@auberge.qc.ca
  (418) 694-7981
  1-888-268-1017
  Fax: (418) 694-0406
  
  
• Hotel Dominion--169$ single occupation/179$ double
  http://reservations@hoteldominion.com
  (418) 692-2224
  1-888-833-5253
  Fax: (418) 692-4403

For more information:

(514) 281-5012
Fax: (514) 281-8219
info@asted.org

Salishan, Oregon in 2001

Seattle area in 2002 [tentative]

Vancouver, B.C. in 2003 [tentative]