At this October's conference, plan on a 2-hour dinner river cruise on the Portland Spirit. Dress is casual--now when else in your lifetime will you get the opportunity to dine on pecan-crusted beef tenderloin, baked salmon topped with papaya salsa, or garden-fresh vegetarian lasagna in your favorite jeans? The dock is only five locks from the hotel and a bus will be available for those who don't choose to walk.

The conference speakers will be stimulating--Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services at Cal-State, is our keynote speaker. Sonja Connor, Clinical Nutritionist, was recently highlighted in the Oregonian. Jann Mitchell, an author and Oregonian columnist, will be speaking on dealing with transitional change. Richard Zimmerman, MD will talk on the economics of health care.

You need to contact the Benson Hotel directly to make your room reservation. Be sure to say that you are coming as a part of the PNC conference. We need to make a certain number of rooms per night to keep our contract with them; otherwise we will have some major meeting room charges added to our bill.

If you need the details on program, speakers, CE, etc., visit the conference web site. Also included is information about Portland--things to see, where to eat, how to get around, events, etc.

For registration information contact Patsy Bacon, SW Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, WA 360-256-3228 or baconp@ohsu.edu.

Boise in 1998: October 27 - October 30.

Western Washington in 1999

Alaska in 2000: September 16-20

Online Northwest '98, an annual computerized information retrieval conference, will be held on Friday, February 6, 1998 at the Sheraton Hotel at the Portland airport. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon State System of Higher Education's Interstitutional Library Council, and includes sessions of interest for all librarians. Registration information will be sent out in late November.

For information about the conference you can go to the web page at: http://www.sou.edu/library/onlinenw/online98.htm This page will be updated frequently with the most current information. You can also contact Dolores Judkins, Oregon Health Sciences University, 503/494-3478, e-mail judkinsd@ohsu.edu.

If you have not received a registration brochure by December 1st, you may contact Korey Egge at 503/725-4815 or e-mail her at eggek@ses.pdx.edu