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OCULA rallies to fill gap; Rita Vine balances Dervin on Saturday Kathryn Deiss seriously ill; Dervin to provide Super Session W e were devastated to hear this week that Kathryn Deiss has been taken seriously ill and has been forced to withdraw from the OLA/ OCULA conference program. Since organizers heard on Tuesday, the telephone lines have been alive as friends everywhere have rallied to handle the problem. The real blessing came when Brenda Dervin agreed to expand her session to fill Saturday's special Super Session time slot. The changes to expect OCULA has been unable to find someone able to take over Session 103 today. It is cancelled. Session 1002 on Sat. 10:30-11:45 is RESCHEDULED to the afternoon from 2:00-4:30. The speaker will still be Brenda Dervin and the title remains: "Are we having fun yet? Communicating in an Imploding Information I Communication Environment." Ms. Dervin is doing a much expanded interactive version of her workshop originally announced program. New workshop announced But they have yet to adopt more interactive models of reference service '0 ®®~ OCULA CP Caledon using the Internet. 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. The technologies WHAT 1S NEW IN ONUNE REFERENCE exist today to SERVICE? enable libraries to Rita Vine, Integrated Management deliver real-time Reference Service Resources. over the Internet. Rita Vine The Internet is transforming service in They can take their libraries. Many libraries have ventured into leads from commercial web sites who are the provision of limited Reference Service successfully developing customer relationusing the Internet through asynchronous e- ships using a variety of methods over the mail reference or a forms-based template. Web. Dervin Saturday morning. Rita's workshop and description is as follows: Autographing schedule released Sesion Store Expo 99 Thursday Andrea Spalding Jane Drake Janet Lunn Bev/Chris Wood Richard Scrimg er Ted Staunton Eric Walters Linda McQuaig 321 417 321 321 12:10 12: 10 12:35 12:35 1:00 1:00 12:35 12:35 1:00 1:00 1:25 l :25 Orca Booth Orca Booth Plenary (autographing after her speech) Rita Vine, Medical Librarian at the University of Toronto and a very popular workshop leader across Ontario has agreed to fill the time slot vacated by Friday Hugh Brewster Ken Oppel ShereeFitch Gayle Friesen Arlene Perly Rae Koechlin!Zwann Kady Denton David Bouchard Norah McCl intock Marj an Gl a\·ak William Bell Pat Hancoc k Robert Sutherl and Arlen e Chan Peter Sis Kathenn c B:ubr: r Breakfast and 501 Breakfast and 50 l BRODART LTD is now Booth 239 Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy is now Booth 520 OTIP/REAO Ontario Teachers' Insurance Plan is now Booth 522 615 720 614 71 2 4 17 615 720 61 3 720 720 615 , 13 5 10 (meet her at her session) 12: 10 12:10 12:10 12: 10 12:00 12:35 12:35 12:35 12:35 1:00 1:00 1:00 1:00 1:25 12:35 12:35 12:35 12:35 12:35 1:00 1:00 1:00 1:00 1:25 1:25 1:25 1:25 1:50 Saturday Peter S i~ Paul Hoffert Andree L a.:~ lie Lun cheon (autographing after his speech) I I 02 (aut ographin g after his session) I I 06 (autographin g after her session )