The Annual Meeting Program Selection Committee hopes that all of you saw many very interesting programs scheduled for the 1999 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., July 17-22, 1999. Please add two more to the program announcement. I apologize to the coordinators of the two programs, Virginia Thomas and Barbara West, and am including the titles and brief information about the program content below.
Health law is a burgeoning area of study, practice, litigation, and research.
This program will focus on the regulatory aspects of health law, specifically those affecting the health care industry. Health law resources and research techniques will be discussed. This program will present the perspectives of several individuals about the GPO's electronic service expectations, including the perspective of a GPO Library Programs Service member who will explain the specific provisions of the guidelines, an expert on U.S. government information policies and practices who will discuss the potential impact on depository libraries, and the director of a law library with a depository who will discuss some of the practical effects of the new guidelines on the library's policies, services, and staff. These two programs will be included in the preliminary and final programs.