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Library and Information Services in Astronomy V (LISA V)
(This message is being cross-posted on Astrolib, PAMnet, EGAL and PAM-APF)


Dear potential LISA V attendee:

As announced previously, LISA V (Common Challenges, Uncommon Solutions) 
will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 18-21, 2006. 
Although it seems a long way off, the SOC and LOC are busily making 
plans and we would dearly love your input.

First, we are interested in preliminary expressions of interest in
attending the conference.  This is necessary in order to negotiate a
reasonable venue and price for the conference dinner, which we
anticipate at this point will be "heavy hors d'oeuvres" rather than a
sit-down dinner in order to save a little money.  If plans work out as
hoped, the venue will be spectacular!  So before the end of October,
please send your _non-binding_ expression of interest, including 
an indication if you expect to bring a guest to the dinner event with 
you.  This preliminary "notice of interest" should be sent to Christina 
Birdie, SOC co-chair, chris@iiap.res.in .

Second, we are delighted to introduce to you the Scientific Organizing
Committee (SOC) and invite you to send any of them your suggestions and 
ideas for a successful program. Please note that a proper Call for 
Papers will be sent later.

- Christina Birdie, co-chair
  Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, India
  chris@iiap.res.in

- Uta Grothkopf, co-chair
  European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching, Germany
  esolib@eso.org

- Alberto Accomazzi
  NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Cambridge, MA, USA
  aaccomazzi@cfa.harvard.edu

- Donna Coletti
  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, USA
  dcoletti@cfa.harvard.edu

- Tatyana Dorokhova
  Odessa State University Astronomical Observatory, Odessa, Ukraine
  astro@paco.odessa.ua

- Eva Isaksson
  University of Helsinki Observatory, Helsinki, Finland
  library@astro.helsinki.fi

- Charles Lada
  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, USA
  clada@cfa.harvard.edu

- Jessica Moy
  National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), Tucson, AZ, USA
  library@noao.edu

- Francois Ochsenbein
  Centre de donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS),
  Strasbourg, France
  francois@astro.u-strasbg.fr

- Donata Randazzo
  Osservatorio Astronomico "G.S. Vaiana", Palermo, Italy
  donata@oapa.astropa.unipa.it

- Sandra Ricketts
  Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO), Eastwood, NSW, Australia
  LIB@aaoepp.aao.gov.au

- Sarah Stevens-Rayburn
  Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, MD, USA
  library@stsci.edu

Sincerely,
Brenda Corbin (corbin.brenda@usno.navy.mil), Ellen Bouton(ebouton@nrao.edu),
Uta Grothkopf (esolib@eso.org), Sarah Stevens-Rayburn (library@stsci.edu),
The Preliminary Organizing Committee