**Please excuse duplication in cross-posting** Early-bird pre-registration for the 22nd Annual VRA Conference in Portland, OR continues at a good pace. Workshops and tours are filling up, but there is still plenty of room. We encourage you to sign up as soon as possible to take advantage of such great sessions as "CATALOGUING CULTURAL OBJECTS: A new tool for descriptive cataloging" and "ISSUES IN TECHNOLOGY: Partnering to integrate digital management applications and digital resources" A full color preliminary program on the VRA website is designed to be downloaded so you may search the list of sessions, seminars. special interest focus groups, workshops and tours. You have the choice of registering online or downloading a form to send snail mail. Go to http://www.vraweb.org/VRAPortland/index.html to enter the conference website. SOME HIGHLIGHTS ARE: A tour of the Classical Chinese Garden Walking tour of Architecture/Public Art with architecture historian Libby Dawson Farr A workshop on "Managing a Digitization Project" A workshop on "Negotiating and Licensing Electronic Content" The Hilton and Executive Tower is located in the heart of downtown Portland where you will be able to walk to restaurants, shopping, cultural events, museums and galleries. Early-bird registration ends on FEBRUARY 6, 2004 Please join us in Portland, "the City of Roses and Bridges," March 9th - 13th, 2004. Sheryl L. Brittig, Librarian Rotch Visual Collections M.I.T. 77 Mass. Ave., 7-304 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 (617) 253-7098 (617) 253-9331 fax [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]