The 2005 biennual meeting of the North Carolina Library Association ("Your Library: The Place to Be") will take place between September 20 and 23, 2005, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

NCCU SLIS participants at the 2005 NCLA Conference include:

• Dr. Pauletta Bracy (Associate Professor), President of the North Carolina Library Association
• Dr. Robert Burgin (Professor), Vice-President/President-Elect of the North Carolina Library Association and Chair of the Conference Planning Committee
• Dale Cousins (MLS 1986), Director-at-Large the North Carolina Library Association and Co-Chair of Conference Programs
• Nina Exner (MLS 1996), poster session
• Dr. Deborah Swain (Assistant Professor), poster session
• Andrea Tullos (MLS, current student), Co-Chair of Conference Registration
• Tuesday, September 20: Dr. Robert Burgin (Professor), speaker at Readers' Advisory Preconference, "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Readers' Advisory: (AND Were Afraid Your Patrons Would Ask)"
• Wednesday, September 21: Pam Jaskot (MLS 1983), moderator at "Marketing Success Stories in NC Libraries"
• Wednesday, September 21: Jill Wagy (MLS, current student), speaker at "Byte by Byte: Small Steps Toward Building a Great Web Site"
• Thursday, September 22: Dr. Irene Owens (Dean and Professor), speaker at the Beta Phi Mu Breakfast
• Thursday, September 22: Denise Bosselman (MLS 2003), speaker at "How Deep Is It? Wading into the Public Service Waters"
• Thursday, September 22: Ellen Dickey (MLS 1993), speaker at "Who Gets the Next Question?"
• Friday, September 23: Ron Jones (MLS 1978), speaker at the Closing General Session, "Stories by the Book"

See http://www.nclaonline.org/conference/index.html for further information on the NCLA Conference.