[SLA-SF] re: Wine Librarians Meeting

[Fisher, Leslie [ALZUS]]

Greetings All - 

Find below an invitation from our "tour friend" in Sonoma - Bo Simons.  See
details on an interesting morning with Wine Librarians - including an
address on Copyright by a San Francisco Attorney specializing in this topic.

The Wine Librarians Meeting is a Friday event.  Can you slip away?  If not,
all is NOT lost.  

The next day, Saturday September 16, is the fabulous annual fundraiser for
the Sonoma County Wine Library - "Sonoma Odyssey of Food & Wine".  This also
happens to be the date of the Sonoma County Book Festival.  The "Festival"
is in downtown Santa Rosa and the "Odyssy" is in Richard's Grove approx. 10
miles north.  Wine lovers - Book lovers UNITE!

Lots of details below.  Enjoy!
Regards,
Leslie


-----Original Message-----
From: Bo Simons [mailto:bo at sonoma.lib.ca.us]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:31 PM
To: LFisher7 at ALZUS.JNJ.COM
Subject: Wine Librarians Meeting

I would like to invite you to attend the meeting of the Wine Librarians
Association (WLA) on Friday, September 15, 2006, from 10 a.m. until 3
p.m., at the Sonoma County Wine Library (139 Piper Street, Healdsburg). 
 We hope to lure you here with the meeting AND the promise of book and
wine events the next day.  See BOOK AND WINE WEEKEND below.

Schedule
9:30 - 10:00 Arrive and Meet
10:00 - 1:00 Meeting
1:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Copyright Presentation
2:30 -3:00 Library Tour and Farewell (optional)

Let's gather between 9:30 and 10 to begin our meeting promptly at 10.
Our agenda is full, and exciting!  We will have a report on our on-going
project to digitize the almost complete run of Pacific Wine & Spirit
Review at San Francisco Public Library, using the resources of the Open
Content Alliance. Marty Schlabach (Librarian, Cornell University) plans
to be with us to discuss the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
(CHLA) and digitizing wine & grape publications, and another possible
WLA project.   Marty has recently had scanned into the CHLA a
significant and neglected resource on the American wine industry, a work
titled Relazione di un Viaggio d'Istruzione negli Stati Uniti d'America
(Narrative of a Fact Finding Trip to the United States) by Guido
Rossati, an Italian government document printed in 1900. The government
of Italy was worried about losing market share to Americans in the world
wine market, and commissioned a study of the U.S. wine industry. This
548-page book offers a detailed portrait of the American wine industry
as the 19th century became the 20th.  

At 1:00 PM we will have a catered lunch in the library meeting room. 
Following lunch, Nate Garhart, a San Francisco attorney who specializes
in copyright law, will speak to us and address about copyright and
intellectual property law as it relates to libraries, inter-library
loan, and fulltext periodical databases.  Mr. Garhart, a partner with
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, is a frequent speaker on trademark and
copyright issues, and has recently presented on the use of the Internet
for trademark disputes at an ABA seminar on trademark litigation in
Washington D.C., and on trademark protection and open source licensing
issues for nonprofits at Nonprofit Roundtable seminars in San
Francisco.

BOOK AND WINE WEEKEND.  This is the perfect date in Sonoma County for a
wine librarians meeting. Plan to spend the weekend and take in, on
Saturday September 16th, both the Sonoma County Book Festival and the
Sonoma Odyssey of Food & Wine. The Book Festival, "bringing together
readers, writers, publishers, booksellers ... books and the people who
love them," will be held in downtown Santa Rosa, Old Courthouse Square,
from 10 - 5 (admission is free). The Sonoma Odyssey, the annual "Gala &
Auction under the Oaks" fund-raiser for the Sonoma County Wine Library,
will be held at Richard's Grove-Saralee's Vineyard, from 2 - 5:30 p.m.
Besides food from 20 gourmet food purveyors and wine from 30 Sonoma
County wineries, you can feast at a book sale featuring hundreds of wine
books (at truly bargain prices).

If you are not already a member of the WLA, how do you qualify to join?
It helps to love books and to love wine. Many of the members of the Wine
Librarians Association are librarians who manage collections of books
and materials dealing with wine, but others are book collectors and wine
book lovers, historians and writers who are interested in wine and its
history. We have been meeting since 1997 informally, and since 2002 we
have been an incorporated 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Our members
include librarians from the Napa Valley Wine Library, Sonoma County Wine
Library, UC Davis, CSU Fresno, Cal Poly Pomona, Cornell University,
Southwest Missouri State University, Sonoma State University, and the
Wine Institute, as well as scholars, editors, writers and wine book
lovers, such as Tom Pinney and Gail Unzelman. Librarians with an
interest in wine, wine book collectors, writers who write about wine are
encouraged to join. 

The WLA last met in St. Helena in June 2005. Since then we have been
busy, and this meeting will apprise you of what we have been doing.

The WLA has the financial resources to contemplate these projects
partly due to the success of its first publishing venture, The Brady
Book: Selections from Roy Brady's Unpublished Writings on Wine (Edited,
with an Introduction by Thomas Pinney), that we published in 2003 with
help from Darrell Corti. 

So please, consider joining us for the meeting on September 15, and
enjoy the bounties of Sonoma County for the weekend. Contact WLA
secretary, Gail Unzelman (nomis at jps.net), (707-546-1184) to reserve a
place.  The meeting is free, and you do NOT have to join the Wine
Librarians Association to attend.  We will have the lunch catered and
charge (probably around $20) for it.  

Click here (http://www.sonomaodyssey.org/) for more about the Sonoma
Odyssey.  Click here (http://www.socobookfest.org/) for more about the
Sonoma County Book Festival.

To become a member of the Wine Librarians Association, please mail  $20
annual dues (check payable to WLA) to Gail Unzelman, WLA, P.O. Box 9023,
Santa Rosa, CA 95405.

Cheers,

Bo Simons
President, Wine Librarians Association


Bo Simons
Sonoma County Library
Piper and Center Sts
Healdsburg, CA 95448
tel 707-433-3772 x5  fax 707-433-7946
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