Wednesday, May 3

SALIS Board Meeting, 
Open Society Institute (OSI) / Soros Foundations
400 West 59^th Street, just West of 9^th Avenue  (212-548-0396)
4^th floor, Conference Room 4D
(OSI is the home of the Lindesmith Center)

Registration and exhibits open
New Yorker Hotel, Crystal Room

SALIS Business Meeting, part I
New Yorker Hotel, Tribeca Suite, 4^th floor

5:30

Opening reception
New Yorker Hotel, Crystal Room

Thursday, May 4
All sessions will be at the New Yorker Hotel

Continental breakfast
This is also a time when Special Interest Groups (SIGS) can meet.
Crystal Room

Call to order and greetings from Conference Chairs and SALIS Chair
·   Leigh Hallingby, Lindesmith Center, New York, NY
·   David Man, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), New York, NY
·   George Marcelle, Social and Health Services, Los Angeles, CA
Crystal Room

Plenary Session I
"Drug Policy as the Century Turns"
·   Herbert Kleber, MD, CASA, New York, NY
·   Ethan Nadelmann, JD, PhD, The Lindesmith Center, New York, NY
Crystal Room

Plenary Session II
"Drug-Related Trends in the 21^st Century"
Part 1: "Cocaine, Heroin"
·   Rick Curtis, PhD, John Jay College, New York, NY
Part 2: "Hepatitis C and Other Infectious Diseases"
·   Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD, Beth Israel Medical Center and NDRI, New York, NY
Part 3: " Building Bridges Between Harm Reduction and Traditional Substance Abuse Services"
·   John de Miranda, EdM, Youth Power, Oakland, CA
Crystal Room

SALIS Luncheon
Ruth Sanchez Way, CSAP
Tribeca Suite

Plenary Session III
"Organizing and Managing Information for the 21^st Century"
This session is open to all conference attendees, and will also serve as the first SALIS Training Session for those attendees who are registered for training.
·   Jill Austin, PhD, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Ottawa, Canada
"Order from Chaos: How Can We Harness the Power of the Web? (The Virtual Clearinghouse)"
·   Sheila Lacroix, MLS, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
"Report of the 2nd International Meeting of Editors of the Addictions Journals: Tea with Griffith Edwards"
·   David Man, MLS, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), New York, NY
"Collection Development Tools for AOD Libraries"
·   Kathleen Mullen or Suchitra Mohan and Dagobert Soergel, NIAAA Research Library c/o CSR, Inc, Washington, DC
"Searching ETOH with the New 3^rd Edition of the AOD Thesaurus"
Crystal Room

Walking Tour of New York Public Library
(including travel time to and from the library, located at Fifth Avenue and 40^th Street)
Arranged through Marilyn Martucci in the Volunteer Office at 930-0501; $7 per person

A Night on the Town
George Marcelle, SALIS Chair, will lead a group to various locations in midtown Manhattan, starting with a stop at the TKTS Booth at Duffy Square, where those who are interested can purchase theater tickets for that evening at half price.
SALIS New Yorkers will be on hand at the end of the NYPL tour for advise about other evening options in Manhattan.

Friday, May 5
All sessions will be at the New Yorker Hotel

Continental breakfast
This is also a time when Special Interest Groups (SIGS) can meet.
Crystal Room

Plenary Session IV
"Drug Treatment and the Criminal Justice System"
·   Raye Barbieri, CSW, Family Treatment Court, New York, NY
·   Steven Belenko, PhD, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, New York, NY
·   George De Leon, PhD, Center for Therapeutic Community Research at NDRI, New York, NY
Crystal Room

Plenary Session V
"Drug-Related Trends in the 21^st Century, Continued"
Part 4: "Methadone in Private Medical Practice"
·   Edwin Salsitz, MD, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, and one the patients from his practice.
Part 5: Welfare to Work and Substance-Abusing Women
·   Diana Woolis, DEd, CASA, New York, NY
Crystal Room

Lunch on your own
List of restaurants supplied in conference pack
This is also a time when Special Interest Groups (SIGS) can meet.

2:00

Plenary Session VI
Alcohol and Drug Information and Education in the New Millennium"
·   Mary-Jo Kline, PhD, MSLS, Brown University, Providence, RI
"The Chester H. Kirk Collection and Addiction Studies at Brown University: A Collaboration across Centuries and Library Boundaries"
·   Penny Page, MLS, and Valerie Mead, Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies, Piscataway, NJ
"History Repeating: A Tour of Historical Resources on American Alcohol Use"
·   Stephanie Asteriadis, MA, CASAT (Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies) Clearinghouse and Western CAPT (Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies), University of Nevada, Reno, NV
"The Western CAPT: Bringing Research to Practice with Trend-setting Technology for the Turn of the Century"
·   Laura Clark and Beth Archibald Tang, Caliber Associates, Fairfax, VA
"Information Brokering: NEDS, a Case Study"  (National Evaluation Data Service)
Crystal Room

"The Future of SALIS"
·   Andrea Mitchell, Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA, and SALIS Executive Director
SALIS Business Meeting, part 2, will follow immediately
Crystal Room

Saturday, May 6

Continental Breakfast
Crystal Room

Plenary Session VII
"International Perspectives on Alcohol and Drug Information in the 21^st Century" [exact presenter list not confirmed]
·   George Marcelle, facilitator, Social and Health Services, Los Angeles, CA
·   R.P. Kumar, PhD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
"Delivery of Drug Abuse Information in the South East Asia Region in the Cyber Era"
·   Thomas Rouault, Toxibase, France
"The French Paradox Once More: An Overview of the Evolution of French Drug Policy and its Influence on the Information Services"
·   Anne Singer, Paris, France
·   Greet van der Spek, Trimbos Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
·   Nick Vos, Trimbos Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
·   Daniela Zardo, Centro Studi Documentazione e Ricerche del Gruppo Abele, Turin, Italy
"Documentation and Information on Drugs, Drug Use and Addictions: New Users and New Requests"
Crystal Room

Plenary Session VIII
"Just Say 'Know': New Directions in Drug Education"
Marsha Rosenbaum, The Lindesmith Center West, San Francisco
Deborah Small, The Lindesmith Center, New York City
Crystal Room

Board Meeting and Lunch
Room to be announced

Training Session -- Back to the Basics: Finding AOD information on the Internet

This training session will provide an overview of basic Internet resources and tools to find AOD information, with an emphasis on skill-building for beginners and those who want to brush up basic skills. The session will cover:

·Listservs: How to Ask a Question and Get the Answer You Need on SALIS-L and other AOD Lists.
·   Online databases: What you need to do before you begin searching (and other tips and tricks of the trade).
·   Web search engines and directories, including a comparison of selected web search tools.
Presenters: Nancy Sutherland, Andrea Mitchell, Samantha Helfert.

Note: Space at this session is limited; if you would like to attend, please send e-mail to SALIS Home: salis@arg.org

A Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

One or more SALIS members will lead a walking tour from Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. Details to be announced.