Dear CAL Members, We are pleased to invite you to attend the 2nd Meeting of CONSAL Council of Chief Academic Librarians, to be held in Brunei Darussalam, on 19 October 2003, at the Bilateral 3, International Convention Centre, at 1.30 ? 5.00pm. Attached is the provisional agenda for the meeting. Please review the agenda and if you have some comments please email consal2003@xxxxxxxxxx, or fax: 6732 249504 by 2nd October 2003. There will also be a CAL Forum entitled ?Consortium in Purchasing Electronic Databases?, on the morning of the same day 19 October 2003. We expect all of you to join the Forum as you know this topic has been selected in view of the budgetery constraint faced by all libraries. CAL Forum will be chaired by Mr. Jaffee Yee, from the YPP Library Service. Enclosed is also the tentative programme for the rest of your stay in Brunei Darussalam. We regret to inform you that there will be no funding provided for the air travel and accommodation for CAL delegates. Please kindly seek your own source of funding from your end. We suggest you book your accomodation at Orchid Garden Hotel, and you may contact the CONSAL appointed agent: Eco Tours & Travel at Tel: 6732 236665 / 221943, Fax: 6732 221967 or email: ecotours@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx We extend this special invitation and hope you will join us for the conference for which you will be exempted from paying the registration fee. For further details please have a look at CONSAL XII 2003 website http://www.ubd.edu.bn/suppserv/library/activities/consal_xii_2003/index. htm or call us at 6732 249001 ext : 1257/1258, or email us library@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or consal2003@xxxxxxxxxx Thank you and hope to hear from you shortly. Sincerely yours, Nellie Dato Paduka Haji Sunny Chief Librarian Universiti Brunei Darussalam Library/ Chairman of CONSAL XII Brunei Darussalam Negara Brunei Darussalam