For the Bookshelf 3-1-2001

Meetings & Conventions: Short Cuts March 2001

Last Minute Meetings, by Fern Dickey, CMP, Career Press, Franklin Lakes, N.J.; $11.99

A must-have for seasoned planners and first-timers alike, this slim reader is packed with plenty of helpful tips and straight-up advice on everything needed to pull together a last-minute meeting. Author Dickey, owner of Fair Lawn, N.J.-based The Meeting Planning Company, touches on such planning essentials as site selection, legal issues, working with a caterer, finding a speaker and how to ink a quick, but accurate, budget.

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