Access'97 Conference

[C Eric Tull]

Conference Announcement
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                 ACCESS'97 : INTEGRATION or FRAGMENTATION?
                                      
                       September 29 - October 1, 1997
                              Calgary Alberta
                 
                           ALL INFORMATION IS AT
                 http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/access97/
                 
    
                          Draft Conference Agenda
                                      
  Monday, September 29
  
    8:45 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Charles Lowry
   10:15 Third generation web-based opacs
         Lyn Elizabeth Martin: SuperPAC
         Art Rhyno: VRML to navigate infospace
   11:15 Streaming video
         Janice Bakal
   11:45 Browsers: comparison of Netscape and Explorer
         Dr. Rob Berdan
    1:15 State of the Internet
         Clifford Lynch
    2:15 The Western Canada Virtual Library Project
         Kristina Long, Lynn Copeland
    3:45 Databases
         Rob McKinney, SilverPlatter
         Dana Johnson, OVID
         Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Chadwyck Healey
   
  Tuesday, September 30
  
    8:30 Java
         Terry Noreault: Java-based integration of resources with Z39.50
         Djun Kim:
   10:30 Electronic Text Centre, Univ. of Virginia
         David Seaman
   11:00 In cyberspace no-one can hear you 'shush!'
         David Brown
   11:20 Thin clients
         Alan Darnell: Winframe with WindowsNT
         Guy Hummel: Sun's JavaStation
    1:15 MAGIC: spatial data at Univ. of Connecticut
         Patrick McGlamery
    2:15 Cable access to the internet
         Rich Wiggins: Cable modems: myths and reality
         Garth Mihalcheon: Shaw Cable
    3:45 topic to be decided
    4:15 Z39.50 implementation
         Slavko Manojlovich
         Configuring Z39.50 Clients and Servers: Dirty Little Secrets
   
  Wednesday, October 1
  
    8:30 System vendors panel
         Jane Beaumont: moderator
         Greg Hathorn: SIRSI
         John Kolman: AMERITECH
         Don Reilly: ENDEAVOR
         Andre Hudon: GEAC
   10:30 Cataloguing tools online
         Ross Thrasher
   10:50 Workflow automation concepts
         Greg Hathorn
   11:15 Intranets
         Evan Fietz (Silicon Graphics)
    1:30 The consumer
         Deb MacLean: government & legal sources on the internet
         Bruce Clark: the professor as consumer of web-based information
         resources
    2:15 Project Galileo
         George Gaumond
    2:45 Convergence of the information highway
         Brian Gaines
    3:15 Summary of integration issues at the conference
         Selden Deemer

Come and join us!

Eric Tull
University of Calgary Library