Access97 Presentations, Access98 Conference

[C Eric Tull]

The Access'97 conference was held in Calgary, Alberta at the end of 
September this year.  The conference presentations are almost all
available now at 

   http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/access97/

Appended to this message is the list of the presentations that were given. 

The conference was a great success.  

Now is the time to start planning to attend the Access'98 conference, 
which will be held October 2-4, 1998 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 
   ( http://library.usask.ca/access98/ )
  
Eric Tull
University of Calgary Library


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                  Access'97 : INTEGRATION or FRAGMENTATION ?
                       September 29 - October 1, 1997
                               Calgary Alberta

        The Fifth Annual Conference on WWW Applications for Libraries


                          PROGRAM AND PRESENTATIONS

Keynote Speaker
            Dr. Charles Lowry      Content and Technologies for the Virtual
                                   Library: Fragmentation or Integration?

Third Generation Web-based OPACs
            Lyn Martin             SuperPAC
            Art Rhyno              VRML to Navigate Information Space

Streaming Video
            Janice Bakal           Distributing Multimedia on the Web

Browsers    Dr. Rob Berdan         Comparing Netscape and Explorer

State of the Internet
            Dr. Clifford Lynch

Western Canada Virtual Library Project
            Kristina Long, Lynn Copeland, Jonathan Esterhazy    

Databases Panel
            Rob McKinney           SilverPlatter   
            Dana Johnson           OVID   
            Stephen Rhind-Tutt     Chadwyck Healey  

Java        Terry Noreault         Java: Experience at OCLC
            Matthew Freedman       Java: a Dispatch from the Front Lines

Electronic Text Center
            David Seaman

Thin Clients
            Alan Darnell           Citrix Winframe and Multi-user Windows NT
            Guy Hummel             Sun's JavaStation

MAGIC
            Patrick McGlamery

Cable Access to the Internet
            Rich Wiggins           Cable Modems: Myths and Reality
            Garth Mihalcheon       Shaw Cable's WAVE

Z39.50 Implementation
            Slavko Manojlovich     Configuring Z39.50 Clients and Servers:
                                   Dirty Little Secrets

System Vendors Panel
            Jane Beaumont          moderator   
            Earl Boyce             Ameritech
            Carl Grant             Innovative Interfaces   
            Greg Hathorn           SIRSI
            Andre Hudon            Geac
            Don Reilly             Endeavor 

Online Cataloguing Tools
            Ross Thrasher

Workflow Automation Concepts
            Greg Hathorn

Intranets   Evan Fietz             The Interactive Enterprise in the 21st
                                   Century

In Cyberspace No-one Can Hear You Shush
            David Brown

The Consumer
            Dr. Bruce Clark        The Professor as Consumer of Web-based
                                   Information Resources

Project Galileo
            Dr. George Gaumond

Convergence to the Information Highway
            Dr. Brian Gaines

Concluding Remarks
            Selden Deemer          Looking Back