Global Information Access

[Richard Hill]

Information Access in a Global Information Economy
[Please excuse cross-posting.]

ASIS 1998 Annual Meeting
October 24-30, 1998, Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA

[Note: Hotel reservations must be made by 10/2 to get the best rate.]

For complete conference description, schedule and registration information,
see <http://www.asis.org>, email meetings at asis.org, call (301) 495-0900, or
write to the address below.

* Featured Sessions *
HERBERT A. SIMON.  Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic
  Sciences, the National Medal of Science; the A.M. Turing Award
  of the Association for Computing Machinery (with Allen
  Newell)... recognized as part-founder of Artificial
  Intelligence, of  cognitive science and of computer science.
HAL R. VARIAN, Dean of the School of Information Management and
  Systems at the University of California at Berkeley; also
  Professor in the Haas School of Business & the Department of
  Economics.
PERSPECTIVES ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE: MYTHS, REALTIES, AND MADNESS.
  John DeReuck, Johannes Bauer, Charles McClure, John Carlo Bertot, 
  Andrew Magpantay, and Mickey Revenaugh.

SAMPLE TOPICS:
* NCLIS Hearings on Journal Pricing, Publishing, and Copyright — NEW SESSION
* New Interfaces for Information Visualization
* UNICODE: Standards, Implementation Issues, & Future Directions
* Using the Web for Global Business Intelligence
* Designing Discipline-Oriented Information Systems
* Classificatory Structures: Applications & Integration
* Intellectual Property
* Digital Libraries in the K-12 Environment
* Retrieval of non-Textual Documents
* The Ethics of Access: Global Perspectives
* Knowledge Discovery in Databases -- Tools & Techniques for
  Collaboration
* User Modeling Research & IR Systems Design
* Information Retrieval Technology
* Organizing Images/Visuo-Spatial Data for Retrieval: From
    Indexing to Metadata
* Web Effects on Global Economies
* Electronic Scholarship
* International Classification and Subject Analysis Research
* Web Searching
* Economics of Web Link Collections
* Cross Language Applications & Large Scale Vocabularies
* Evaluating Services
* Accessing Full-text: Integrating Electronic Resources
* Social and Organizational Informatics

Pre Conference Seminars  (All courses 9-5 unless specified. Separate
registration required.)
Saturday, October 24
* Finding the Right Stuff: Using and Evaluating Internet Search
   Engines (Half Day, 9:00am - 1:00pm)
* Vocabulary Management and Thesaurus Development	
Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML)Part 1: JavaScript
	(Presented in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh.)

Sunday, October 25
* Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Part 2: Cascading Style
   Sheets 	(Presented in cooperation with the University of
   Pittsburgh.)
* Delivering Databases via the World Wide Web
* Introduction to Image Databases
* Digital Libraries: Computer Concepts & Technologies for Managing
   Library Collections
* Building the Virtual "Intranet" Knowledge Center
* The Role of Information Management In Knowledge Management -
   Stimulating Creativity and Innovation Through Information.
* Statistics for Practitioners and Readers of Research:
   A Practical Update  (Half day, 9:00am - Noon)
* 9th Classification Research Workshop ( 8:30 am - 5:00 pm)

American Society for Information Science
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
Silver Spring, MD  20910
(301) 495-0900	FAX (301) 495-0810
http://www.asis.org