The ASIS 1996 Annual Meeting will consider the complexity of the working world of information professionals as well as theoretical perspectives involving the nature and use of information. The following are among the topics to be addressed:

• Generation and dissemination of information. How do individuals and organizations produce and recognize informative materialsusing multiple technologies and myriad, networked resources? What can be learned from parallels with the incunabula period of printing, when proliferation of documents led to higher literacy?
• Information organization and access. It has been said that traditional publishing guarantees some quality precisely because of its time lag. With information being provided instantaneously, can we assure quality without tacitly endorsing censorship? How can multiple organizations be created, maintained, and made useful? If interfaces evolve to cope with complexity, what will be the roles of intermediaries?
• Social implications of complex information systems. When anyone with a file server on the Internet can look like a multinational conglomerate, will Davids slay Goliaths? What will promote innovation, and how will it be recognized? Who will own what, and how can information producers protect themselves? Will traditionally underserved groups find access to complex information resources?

A Broad-based Look at the State-of-the-Art in the Information World of the 1990s.
Intranets	Visual Access
Online Visuals	Browsing Online
Intrernet Resources	Information Warfare
Interactive Retrieval	Creating an Electronic Journal
Online Catalogs	New Interfaces for the Web
Interface Design and Navigation	Sustainable Global Development
Free Speech and Privacy	Competitive Intelligence
Copyright	Electonic Reserves
Digital Imagery	Automatic Text Summerization
Social Impacts of Digital Libraries	Curricula for the 21st Century
Usability Testing	Measures in Information Retrival
Icons & the Web	Indexing and Abstracting
Archival Control	Bibliometrics, Indexing and the Web

Plenary Speakers:

Ivars Peterson, Mathematics and Physics Editor, Science News

Technical Program Committee

Gerald Lundeen

Conference Sponsor For more than 50 years, the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) has been the leader in keeping information professionals on the cutting edge. ASIS provides high quality conference programs for information systems developers, online professionals, information resource managers, librarians, records managers and others who "bridge the gap" between the present and the future, between research and application, and between developer and user. ASIS helps its 4000 members and its conference participants meet the challenges of today and prepare for tomorrow.

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GLOBAL COMPLEXITY: INFORMATION, CHAOS AND CONTROL
ASIS 1996 Annual Meeting - October 19 - 24 1996
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