Plenary Session
Eli M. Noam, professor of Finance and Economics; Director, Columbia Institute for TeleInformation, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.

Controlling Risk in a Complex Environment: The Design of Computer-Based Systems to Minimize Human Error in Medicine (SIGs/HCI and MED)

This panel will examine major issues in medical error, how researchers are designing systems, and software interfaces to minimize error.

• Information: A Means to Reduce the Likelihood of Human Error in Medicine. M. Sue Bogner, Office of Health and Industry Programming, Food and Drug Administration
• Application of the Critical Incident Technique in the Intensive Care Unit. Karl Van Orden, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA
• Using the Delphi Method to Design an Ideal Error Reporting System for the Blood Transfusion Process. James Battles, Janette Bradley, Harold Kaplan, Quay Mercer, and Mary Whiteside, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

The Complexity of Free Speech, Privacy and Intellectual Freedom in a Global Network (SIG/TIS)

Can the first amendment survive in cyberspace? Who has jurisdiction in a global network? Can increased access and personal privacy co-exist? These, and other equally difficult and disturbing questions will be presented and addressed as we investigate whether a new road calls for new rules.

• Government Information, FOIA, Privacy, Rates and Rights in a Global Environment. Jamie Love, Director, TAP (Taxpayers Assets Project)
• The Seven (27? 107? 1007? ) Words You Can't Say on the Internet. William Drake, University of California at San Diego/ Congressional Fellow

Social Impacts of Digital Libraries (SIGs/CR, HCI and SRT)

This panel will present the key trends and issues that emerged from the NSF-sponsored UCLA Workshop on the Social Aspects of Digital Libraries that took place at UCLA in February 1996. We will give an overview of developments in user-centered digital library research and the issues that interdisciplinary DL researchers are considering concerning users' information needs and end-user searching and filtering.
Christine L. Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles
Raya Fidel, University of Washington
Moderator: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of California, Los Angeles

Interactive Information Retrieval: Contributed Papers

• Interactive Models in Information Retrieval: Progress, Problems: Proposal. Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University
• Interactive Information Retrieval: A Third Feedback Framework. Amanda Spink, University of North Texas

Internet Resources: Contributed Papers

• The Business Web in Russia: Usability for the Western User. Bob Travica and Blaise Cronin, Indiana University
• Form and Function: Publishing the Canadian Government Weekly Checklist on the Internet. Ron Davies, Bibliomatics Inc. and Tanis Chalk, Canada Communication Group.
• An Internet Application to Relieve Constraints in the Flow of Technical Information: The Virtual Technology Market. James E. Beverly, MIS International; Lan Xue and Chung-Shing Lee, George Washington University

Combating the Corporate Blahs of Information Management: Strategies for Creating an Effective and Visible Presence of Information Centers within the Organization (SIG/MGT)

In these days of "outsourcing" and "reengineering," information professionals in the corporate environment are looking for effective and innovative ways of presenting the value of their operations to management. Each panel speaker will offer different strategies for combating these corporate blahs, focusing on the methodologies which have proven effective, and the tools which can be adapted by information professionals in similar circumstances. Eugenie Prime, Hewlett Packard
W. David Penniman, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Laurence Prusak, Ernst & Young Moderator: Helen M. Manning, Texas Instruments Inc.

Bringing Wellness Out of Chaos, Part I (SIGs/MED and HCI)

As new users take advantage of tools making health information readily available, traditional health care professionals will no longer be the sole, or even primary, filters of information for the public. The panelists will focus on the inevitable consequences of lowered barriers to rapid information dissemination to large audiences, to demands for health information packaged for different audiences in novel ways, and economic forces which drive and reward experimentation. Florence Comite, Founder/Former Director, Women's Health, Yale University School of Medicine; Deputy Medical Director, Time Life Medical
Bill Decker, American Association of Retired People
Carol Roman, Clinical Informatics Services, NIH
Stephen Marine, Medical Center Librarian, University of Cincinnati
Keith J. Green, Time Life Medical
Hugh Scott, Aetna Health Care of Virginia
Co-Moderators: Douglas Stetson, D.J. Stetson Associates, and Art Schiller, Value Creation Strategies

Investigations of Online Catalogs: Contributed Papers

A Comparative Approach to System Evaluation: Delegating Control of Retrieval Tests to an Experimental Online System. Karen M. Drabenstott and Marjorie S. Weller, University of Michigan

• Unmediated and Mediated Information Searching in the Public Library. Ragnar Nordlie, Rutgers University
• Complexity of Search Tasks and Children's Information Retrieval. Sandra G. Hirsch, University of Arizona

Interface Design and Navigation: Contributed Papers

• Design and Evaluation of a User Interface Supporting Multiple Image Query Models. Javed Mostafa and Andrew Dillon, Indiana University
• Disorientation in Electronic Environments: A Study of Hypertext and Continuous Zooming Interfaces. Linda B. Paez, Jose Bezerra da Silva - FH, Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland
• A Unified Similarity Coefficient for Navigating through Multi-dimensional Information. Douglas Tudhope and Carl Taylor, University of Glamorgan

Creating an Electronic Journal: First Hand Experiences (SIG/PUB)

This will be a practical view of issues, practices and policies which need to be addressed when beginning an electronic journal. Among the topics to be considered are peer review, economic considerations, archiving questions, etc. The panel brings together a commercial publisher, a peer-reviewed newsletter/journal and a cooperative effort between AAAS and OCLC.
Maria Lebron, Editor, Clinical Trials, American Physical Society
Marcia Tuttle, Publisher, Serials Pricing Newsletter, University of North Carolina
Gregory St. John, Director, New Media, John Wiley & Sons
Moderator: N. Bernard Basch, Basch Associates

This session will explore the delicate balance that now exists under copyright law and the issues that abound for commercial and academic creators, publishers in all media and those who depend on fair use. Current legislative initiatives in both the United States and abroad will be discussed, along with their impact on a wide range of activities and sectors.

• Copyright Law in the Networked Digital Environment. Peter Jaszi, American University
• Access to Digital Works: A Communications Law Perspective. Patrice Lyons, Attorney
• Decoding Multimedia Copyright Issues. Lisa Livingston, City College/City University of New York, Member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Infrastructure Task Force on Fair Use Intellectual Property Issues.
• The Politics of Fair Use. Shelly Warwick, Baruch College

This session will provide a forum and a showcase for advances in theoretical work within information science. Three theoretical papers will be presented on a functional theory of information retrieval; semeiotics and information science; and information science as a rhetorical construct.

• Information Retrieval: Collections, Transformers and Partitioners. Christian Plaunt and Michael Buckland, University of California at Berkeley
• Information as Mediation: On the Potentially Fertile Coupling of Semeiotics and Information Science. Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Indiana University
• Information: A Rhetorical Construct. Martha M. Smith, Indiana University South Bend

The flow of and demand for information is now truly global. In the information industry we see growing ownership of U.S. information companies by foreign interests and increasing aggregation in the hands of a relatively few giants. Is this good or bad? What are the consequences and does it matter? How are and will national and international polices, both governmental and corporate, affect the flow of and access to information. Marge Hlava will summarize merger and acquisition activities and where the industry now stands. This will be followed by a panel discussion of issues raised related to the internationalization and concentration of ownership.
Marge Hlava, Access Innovations
Tom Hogan, Information Today, Inc.
Carlos Cuadra, Cuadra Associates
Pat Tierney, Knight Ridder Information
Moderator: Ron Dunn, Information Industry Association

Continued from 1:30pm

The sensitive dependence on initial conditions that characterizes chaotic behavior guarantees unpredictability, whether in the motion of the solar system's planets or the shuffling of electrical charge in electronic circuits. However, this dependence also offers an opportunity for control. It means that small, carefully timed signals can be used to keep a system on track. We can even begin thinking about the potential role of chaos in orchestrating and managing the flow of information.

Co-sponsored by the Information Industry Association, this session will provide an update and discussion of legislative and regulatory issues in the U.S. government. The exact content will depend on developments in October, but will likely involve Freedom of Information, International Trade, Paperwork Reduction Act, Telecommunications Reform, Depository Libraries and/or Communications Decency.
Ron Dunn, President, Information Industry Association
Dan Duncan, Vice President, Information Industry Association

The speakers on this panel will discuss the technical issues and problems of digital imaging for use in library and archival photograph collections. The speakers will also address the practical issues of digitizing and providing access to these digital collections of photographic images and art through the Internet.

• Retrieval and Study of Digital Images: Lessons from the Museum Education Site License Project. Howard Besser, University of Michigan
• Museum Networking Project Updates: The Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI). Joseph Busch, Getty Museum

This session will consist of the NISO annual business meeting. At the meeting there will be a report on NISO activities and an update on NISO standards developments. Following the business meeting there will be a panel discussion on metadata standards. Speakers will report on metadata development efforts in the areas of imaging, spatial data and the Dublin Core effort, an activity sponsored by OCLC to develop a core set of metadata elements for describing electronic resources.

• Bibliometrics of the World Wide Web: An Exploratory Analysis of the Intellectual Structure of Cyberspace. Ray R. Larson, University of California at Berkeley
• An Investigation of Indexing on the WWW. Padmini Srinivasan, Miguel E. Ruiz and Wai Lam, University of Iowa
• Complexity in Indexing Systems: Abandonment and Failure. Bella Hass Weinberg, St. John's University

This technical briefing will cover issues related to the construction of intranets and their use in intraorganizational communication, including development tools, security, database connectivity, management and maintenance.
Geoff McKim, Indiana University

This session will explore the idea of visualization as a key to solving the complexity imposed on the users of the World Wide Web. It will investigate the means to describe and organize visual resources and offer a discussion of how to integrate research in visualization of concepts with research in linguistic representations and classification of graphics.

• The Design of Ecological Interfaces for Web Users. Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark
• A Framework for Image Indexing Based on Free Description. Corinne Jorgensen, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Communicating Concepts and Classificatory Structures through Graphics on the Web.

The session will present three attempts at controlling, predicting or responding to information chaos.

• Self Managed Teams: Information Chaos and Control. Deb Barnes, University of North Texas
• Knight-Ridder Information's Approach to Information Chaos. Anne Caputo, Knight-Ridder Information, Inc.
• Organizational Chaos: Management in Territorial Conflict. M. J. Norton, University of Southern Mississippi

• The Concept of a Zone of Intervention for Identifying the Role of Intermediaries in the Information Search Process. Carol Kuhlthau, Rutgers University
• Information Search Process Model: How Freshmen Begin Research. Deborah E. Swain, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Affective Monitoring of Internet Learners: Perceived Self-efficiency and Success. Diane Nahl, University of Hawaii

Based on their recent experiences in large-scale studies of users of networks and digital libraries, panelists will describe, compare and assess the quality and effectiveness of various data collection and analysis techniques. Panelists will compare their methodologies and debate the value of each in assessing the impact of networks and digital libraries on users.
John Carlo Bertot and Trudi Bellardo Hahn, University of Maryland
Ann Peterson Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles R. McClure, Syracuse University
Moderator: Trudi Bellardo Hahn, University of Maryland at College Park

Information Warfare
Bonnie Cooper Carroll, Information International

Clifford A. Lynch, Presiding

• Reports by Officers of the Society
• Inaugural Address by Debora Shaw, 1997 ASIS President
• Open forum for the membership-at-large

Finding aids are the primary method of providing physical and intellectual access to manuscript and archival collections. The first speaker will place SGML finding aids in the larger context of metadata. The second speaker will discuss the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD, created for finding aids in an effort spearheaded by the University of California at Berkeley. The third speaker will discuss Internet access to finding aids in SGML format and how such access will transform reference service and the process of finding material in manuscript and archival collections.

• The Role of Metadata in Digital Libraries and Archives. Philip Bantin, Indiana University
• The Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD. Daniel Pitti, University of California at Berkeley
• SGML Finding Aids at Yale: Reference Service Transformed. Richard Szary, Yale University

This panel examines issues of how speed-of-light communication might impact our theoretical understanding of scientific communication.

• Research in Information Science and Scholarly Communication: How Each Field Can Inform the Other. Linda Schamber, University of North Texas
• Characterizing Electronic Scientific Discourse: What Revolution? Judy Bateman, University of North Texas
• Whither Invisible Colleges? Theoretical Constructs in the Age of Electronic Scholarly Communication. Steven L. MacCall, University of North Texas

This panel is designed to help the searcher community keep abreast of current research in visual retrieval interfaces. This class of search tools represents the work of the research community to retain for users the ability to assess retrieved items in the aggregate quickly and efficiently.

• Visual Interfaces to Data Defined by Known Variables. Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
• Visual Information Retrieval: Overview of Interface Typologies. Robert Korfhage, University of Pittsburgh
• Visual Retrieval Interfaces Based on Rational Distance Measures of Similarity: A Historical Perspective. Henry Small, Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.
• Rational Distance Measures for Visualization of Multivariate Data Experiences of the Union Bank of Switzerland. Mathew Chalmers, Union Bank of Switzerland
• Fuzzy Logic and Principle Components Analysis as Measures of Similarity in Intelligence Data Analysis. Jim Wise, Battelle Research Inc.
• The Meaning of Visual Information Retrieval for Information Retrieval as a Discipline. Michael Buckland, University of California at Berkeley

• Search Engines for the World Wide Web: A Comparative Study and Evaluation Model. Heting Chu and Marilyn Rosenthal, Long Island University, C.W. Post
• A Comparative Study of Web Search Service Performance. Wei Ding and Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland, College Park
• Landmarks in the World Wide Web: A Preliminary Study. Jennifer K. Heffron, Andrew Dillon and Javed Mostafa, Indiana University

This panel presents papers discussing the problems of sustainable global development and the role of information science in this endeavor, including issues associated with future global industrial down scaling or deindustrialization.

• The Coming Age of Scarcity: Sustaining Life While Down Scaling World Industrial Production. Isador Wallimann, School of Social Work, Switzerland
• The Role of Information in Deindustrialization, Down Scaling and Sustainable Development. Amanda Spink, University of North Texas

This session will invite brief presentations and an active dialogue among experienced leaders, researchers and the audience, who will consider the implications of current research and development for the future of information science and society.

Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute
Eugene Garfield, Institute for Scientific Information
Clifford Lynch, University of California
Candy Schwartz, Simmons College
Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland
Moderator: Charles Davis, Indiana University

Each year, the Doctoral Forum Award provides recent doctoral students, selected by a panel of SIG/ED jurors, an opportunity to discuss their research and findings at the Annual Meeting. This session presents the winners of the 1996 Doctoral Forum Awards. Moderator: Ray R. Larson, University of California at Berkeley

Continued from 8:30am.

• The Information Seeking Behavior of Securities Analysts. Nancy Sadler Baldwin, Morgan Stanley and Ronald E. Rice, Rutgers University
• Structure and Action: Toward a New Concept of the Information-use Environment. Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University
• Reliable and Authentic Electronic Records. Terry Eastwood, University of British Columbia

Information science has always been in the forefront of filtering, sorting and categorizing information. Many of the techniques pioneered by the information and library sciences are at the heart of this new generation of human-computer interfaces. These three presentations will discuss ways to use World Wide Web tools and custom algorithms to access data over the Internet.

• A Medical Fact Retrieval System: New Access Points Using Variables and Their Relationships. Sam Oh, University of Washington
• Interfaces for a Complex Environment: VRML, Java and Shockwave for the World Wide Web. Peter Scannell, Connectware, Inc.
• Web-based Interfaces for Object-Oriented and Relational Databases. Janette Bradley, Intelligent Information Group

This session will explore the current state of visual materials available and accessible as online resources. Issues of intellectual access, physical access, use policies, standards and technical developments will be explored in this SIG/VIS-sponsored session.

• Entertainment on the Internet. Tom Kinney, AMIGOS
• Texts on the Internet. Ray R. Larson, University of California at Berkeley
• Cartographic Images on the Internet. Myke Gluck, Florida State University

This session will define competitive intelligence (CI) and differentiate it from competitor, technical, business and counter-intelligence; describe how the intelligence operates successfully within organizations and present "best practices" cases; provide a snapshot of the status of CI within North America and possibly in Europe and the Pacific Rim; present the necessary competencies for successful CI professionals and the status of educational opportunities for CI professionals; provide an overview of SCIP, including a membership profile by job type, by country and by industry, as well as an overview of members' role within their organizations, and SCIP membership growth trends; and suggest some areas for inter-organizational collaborations.
Jerry Miller, Simmons College and the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals

ASIS' Annual Review of Information Science and Technology takes an in-depth look at research in the field. Martha E. Williams, University of Illinois, ARIST editor, will moderate presentations by contributors to volume 31 (1996). Research areas and authors for this volume include

• Query Expansion. Efthimis Efthimiadis, University of California at Los Angeles
• Natural Language Processing. Stephanie Haas, University of North Carolina
• Information Resources Management. Pierrette Bergeron, Universite de Montreal
• Feedback in Information Retrieval. Amanda Spink, University of North Texas, and Robert Losee, University of North Carolina
• User Acceptance of Information Technology. Andrew Dillon and Michael Morris, Indiana University
• Structured Information/Standards for Document Architecture. Elisabeth Logan, Florida State University, and Marvin Pollard, College Center for Library Automation
• Social Informatics for Digital Libraries. Ann Bishop and Susan Leigh Starr, University of Illinois

Habanero, named after the hottest of peppers, is aimed at taking the Internet beyond communication and into collaboration. Being developed by the National Center for Supercomputer Application, Habanero will be distributed free, like Mosaic, so users can design their own collaborative programs.
Larry Jackson, Habanero Technical Manager, National Center for Supercomputer Applications
Moderator: Charles Davis, University of Illinois

• Electronic Surveys: Methodological Implications for Using the World Wide Web to Collect Survey Data. John Carlo Bertot, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Charles R. McClure, Syracuse University
• Advertising on the World Wide Web: Issues and Policies for Not-for-Profit Organizations. Herbert Snyder and Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University
• Survey of Electronic Journals in OCLC: The Extent and Quality of Cataloging Taemin Kim Park, Indiana University Libraries
• The Search for an Internet Metaphor: A Comparison of Literatures. Ruth A. Palmquist, University of Texas at Austin

Automatically generated summaries can aid in reducing the information overload that most computer users of today face. Participants will take a position on the types of summarization that are currently possible, supporting their stance with recent results from their own work. Discussion will be encouraged on the place for summarization in a variety of applications.
Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University
Karen Kukich, Information Sciences Research Group
Moderator: Doug Metzler, University of Pittsburgh

This session will present educational scenarios that are currently in place at the high school, college and graduate/medical school levels. Pedagogical methodology in the sciences has evolved as a result of newly available resources, and an examination of this process may foster greater understanding of the changing requirements of future scientific communities.

• The Earth System Science Community Curriculum Testbed. Michael Keeler, ECOlogic Corporation (invited)
• Course Material Delivery via the World Wide Web. Tom O'Haver, Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation, University of Maryland
• Applications of the Web in the Biomedical Curriculum. Kerryn A. Brandt and Harold P. Lehmann, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

This session will discuss four curriculum planning efforts that represent significant departures from the status quo.
Herbert E. Longenecker, Jr., University of South Alabama
David L. Feinstein, University of South Alabama
Tom Childers, Drexel University
Daniel E. Atkins, University of Michigan
Karen M. Drabenstott, University of Michigan
Ray R. Larson, University of California at Berkeley
Moderator: Katherine W. McCain, Drexel University

Four speakers will address the questions of what browsing is, how it can be studied and what we hope to learn from such study. After the presentations, attendees will be encouraged to contribute to the debate.

• Dimensions Characterizing Browsing. Shan-Ju Chang, National Taiwan University
• Tending our Pastures: A Decade's Worth of Research on Browsing Fiction Collections. Sharon (Shay) L. Baker, University of Iowa
• A Cognitive Definition of Browsing. Dee Michel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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  Moderator: Dee Michel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Join your colleagues in celebrating the year's achievements at the Annual Reception and Awards Banquet.

We have entered a time of shrinking public dollars, which is creating unique pressures on individuals involved in the information processing aspects of governmental organizations. Less funding means that projects must be planned, implemented and tested in a manner that insures completion and usability. This session examines central issues concerning these types of projects with a particular focus on the development of usable interfaces.

• The P1000 Federal Initiative: An Interdisciplinary Plan for Federally-supported Information Visualization Software Interfaces. Adrienne J. Kleiboemer, MITRE Corporation/Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems
• UN International Nuclear Information System: Reengineering 25 Years of a Global Decentralized Database. Emil Levine, Information Specialist
• End-User Interfaces for Information Systems: Usability Testing and Evaluation. Theresa A. O'Connell, Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory

• An Experiment in the Use of Tools for Computer-Assisted Abstracting. Timothy C. Craven, University of Western Ontario
• Indexing Images: Testing an Image Description Template. Corinne Jorgensen, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Cross-Language Transfer of Indexing Concepts for Storage and Retrieval of Moving Images: Preliminary Results. James M. Turner, University of Montreal

• User Criteria in Relevance Evaluation: Toward Development of a Measurement Scale. Linda Schamber and Judy Bateman, University of North Texas
• Value of Search Results as a Whole as a Measure of Information Retrieval Performance. Louise T. Su, University of Pittsburgh
• Using Conceptual Categories of Questions to Measure Differences in Retrieval Performance. John G. Keyes, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

James Rush, Palinet

Members of this panel will address two issues:

The recent revolution in nonlinear dynamics and the popularization of studies in chaos and complexity have transformed the vision of the world in the last 20 years, providing simple and accurate models of behaviors that previously had eluded analysis. This session will explore the potential for utilizing the chaos theory framework to examine areas of interest in information science. Participants will discuss recent progress in information use, computer communications and literature growth.
William McGrath, State University of New York at Buffalo
Herbert Snyder, Indiana University (invited)
Moderator: Albert N. Tabah, University of Montreal

This session focuses on research findings from empirical studies on usability of user interfaces for online systems and information retrieval, including text-based and visual interfaces.

• Usability Testing of Online Systems and OCLC's Usability Lab. Martin Dillon, OCLC, Inc.
• Text-based Interfaces and Text-Based Bibliographic Enhancements: Thinking Beyond Standard Bibliographic Information (and Text). Thomas B. Wall, University of Pittsburgh
• Usability Testing of a Prototype Visualization-based Information Retrieval System. Sherry Koshman, University of Pittsburgh

• Use of Book Reviews by Scholars: Implications for Electronic Publishing. Amanda Spink and David Robins, University of North Texas
• Scholarly Communication in Developmental Dyslexia: Network Influences on Change in a Hybrid Problem Area. Claudia A. Perry, State University of New York College of Optometry, and Ronald E. Rice, Rutgers University
• A Qualitative Study of Scholar's Citation Behavior. Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee, and Marilyn Domas White, University of Maryland

An update on the plans, problems and opportunities facing those charged with rebuilding the Sarajevo Library.
Moderator: Emil Levine, Information Consultant
SIG/III

This all-day workshop will present a general introduction to the problems SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) was invented to deal with, the concepts of SGML and how it works. Participants will learn basic SGML terminology and practice, including a discussion of Document Type Definitions and how to read them. This session will also discuss the appropriateness and applicability of SGML and related standards (including the TEI) to electronic resources for libraries and librarians and will demonstrate the ways a variety of tools present SGML-encoded materials. Other topics covered may include the creation of electronic textual resources, the management of electronic resources and the evaluation of electronic texts. Michael R. Hahn, an SGML analyst at ATLIS Consulting Group, has more than 17 years of experience in MIS as an analyst, operator and instructor. Michael has written and assisted in the development of DTD suites for association newsletters, professional journals, legislative reports and digest materials.

The following papers/presentations were accepted for the workshop:

• Beghtol, Clare, University of Toronto. Non-Tree Structure Graphic Representations of Classification Systems.
• Davies, Ron, Bibliomatics, Inc. Publishing Thesauri on the World Wide Web.
• Goldberg, Jolande E., Library of Congress. Library of Congress Classification: Shelving Device for Collections or Arrangement of Knowledge?
• Guenther, Rebecca S., Library of Congress. The Conversion and Use of the Library of Congress Classification in Machine-Readable Form.
• Jorgensen, Corinne, State University of New York at Buffalo. Classifying Images: Criteria for Grouping as Revealed in a Sorting Task.
• Korfhage, Robert R., and Dubin, David S., School of Library and Information Science. Computer-aided Interactive Classification: Applications of VIBE.
• Mahesh, Kavi, and Nirenberg, Sergei, University of New Mexico. Toward a Methodology for Merging Multiple Classification Systems.
• Marsh, Emily, and Eileen Abels, University of Maryland, College Park. Classifying the Questions of Small Business Owners: A Top-Down & Bottom-Up Approach.
• Mustafa, Javed, and Jacob, Elin K.. Indiana University. Influence of Classification on Information Filtering.
• Vizine-Goetz, Diane, and Godby, Jean, OCLC. Library Classification Schemes and Access to Electronic Collections: Enhancement of the Dewey Decimal Classification with Supplemental Vocabulary.

Groupware products like Lotus Notes provide an effective platform for developing and implementing information products and services across an organization or enterprise. This full-day course will provide a broad overview and discussion of using Lotus Notes for information management. Topics to be covered include the following: groupware concepts, Lotus Notes features and strengths, a review of common applications and basic application development, a discussion of management issues for creating internal information products, issues in system maintenance and troubleshooting, and new tools and technologies, including intranet integration.
Prerequisite: This class covers intermediate technical and management issues. Attendees should have a basic understanding of Lotus Notes. The course will not provide hands-on experience or advanced technical training.

Kris Liberman is currently manager, Tools and Technologies, Market Intelligence Group, at Lotus Development Corporation. In this role she is responsible for evaluating business intelligence technologies, methodologies and technology-based solutions and for designing integrated market intelligence information products. Previously, Kris managed the Lotus Information Resources Group and was responsible for moving the group toward the creation of integrated information products. During her years at Lotus, she has also been in charge of the IRG Resource Center and has designed and maintained Notes-based corporate-wide information services. She is the coordinator of the Lotus Notes special interest group for information professionals and serves on various committees in ASIS. Kris has worked in public, academic and corporate libraries over the past 13 years. She received an MSLS from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and a BA from Brandeis University.
Walter Stine is director of information management at Giga Information Group, a premier knowledge provider in information technology. At Giga he directs a team of information and computer professionals to integrate knowledge resources into the research of industry analysts and other knowledge workers. Prior to joining Giga Information Group, Walter was senior information analyst at Lotus Development Corporation, where he was responsible for a digital library of business and high-tech information available in Lotus Notes. Before joining Lotus, he worked in a variety of information settings in public and academic libraries over a 15-year period. Walter holds a BA in history and religious studies from University of California at Santa Cruz and an MS in information science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This session continues the on-going work of the sponsoring SIGs to the work being done in the history of information science. This year's program is a combination of presentations that focus on describing and assessing the work of specific companies, individuals, schools and the federal government in the development of information science and technology.
They Had an Information Crisis and No One Really Cared: United States STINFO Policy and Professional Reactions, 1958-1980. Colin Burke, University of Maryland-Baltimore
Weststat, Inc., and Information Science and Technology: Reminiscences and Assessment of the Early Years. Donald W. King
Western Reserve's Documentation Program: Reminiscence and Assessment of the Early Years. Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University
The Davis Family and the Early Years of Documentation and Information Science. Charlotte Mooers, daughter of Watson Davis and wife of Calvin Mooers, and Miles Davis, son of Watson Davis
Moderator: Robert V. Williams, University of South Carolina

The ASIS Leadership Development Program is aimed at current and potential ASIS leaders. It is intended to impart skills necessary both on-the-job and within ASIS. Those wishing to attend are asked to notify ASIS headquarters. There is no fee for attendance. This session will focus on program planning skills, including promotion/marketing, evaluation, decision making, project management, implementation, budgeting and what different organizations need to be successful.

Civil War history will be brought to life on a tour of the site of important and famous battles of the war, where Abraham Lincoln made his memorable speech. Package includes a complete tour of the battlegrounds and an informal buffet lunch at the historic Dobbin's House Tavern.

Package includes a walking tour of Maryland's capital, including the Maryland State House, the nation's oldest capital building in continuous use; a stroll through St. John's College, third oldest college in the nation, whose official sport is croquet; and a visit to the U.S. Naval Academy, where you can see the sarcophagus of John Paul Jones and pay homage to the father of the U.S. Navy. There will be plenty of time for lunch on the waterfront and browsing through the shops that surround the dock.

See Baltimore by night, including a panoramic view of the city from the top of the World Trade Center, historic Fells Point, Westminster Graveyard, burial site of Edgar Allen Poe, and, if you like, finish it off with dessert at Haussner's, one of Baltimore's most interesting restaurants, home of an eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century art.

National Cryptology Museum

Cryptology is a secret world. Success, if it is to endure, must be hidden. The actors in the drama, like deep cover agents, normally remain anonymous. The National Cryptologic Museum is one of the few places where the curtain is parted. Here visitors can glimpse some dramatic moments in the history of American cryptology. The people who devoted their lives to cryptology and national defense, the machines they built, the techniques they used and the places where they worked are on display. For the visitor, some events in American history will take on a new meaning. For the cryptologic professional, it is an opportunity to absorb the heritage of the profession. Exhibits include the Museum's rare book collection, WWII German Enigma, the Navajo Codetalkers, the HARVEST computer and supercomputers in Cryptology.

Take a tour of the Amish country and visit the Amish Farm and House, an authentic replica of an Amish farmstead. A tour of the countryside includes an explanation of the customs and mores of the Amish, including food, farming and hex signs. Package includes an authentic Pennsylvania Dutch luncheon with shoo-fly pie and a tour of a local pretzel factory with an opportunity to make your own pretzels.

Tours of Baltimore's scenic Inner Harbor on the Baltimore Patriot III; several times daily for $6.50 per person.