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[v.verkade%lynx.northeastern.edu@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU: NEASIS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Thu Mar 19 12:58:06 1992
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Meeting Announcement
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The New England Chapter of the American Society for Information
Science (NEASIS) presents their spring meeting entitled:
"CLOSING THE LIBRARY DOORS:
ELECTRONIC SERVICES, PRODUCTS,
ACCESS AND DISSEMINATION."
Discussion and demonstrations focusing on how librarians can
connect to electronic services and products and then
electronically disseminate information and services to end users.
On April 9, 1992
8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration
8:30 am - 3:45 pm Program
At Days Inn, Newton, Mass (directions at the end of this announcement)
Topics/speakers:
*** Dartmouth College Information System: Bob Brentrup will
discuss the history, politics and development of this system.
*** Lotus Notes: Len Kawell, From Iris Associates, will
demonstrate Lotus' software for information sharing throughout
organizations.
* Desktop Data, Inc.: Marni Hoyle will demonstrate NewsEDGE,
a line of "live news processing" products.
* Individual Inc.: John Zahner will demonstrate FIRST!, a
customized news service available through Lotus Notes,
email, and fax.
* Sandpoint Corp.: Tom Henry will demonstrate Hoover(tm), an
information agent for Lotus Notes that retrieves business
intelligence from external databases.
*** HealthNET: Eileen Palmer will discuss the development and
services of the Health Sciences Libraries Consortium of
Philadelphia.
*** Thinking Machines Corp.: Brewster Kahle will demonstrate WAIS
(Wide Area Information Servers), based on interactive full-text
navigation over networks using a single interface.
*** University of Vermont/UnCover2: Patricia Mardeusz will
discuss UnCover and UnCover2, a document delivery service from
CARL Systems, Inc.
Questions, please contact Mary Ellen Heinen at Nelinet 617-969-0400.
Or Vanessa Verkade via email at v.verkade@lynx.northeastern.edu
or VERKADE@nuhub.bitnet
Registration Costs including Buffet Lunch:
ASIS Members: $30.00
Non-Members: $40.00
Students: $10.00
To Register, please make check payable to NEASIS, and send it by
April 6, 1992 along with your name, phone, company name, and complete
address to NEASIS
P.O. Box 808
Astor Station
Boston, MA 02123-0808
Directions to Days Inn in Newton
399 Grove Street
Newton, MA (617) 969-5300
By car, take Exit 22 off Route 128; East on Mass. Pike Exit 14;
West on Mass. Pike Exit 15.
By public transportation, take the green line D train to Riverside,
Days Inn is just across the parking lot toward the west.
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