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Announcement

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan Starr)
Fri Jun 12 15:04:20 1992

Date:         Fri, 12 Jun 1992 13:57:28 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: Susan Starr <starrs%sandnet.UCSD.EDU%Sdsc.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
                   Mark Your Calendars For:

                 Government Information on CD-Rom
                      Making it Work for You

          A Program Sponsored by the Government Documents Roundtable
          (GODORT) at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Library
          Association in San Francisco.

             DATE:          Monday, June 29, 1992
             TIME:          9:30am-12:30pm
             PLACE:         San Francisco Marriott - Sea Cliff Room

                                 ***

          DESCRIPTION: A panel of experienced government documents
          librarians will describe the most useful of the new
          government CD-ROM products and share their techniques for
          facilitating access.  The GODORT Handout Exchange will take
          place immediately before the program and during the break.

                                 ***

      Opening Remarks, Linda Kennedy, GODORT Chair

      Introductions, Julia Wallace, Program Moderator, GODORT Chair-Elect

      "Setting the Stage: CD-ROM Issues facing Government Documents Librarians"
             Gary Peete, University of California, Berkeley

      `"Information Surfing": Launching Government CD-ROMs in a Public Library'
             Helen Burke, Minneapolis Public Library

      "Retrieving Information from Census Bureau CD-ROMs"
             Raeann Dossett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

      "Using Spreadsheet/DBMS Software with Census CD-ROMs"
             Juri Stratford, University of California, Davis

      "USGS Data on CD-ROM"
             Jim O'Donnell, California Institute of Technology

      "National Trade Data Bank"
             Vicky York, Montana State University




          cosponsored by:     MAGERT, ACRL-LPSS, RASD-BRASS

          If you have any questions or need additional information,
          please contact either:

          Susan Starr, Science and Engineering Library, UC San Diego;
          619-534-1214; sstarr@ucsd.edu

          Chuck Eckman, Government Documents Library, UC Berkeley;
          510-643-9347; ceckman@library.berkeley.edu


      This message is being cross-posted on PACS-L, MAPS-L, GOVDOCS-L
          and CDROM-L.

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