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LITA Automation Product ReviewDay One
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day one of the LITA Automation Product Review. Day Two will
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American Library Association
LITA Automation Product Reviews
Saturday June 27, 1992
Moscone Convention Center
Esplanade 302
San Francisco, California
8:30 a.m.
PlusNet 2: Novell/UNIX Database Search System
Carleen Nelson, Director of Marketing
CD Plus, Inc.
(212) 563-3006
ALA Booth 539, 541
CD Plus is offering sophisticated campus wide information systems
for academic and research libraries. The CD Plus offering
provides user interface software and a powerful search engine,
network solutions (Novell and TCP/IP) and a wide selection of
databases.
8:45 a.m.
CD Connection, CD Server
Robert Jaric, Director of Sales
CBIS
(404) 446-1332
ALA Booth 3106
CBIS provides a complete CD-ROM hardware and software networking
solution for libraries. The CBIS CD server supports up to 21
CD-ROM drives, and the CD networking software, CD Connection,
allows a total of 250 users on the network to access multiple
CD-ROM drives simultaneously. Compatible with Novell Netware
(IPX & NetBIOS), CBIS' Network-OS, and other NetBIOS LANs.
MSCDEX is supported but not required on any machine on the
network.
9:00 a.m.
Blackwell's CONNECT
Mr. Chris Beckett, Product Development Manager
B.H. Blackwell, Ltd.
0865 792792 (England)
ALA Booth 525
Blackwell's CONNECT allows any library with a PC and modem or
network connection to access Blackwell's database of over 200,000
serial titles. The system is available through INTERNET via the
JANET gateway. Blackwell's CONNECT allows libraries to gain
access to Blackwell's integrated periodicals and serials
databases, place orders and claims electronically, review and
renew subscriptions, communicate quickly with customer service
representatives, examine publisher claim responses, and read the
latest Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues.
9:15 a.m.
Bibliofile Ready Reference System
David Bicking
The Library Corporation
(800) 624-0559
ALA Booth 1732
A stand-alone, PC-based, reference tool that allows multiple CD
ROM based packages to be accessed by the public. Using CD ROM
changer(s) and a front-end menu developed by TLC, patrons can
have direct access to PAC, periodical index, atlas, encyclopedia,
and other reference products on a single workstation.
9:30 a.m.
The Columbia GRANGER'S WORLD OF POETRY on CD-ROM
James Raimes, Editorial Director-Reference
Dimity Berkner, Director, Marketing & Sales
Columbia University Press
(212) 316-7131
ALA Booth 185
The Columbia Granger's WORLD OF POETRY on CD-ROM is the latest
and most technologically advanced addition to the Columbia
University Press reference list. The first CD-ROM ever to be
published by a University Press, the WORLD OF POETRY combines the
indexing power of the trusted Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
with over 8,500 of the poems themselves in complete text.
9:45 a.m.
The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Maryanne Piazza, Director of Marketing
Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.
(203) 797-3365
ALA Booth 2105, 2106, 2109, 2110, 2111, 2112
The new edition of this CD-ROM encyclopedia has been enhanced to
include video and animation in its 1992 release. This multimedia
encyclopedia contains the full-text of the acclaimed Academic
American Encyclopedia, with 33,000 articles (10 million words),
over 7000 of which are new or revised. In addition this product
also contains thousands of color and black and white, high
quality audio, and new rich multimedia features.
10:00 a.m.
B & T Link Version 2.0
Christian Larew, Marketing Dir., Customer Electronic Serv.
Baker & Taylor Books
(908) 218-3908
ALA Booth 1016
This product serves as a reference and ordering tool for 1.7
million American, British, Canadian, Australian, and European
English-language titles. This standard-setting database contains
books, spoken word and music audio, and video title information.
10:15 a.m.
CD NewsBank and CD News
Jane Kelly
NewsBank, Inc.
(203) 966-1100
ALA Booth 2505, 2507, 2509, 2511, 2513
NewsBank, Inc. has introduced CD NewsBank (new) to compliment its
full text newspapers on CD ROM product line, CD News (enhanced).
CD NewsBank includes full text articles selected from newspapers
and a variety of wire services, both domestic and international,
on leading news issues and events worldwide with monthly CD ROM
updates which cumulate throughout the year. CD News and CD
NewsBank are accessed through newly enhanced software, providing
search levels appropriate to beginning and experienced CD ROM
searchers.
10:30 a.m.
British Parliamentary Papers Index
Peter VanLeeuwen, Product Manager
Readex Microprint
(203) 966-1100
ALA Booth 2506, 2508, 2510
The newly announced Readex British Parliamentary Papers Index
provides access to the documentation of the House of Commons and
House of Lords Sessional Papers, Hansards Debates from both
Houses and the Journal of the House of Commons. Access is
through two levels of searching for novice and advanced CD ROM
researchers. Using Boolean operators, researchers can examine
the entire data base or restrict searches to specific fields of
information.
10:45 a.m.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index Compact Disc Edition (AACI CDE)
Barbara Naby-Teti, Marketing Manager
Institute for Scientific Information
(215) 386-0100
ALA Booth 2706
The new Arts & Humanities Citation Index from ISI will be
reviewed in this session. The review will include a discussion
of the coverage and features available through this new CD-ROM
product. Special emphasis will be placed on the unique indexing
features which make ISI Arts & Humanities Citation Index DCE a
classic in superior searching.
11:00 a.m.
Wilson Business Abstracts on Wilsondisc
Debbie Loeding, Manager, Library Relations
The H. W. Wilson Co.
(800) 367-6770 x2760
ALA Booth 1405
Wilson Business Abstracts on the WILSON DISC provides cover-to-
cover indexing and abstracting of the 345 journals included in
Business Periodicals Index on CD-ROM.
11:15 a.m.
Readers' Guide Abstracts School & Public Library Edition on
WILSONDISC
Sheila Berkelhammer, Library Relation Representative
The H. W. Wilson Co.
(800) 367-6770 x2760
ALA Booth 1405
The Readers' Guide Abstracts Select Edition (formerly Readers'
Guide Abstracts School and Public Library Edition) provides high-
quality indexing and abstracting of some 25,000 articles from 200
core periodicals. The articles are selected from the Readers'
Guide for their permanent research value.
11:30 a.m.
Biomedical Reference Library
Matt Dunie, National Sales Manager
Compact Cambridge
(301) 961-6700
ALA Booth 2722
The Compact Cambridge Biomedical Reference Library is an
economically priced collection of five leading biomedical
databases on CD-ROM. Compact Cambridge MEDLINE contains 20% more
information than any other MEDLINE and is at least 3 months more
current. Powerful new software enhancements make it easy to
search multiple years of MEDLINE in a single step.
11:45 a.m.
Union CD Plus
Cathy McLeod, Western Regional Manager
Follett Software Company
(800) 323-3397 Ext. 938
ALA Booth 1432
Union CD Plus application software is designed to search a CD-ROM
disc which contains a database of multiple libraries' holdings.
A group of libraries will submit their individual records to
Follett to be merged, indexed, and pressed to a CD-ROM disc.
Each of the libraries will receive a copy of the CD-ROM disc to
be used to search for items in other collections. Union CD Plus
requires no modem access to find materials, nor does it require
any centralized maintenance of a magnetic media (hard disk)
database. It may be used at a single station or over a Novell
Netware network.
12:00 a.m.
OCLC Serials Union List Offline Product - CD ROM
Paul Cappuzzello, Resource Sharing Representative
OCLC Inc.
(614) 764-6000
ALA Booth 1814
The OCLC Serials Union List Offline Product (SULOF) - CD ROM,
offers union list groups an additional way to gain access to
their serial holdings from the OCLC Online Union Catalog. The CD
ROM format allows libraries to offer patrons and library staff
local access to union list information via powerful searching
capabilities: subject, keyword, and Boolean. The SULOF on CD ROM
also offers an optional link to the OCLC network.
12:15 a.m.
Blackwell's TOC/505 Contents for Books
Allan Graham, Manager, Technical Services Marketing
Blackwell North America
(800) 547-6426
ALA Booth 519
Blackwell's TOC/505 is a service providing MARC records enhanced
with tables of contents. It was designed to improve subject
access in online catalogs as well as provided an option to
display formatted contents to the library patron. The data can
be configured in a number of ways to match the needs of local
library systems.
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