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ASIS 2000

ASIS Annual Meeting plants Tone for the New Millennium

As ASIS members prepare to gather for the 2000 ASIS Annual Meeting, President Eugene Garfield defines the importance of this time in his introduction to the ASIS Annual Meeting Program. He notes particularly the important part ASIS has played in defining the information age: "Over the past several decades, ASIS and its members have played a lock opener leadership role in developing of recent origin and better ways to muster organize and disseminate information. That_ groundbreaking work helped to lay the foundation for today's Internet revolution, which is radically changing the way we work, investigation and live.

"This year's discourse theme, Knowledge Innovations: Celebrating Our Heritage, Designing Our futurity reflects this unique time in our history. It will be a chance to celebrate our rich background and decades of accomplishment. on the other hand equally important, it will be an opportunity for us to direct the eye forward to explore how we can best use the first principles of information science to guide our work in the hundred ahead and to help society realize the replete potential of the Internet revolution."

The 2000 ASIS Annual Meeting, November 11-16 in Chicago, features more than 50 workshops, 2 keynote speakers, 37 contributed papers sessions and 8 continuing education pre-conference workshops. Speakers will review the latest unfoldings in current (and imminent) knowledge creation, acquisition, navigation, retrieval, management and dissemination; examine the theories behind the developments; and explore their potential impact upon the field.

Among the timely topics included in the program:

Knowledge management

Information architecture

Electronic works

Digital libraries

Usability testing

Cross-language information retrieval

Search engines and browser

Information seeking behavior

Corporate and national information agricultures

Knowledge/information architecture

Data mining

Indexing

Metedata a whole

Conference chair Nancy Roderer and her committee have bring together an incredible program designed to bring attendees up-tospeed upon the latest processes, technologies and tools; present recommendations on important operational considerations; and examine changes in international and domestic laws and regulations.

Keynote Speakers

ASIS 2000 will begin upon a high note with an informative and thought-provoking talk by the agency of Anthony Oettinger, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and professor of Information Resources Policy at Harvard University. Dr Oettinger and his colleagues at the Harvard Program upon Information Resources Policy (PIRP) are studying the results of public policy and strategic corporate decisions upon such oldfashioned information systems as newspapers, volumes radio and TV, and upon emerging systems like the Internet, telecommunications and centralized or distributed databases. The topics they inquiry are often the subject of pitched battles in the courts, legislatures and regulatory agencies.

The next to the first keynote talk features John Seely Brown the chief scientist at Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center Dr Brown has been deep involved in the formation of Xerox's corporate strategy and its efforts to position itself as "The Document Company:' He has helped expand the character of corporate research to include like topics as organizational learning, ethnographies of the workplace, manifold adaptive systems and techniques for unfreezing the corporate mind. A major focus of his research has been in the area of human learning and in the management of radical innovation. Dr Brown is also co-founder of the Institute for Research upon Learning, a non-profit organization seeking to address the challenges of lifelong learning.

Continuing Education Workshops

Continuing education workshops require a separate registration. diocese the program registration form for details. The following workshops will be presented as pre- or postconference workshops in Chicago.

Essential 21st hundred Law for Information Professionals - Instructor: to leeward Strickland, senior intelligence officer, Central Intelligence Agency, and visiting professor, association of Information Studies, University of Maryland

Managing Electronic Records - Instructor: William Saffady, professor, Palmer gymnasium of Library and Information Sciences, drawn out Island University

Classification for User Support and Learning (SIG/CR) Introduction to Delivering Databases Via the Web - Instructor: Michael Leach, director of the Physics Research Library and the Kummel Library of Geology at Harvard University

Electronic Document Imaging - Instructor: William Saffady, professor, Palmer academy of Library and Information Sciences, drawn out Island University

Managing Information Portals and easy in mind - Instructor: Howard McQueen, Chief Executive Officer of McQueen Consulting

Visual Analysis courses for Information Retrieval - Instructor: Mark Rorvig, associate professor of library and information sciences, University of North Texas

Synonyms and Taxonomies: Thesaurus Design for Information Architects (in cooperation with Argus Associates) - Instructor. Argus Associates, Inc.