The 1999 LACASIS Business Meeting and Presentation Program was held on June 15 at the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times Editorial Library recently expanded the scope and services of its image archiving system to fully support the LA Times' Photo Department's image processing and production functions for the daily paper. Speaker Bill Lawrence, Database Architect for the Editorial Library of the Los Angeles Times, demonstrated the LA Times Library Image Archive and new Live Image Database, and previewed the Library's exciting Web site management tool.
The LACASIS Business Meeting and Presentation Program was held on June 10 at the Olympic Collection. Joyce Adams, Web Site Operations Manager for Experian (http://www.experian.com/) presented tips and tools used in the design and maintainance of Web sites. Topics discussed ranged from HTML to Java; including design considerations for planning Web sites.
The LACASIS Business Meeting and Presentation Program was held on Wednesday, June 18, 1997. The topic was Does Multimedia = Interactivity?. Robert Doeil, Programmer/System Analyst, and Karen Howell, Co-Coordinator, both with the Center for Scholarly Technology of the University Libraries at the University of Southern California, presented a comparison of JAVA, Macromedia Director, and VRML, and discussed relative strength and weaknesses of each of them in the creation of multimedia applications.
Dr. Ken Metzner of Academic Press will discuss the publisher's venture into electronic publishing. The International Digital Electronic Access Library, IDEAL, presents the full array of Academic Press journals on the World Wide Web. LACASIS will also hold its annual business meeting. Please join us at the Altadena Town and Country Club for another cutting edge program and an opportunity to participate in LACASIS affairs.
Please join us for our business meeting. This year's meeting will include lunch, a tour of the USC Special Collections, and special speaker Dr. Michael Buckland.
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is personalized strategies for managing one's own information. Implementing PKM strategies helps reduce the negative effects of information overload, while facilitating knowledge acquisition, problem solving and decision-making. This interactive workshop introduces key PKM concepts through activities that engage you in thinking about how to manage your personal and professional information.
