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.
Join us for our annual look at the state of the job market for information professionals. This year Pamela Cibbarelli and Linda Rudell-Betts will discuss their experiences with the traditional and emerging paradigms of information service. Pamela Cibbarelli will draw on her 30 years of experience as a consultant, instructor, columnist, and automation vendor to look at the converging roles of librarians as technologists.
Dr. A. Michael Noll, Professor at the USC Annenberg School of Communication, will discuss the Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act and how it will likely affect information professionals. This far-reaching legislation will touch almost every aspect of information gathering and dissemination. A must attend meeting for all those needing to keep astride the pending changes in the industry.
Brad Allen, Chief Technical Officer for Limbex Corp., will demonstrate how intelligent search agents and automated indexing are improving access to the World Wide Web. Limbex Corp. and Quarterdeck developed Webcompass, a search utility which queries multiple search sites and abstracts information retrieved as a background process. Webcompass is the winner of Byte Magazines Best of Show and Best Internet Product for Comdex 1995.
