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.
Librarian, Cybrarian, Internaut, or Knowledge Navigator: Career Skills for Information Professionals Beyond the Nineties was the topic of the LACASIS April Program. Held on April 24, the program took a look at the impact of technologies on daily work patterns and career prospects. Dr.
The LACASIS Chapter meeting on March 12 was held in an exciting location: the new Getty Center. The topic of the meeting was The Getty Vocabularies: Structured Words For A Disordered World. Murtha Baca, Senior Editor, and Vivian Hay, Systems Project Manager, discussed traditional and innovative applications of the structured vocabularies developed by the Getty Information Institute. And participants received a sneak peek at the grounds of the new museum.
The LACASIS February Hands-On Workshop was titled, "Evaluating Web Search Engines." Held at the University of Southern California's Leavey Library participants discussed evaluation criteria and applied them to some of the more popular search engines on the Web. The workshops provided both hands-on and collaborative learning experiences for all participants.
Please join us as we present the 1996 LACASIS Contributions To Information Science Award to Barbara Quint. Editor-in-chief of Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, Ms. Quint is internationally known in the online industry. She was the principal speaker for the evening.
