17th Annual National Online Meeting

Day 3: Thursday, May 16

Electronic Publishing and Electronic Delivery

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Chair: Laurence Lannon, DynCorp ATS
The Impact of Hybrid Applications on Electronic Publishing and Delivery: Bill Thornburg, Dataware Technologies, Inc.
Electronic Publishing: A Study of Functions and Participants: Carol Tenopir and Donald King, University of Tennessee
A Feasibility Study for Distributing Access to Electronic Publishing Using the World Wide Web: Thomas R. Kochtanek, University of Missouri
The Use of Electronic Journals in Libraries: Mounir A. Khalil, The City College of CUNY

Tutorial

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Multimedia: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ... and The Dysfunctional
Péter Jascó, University of Hawaii: Multimedia elements such as still pictures, maps, animations, narration, soundbites, video clips, musical performances, and background can significantly enhance the textual content, increase the users' attention spans and involvement -- if they are well done. Sometimes multimedia may act as a smokescreen by hiding serious deficiencies of content and/or access. This workshop will explain and illustrate what makes multimedia good and bad, nice and ugly, useful and dysfunctional, and how the quality of multimedia can be better defined by quantitative measures.

Product Reviews

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

CD-ROM Services: Speaker to be announced, A.M. Best Company
The American Business Information Database: John Zeray, American Business Information
Information Dominance: Michael Recanati, i. Fusion LLC

Product Reviews

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Filtering, Selecting, and Value Adding

10:40 AM - 12:10 PM

Chair: Peggy Fischer, Management Decisions
Too Much Information Can Leave You Powerless: Stephen L. Haynes, West Publishing
Information Central: Delivering Business Knowledge to the Desktop: Laurel M. Gould, Public Service Electric & Gas Co.
The Electronic Editor: Thomas Pack and Bonnie Hawkwood, UMI

Security of Information and Transactions on the Net

10:40 AM - 12:10 PM

Chair: John Hawkins, BNA
Securing the Content -- Not the Wire -- for Information Commerce: Michelle Arden, Electronic Publishing Resources
Securing Financial Transactions on the Internet: Hilary Thomas, ISED Corp.
Security and Networks: Jim Kolliger, Genesys Partners, Inc.

Product Reviews

10:40 AM - 12:10 PM

EconLit: Your Source for Economic Information!: Drucilla Ekwurzel, American Economic Association
LEXIS-NEXIS Update: Corilee Christou, LEXIS-NEXIS
What's New at SDC: Francine Falchook, Securities Data Company
What's New at Standard & Poor's: Mary Maher, Standard & Poor's

Product Reviews

10:40 AM - 12:10 PM

The New BRS/Search: David Schubmehl, Dataware Technologies
WILSONTAPE: New Developments: Full Text, Local Load and Wilson Databases via Third-Party Vendors: John Tavaska, H.W. Wilson
Expanding Your Resources: New Sources on DIALOG and DataStar: Ethel Daly, Knight-Ridder Information
Intelliseek: George Ploskr, Information Access Company

The Internet Overseas

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Chair: Michael E.D. Koenig, Rosary College
Internet Diffusion and Infrastructure Developments in Singapore: Edna Reid, Nanyang Technological University
Information Industry in Eastern Europe and CIS -- Survey and Analysis: Maria-Anna Courage and Alexander Butrimenko,
German National Research Center for Information Technology
"Three Golden" Project: The Fundamental Project of the Information Superhighway in China: Michael Huang and Qing Chu, Steele Memorial Library
Internet Training and Use by Young Researchers and Creative Students in Kuwait: M.J. Ismail and Adla A. Turkait, Kuwait

Potpourri: ISDN, MARC and DOC Delivery

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Chair: Mary Berger, Engineering Information, Inc.
Trends in Digital Document Delivery: John Barnes, UMI
MARC as a Standardized Format for Document Control/Retrieval/Delivery System Design: Vladimar Y. Kernerman, Truman College Library; Michael Koenig, Rosary College
ISDN: New Horizons and Prospects for the Twenty-First Century: Harry M. Kibirige, Queens College

Tutorial

3:40 PM - 5:10 PM

What Your Mother and Publisher Never Told You About Databases
Péter Jascó, University of Hawaii: Online and CD-ROM databases can offer instant gratification for the most complex information needs if they deliver what they promise in the ads and publicity blurbs. The promises about the depth and width of coverage, the time-span, the currency and the updating frequency of databases, the completeness of records, the indexing and abstracting quality should not always be taken at face value. The workshop will illustrate the most serious database deficiencies, their implications, and discuss what the customers should really know to prepare for defensive searching.
Registrants at both the National Online Meeting and IOLS '96 are invited to attend this tutorial.

Plenary Session

3:40 PM - 5:10 PM

Rapping It Up: Observations, Reactions, Omissions
Chair: Barbara Quint, Editor, Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals: Conference Review Panel; To Be Announced