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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 11:02:24 CDT
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Subject:      The Faxon Institute Conference

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Listening to Users:  Case Studies in Building Electronic Communities
1992 Annual Conference of The Faxon Institute
May 3-5, 1992

Participate in Person!
Participate Online!

If you are a decision maker or manager concerned with creating, distributing,
storing or using electronic information, then plan to participate in the 1992
Faxon Institute Annual Conference, "Listening to Users:  Case Studies in
Building Electronic Communities."

Sponsored by The Faxon Institute for Advanced Studies in Scholarly and
Scientific Communication, the conference will focus on users of electronic
information.  Case studies of new electronic journals and communities will be
presented.  Additionally, the results of the new Faxon Institute research study
on current applications of networked technology in support of scientific and
research communities will be presented for the first time.

This year's conference will begin with a lively discussion focusing on the
significant shifts occurring in the creation, distribution and storage of
scholarly electronic information.  Other sessions will explore new network
access, navigation, and filtering tools such as WAIS (Wide Area Information
Servers).

On April 1, 1992, participants began discussing the conference topics via
an electronic conference.  After a month of online discussion, the
participants and presenters will meet in Reston, Virginia, on May 3-5, 1992,
for the assembled meeting.  You may still register for both the electronic
conference and the assembled meeting if you contact us at the number or
Internet address listed below.

At the assembled portion of the conference in May, speakers will address
issues related to how and why scholars and researchers are creating and
using electronic networks, as well as provide practical aspects of scholarly
electronic communication.  The conference speakers include:
Eric Almquist, Decision Research Corporation; Joseph (Yosi Amram),
INDIVIDUAL, Inc.; Ottavia Bassetti, Thinking Machines, Inc.; Ann Bishop,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; George Brett, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc; Sheila Creth,
University of Iowa; T.R. Girill, National Energy Research Supercomputer
Center; Carolyn M. Gray, Brandeis University; Douglas Greenberg,
American Council of Learned Societies; Paul Jones, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; Brian Kahin, Harvard University; Brewster Kahle,
Thinking Machines; Jane Klobas, University of Western Australia; David
Kristofferson, IntelliGenetics, Inc.; Anne G. Lipow, Library Solutions
Institute; Peter Lyman, University of Southern California, Chairman of the
Board - The Faxon Institute; Florence M. Mason, F. Mason and Associates;
Charles McClure, Syracuse University; Ronald F. Miller, WLN; Charles Nethaway,
U.S. Geological Survey; Catherine N. Norton, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute; Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries; Paul Evan Peters,
Coalition of Networked Information; Mari F.J. Pijnenborg, Elsevier Science
Publishers BV; David L. Rodgers, American Mathematical Society; Louis
Rosenfeld, University of Michigan; Michael Staman, CICNet, Inc.; Timothy
Stephen and Teresa Harrison, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Connie Stout,
Texas Education Agency; Mark Varner, University of Maryland; Louella Wetherbee,
Library Management Consultant.

Since the deadline to participate in this conference is fast approaching, you
may want to reserve your space immediately.  Send your name, title,
institution, address, and telephone number via the Internet to:
Macintosh@Faxon.com or call us directly at 617-329-3350, ext.167.  We will
immediately send you via post or fax the formal registration packet (which
includes hotel information, etc.) to be completed and returned.
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