The conference proceedings from the 1997 data processing clinic are now
available from the GSLIS publications office at the University of
Illinois. These proceedings detail the challenges of information
organization and retrieval; more specifics appear below the title and
ordering information here.

"Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources"
Edited by Pauline Atherton Cochrane and Eric H. Johnson
ISBN 0-87845-103-X; No. 34; 176 pages; cloth; $30 plus shipping
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URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, IL--The growth of the Internet only foreshadows what
will happen with globally distributed information resources in the coming
century. Coping with current problems of organization and retrieval using
present-day technological answers will not be enough for tomorrow's users.
Leading researchers in information retrieval systems examined a variety of
related issues at "Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information
Resources," the 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data
Processing sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology in
March 1997. Their papers and presentations are collected in these
proceedings published by The GSLIS Publications Office.  This book is
significant reading for all LIS professionals involved in subject
searching.

"There is, perhaps, no person who knows more about subject searching than
professor Cochrane," writes  David Dorman in Computers in Libraries ("A
Conference on Visualizing Subject Access," 17:5, 18-20, www.infotoday.
com), calling the conference, "the highest quality and most informative
library event I have ever experienced."

Drawn from various communities of research and development in the U.S. and
Europe, the speakers  provided viewpoints as digital library developers,
interface and visualization experts, bibliographic system vendors,
cognitive researchers, librarians, and information service providers. 
Included among the topics at the 1997 clinic: 
* Do the designers of digital library systems envision a role for
more traditional library classification schemes and thesauri? 
* What new tools exist to create visual displays of vocabulary
choices and term relationships to    improve browsing and search
negotiation in either collections of full-text information or 
information surrogate files on the Internet, CD-ROM, etc.? 
* Have cognitive research and user modeling efforts produced
results which could impact subject access tool design? 
* What interface, browsing, and navigation tools are on the
drawing board or in prototype systems which may help to improve
subject access? 
* How will the new systems handle the "interspace" where switching
vocabularies will be needed to access and search federated and
unfederated repositories of full-text information in various
languages? 
Papers include World Wide Web URLs that offer further insight into
presentations.
	
Pauline Atherton Cochrane is a research professor emerita at the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Eric H. Johnson is
a  research  programmer at the CANIS-Community Systems Lab of GSLIS, both
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Consistently ranked as
one of the top three library and information science programs in the U.S.,
the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, founded in 1893 at
the Armour Institute in Chicago, maintains a reputation of excellence and
quality.  The University of Illinois was founded in 1867, and is regularly
cited among leading universities in the United States.
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