Access'97 : INTEGRATION or FRAGMENTATION ?
September 29 - October 1, 1997
Metropolitan Centre
Calgary Alberta

The Fifth Annual Conference on WWW Applications for Libraries

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PROGRAM AND PRESENTATIONS

Monday, September 29, 1997
 
Keynote Speaker
           Dr. Charles Lowry     Content and Technologies for the Virtual Library: Fragmentation or Integration?
 
Third Generation Web-based OPACs
           Lyn Martin     SuperPAC
           Art Rhyno     VRML to Navigate Information Space
 
Streaming Video
           Janice Bakal      Distributing Multimedia on the Web
 
Browsers
           Dr. Rob Berdan      Comparing Netscape and Explorer
 
State of the Internet
           Dr. Clifford Lynch
 
Western Canada Virtual Library Project
           Kristina Long[talk]
           Lynn Copeland[talk]
           Jonathan Esterhazy[talk]
 
Databases Panel
           Rob McKinney      SilverPlatter   [talk]
           Dana Johnson      OVID   [talk]
           Stephen Rhind-Tutt      Chadwyck Healey   [talk]
 
 
 
Tuesday, September 30, 1997
 
Java
           Terry Noreault      Java: Experience at OCLC
           Matthew Freedman      Java: a Dispatch from the Front Lines
 
Electronic Text Center
           David Seaman
 
Thin Clients
           Alan Darnell      Citrix Winframe and Multi-user Windows NT
           Guy Hummel      Sun's JavaStation
 
MAGIC
           Patrick McGlamery
 
Cable Access to the Internet
           Rich Wiggins      Cable Modems: Myths and Reality
           Garth Mihalcheon      Shaw Cable's WAVE
 
Z39.50 Implementation
           Slavko Manojlovich      Configuring Z39.50 Clients and Servers: Dirty Little Secrets
 
 
 
Wednesday, October 1, 1997
 
System Vendors Panel
           Jane Beaumont moderator   [talk]
           Earl Boyce Ameritech
           Carl Grant Innovative Interfaces   [talk]
           Greg Hathorn SIRSI
           André Hudon Geac
           Don Reilly Endeavor   [talk]
 
Online Cataloguing Tools
           Ross Thrasher
 
Workflow Automation Concepts
           Greg Hathorn
 
Intranets
           Evan Fietz      The Interactive Enterprise in the 21st Century
 
In Cyberspace No-one Can Hear You Shush
           David Brown
 
The Consumer
           Dr. Bruce Clark      The Professor as Consumer of Web-based Information Resources
 
Project Galileo
           Dr. George Gaumond
 
Convergence to the Information Highway
           Dr. Brian Gaines
 
Concluding Remarks
           Selden Deemer      Looking Back
 
 
Notes on the Sessions
           by Ryan Schultz      Monday, September 29
                 Tuesday, September 30
                 Wednesday, October 1
 



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