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Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Jun/Jul 1997

The Northern Ohio ASIS Chapter (NORASIS) presented Caveat Surfer! Social Responsibility and Internet Resources as the program in conjunction with its annual business meeting. Tom Froehlich, associate professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, was the speaker. The New England ASIS (NEASIS) chapter took a look at JAVA in the Morning: The Dawn of New Technologies in its May meeting. With the support of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Sun Microsystems and MIT's Information Systems Department, the half-day event focused on the state-ofthe-art JAVA technology, its applications and how it has changed the face of client-server and Internet development.

For its April meeting, the New Jersey ASIS Chapter (NJASIS) offered A Symposium on Chemical Information, featuring a variety of speakers from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chemical Abstracts Service and Institute for Scientific Information. And for May, the chapter scheduled a half-day primer on Managing Network Resources: LANs, WANs, Intranets. Raymond Schwartz of Rutgers University was to address the topic "Finding Content on Networked Resources: Metadata," a look at strategies that individuals and institutions can employ to make their Web pages more accessible to intended audiences. Timothy Donovan of AIM was to discuss how local network technologies work and intelligent agents.

The Los Angeles Chapter of ASIS (LACASIS) is holding a get-together meeting for its far-flung membership at the ASIS MidYear Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to making and renewing friendships among the members who come from as far away as Australia and Hawaii, chapter leaders advised that the dinner meeting would also be an organizational session for a new Arizona chapter.

The Southern Ohio ASIS Chapter (SOASIS) has scheduled Virtual Reality: Project DEPTH at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base as its June meeting. John Ianni, Project DEPTH director, will discuss government interest in virtual reality (VR) research, tour a Project DEPTH VR lab, demonstrate motion tracking measurement equipment and allow participants to experience a VR simulation.

News from ASIS SIGs

Special Interest Group/Classification Research (SIG/CR) reports that its home page has moved. It can now be reached at http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/asis.sigcr/

News about ASIS Members

Several ASIS members are serving on the steering committee of this summer's 2nd International ACM Digital Libraries '97 conference. They are Edward Fox, chair of the committee and professor at Virginia Tech; Nicholas Belkin, professor, Rutgers University; Richard Furuta, associate professor, Texas AtM University; Gary Marchionini, associate professor, University of Maryland; and Edie Rasmussen, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh.

N. Bernard "Buzzy" Basch, former ASIS treasurer and president of Basch Subscriptions, Inc., presented a workshop on How to Negotiate Services and Fees with Subscription Agents to the Hudson Valley Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.