+ Page 1 + ---------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News December 6, 1990 Volume 1, Number 12 ISSN 1050-6004 Editors: Dana Rooks and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (LIB3@UHUPVM1). Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. ---------------------------------------------------------------- LIBRARY AUTOMATION CONFERENCE The Eighth Texas Conference on Library Automation, sponsored by the University of Houston Libraries, will be held February 21-22, 1991, at the Marriott Medical Center Hotel, Houston, Texas. The Conference will feature keynote addresses by Beverly Lynch, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles, and Richard Rowe, President, The Faxon Company. Twenty-four contributed papers will be presented in three tracks. John Corbin, Jennifer Cargill, Carolyn Frost, Carol Hawks, Judy Myers, and Raymond Vondran are among the featured speakers. Vendor exhibits will be included in the conference. Conference fees are $105 if postmarked by January 11, 1991, and $135 thereafter. For further information contact Dana Rooks, University of Houston Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2091, or call (713) 749-4241. + Page 2 + EPIC ACCESSIBLE THROUGH INTERNET The EPIC Service, OCLC'S online reference system, is now accessible via the federally funded Internet network. There are more than 60,000 nodes on Internet. Internet users can access the EPIC Service through two addresses: EPIC.PROD.OCLC.ORG for Domain Name System users; and 132.174.100.2 for Numeric Name System users. There are no telecommunications charges for the service. The EPIC service is an online system that currently provides subject access, keyword, and Boolean searching to five databases: the OCLC Online Union Catalog, ERIC, Book Data, ABI/Inform, and Dissertation Abstracts. PNI (Pharmaceutical News Index) and Business Dateline are scheduled for inclusion by the end of December, 1990. For further information, contact W. Daviess Menefee at WDM@RSCH.OCLC.ORG. ASSOCIATION INFORMATION ON CD-ROM Gale GlobalAccess: Associations, the CD-ROM Edition of Gale's Encyclopedia of Associations, has been released using SilverPlatter software. The database contains more than 80,000 entries providing data on associations throughout the world. The information is identical to the corresponding print volumes. Editions will be issued annually with semiannual updates. Single user version: $995; network version: $1,795; and dial-in version: $1,995. For more information contact Gale Research Inc., P.O. 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