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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 00:00:28 -0400
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1. [CONF] ACM MULTIMEDIA'97 2. [CONF] RIAO'97 CONFERENCE "Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet" 3. Note Regarding Junk Mail
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:26:54 -0400
From: Terry Kuny
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Call For Participation Call For Participation =--=--=--=--=--=--=--= =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=
ACM MULTIMEDIA'97 The 5th ACM International Multimedia Conference =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--==--=--=--=--=--=--=--=
November 8-14, 1997 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Seattle
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FOR THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONSULT OUR WEB PAGES:
http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM97 http://www.uni-mannheim.de/acm97
ACM's annual MULTIMEDIA conference is the premier forum where researchers and developers from academia and industry around the world can meet to exchange ideas and report on new developments relating to all aspects of multimedia technology and systems. The world of computing continues to reinvent itself. Just as we previously witnessed a dramatic transformation from textual to visual computing, we are now in the midst of an exciting metamorphosis to an era of multimodal computing whose ultimate shape is as yet unknown. The conference scope spans technology, tools and techniques for the construction and delivery of high quality, innovative multimedia systems and interfaces.
We are especially striving this year to achieve balance in coverage within the technical program, between issues relating to underlying system design and delivery - e.g.,
--hardware and architectures --networking and communications --compression and synchronization --databases and information retrieval --collaboration environments --digital libraries
and issues relating to the human-computer interface - e.g.,
--hot application domains --document models and authoring tools --scalable and translucent interfaces --interactive audio documents --alternate modality systems --virtual realities
We cordially invite -YOU- to take part in this exciting event by submitting your work in one or more of the ways enumerated below, and look forward to welcoming -YOU- to Seattle this fall for what will be a most rewarding and exciting experience!
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TECHNICAL PAPERS of the high quality expected at major ACM conferences are solicited. These may fall into a variety of categories:
(a) Presentation of original and significant research. (b) Results of relevant and rigorous empirical studies. (c) Description of the `look and feel' and discussion of the internal workings of an implemented system.
Papers must be set in 11-point type and formatted in two-column conference style, and may not exceed 12 pages in length including all figures, tables, and references. An award will be given for the best paper, as judged by the program committee. Papers with a student as the primary author will separately enter a student paper award competition; a cover letter must identify your paper as a candidate for the student paper competition, if applicable. All authors are encouraged to send a short video with their paper if possible, to clarify and reinforce the concepts discussed - but acceptance will be based primarily on the written paper itself.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to prepare an electronic version for the on-line conference proceedings, which will supplement the traditional printed volume. Authors must assign copyright to ACM as a condition of publishing their work in the proceedings. An author who embeds an object, such as an art image, copyrighted by a third party is expected to obtain that party's permission to include the object with the understanding that the entire work may be distributed as a unity to ACM members and others.
All submissions -must- be received no later than Tuesday, June 3, 1997 (this is a firm deadline). Send 8 copies of full papers to the Program Chair:
James D. Hollan Computer Science Department University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 E-mail: hollan@cs.unm.edu Tel. (505) 277 3112 Fax: (505) 277 6927
Authors will be notified regarding acceptance on or around July 6, and will be required to return the revised camera-ready copy, the electronic version, and a completed registration form (at least one per paper), by August 10.
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PANEL PROPOSALS up to 3 pages in length on timely and controversial topics are also welcome. These submissions should be formatted like a technical paper, and if accepted will be included in the conference proceedings. They should include:
(a) An introduction by the organizer/moderator. (b) Position statements from each panelist. (c) Brief biographical sketches of all participants.
Send 4 copies of panel proposals to the Panels Chair:
Takayuki Dan Kimura Computer Science Department Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 E-mail: tdk@cs.wustl.edu Tel. (314) 935 6122
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TWO DAYS OF IN-DEPTH COURSES by leading experts will precede the technical program and enhance its value for both novice and seasoned professional alike. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics, so that there is something for everybody. Course organizers receive an honorarium which can be used, for example, to defray part of the cost of attending the conference. We invite you to take advantage of this excellent opportunity!
Proposals to organize/present a course at ACM MULTIMEDIA'97 should be 3-4 pages long, to include the following information in the order shown:
(a) Cover page:
o Name and affiliation of the proposer/organizer. o Course title. o Preferred duration (full day or half day). o Level (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). o Names and affiliations of additional speakers, if any. o Intended audience. o Course abstract/overview - what will attendees learn? o A/V aids to be used in the presentation.
(b) Detailed course description and outline (1-2 pages); if more than one presenter, who will cover each topic/section? (c) Biographical sketch of each speaker (one paragraph apiece), to include: current research interests; important publications, projects and/or awards (as appropriate); and courses previously presented at other conferences.
Send 4 copies of course proposals to the Courses Chair:
Margaret Burnett Computer Science Department Oregon State University . Corvallis, Oregon 97331 . E-mail: burnett@cs.orst.edu Tel. (541) 737 2539 Fax: (541) 737 3014
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DAY-LONG WORKSHOPS on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will both precede and follow the technical program. Participation is by invitation only, under the control of the individual organizer(s), but all workshop organizers and attendees are expected to register for the conference as well, to foster a symbiotic relationship among participants.
If you'd like to take advantage of this venue to conduct -YOUR- workshop, please contact the Workshops Chair:
Stephen Itoga 319 Keller Hall / ICS University of Hawaii 2565 The Mall Honolulu, HI 96822 E-mail: itoga@hawaii.edu Tel. (808) 956 3500 Fax: (808) 956 3548
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STATE OF THE ART DEMOS will form an integral and important part of the MULTIMEDIA'97 experience. This year, we want to focus on systems in which technical innovation is combined with artistic wizardry. We're not 100% sure what that means, but we'll bet -YOU- know! Amazing research prototypes and stunning commercial products are welcome. There are just 2 constraints: we can supply only limited equipment and certainly nothing exotic, so if you need really special hardware you'll have to supply your own; and space is limited, so all proposals for demos will be referreed to assure quality.
If you'd like to propose a technically-oriented demo, please contact:
Bikash Sabata Telecommunications and Distributed Processing Program SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 E-mail: sabata@erg.sri.com Tel. (415) 859 2281
If you'd like to propose an artistically-oriented demo, please contact:
Tim Skelly Design Happy 26715 NE 50th Street Redmond, WA 98053 E-mail: TimSkelly@aol.com Tel. (206) 868 2822
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QUESTIONS?? Please feel free to contact the General Chair:
Ephraim P. Glinert Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 E-mail: glinert@cs.rpi.edu Tel. (518) 276 2657 Fax: (518) 276 4033
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THE ACM MULTIMEDIA'97 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Steering Committee Chairs: --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Steve Bulick, U S West Advanced Technologies Allan Kuchinsky, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
General Co-Chairs: -=--=--=--=--=--=- Ephraim P. Glinert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mark Scott Johnson, vivid studios
Program Co-Chairs: -=--=--=--=--=--=- James D. Hollan, University of New Mexico James D. Foley, MERL
Program Committee Associate Chairs: --=--=--=--=--=--==--=--=--=--=--=-- Bob Allen, Bellcore Dick Bulterman, CWI Isabel Cruz, Tufts University Takaya Endo, NTT-AT Thomas Erickson, Apple Computer Bill Grosky, Wayne State University Patrick Hanrahan, Stanford University Jonathan Helfman, AT&T Research Jessica Hodgins, Georgia Institute of Technology Philipp Hoschka, INRIA-W3C Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Laboratory David Kirsh, University of California at San Diego Michael Lesk, Bellcore Wendy MacKay, CENA and University of Paris-Sud Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR Media Integration & Communication Research Labs Ken Perlin, New York University Lawrence Rowe, University of California at Berkeley Steve Roth, Carnegie Mellon University Brian Smith, Cornell University Akikazu Takeuchi, Sony Corporation Alex Weibel, Carnegie Mellon University Kent Wittenburg, GTE Laboratories Ramin Zabih, Cornell University Hong-Jiang Zhang, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Panels Chair: --=--=--=--=-- Takayuki Dan Kimura, Washington University
Courses Chair: --=--=--=--=-- Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University
Workshops Chair: =--=--=--=--=--= Stephen Itoga, University of Hawaii
Art Demos Chair: =--=--=--=--=--= Tim Skelly, Design Happy
Technical Demos Chair: =--=--=--=--=--=--=--= Bikash Sabata, SRI International
Student Volunteers Chair: =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= Alvin T. Moser, Seattle University
Print Proceedings Chair: -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=- Hong-Jiang Zhang, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Electronic Proceedings Chair: =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= Lars Wolf, Technical University of Darmstadt
Publicity Chair: =--=--=--=--=--= Wayne Citrin, University of Colorado at Boulder
Webmaster: =--=--=--= Stephan Fischer, University of Mannheim
Treasurer: =--=--=--= John Buford, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:29:49 -0400
From: Terry Kuny
From: Jian-Yun Nie
Jian-Yun Nie | Dept. d'Informatique et Recherche operationnelle nie@iro.umontreal.ca | Universite de Montreal Tel: (514) 343-2263 | C.P. 6128, succursale CENTRE-VILLE Fax: (514) 343-5834 | Montreal (Quebec), H3C 3J7 Canada bureau 2343, Pavillon Andre-Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la tour
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Call For Participation
RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS]
Brief Description :
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Every three years the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes an RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval) under the sponsorship of European Community (EC), Ministere des affaires etrangeres, Ministere de l'industrie, Secretariat d'etat a la recherche (France), Ministere de l'industrie, du commerce, de la science et de la technologie (Quebec) and CRIM (Canada). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 at MIT; RIAO91 in Barcelona; and RIAO94 at Rockefeller University in New York.
RIAO conferences have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. The mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both aspects, stimulating both new product development, ecnouraging sponsorship of start-ups, as well as initiating lines of further, critical research investigations.
RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, RIAO97 brings together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of the proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses.
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GENERAL SESSION June 25, 1997 ------------------------------------------
9:00-9:15 a.m WELCOMING STATEMENT Dr B. Robaire Vice Principal, Research McGill University, Canada
9:15-9:30 a.m RIAO97' Introduction J. Thuiller Professor at the College de France President of the C.I.D.
9:30-10:00 a.m Invited Speaker GILS Projet N. Brodie National Library of Ottawa, Canada --------------------------------- SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY --------------------------------- Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University
10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and Filtering on the Web" M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr, M. Pazzani University of California, USA
10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And Strategical Information" T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France
10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 2: VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION ---------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France
11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation Tools" A. Cockburn, S. Jones University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand
11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing" A. Wexelblat, P. Maes Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information retrieval" J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada
12:35-2:05 p.m LUNCH ------------------------------------------------ SESSION 3: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES ------------------------------------------------ Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre
2:05-2:30 p.m "Development of a Document Summarization System for Effective Information Services" D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea
2:30-2:55 p.m "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for summarizing using indicating fragments" A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France
2:55-3:20 p.m "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories" B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier Rank Xerox Research Centre, France
3:20-3:45 p.m "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language" B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA
3:45-4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 4: LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL --------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: R. Cencioni, European Community
4:15-4:40 p.m "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural Language Analysis" A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster. Patras, Greece and Netherlands
4:40-5:05 p.m "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval Performance for Dutch Texts" R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij Utrecht University, TNO-TPD, Netherlands
5:05-5:30 p.m "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language Texts" S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland
5:30-5:55 p.m "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases" M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie Cornell University, USA ----------------------------------- June 26, 1997 SESSION 5: MULTILINGUAL APPROACH ---------------------------------- Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France
9:00-9:25 a.m "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval" M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
9:25-9:50 a.m "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams" D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
9:50-10:15 a.m "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for Cross-Language Information Retrieval" D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands
10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations
---------------------------- SESSION 6: IRS ARCHITECTURE ---------------------------- Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic Engineering" B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar
11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision Making System" F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France
11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the World-Wide Web" V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA
12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION ---------------------------------
Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France
1:30-2:45 p.m Panel TREC in Many Languages
TREC-5: English D. Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese A. Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland *The Amaryllis Project C. Fluhr Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France
2:45-3:10 p.m "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction using pattern matching and linguistic processing" W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy
3:10-3:35 p.m "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language" O.R. Zaine , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau Simon Fraser University, Canada
3:35-4:00 p.m "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction: A new text technology for gathering information from the web" R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson University of Sheffield, UK
4:00-4:30 p.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------- SESSION 8: DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING ---------------------------------------- Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.
4:30-4:55 p.m "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related Documents" I. Mani , E. Bloedorn The MITRE Corporation, USA
4:55-5:20 p.m "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries" C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope University of Toronto. Canada
5:20-5:45 p.m "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking" D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen Excite Inc., USA
5:45-6:10 p.m "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching" T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK ------------------------------- June 27, 1997 SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II ------------------------------- Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany
9:00-9:25 a.m "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery" F. Menczer , R.K. Belew University of California, USA
9:25-9:50 a.m "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design" T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK
9:50-10:15 a.m "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference" A. Muller, A. Everts GMD. Germany
10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------- SESSION 10: QUERY REFORMULATION --------------------------------- Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France.
10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation" M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy MSI, Universite de Limoges, France
11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the Hyperindex Search Engine" P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis Queensland University of Technology, Australia
11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET: Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques: Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate Structure to WWW Pages G. Grefenstette Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France
12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING --------------------------------- Chairman: V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow
1:30-1:55 p.m "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering" G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di Roma, Italy
1:55-2:20 p.m "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging" R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas University of Pennsylvania, USA
2:20-2:45 p.m "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext with Generalized Context-Free Grammars" Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny Universite de Montreal, Canada
2:45-3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations ------------------------------------- SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II ------------------------------------- Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France
3:15-3:40 p.m "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization" M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan
3:40-4:05 p.m "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts" U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger Freiburg University, Germany
4:05-4:30 p.m "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals" H. Nakagawa Yokohama National University, Japan
-------------------------------- SESSION 13: JUDICIAL PROBLEMS -------------------------------- Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France
4:30-4:55 p.m "Limits of Using Data" Maitre Feral-Schuhl Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France.
4:55-5:20 p.m "Data Security" Maitre G. Arendt President of Computer Commission of the International Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg
5:20-5:45 p.m "Security Concerns On The Intranet" Maitre Landry Montreal, Canada. Union Internationale des Avocats.
5:45-6:15 p.m Conclusions
------------------------ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ------------------------ Registration may be proceeded in one of the following ways:
------------------ Registration Fees ------------------ (before June 1, 1997): US$ 475 or CA$ 650 or 415 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 530 or CA$ 725 or 460 ECUS
Students (presenting valid Student ID): (before June 1, 1997): US$ 315 or CA$ 435 or 275 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 390 or CA$ 530 or 340 ECUS
Registration fees can be made by bank transfer:
in US dollars: CID/CASIS No: 02 050 25 061 2 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France or CASIS No: 15 39 90 34 City Bank, 460 Park Avenue and 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 USA
in Canadian dollars: CID No: 035 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
in ECUs: CID No: 055 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
or Credit Card payments (only VISA Card can be accepted) in writing or faxing request to C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France, fax (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45.
Registration includes access to all presentations and sessions, including the Working Group,Thursday morning, June 26th, and a copy of the proceedings. On-Site Registration will take place on Tuesday June 24 from 5 pm, and on Wednesday June 25, from 8 am on.
Telephones accepting credit cards are available throughout the University. Lunches can be taken at the University Cafeteria, 3840 McTavish Street. Lunch tickets will be available at the Registration Desk for $10 (Canadian) per ticket.
McGill University is located in the center of Montreal and numerous other restaurants are available nearby. An optional visit and dinner will be organized for RIAO'97 participants on June 26th at 7 p.m.
------------------- AIRFARE AND HOTELS -------------------- Reductions in air fare will be possible for flights leaving from France. Contact the CID before June 1, 1997. A block of rooms have been reserved at several hotels in Montreal at a special rate for RIAO97 participants. When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant of RIAO97 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special rate until one month before the conference.
Hotel list
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Chateau de Versailles 1659 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec H3H 1E3 Tel : (514) 933-3611 Fax: (514) 933-6867 price: single $ 89 per night Castel Durocher 3488 Durocher Montreal, Quebec H2X 2E1 Tel : (514) 282-1697 Fax: (514) 282-0025 price: single $ 85 per night Delta Montreal 450 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T4 Tel : (514) 286-1986 Fax: (514) 284-4306 price: single $ 119 per night Howard Johnson 475 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2L9 Tel : (514) 842-3961 Fax: (514) 842-0945 price: single $ 98 per night Best Western Ville Marie Hotel 3407 Peel Street Montreal, Quebec Tel : (514) 288-4141 Fax: (514) 288-3021 price: single $ 99 per night Manoir Ambrose 3422 rue Stanley Montreal Canada H3A IR8 Tel : (514) 288-6922 Fax: (514) 288-5757 price: single $ 80 per night Manoir Sherbrooke 157 rue Sherbrooke West H2X 1C7 Tel : (514) 285-0895 Fax: (514) 284-1125 price: single $ 80 par nuit Casa Bella 264 rue Sherbrooke West H2X 1X9 Tel : (514) 849-2777 Fax: (514) 849-1126 price: single $ 80 per night
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:04:20 -0400
From: Terry Kuny
Hello gentle subscribers,
A number of people have complained recently about receiving "junk mail" on the IFLA lists. I would like to clarify a few things about what seems to be happening:
1. The moderators do not forward "spam" messages to the list, and we make every effort to ensure that the advertising messages are either:
2. Some individuals/companies appear have used the "review" of LISTSERV function to get a list of the subscribers to the IFLA lists. They have then used this list to create their own direct mail list.
We do not purposefully provide electronic mail addresses of its subscribers to any outside agency.
Messages sent from the LISTSERV should indicate in the mail header that it came from "infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca" Advertising messages sent from other sources may appear to come from the list, usually by addressing you as "Dear IFLA member" or some such. But if the mail header does not come from "infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca", then the message originated from some other mailing list.
3. To address this problem, we will be disabling the REVIEW function of the list. This is unfortunate as some people have found this to be a useful mechanism for contacting colleagues and locating email addresses. Alas, others have also found it a means to create direct mail lists.
I would urge everyone who receives unsolicited email from companies to respond accordingly to the company. I suspect that a negative backlash is exactly what most companies are trying to avoid when selling products and your reminder to them of the inappropriateness of using email for this purpose might be enough to convince them to use other means.
4. Legitimate advertising of products and services remains an important type of information for many individuals on the lists. In support of this, a decision was made on DIGLIB some time ago, and which I have carried over to IFLA-L, to post a monthly compilation "advertising flyer" of ad messages posted to the list(s) in the previous month which are appropriate to the library community. This seems to have been a reasonable compromise and it is only the recent flurry of unsolicited email advertising that has raised the issue once again.
Unless there is a pressing need to change this policy, or there is a strong groundswell of opposition to this, this will continue.
5. LIBJOBS subscribers should receive only job postings as per the policy and purpose of the list. Anything else sent to the list is either an error on the part of the moderators or a hijacking of the subscriber list.
6. There has been discussion about the possibility of having "sponsors" of IFLA lists as a means of generating some revenue to offset the cost of the service. No decisions or efforts have been made at this time to pursue this. Any changes such as this would be brought to the attention of the list subscribers and would be approved by IFLA Headquarters.
I hope that this addresses any questions or concerns that list subscribers may have about this problem.
If you would like further information or have particular concerns or questions, please direct them to the moderators at ifla@nlc-bnc.ca, rather than the list.
Many thanks and regards for your understanding,
Terry Kuny Louise Lantaigne IFLANET Administration ifla@nlc-bnc.ca
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End of DIGLIB Digest - 7 Apr 1997 to 8 Apr 1997
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