(All events held at Broker Inn unless noted)
Saturday, September 20
Afternoon: Registration, Board Meeting
Evening: Welcome reception at National Center for Atmospheric
Research
Sunday, September 21
Welcome and remarks
Session 1: Electronic Journals (solicitation of mss., review,
production, design and graphics, dissemination, marketing,
archiving, etc.)
Field trip (sack lunch provided)
Reception and banquet
Monday, September 22
Session 2: Creating and Maintaining a Presence
(determining audience; design with customer in mind; creating
your image and communicating it to the public, to scientists, and
to policy-makers; other ways to reach the public besides printed
publications)
Session 3: Earth Science and Education (museums, schools and
teachers, public information and newsletters, status of geology
sites and publishing on WWW)
Luncheon and Annual Business Meeting
Session 4: Electronic Publishing (publishing databases on CD or
WWW, archiving electronic publications, 3-D formats for
electronic publishing, print on demand)
Session 5: Copyright (electronic and otherwise); Indexing
(electronic and otherwise); and Update on Standards for Map and
Stratigraphic-section Symbology
Tuesday, September 23
Session 6: Outsourcing (writing specs, RFPs, and
contracts)
Session 7: Concurrent sessions.
A. Earth Science Editors (earth science editor certification;
what makes a good earth science editor?) and Who Are We and How
Do We Interact with Others (author-editor and editor-supervisor
relationships from the point of view of the Myers-Briggs
Personality Type Indicator)
To take this test: http://sunsite.unc.edu/personality/keirsey.html
B. WWW Workshop (1/2-day, hands-on workshop, extra cost).
Beginning and Advanced HTML; Graphics, Photoshop, Multimedia,
etc. for the WWW. If interested in workshop, see related article
on page 5 and contact Marla Adkins-Heljeson for more information.
Although speakers and session moderators have been arranged, if you are interested in speaking on one of these topics and have not been contacted, please get in touch with Marla Adkins-Heljeson at 913-864-3965 or at marla@kgs.ukans.edu by May 1, 1997.