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This Proceedings contains 51 of the 68 papers reviewed and selected by the Organizing/Reviewing Committee for presentation at the National Online Meeting, 2000. The volume begins with the introductory presentation of the Program Chairman, Martha E. Williams, "Highlights of the Online Database Industry and the Internet 2000." The balance of the papers is arranged alphabetically by the primary author's last name, and include the following topics: Web security in academic libraries; health and medical Internet resources; search engine selection for health information questions; information integration technology; issues librarians face in using search engines; digital libraries and their user communities; harnessing technology for better user services; project management approach to digital library development; sharing tools on newspaper Web sites; the information supply and demand chain; barriers and challenges to information retrieval systems; the changing landscape of business research; Web information communities, gatekeepers, "gurus," and users; journals that should still be printed; evaluating IR systems performance; multilingual search engines on the Internet; new methods for evaluating patron needs and electronic resource use in the technological library environment; evaluating the journal base of databases; working online with customers and colleagues; usage of digital libraries from the end-user point of view; users, tasks, the Web and information seeking behavior; building distributed asynchronous learning networks; a digital library resource Web site; machine learning for text categorization; factors influencing the evolution of an information system; Internet versus traditional online; trust in online systems; fluctuations in document accessibility; small business intelligence; predictive models for the effectiveness of data fusion in information retrieval; new model for publishing on the Internet; building a digital library resources unit; international indexing and classification activities of Internet portals; evolving psychology of online use; library services to distance learners across the Pacific; search success in digital libraries versus OPACs; digital rights management; ready reference on the Internet; distance education in virtual classrooms; creating dynamic Web pages using commercial off-the-shelf applications; a cognitive and linguistic science approach to searching the Internet; university Web sites in English speaking countries; ensuring quality taxonomies; environmental and chemical sources on the Internet; the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference; the DocMorph Server and its computer-assisted reading facility; effects of the "Tasini v. New York Times" court decision; international business research and the Web; database searching on the Internet; and online interface comparison. Titles of presentations at the meeting for which text does not appear in the Proceedings are listed. Includes an index. (AEF)

This review contains eight papers on topics within the field of information science and technology. The papers are divided into three sections as follows: (1) Planning Information Systems and Services, including "Information Ownership and Control" (Tomas A. Lipinski); and "Pricing and Marketing Online Information Services" (Sheila Anne Elizabeth Webber); (2) Basic Techniques and Technologies, including "Design of Interfaces for Information Seeking" (Gary Marchionini and Anita Komlodi); "Sociocognitive Perspectives on Representation" (Elin K. Jacob and Debora Shaw); "Metadata" (Sherry L. Vellucci); and "Cross-Language Information Retrieval" (Douglas W. Oard and Anne R. Diekema); and (3) Applications, including "Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Information Search and Retrieval" (Michael B. Twidale and David M. Nichols) and "Electronic Scholarly Journal Publishing" (Robin P. Peek and Jeffrey P. Pomerantz). Each paper includes references. The book includes an index, as well as a cumulative keyword and author index of ARIST (Annual Review of Information Science and Technology) titles in volumes 1-33. (MES)

This Proceedings contains 53 of the 67 papers reviewed and selected by the Organizing/Reviewing Committee for presentation at the National Online Meeting, 1999. The volume begins with the introductory presentation by the Program Chairman, Martha E. Williams, "Highlights of the Online Database Industry and the Internet 1999." The balance of the papers is arranged alphabetically by the primary author's last name and covers a wide range of topics including: online search-and-retrieval; electronic journals versus print journals; search engine censorship; GIS applications in competitive intelligence; user expectations, satisfaction, behavior and loyalty in the Millennium library; distributed learning; protecting online intellectual assets; risks and opportunities for information professionals; Corporate ResourceNet; customer-driven interfaces; cooperative development of a digital library; managing reproductions and permissions for digital images; digital library architectures; information winnowing; copyright management in cyberspace; how XML will affect content, knowledge management, and information professionals; modeling the reference process online; the Lindesmith Center Web site; search engines for Chinese information retrieval; no-cost digital library; a bursar interface; knowledge management tools; trends in domestic demographic and business data on the Internet; cross-database searching with term mapping from multiple thesauri; competitive intelligence on the Internet; automatic organization of electronic documents; impact of electronic publishing/electronic journals on libraries; building an XML and Web-based document retrieval system; visitations to a digital library Web site; a Web-based online course model; libraries and online products; current and future status of intelligence; metadata; protecting and using intellectual property; publishing online; courseware development tools; Excel 97; treating the "Techno-Stressed"; Y2K; Wizards as a seamless interface for queries; the Web prepares for the third millennium; the learning intranet; linguistic inference; relevance judgments by end-users; evaluating U.S. business Web sites in Eastern European emerging markets; simultaneous usage of online databases in academic and public libraries; free Web access for identification of traditionally published information; metadata for moving image documents; comparison of environmental databases; new copyright laws; the TopClass experience in distance education; and Web browsing. Titles of presentations at the meeting for which text does not appear in the proceedings are listed. Includes an index. (AEF)

This volume contains 52 of the 70 papers that were reviewed and selected for presentation at the 1998 National Online Meeting. While the balance of the papers are not included in this Proceedings, their titles, together with author names and author affiliations, are listed at the end of the volume and they are included in the index. The volume begins with the introductory presentation by the Program Chairman, Martha E. Williams, "Highlights of the Online Database Industry and the Internet 1998." The balance of the papers are arranged alphabetically by the primary author's last name, and cover a wide range of topics including: knowledge management; customizing information systems; quality management; search engines; customer input; merging instruction and technology; Internet search services versus online database services; relevance feedback; Intranet; CD-ROM versus online; user-based assessment; using and evaluating Web resources; imaging; copyrights; social/economic challenges; browsing versus surfing; relevance ranking; electronic journals; evaluation methods; information retrieval; technology integration; information sources; electronic libraries; user-computer-librarian interaction; indexing; computer security; distance learning; search behavior; and access to information. (AEF)

This annual publication describes and appraises activities and trends in the field of information science and technology. The chapters contain scholarly reviews of specific topics as substantiated by the published literature. This volume's nine chapters fit within a basic framework of four sections: "Planning Information Systems and Services"; "Basic Techniques and Technologies"; "Applications"; and "The Profession." Chapters are: "Relevance and Information Behavior" (Linda Schamber); "Information Retrieval Techniques" (Paul B. Kantor); "Digital Image Representation and Access" (Javed Mostafa); "Database Access Systems" (Prudence W. Dalrymple and Nancy K. Roderer); "Health Informatics" (Jennifer MacDougall and J. Michael Brittain); "Online Catalogs: Enhancements and Developments" (Ann O'Brien); "Managing Information Systems in State and Local Government" (Patricia D. Fletcher and Deborah Otis Foy); "Information Technology in Education" (Dianne Rothenberg); and "LIS Professionals as Knowledge Engineers" (Alan Poulter, Anne Morris, and Julie Dow). A keyword and author index of ARIST titles for volumes 1-29 is also included. (MAS)