Computers in Libraries 03

	PR Tip Sheet

	Washington Hilton and Towers, Washington, DC March 12-14, 2003

Welcome to the Computers in Libraries 2003 online Conference and Exhibition Tip Sheet. As exhibitors and speakers provide information it will be posted here. Along with the press conference and keynote schedule. This will be updated regularly and emailed out to registered working press the week before the show. Let us know if you have additions, corrections or questions.
	Bob

Aware, Inc	Speaker	Stock N/A	aware.com
Internal PR Contact	Sarah LaLiberte/ Public Relations Manager
Aware, Inc, 40 Middlesex Turnpike, Bedford,MA 01730 USA
781-687-0695	Fax_781-276-4001	Cell_n/a_	sarahl@aware.com
Program Session C302	JPEG2000 for Digital Archiving and Internet Distribution
Products introduced	JPEG2000 image compression for Digital Archiving
Product highlights	The JPEG2000 image compression standard allows libraries to preserve rare documents/photographs for digital archiving. With JPEG2000, librarians will balance the need of making Special Collections accessible to the public while preserving them for future generations. Come learn about the new JPEG2000 digital image compression standard and how it can be used for digitizing collections for archives and Internet distribution.
Company highlights	Aware, Inc. designs, develops, licenses and markets a variety of wavelet transform-based data compression software products appropriate for use in high-quality, bandwidth sensitive applications. Its standard-compliant JPEG2000 image compression solution enables digital image compression to a fraction of their original size for applications in digital archiving/transmission.
	Session C302 - JPEG2000 for Digital Archiving and Internet Distribution 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
	The JPEG2000 image compression standard allows libraries to preserve rare documents/photographs for digital archiving. With JPEG2000, librarians will balance the need of making Special Collections accessible to the public while preserving them for future generations. Come learn about the new JPEG2000 digital image compression standard and how it can be used for digitizing collections for archives and Internet distribution.
Additional Contact:	James Janosky, Business Development Manager, Aware, Inc.
781-687-0336,			www.aware.com

Endeavor Information Systems	Booth Number 430		http://www.endinfosys.com
Internal PR Contact:	PENNY EMKE/ MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
2200 E DEVON AVENUE, SUITE 382, DES PLAINES, IL 60018 USA
847-296-2200 x 2655	Fax_847-296-5636		EMKE@ENDINFOSYS.COM
Internal PR Contact:
Product highlights	Endeavor provides complete solutions for accessing, searching and linking. Voyager is the most robust integrated library management system with full-featured functionality. An end-to-end digital framework, ENCompass provides linking, federated searching, and digital collection management. LinkFinderPlus bridges the gap between citations and the online full-text, providing maximum usage of journal subscriptions.
New Product Highlights	Partnership with Serials Solutions new Data Management services group for batch activation of targets in Endeavor's LinkFinderPlus
Highlights of Products introduced	Vendor to vendor partnership: Serials Solutions and Endeavor Information Systems
Highlights	Serials Solutions and Endeavor Information Systems announced today a partnership to customize existing data found in Endeavor’s LinkFinderPlus linking system. Serials Solutions new Data Management Service will result in time savings for libraries who want to customize holdings data in their LinkFinderPlus Knowledge Base.
Company Highlights	Endeavor Information Systems, based in Des Plaines, IL, was founded in September of 1994. A wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier, Endeavor offers a complete line of library solutions for traditional and digital collections. Visit Endeavor at http://www.endinfosys.com for more information about Voyager, ENCompass, or LinkFinderPlus.

Gaylord Information Systems	Booth: 409	Stock Sym: NA	gaylord.com
Internal PR Contact	Judy Michaelson/ Director, Marketing & Public Relations
2409 Warrensburg Road, Delaware, OH 43015 USA
740-362-3700	F 740-369-0488	Cell	judy.michaelson@gaylord.com_
Product highlights	Polaris leads the library automation industry with completely customizable system administration, easy-to-use portal PAC available in 115 languages, and fully integrated cataloging, circulation, acquisitions, and serials control. You can easily add functions like virtual reference; PC management; thin clients; checkin, sorting and conveyor systems; and EDI with your book vendors.
Company highlights	For more than 28 years, Gaylord Information Systems has been a leader in providing automation solutions that help libraries enhance service to patrons and increase staff productivity. GIS also offers workflow analysis, retrospective conversion and database enhancement services. Thirty percent of GIS staff are professional librarians, including President Katherine Blauer.

Jayne Hitchcock/Speaker	March 14th, 2003	Keynote 9-9:45 a.m	www.netcrimes.net www.haltabuse.org
	Cybercrime J.A. Hitchcock, president of WHOA (Working to Halt Online Abuse at www.haltabuse.org), will inform attendees how to identify and help vicims of online stalking, harassment, spams and scams. Hitchcock travels the country training law enforcement, advocates, educators and security personnel how to work with cybercrime cases, as well as lecturing public audiences how to stay safe online. She has appeared in the media as an expert, including TIME magazine, The Montel Show, and upcoming appearances on Lifetime's "What Should You Do?", VH1's "Predators" and the April 2003 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Internal PR Contact:	Jayne Hitchcock	Keynote Speaker	awriter@jahitchcock.com>
PO Box 696, Dover, NH USA
815-550-5059	F 815-550-5059	C207-251-0627	netcrimes@netcrimes.net
New Product	my book: Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers and Stalkers Who Are Targeting You Online
Products introduced	The book would be nice and the web site www.netcrimes.net
Product highlights	As the number of Web users continues to swell, so do the number of online opportunists and con artists. Recognizing that "it's a jungle out there," cybercrime expert J.A. Hitchcock has written a reader-friendly guide that helps Web users identify, avoid, and survive online scams, spams, stalkers, and predators.
Company highlights	Attendees will learn more about cyberstalking and online harassment with statistics, case examples, what to do if someone comes to them for help with online harassment/stalking or scams, what policies should be in place, advice for victims, how to report spam, and much more.

Ovid	Booth: 116
Internal PR Contact:	Sue Velilla/ Marketing Manager
100 River Ridge Drive, Norwood, MA 02062 USA
781.769.2599	Fax: 781.769.8763		svelilla@ovid.com
Company highlights	Ovid is an internationally recognized leader in medical information services, providing a customizable suite of content, tools, and services for organizations whose medical researchers and clinicians are engaged in medical discoveries and patient care. Customers include the world's leading colleges and universities, medical schools, hospitals, national and private healthcare systems, HMO's, clinical practices, governments, and pharmaceutical, engineering, and biotech companies. Founded in 1988, Ovid is an operating company of Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), a division of Wolters Kluwer NV. Wolters Kluwer NV is a leading worldwide publishing and information services company with 17,000 employees and operations in 26 countries.

Project Muse®	Booth:321	Not-for-profit project of Johns Hopkins Press	muse.jhu.edu
Internal PR Contact:	Melanie Vandermark/Marketing and Sales Manager for Online Products
Project Muse®, The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4319
410-516-3846	F410516-6968		melanie@muse.jhu.edu
External PR Contact:	AnnMarie Lisowski/Sr. PR Strategist
MGH Public Relations, 100 Painters Mill Rd. Suite 600, Owings Mills, MD 21117
410.902.5051	F 410.902.8712	C410.299.4709	alisowski@mghpr.com
Product highlights:	Project MUSE®, Scholarly Journals Online, offers online access via institutional subscription to over 200 searchable, full-text, current scholarly periodicals. Titles from over 30 university presses and not-for-profit publishers are included, in the humanities, the social sciences and the arts. Several flexible, reasonably-priced subscription options are offered.
Company highlights:	Launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, to publish online the Press' journals, Project Muse expanded in the year 2000 to include titles from numerous other not-for-profit publishers. The Project has been hailed for its library-friendly licensing policies, easy online navigation, reasonable pricing, and generous discount plans. Further information about Muse may be found on the web at http://muse.jhu.edu.

ProQuest Information and Learning	Booth: 121	StockSy:PQE	il.proquest.com
Internal PR Contact:	Constance Crump / Manager, Public Relations
P O Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346
734-761-4700x6489	F734-975-6444		constance.crump@il.proquest.com
2nd Internal PR Contact:	Tina Creguer / Director, Communications/Public Relations
734-761-4700x3805	F734-975-6444		tina.creguer@il.proquest.com
New Product Line	ProQuest has acquired bigchalk.com, inc. With the acquisition, ProQuest becomes the leader in the growing K-12 marketplace. bigchalk provides online educational databases and tools to more than 43,000 schools across the country.
Product highlights	The ABI/INFORM database family provides the foremost index to business periodicals, with most titles in full text. It's the leading source for in-depth coverage of business traditions, trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, competitive and product information. Many of its titles are unique to ABI/INFORM.
Company highlights	ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and distributing information worldwide to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. The company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,000 publishers worldwide.

Sam Stormont	1:45 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
Presentation Highlights	Live virtual reference, which allows you to interact with your patrons on the Web through real-time chat, page pushing, co-browsing, and application sharing is currently one of the hottest topics in reference services. This session will cover five models for providing this new online service. Discover which one is right for you!

Thomson ISI	Booth: 433	StockSy: TOC (NYSE)	Isinet.com
Internal PR Contact:	Rodney Yancey/Corporate Communications Manager
3501 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-386-0100 x 1396	F 215-243-2236		Rodney.yancey@isinet.com
New Product	ISI Web of Knowledge
Product highlights	ISI Web of Knowledge is the single Web environment from which researchers can access, analyze and manage information. It facilitates discovery by offering seamless navigation to the highest quality content, evaluation tools and bibliographic management products. The platform also provides innovative search tools for cross-content and Web document.
Company highlights	ISI is a business of the Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC). Headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, USA with offices worldwide, ISI provides essential, high quality Web-based information to over seven million researchers, information specialists and administrators in diverse field.