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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:16:21 -0700
From: Virginia R. Hetrick <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NTIS

One thing that might be a consideration as far as the NTIS closing would
be a change to its core function.  Even though the agencies are putting
their reports on the Internet, the titles of the reports and lack of
"real world" keywords seems to me to be a serious problem since the
customer set still has a substantial difficulty finding these documents
amongst the gazillions of pages on the Internet.

It would be a genuine service to have a single source where ALL
published (online or onpaper) documents from the Feds as well as reports
from grant and contract awardees would be indexed.

Your thoughts?

vh
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