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The  new edition of PC GLobe is called Maps N Facts and is available
from Broderbund Software-Direct
     P.O. Box 6125
     Novato, California. 94948-6125
1-800 521 6263 or 415 382 4600
We have just received it and it is a marked improvement over the previous
edition.
I am very interested in the work of your IFLA committee as I am heading
a task force of the Ontario Council of University Libraries Map Group on
digital spatial information in the map library. I am currently trying to
pull together a list of software in use by the Ontario map libraries. I
would be glad to keep in touch and exchange information with you.
Barbara.
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> Have I stumbled into another lost cause?  I called PC Globe using the
> number provided on the original box, only to awaken some sleepy soul
> who said this was not the PC Globe phone number.  Next I tried our
> acquisitions department, who found a new number (800) 255-2789 in
> some magical book that lists everyone's number.  This call produced a
> recording saying the number was disconnected and that there was no
> futher information.  Then I called the "800" operator, who could find
> no listing for PC Globe.  Is this company still up and running?  Does
> anyone know a "good" number to contact them?
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> We are attempting to upgrade our various mapping programs here and to
> locate new programs.  This is due in part to the fact that I am
> chair of an IFLA working group that is compiling an international
> directory of PC based mapping programs.  We are interested in
> identifying programs world-wide as well as in the U.S., obtaining
> copies for examination, and developing a guide so that intelligent
> choices can be made by users.
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> This working group was established at the IFLA-Barcelona meeting this
> past August 1993.  IFLA meets in Havana this August 1994, and in
> Istanbul in 1995.  We hope to have gathered enough data to procede
> with this directory by the 1995 meeting.  Any information on PC based
> mapping programs, comments on their use, and contacts with interested
> producers who would like to be considered would be very much
> appreciated.
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> Please send your comments via Maps-L, so that everyone can benefit
> from the discovery of new ways to use their PCs.
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> David C. McQuillan
> Map Librarian
> Map Library
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, S.C.  29208
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> Phone: (803) 777-4723
> Fax: (803) 777-4661
> Bitnet: L100003@UNIVSCVM
> Internet: [log in to unmask]
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