I have to give a half-hour presentation to a Government Documents Librarian Colloquium at the Georgia Library Association this Friday. The topic is GIS in document libraries. Most of the government documents librarians will be from non-regional depositories and smaller libraries. I will talk about the very wide range of information they are receiving, or will receive, in digital formats. I will use a very wide defination of GIS, emphasizing spatial information, rather than systems of analysis. I will describe what I think is a reasonable minimum hardware system. Here in the Map Collection we are using Sammamish to process census data. However that may be more expensive in money and expertise than some of the departments can afford. Does anyone have some suggestions of software to read the census CDs?? I have not yet found anything cheap or easy to use that will read the DOQs. Any suggestions?? I will talk about ArcView but will recommend they wait for ArcView II, or that they not get into GIS software at this point. Any suggestions?? Johnnie Sutherland Map Collection University of Georgia