----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Yes, that's right - this is another one of those messages announcing a meeting at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco. This is one of the ALA Map and Geography Round Table's Research Libraries Collection Management Group (which we interpret very broadly to be any matter of interest to those building and maintaing a spatial-data collection in a research library - which latter we also define very broadly :)) Saturday, June 28, 11:30-12:30am Hotel Nikko, Pink Pearl Room Topic: If You Were Building the Perfect Spatial-Data Digital Library, What Would It Be Like? - summary of plans for the Alexandria Digital Library/UCSB Davidson Library October 1997 release (initially to UC system only; if bugs are few, we hope to open relatively soon on Web); requests for improvements to persons attending meeting (so bring your wish lists!) - for those of us who judge meetings by number and weight of the handouts, this should be nearly perfect - enough handouts so you don't have to take many notes, but not so many that it is impossible for one unaided person to lift your suitcase, since it now weighs as much as the Hydrogeologic Atlas of Michigan. Mary Larsgaard Alexandria Digital Library/Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara