----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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. > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > 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? > > 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. > > 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. > > Please send your comments via Maps-L, so that everyone can benefit > from the discovery of new ways to use their PCs. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David C. McQuillan > Map Librarian > Map Library > University of South Carolina > Columbia, S.C. 29208 > > Phone: (803) 777-4723 > Fax: (803) 777-4661 > Bitnet: L100003@UNIVSCVM > Internet: [log in to unmask] > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] Tel:613 788 2600 ext 2515. Fax:613 788 3909 Map Library, D299 Loeb Building, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont. K1S5B6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------