The Show
As usual, WLN: Not the bibliographic utility provides you with a
complete guide (as good as we can get in advance anyway) and rather
than your silly exhibit guide, we will put our’s in our booth order
to make it easier for you to go up and down the aisles. As is the
tradition, we will give you who we are going to scope out and the
questions we are going to ask. They may not be inteligent, but….
Booth #
Vendor Who to talk
to…
103 The Library Corporation
Brower Murphy
The folks who showed us how the blow the high priced bibliographic
vendors away – with laser disks
200-2 Highsmith Co. Inc.
Duncan, Glen or Jay
Thank ‘em for supporting the Template clearinghouse and scope out
their micro supplies
348 Addison Public Library
Harvey Hahn
scope out the very decent “CARDS” program for cat card production
417 Catalog Card Corporation of America
Have they dropped the price of their card production software?
457 Datapro
Scope out their very complete guides, but who can afford them?
611 Rose Record Stores
One of the finest tune procurement places in the modern world
637 Ringold Management Systems
One of the oldest library micro software vendors
711-13 CLASS
How does it feel to have a data base with local call #’s?
728-32 OCLC
Scope out a copy of OCLC micro but rant and rave about their
outrageous price structure and ask em how they can copyright a data
base with so many public domain records.
905-7 BRS
see if they have dropped their fees
1011 McDonald’s Corporation
ask to see a 1024K color big mac
1305 Follett Software Co. Andy, Don,
Chuck, Joe, Betty or Brent
Scope out the new home for Library Software Co. stuff
1422 Dialog Information Services
The home of Microcomputer Index, live style anyway
1505 Grolier Eduational Corp. Kathy
DeBoer
See the new Americana Software as well as the NBK goodies
1722 Autographics
anybody in the mood for a merge? AGILE ][ is still steep$$$
1805 Easatin Phelan
This is good natured, top of the line Iowa folk.
2007-21 Brodart
scope out the laser disk of the LA county collection
2121 ALANET / ALA
how come it costs so much to talk to other librarians?
2221 Libraries Unlimited
The folks who did Costa and Troutner’s books
2253 The Computer Company Elizabeth
Diggles
A nice lady with interesting conversion concepts
2325 UTLAS
Scope out progress north of the border
2343 Information Access
Scope out if they have taken some of their indexes to micro yet
2423-27 Data Phase
Martha Gershun
Ask her how come she hasn’t supplied WLN: not the bibliographic
utility with the names and addresses of sites she has up and running
so I can correct my own assumptions about EASTWIND software?
Show the vendor’s you’re in the known and travel the exhibit halls
with your copy of WLN: Not the bibliographic utility under your arm.
At least they’ll be ready for your questions!
Some of the major players (bleu and the fruit co) whom we expected
to show for the first time are missing. Also, many of the micro
players who appeared last year and AASL are not listed. We know why
LSC is not here, but it will be interesting to see how many warm
bodies appear even though their booths are not. Don’t fret, we’ll
find out if it bytes us.
Come to chi, enjoy the town, but whatever you do, don’t miss the
intellectual development and social hour, Monday July 8 in the
Holiday Inn. We couldn’t do it without you.
