Please take time while visiting the exhibits to personally thank the following vendors and organizations who support the News Division:

Associated Press		Freedom Forum		T/One Inc.		
Cascade				Infonautics		UMI
Congressional Quarterly		KR MediaStream		UMI/DataTimes
The Dialog Corp.		Lexis-Nexis		The West Group
Dow Jones			NewsBank

5:30 to 9 p.m. News Division Open House at the Indianapolis Star & News

This is a come and go affair, so stop by anytime between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m., but be sure to allow time for a tour and coffee, cookies, etc. The Star is at 307 N Pennsylvania, corner of Pennsylvania and New York. From the Convention Center, go north on Capitol to Washington, east (right) on Washington to Pennsylvania, north (left) on Pennsylvania to the newspaper building.

RSVP: In order to get a count, if you plan to visit please e-mail Beth Baker at bbaker@starnews.com or call Cathy Knapp, 317-633-9487.

8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Open House, News Division Suite (Hyatt Regency)

Drop by for light refreshments following your tour of the Star for our first-in-a-long-time Saturday night hosted open house.

Dialog is the primary sponsor, with Infonautics and The West Group co-hosts.

8 a.m. to Noon News Division CE Course: Business is News: A Primer and Evaluation of Business Resources Available to News Librarians

Dealmakers and their deals are newsworthy. The growth of the stock market and investing along with increased concern over health care, the job market, and the economy has heightened the need for business news. Even businessmen and women have become celebrities.

In addition to understanding the basics of business, news librarians must find and use the most useful and cost-effective sources of business information. The number and variety of sources of business information has grown. In addition to print materials and Internet sources, there is an entire industry attempting to fill our needs for information about companies and the people who run them.

If you're interested in this class, just follow the instructions in the conference program to sign up for continuing education course number 205.

This half-day course will cover:

• Annual Reports
  • What are they and when would you need one?
• SEC documents
  
  
  • What is a proxy statement? An 8k? What's the best report to find particular information? Other regulatory agency documents - If the business is a nuclear plant, what else can you find out? If the business is a local restaurant, what type of information is available from the county health department?
• Sources of Information and how to evaluate
  
  
  • A. Public companies - If you want "X", you can get it at "A" (comprehensive but expensive), "B" (free, but messy), "C" (cheap and a little nicer), or "D" (cheap and pretty, but doesn't have all the information you need).
  • B. Private companies -- are there any sources available? what can be scrounged up from other sources of information?

The course instructors are Mary Danehy, Coordinator of Business Information Services for Time Inc. Research Center, and Diana Henriques, a financial investigative reporter for The New York Times. They will offer a primer on business and business documents as well as demonstrate, describe, and evaluate the many different ways to get information on both public and private companies.

Moderator: News Division Education Chair: Sperry Krueger, The News & Observer, Raleigh

6 p.m. to ? WELCOME NEWCOMERS NIGHT in the News Division Suite.

News Division first-time conference attendees: You are invited to attend this special night set aside JUST FOR YOU! This is an excellent chance to meet other newcomers, and get acquainted with oldtimers and those in between.

NewsBank will again be our host for this open house.

Newcomers Coordinator for Indianapolis is John R. Cronin, Boston Herald

Noon to 1:15 p.m. News Division Annual Luncheon

Martha Angle, director of Congressional Quarterly's news services and associate editor of the Congressional Monitor, will speak.

Sponsored by Congressional Quarterly

1:30 to 3 p.m. Non-USA Panel Discussion

Tips on international sources. A panel consisting of library specialists from outside the U.S.A. will discuss international sources available on the Internet and elsewhere.

Annabel Colley, BBC Panorama, provided a great list of UK and European Internet Sources.   Paulo Ramírez provided a list of the top ten Latin American sources on the Internet.

Moderator: Kirsten Smith, Southam News, Ottawa

6 to 9 p.m. News Division Reception and Awards Banquet

The posh and elegant ballroom of the Columbia Club in Indianapolis is the site selected for our annual bash.

Dinner will be preceded by a cocktail reception hosted by UMI.

Moderator: Teresa Leonard, The News & Observer, Raleigh

CX - To err is human...Cleaning it up is in our control!

Moderator: Jackie Chamberlain, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA

Roundtable - Anyone with questions asks; anyone with answers offers them.

Moderator (or Referee, as needed): Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times.

The Associated Press & UMI/DataTimes - Publishers Services are providing breakfast.

Noon to 1:15 p.m. Freedom Forum Lunch and Program

NIGERIA: Media Under Fire - Dr. Olatunji Dare, noted Nigerian journalist, will speak about censorship in Nigeria and the dangers to journalists.

Moderators: Phyllis Lyons, Directory Library Services/International Program Manager, The Freedom Forum; and Nancy Stewart, Manager of Library operations

1:30 to 2:45 p.m. What's New in Training?

Jennifer Small, San Antonio Express News, and Chris Hardesty, Raleigh News & Observer, will offer the latest ideas in training reporters, editors and other end-users.


Jennifer spoke about the ABC's of Technology Training in the Newsroom.

Moderator: Jennifer Small, San Antonio Express News

3 to 4:30 p.m. Intranet Ornamentation: Getting the Attention You Deserve

Explore cool technologies and hot ways to decorate your corporate Intranet pages. This session assumes a basic knowledge of the Web and HTML.

Presenter: John Sinclair, Edmonton Sun, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Moderator: Julie Kirsh, Toronto Sun, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

6 p.m. to ? News Division Open House, Division Suite

Come and check out the cool stuff your peers haul in for sale/auction.

Host for the evening is DataTimes/UMI.

WEDNESDAY, June 10th

11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Lunch buffet and How We Did That

This session will focus on the variety of systems out there, especially integrated systems, and what smaller papers can do without a whole lot of money. Speakers include Kathy Foley, San Antonio Express-News; Bridget Janus, Cedar Rapids Gazette; Kathleen Flynn will chronicle the Cox-wide archiving project.

Linda provided some suggestions from her experience of installing an integrated archiving system.

Moderator: Linda Henderson, Providence Journal.

Dow Jones will sponsor this event.

1 to 2:15 p.m. Solo/Small Libraries

Speakers include: Jeff Graveline, of the Tuscaloosa News, and Julia Muller, from the Savannah Morning News.

Jeff spoke about building a library on a budget and gave some suggestions for solo or small news organization librarians. Julia provided a list of the top ten things to do to save money.

Moderator: Diane Logsdon, Pantagraph Library, Bloomington, IL

2:30 to 3:45 p.m. What's Next?

Panel discussion including representatives from KR MediaStream and UMI/DataTimes discussing text archives; Associated Press and T/One-Merlin talking about photo archives; and Dow Jones, Lexis-Nexis and NewsBank, Inc. offering thoughts on the information services. We hope to find out what we can look forward to (and what we should dread).

6 p.m. to ? News Division Open House, Division Suite

Second part of auction-sale; better come check it out!

Sponsored by KR MediaStream

THURSDAY, June 11th

9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tour of the Indianapolis Museum of Art

This will include a special exhibit, a tour of the museum library, and lunch in the museum's unusual restaurant. News Division members need to make and pay for reservations; reimbursement will be made to NEWS DIVISION MEMBERS ONLY by Lexis-Nexis NewsView Solutions.

Our tour director is Jody Habayeb, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

(Updated 05/27/98)

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