+ Page 1 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News Volume 3, Number 14 (1992) ISSN 1050-6004 Editors: Dana Rooks (LIBL@UHUPVM1) and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (LIB3@UHUPVM1). Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS WALTON RESIGNS AS CLSI PRESIDENT, 1 VOLUME TWO OF THE PACS REVIEW AVAILABLE FROM LITA, 2 COMPACT CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCES CLINPSYC, 3 WILSON AND PBS ANNOUNCE BIBLIO-LINK TO WILSONDISC, 4 WALTON RESIGNS AS CLSI PRESIDENT Bob Walton, President of CLSI, has issued the following statement: This is to announce that on August 4, 1992, I tendered my resignation as President of CLSI, Inc. to Michael J. Timbers, President and CEO of IHS Group. I will continue to serve as President until October 9, 1992. After serving as CLSI President for over two years, the timing of my departure follows the fulfillment of the three primary objectives I set out to accomplish: CLSI has re- established a very strong and aggressive financial position to enable it to aggressively continue to compete for new business and to invest in new products in an increasingly competitive library automation marketplace. Secondly, significant improvements in CLSI's customer and field service operations are establishing a new standard in the industry. And, most recently, CLSI has successfully introduced the new, second generation LIBS 100plus software into active service in representative libraries in each of CLSI's primary markets--the United States, Europe, and Australia. While I have enjoyed my time in New England, the timing of my departure also reflects the desires of my family to return to the West. + Page 2 + During my tenure at CLSI, I have had the privilege of working closely with hundreds of CLSI customers. I am indebted to those librarians who have contributed significantly to improving my understanding of and appreciation for customer service which is, of course, the objective of our efforts at CLSI. I am happy to report that I now count many of these professional colleagues as personal friends. Certainly, I am indebted to the loyalty and enthusiasm I have witnessed by CLSI managers and staff. Without question, they have contributed the lion's share of talent and resources resulting in CLSI's turnaround and recent successes. In particular, Jim Hofbauer, who previously served with me as Executive Vice President, will continue to lead CLSI's forward movement in his new capacity as CEO. Having worked closely with Jim since the summer of 1990, I am very confident that given his understanding of the CLSI and IHS Group organizations, combined with the management talents and insights he has demonstrated during the last two years, CLSI will safely continue to grow as a leading company in the library automation industry. My immediate plans are to begin a long overdue vacation, relocate my family, and seek new employment in some meaningful capacity in the service of libraries and their patrons. In a related announcement, CLSI confirmed that James A. Hofbauer had been promoted to President and CEO of CLSI and noted that: The Office of the Executive structure provided CLSI the opportunity to have two senior managers, Bob Walton and Jim Hofbauer, work closely together and learn from each other on a daily basis. Decisions were made with mutual input since both co-managed CLSI. VOLUME TWO OF THE PACS REVIEW AVAILABLE FROM LITA The second volume (1991) of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is now available in book form, published by the American Library Association's Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). Walt Crawford, LITA President, produced camera-ready copy for the volume using Ventura Publisher, and he also indexed the volume. + Page 3 + Volume two has a special section about major electronic serials on networks that includes papers by the editors and publishers of EJournal, The Electronic Journal of Communication, the Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research, New Horizons in Adult Education, the Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, Postmodern Culture, and PSYCOLOQUY as well as a guide to the LISTSERV software. It also has a symposium about network-based information resources and scholarly communication, plus a paper on machine-readable data files in libraries. The first volume of the PACS Review is also available from LITA. The price of each volume is $17 for LITA members and $20 for non- LITA members. For further information, contact: ALA Publishing Services, Order Department, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611-2729, (800) 545-2433. COMPACT CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCES CLINPSYC Compact Cambridge has announced that it will publish a new CD-ROM database about clinical psychology this fall. ClinPSYC will initially offer over 222,000 records from 1980 to the present; approximately 24,000 new items will be added each year. ClinPSYC is drawn from a database maintained by the American Psychological Association. For the rest of the year, the database will cost $1,995 per year--one-third off the normal U.S. price of $2,995 ($2,495 for subscribers of the print index Psychological Abstracts). Each subscription will include $250 worth of free document delivery service from CARL UNCOVER 2. Subscriptions from U.S. customers ordered before October 31, 1992 include the use of a CD-ROM reader at no extra charge. For further information, contact: Compact Cambridge, 7200 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 961-6700. + Page 4 + WILSON AND PBS ANNOUNCE BIBLIO-LINK TO WILSONDISC The H. W. Wilson Company and Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc. (PBS) have announced the availability of Biblio-Link to WILSONDISC. This product is a companion program to PBS's Pro- Cite bibliographic database management system. Using Biblio- Link, WILSONDISC searchers can transfer records directly into Pro-Cite Version 2.0, where bibliographic elements are transferred into appropriate fields according to document type. Within Pro-Cite, records can be searched, sorted, indexed, and formatted into bibliographies. For further information, contact: Michael Page, The H. W. 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