The Twelfth Northern Libraries Colloquy, June 5-9, 1988

该项目将支持由科罗拉多大学北极和阿尔卑斯山研究所于1988年6月5日至9日在科罗拉多州博尔德组织和开展的第十二届北方图书馆学术讨论会。讨论会每两年在不同的国际地点召集专家，参与定位、编目和传播关于北方国家和用户感兴趣的所有主题的数据和信息，特别强调北极。本次座谈会的主题是“北方信息的国际联网”。大多数北方国家正在开发数据和信息检索、存储和传播的方法。通过精心组织的计划，本次会议将分析这一不断增长的数据和信息的多样化主体的国际联网的国际潜力、问题和解决方案。关于非书目数据库、终端用户、存档和政策问题的会议都是要讨论的主题。将编制一份正式的议事程序卷，并广泛提供。这次讨论会的时机非常有利，因为它将满足1984年《北极研究和政策法案》中包含的数据和信息要求。美国北极研究委员会和跨机构北极研究政策委员会都在满足这些需求，本次讨论会的结果将为实现该法案的意图提供宝贵的见解和信息。

The project will support the Twelfth Northern Libraries Colloquy to be organized and conducted in Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 1988, by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research of the University of Colorado. The Colloquy brings together, every two years at various international locations, specialists involved in locating, cataloging, and disseminating data and information on all topics of interest to northern Nations and users, with particular emphasis on the Arctic. This Colloquy has as its theme "International Networking of Northern Information". Most northern countries are developing approaches to data and information retrieval, storage, and dissemination. This meeting, through a carefully structured program, will result in an analysis of the international potentials, problems, and solutions for international networking of this diverse body of ever increasing data and information. Sessions on non-bibliographic data banks, end users, archiving, and policy issues are among topics to be addressed. A formal proceedings volume will be produced and be available widely. The Colloquy comes at an extremely advantageous time, as it will address man;y of the data and information requirements contained in the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984. Both the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee are addressing these needs and the results of this Colloquy will provide invaluable insight and information required to fulfill the intent of the Act.