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The Information Resource Managment Association of Canada (Ottawa) presents:
 
 
95 May 3 9am     M A N A G I N G   C H A N G E
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    Seminars are 9am-noon (Coffee, danishes at 8:30 am)
             the first Wednesday of each month
   at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Le Salon(1st Floor) usually
              but for MAY - IN FOUNTAIN ROOM, 2nd FLOOR
            - No pre-registration necessary -
     $15 - IRMAC members free - Annual Membership $80 (prorated)
             Corporate memberships available
                    Students 1/2 price
 
1. CHANGE MANAGEMENT - The human effects of innovation
 
Using a popular BPR model based on Mike Hammer's approach (with
phases dedicated to addressing culture and communication and the
human side of change) the speaker will identify misconceptions which
often lead to major problems in the introduction of technological
change. A model for adequately addressing key human factors as well
as process will be reviewed.
 
     Richard Simourd is a consultant specializing in the human
     side of change. After 10 years with Digital Equipment
     Corporation he has spent another 5 years consulting with
     organizations in the U.S. and Canada and conducting post-
     graduate research on organizational culture and the
     implementation of change. He is a member of the Process
     Renewal Group.
 
 
2. CHANGE MANAGEMENT - selecting, training & stress management for the
                    "involved"
 
Effective management of human resources is a key factor in managing
change including the introduction of technological change.
Frequently human resource management is overlooked in the process
of technological and the results for the organization in terms of
productivity are as frequently disappointing. Technological change
raises issues of selection, training and coping with stress.
Approaches to these three areas will be discussed.
 
     Bill Jones is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the
     Department of Psychology at Carleton University. He has
     consulted widely in the public and private sectors including
     manufacturing industries, software development, police forces
     and various branches of the public service on work stress,
     productivity, environmental issues and cultural change.
 
 
N E X T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
95 Jun 7  IRM in the 90's
 
To end our season we'd like to share views and experiences.
We're inviting several IRM persons (and you) from the private and public
sectors to answer these questions:
 
1. What successes and failures have you had in applying Information Resource
   Managment?
 
2. What challenges are you facing?
 
3. What will IRM look like in your organization ten years from now?
 
The format: will be a discussion circle. Each willing participant will answer
these questions for the group. After all have spoken, we will have a
round-table discussion.
 
 
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95 May 16 1700 CIPS @ Congress Centre 823-6714
 
 
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Information Resource Management Association of Canada (Ottawa)
PO Box 81070, 111 Albert St
Ottawa, Ontario Canada   K1P 1B1
+1 613 239-4903  Fax:+1 613 594-8944  eMail:af910@freenet.carleton.ca
 
Focusing on issues of interest to systems and business managers
who want to put their corporation's information assets to work.
 
 
Also,                 ---------------------------------------
 
                               SIGIR  '95
 
                      18th International Conference
                       on Research and Development
                        in Information Retrieval
 
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                           PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
 
                            Seattle, WA, USA
                        July 9  -  July 13,  1995
 
               Sponsored by ACM SIGIR in cooperation with
                              DD (Denmark)
                          CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe)
                              GI (Germany)
                            AICA-GLIR (Italy)
                              IPSJ (Japan)
                              BCS-IRSG (UK)
 
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NOTE:  What follows is an abbreviated version of the
conference program and registration information.  FULL
information, including descriptions of tutorials and workshops
and all technical sessions, is available via anonymous ftp
from: ftp.u.washington.edu (\public\sigir95\program) or via
WWW at URL: http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/conferences/
SIGIR_95_adv.pgm.txt; or contact sigir95@u.washington.edu to
request a copy of the program by mail.
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SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on
information retrieval theory, systems, practice and
applications. IR groups within the computing societies of
Denmark, Europe, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom
are cooperating sponsors. The conference will be valuable to
those interested in the theory of information retrieval as
well as those responsible for system design, testing and
evaluation.  Topics include distributed IR and the Internet,
efficiency techniques, text summarization, natural language
processing, fusion strategies, user studies, search
interfaces, and education in IR. Attendees will learn about
the underlying foundations for the emerging Global Information
Infrastructure, which depends upon searching, browsing,
publishing, indexing and other processing of text and
multimedia information collections.
 
Six pre-conference tutorials will cover both beginning and
advanced topics. The main program consists of 40 contributed
papers as well as two panel discussions, poster sessions, and
demonstrations.  The conference will be followed by five
post-conference research workshops on topics of great current
and general interest: visual information retrieval interfaces;
Z39.50; IR and databases; curriculum development for IR; and
automatic construction of hypermedia.
 
 
SIGIR95
c/o Convention Services Northwest
1809 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1414
Seattle, WA 98101 USA
Fax:  +1 206-292-0559
Email: SIGIR95@aol.com
 
Registration queries to: +1 206-292-9198 (Ask for Sarah
Amendola)
 
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Need a small, cheap, fast DataBase??
 
From: Herb Curlee <hcurlee@richmond.infi.net>
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Freeware DB for 286 PC
Date: Tue Apr  4 20:30:38 1995
 
Michael Hesemann <mhese@mail.hh.provi.de> wrote:
>Which dos-based DB-programm is recommendable for 286 pc's ?
>It should allow 20 items and about 1.000 entries.
>
>Thanks for any reply
>
>Michael Hesemann  mhese@mail.hh.provi.de
 
Check out FORCE 2.4c, which produces native code using traditional xbase
syntax.  It runs well even on XTs!
 
The North American ftp site is:
 
ftp.vaxxine.com
anonymous login
pword - your email address
remote dir /pub/msdos/force
 
Look for the files DEMO.ZIP, FN0395.ZIP, and VERSIO.ZIP
 
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