"Information Forecasts and Grey Literature"

               THE SECOND U.S. WORKSHOP ON GREY LITERATURE

                              GreyWorks'96

                            November 18, 1996
                          Washington, D.C. USA

           Content:

                 1. Background and Goals of the Workshop
                 2. Program, Speakers, and Organisations
                 3. General Information about GreyWorks'96

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1.  BACKGROUND AND GOALS:
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In September 1993, the first U.S. Workshop on Grey Literature was held in
Crystal City, Virginia. In other countries seminars and symposia have also
been organised on this topic. Since 1993, two International Conferences
have dealt with the complexities of this expanding field of information.

The goal of GreyWorks'96, the Second U.S. Workshop on Grey Literature
is threefold:

(1.) To synthesize the (meta)information generated in this field and
     present it in a state-of-the-art review,
(2.) To reverse the premise that "information transfer is a prerequisite to
     knowledge transfer", and use the knowledge that has already been
     generated in this field in order to explore new parameters for grey
     literature, and
(3.) to encounter firsthand, examples of resources, methods, and policies
     that successfully exploit grey literature.

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2.  PROGRAM AND SPEAKERS
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09:00  Arrival and Registration

09:30  Welcome: R.D. Steele, OSS, Inc.

OPENING ADDRESS:

        "Grey Literature in an Internet Worked World"
         B.C. Carroll; J. McDonnell, IIA, Inc.

SESSION ONE
        "Main Issues, Continued Challenges, and New Directions in this
         Field of Information"
         D.J. Farace, GreyNet

SESSION TWO
        Medium and Mode of Scientific and Technical Communication

        B. Bartenbach, Engineering Information
        Networked Information and Grey Literature as seen by Publishers

        D.H. Smith, CIS, Inc.
        Emerging Forms of Grey Literature and their Corporate Authors

SESSION THREE
        Valuable Resources for Public and Private Enterprise

        M.M.K. Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.
        In the Spirit of Private Enterprise Grey Literature becomes a
        Real Commodity

12:30-13:30  Lunch

        D. Johnson, NTIS
        An Awakening of the Public Sector to the Information Resources
        within its Domain

SESSION FOUR
        Who uses this Information and for What Purposes?

        T.E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research
        The Results of Research can provide us with reliable User Profiles

        B. Dessy, National Library of Education
        Education and Training for Academicians and Practitioners

SESSION FIVE
        Panel Discussion, Open Forum, and Closing

17:00 Close of the Workshop

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3.  GENERAL INFORMATION
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LOCATION AND DATE:

GreyWorks'96 - Washington, D.C. USA
November 18, 1996 from 9:00-17:00 hours

WORSHOP ORGANISERS:

Dr. Dominic J. Farace, Director
GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service
Koninginneweg 201, 1075 CR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: 31-20-671.1818  -  Fax: 31-20-671.1818
Email: greynet@inter.nl.net

Mr. Robert D. Steele, President
OSS, Open Source Solutions, Inc.
11005 Langton Arms Court,
Oakton, VA 22124-1807, USA
Tel: 1-703-242.1700  -  Fax: 1-703-242.1711
Email: oss@oss.net

CONTACT THE INTERNET FOR THE LATEST NEWS:

http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/home.html
gopher://gopher.konbib.nl/11/greynet/
http://www.oss.net/oss