• ~ _. '!. ~ • • ~ " . , .; ..... ... .... t ~ .. ~ . . . '..- • .... • ,.,, ,.. - TREND REPORTS ON NEW OPTICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The Fred Meyer Charitable Trust's Library and Information Resources for the Northwest program has published a series of reports on rz.ew optical information technologies. Laser Discs Knock on Library Door reports on the Seattle-based Microsoft's company's conference, the First International CD ROM conference held in Seattle in March, 1986. The paper summarizes some of the conference papers and discusses CD ROM hardware and support services, critical market barriers for the CD ROM, intellectual property rights, and technical standards. The New Optical Media Mid-1986: A Status Report is a complementary guide to the first report with more emphasis on the current status of the technology. Information gathered from two conferences is also included: a workshop sponsored by the ·Information Industry in Palo Alto, July, 1986, and the Fourth International Conference on the Future of Optical Memory Technology sponsored by Rothchild Consultants. The New Optical Media in the Library and the Academy Tommorrow provides an appraisal about how the new technology can fit into academic and library.environments. The final report, Moving Information: Graphic Images on CD ROM looks into how the new technology might change the information a library can provide. With the new technologies libraries will be· forced to re-examine what type of information they make available, and how information is indexed and made available. For More Information: David C. Miller, DCM Associates, Post Drawer 605, Benicia, CA 94510, 707-746-6728. L __ _ Page 42 RAIN Fall 1986 .t
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