# GILS Announcement 12/7 at DOI Auditorium

Eliot Christian (echristi@usgs.gov)
Sun, 04 Dec 1994 06:21:46 -0500

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    Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1994 06:21:46 -0500

    To: echristi@usgs.gov (Eliot Christian)

    From: echristi@usgs.gov (Eliot Christian)

    Subject: GILS Announcement 12/7 at DOI Auditorium

(Sorry if you're getting this multiple times. This announcement is being
retransmitted due to many errors from mailers that could not handle the long
cc: list.)
DUE TO HEAVY DEMAND
GILS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT AUDITORIUM

Administration to Announce
Government Information Locator Service
(REVISED ANNOUNCEMENT)

On Wednesday, December 7, 1994, at 2:00 pm, in the
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT MAIN AUDITORIUM, 18th & C Sts.,
N.W., the Clinton Administration will take a major step
toward creating a Government Information Locator
Service (GILS) to help the public locate and access
information across the federal government. GILS will
identify public information resources, describe the
information, and help the public get it. It will
include a network of decentralized, agency-based
information locators. The public will use GILS
directly or through intermediaries such as libraries,
private information providers, and academic
institutions. It will ultimately be accessible through
various media including Internet, by dial-up from the
Commerce Department's FedWorld system, and from the
World Wide Web through the "Welcome to the White House"
server. On December 7th, at 2:00 pm:

* Commerce Deputy Secretary David J. Barram will
announce the initiative;

* Sally Katzen, Administrator of the Office of
Management and Budget's Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, will announce the issuance of
an OMB Bulletin to implement the GILS; and

* Ray Kammer, Deputy Director of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, will
announce the promulgation of a Federal Information
Processing Standard for the GILS.

The event will also include a demonstration of the
GILS and statements by other officials and private
sector representatives.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event does NOT require
preregistration--the DOI Auditorium will be open to the
press and public.

Eliot Christian, US Geological Survey, 802 National Center, Reston VA 22092
echristi@usgs.gov Phone(703)648-7245 FAX(703)648-7069

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