Message-Id: <9411191004.AA29510@mocha.bunyip.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 05:07:55 -0500
To: uri@bunyip.com
From: echristi@usgs.gov (Eliot Christian)
Subject: Administration to Announce GILS
Administration to Announce
Government Information Locator Service
On December 7, 1994, 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 live demonstration of
the GILS and statements by other officials and private
sector representatives.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The event will take place at
2:00 pm on Wednesday, December 7, in the White House
Briefing Room, Room 450, Old Executive Office Building,
17th and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.. Access will be
through the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance at 1:30 pm.
Seating is extremely limited. Attendance will be by
reservation only, on a "first reserved" basis. To
attend, please send an e-mail to ipc@a1.eop.gov
including your full name and date of birth for
clearance into the building, by December 1, 1994.
Confirmation will be by return e-mail. Persons without
e-mail capability may fax their reservation request to
395-5167, but will not receive a confirmation.