Treffer: 34th annual UIUC clinic highlights visualizing subject access.

This paper discusses the 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, the theme of which was 'Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources.' The conference was held in March 1997. Summaries of individual sessions from the conference are presented. The topics addressed by the sessions are: 'Visual Browsing for Information Retrieval'; 'Hypostatizing Data Collections, Especially Bibliographic'; 'Simultaneous Searching of Distributed Information and Subject Repositories on the World Wide Web'; 'Information Filtering From Multiple Sources'; 'Thesauri in the Full-Text World'; 'The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Visualizing Document Associations'; 'Spatial Abilities and Visualization'; 'Using IODyne as an Indexing Tool'; 'Knowledge Structures for Information Visualization'; 'Visualizing Digital Libraries: What Role for the OPAC?'; 'How Will We Provide Subject Access in the Interspace of the 21st Century?'; 'Natural Language Processing-Based Information Retrieval'; 'Building and Accessing Vocabulary Resources for Networked Resource Discovery and Navigation'; and 'Using Electronic Services to Become an Internetworked Business.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]