Publisher's Comments - Provenance Vol.1, No.1 12/17/95

PROVENANCE: Volume 1, Number 1 - Dec. 17, 1995

Electronic Magazine For Information Professionals

Welcome to the first issue!

- by Neal Chan

December 17, 1995

A welcome to new members of The Provenance Magazine's advisory group, including:

Wendy Ancell, Head Librarian, Institiute of Indigenous Government, Vancouver, B.C.
Dave Dillabough, Systems Administrator & Integration Consultant Extraordinaire, Vancouver, B.C.
Lawrence Eng, Software Framework Architect, SEMATECH (on secondment from Texas Instruments), Austin, Texas
Robert Gibson, Adult Educator / Instructor, Arctic College: Aurora Campus, Inuvik, North West Territories
Arlene Higgs, Librarian, Y.W.C.A. Women's Information Center, Vancouver, B.C.
June Love, Librarian, Web Coordinator, Ministry of Women's Equality, Province of B.C., Victoria, B.C.

The "beta-prototype" was activated on October 30, 1995 at our "home Web site" (at www.intergate.bc.ca/netpac/provenance/index.html ). This first issue was activated on December 17, 1995.

A note of special recognition to the Internet Gateway Corporation, our Internet Web Site sponsor, and to the Tony Yau Design Company for the neat design work and graphics.
A special note of appreciation to Carole Joling and participants of the 1995 Networking the Pacific Forum, for their inspiration and moral support.
A note of appreciation to members of the British Columbia Libraries Association, Third World Libraries Interest Group
And of course a welcome and thank you to all those "special" librarians and information technologists that are contributing with articles and support services to make this new electronic magazine work.

Changes and Updates:

Please note that we are experimenting with various ways to keep some areas of the magzine regularly updated e.g. the NEWS AREAS.

more Feature Articles both in the area of Disaster planning as well as more general topics.
more original children's illustrations in our Children's Column area, courtesy of Marta Nielsen, Jane Cobb.and Tony Yau.
images of the Rabaul Public Library, our first view of what a volcano can do to a collection, were used to assist in local fund raising efforts for the rebuilding of this South Pacific Library.
We are adding new articles and building our other areas.
- The Special Libraries Association, Western Canada Chapter is working on a demonstration project with us to publish a Web version of their professional publication.
- See our Profession Development and News areas for in depth conferences and course announcements!
- We've just received copies of papers from the Networking the Pacific forum, which we will mount excerpts. Note the papers in their entirety have just been put on I.D.R.C.'s Web site.
I would like to encourage you to look at our Travel & Vacations Section - it provides a nice contrast to some of the more serious information in this magazine. This area will grow in the new year.

Conclusion

Our first issue features Disaster & Emergency Preparedness Any of you with thoughts or suggestions on the topic, can send -email to the Editor, Guy Robertson, c/o myself (see below). You will note the wide scope of subjects that Provenance potentially plans to cover--so comments or article suggestions are welcome.

Have a safe and hopefully refreshing Christmas season!

Neal Chan for
The Provenance Electronic Magazine for Information Professionals

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