Knowledge is Power: Energizing Information for Application
20th Anniversary Conference, August 14 – 17, 1998
Inter-Continental Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
The 20th Annual SALIS Conference featured invited speakers from various realms of the addictions and information fields: research, treatment, technology, and policy, including several members of SALIS. The conference also included a walking tour of the Los Angeles Central Library.
View the complete 1998 program. Highlights of the program included:
- Leigh Hallingby, Lindesmith Center, “The Library Database as Political Statement.”
- R.P. Kumar, New Delhi, India, “Energizing Information for Application in Relation to Drug Abuse in the Indian Context.”
- Eric Helmuth, SALIS Member from Join Together, “Promising New Internet Tools for Reducing Substance Abuse.”
- George Marcelle, SALIS Member, CSAP, “SALIS in Hollywood: The Trivia and the Truth.”
- David Hoang and Wayne Sugita, librarians in Los Angeles, “Lessons from LA County’s New Information Management Information System.”
- Laura Fillmore, President of Open Book Systems, “Web Publishing: Just in Time.”
Find stories and reports from the conference in SALIS News 18(3), Fall 1998. For a look at other past conferences, please visit our Conference Archive