STEPHANIE ASTERIADIS, M.A., is Coordinator of the CASAT (Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies) Clearinghouse at the University of Nevada, Reno. The Clearinghouse distributes treatment and prevention resources as an Associate RADAR Network Center and provides research services and resources for the Western CAPT (Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies).

WILLIAM J. BAILEY, M.S., M.P.H., C.P.P., is Associate Professor of Applied Health Science and Executive Director of the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University. He is an experienced prevention researcher and grantwriter, and taught more than 20,000 students in a drug education survey course over two decades. He is the author of a college-level textbook and several dozen articles on drug abuse prevention.

DUCCIO CANESTRI is the Documentalist for the Documentation and Records Centre of the Gruppo Abele, Torino, Italy. He has an Arts Degree in Medieval Latin Literature with postgraduate studies in Codicology, Paleography, and Librarianship, and is pursuing a degree for Archivists and Documentalists. He is a member of a team of the Torino University for the study of manuscripts of the National Library of Torino.

TOM COLTHURST, M.P.A., is co-director of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He also serves as associate director for the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. Since 1992, he has been SALIS treasurer. He was on the organizing committee for the 1998 SALIS 20th Anniversary Conference.

ROBERT W. DENNISTON, M.A., currently serves as Director, HHS Secretary's Initiative on Youth Substance Abuse Prevention, within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. His previous positions were as Director of Public Education for CSAP, Director of the Division of Prevention and Research Dissemination of the NIAAA, and Chief of the Information Projects Branch at the National Cancer Institute. He has a master's degree in mass communication. He has served as an advisor to the WHO on alcohol and drug problems. He is an active member of the American Public Health Association's Section on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, and serves as a member of APHA's Governing Council.

SALLY SHEARER FLECK, M.A., C.P.P., Bureau Chief, Bureau for Mental Health Promotion and Addictions Prevention, was awarded a master's degree in psychology in 1984. She has served as Program Director for the Division of Mental Health since 1984, working in programs for children with disabilities and their families and later in prevention programs for youth and their families. She was appointed Bureau Chief in 1998. Mrs. Fleck has been a featured speaker at numerous State Conferences and most recently presented "Making Prevention Work in Indiana" at the national Prevention Needs Assessment Conference in Washington, D.C.

LEIGH HALLINGBY has set up and managed libraries for the Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS), the National Center for Children in Poverty, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), and the Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute, which includes the Lindesmith Center library on drug policy reform. She is also active in the Special Libraries Association.

SAMANTHA HELFERT, M.L.S., employed by The CDM Group, Inc for the past four years, has provided library services for CSAP, OJJDP and NIAAA projects. Prior to coming to CDM, she spent four years at CSAP's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information working in a variety of information services positions. She currently serves on the board for the Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists association.

ERIC HELMUTH, M.A. is Web Outreach Coordinator for Join Together, a national resource center for communities fighting substance abuse. He creates and edits online resource information, and trains groups across the nation in using the Internet to support their work . Eric received an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Akron in 1992.

NANCY KENDALL is the Senior Special Librarian at the Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources. She came to the Midwest from Seattle in 1995, managing the Prevention Resource Center Library and the distribution of free educational materials around the state.In addition, she is the Webmaster for the Wisconsin Clearinghouse web site.

SHEILA LACROIX, B.Sc,, M.L.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Library (former Addiction Research Foundation Library), Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada. Ms. Lacroix has been providing reference and research services at Centre Library to both professionals and the public of Ontario since 1991. Her work has involved addictions information dissemination, now expanding to include psychiatry and mental health, through the development of various information products such as bibliographies, information packages and other resource guides, many web-based. She has also assisted in the researching and editing of many of ARF's and the Centre's publications. Currently, she is a member of the SALIS Executive as Past Chair.

GEORGE MARCELLE, Communications Director for Social & Health Services, Ltd. and its Materials Development and Marketing Support contract with CSAP/SAMHSA. George is Associate Editor of CSAP's Prevention Pipeline and coordinated editorial staff of the forthcoming joint DHHS-ONDCP content analysis study, Substance Use in Popular Movies and Music. In December 1998, he became SALIS chair-elect and is 1999 conference co-chair for the National Association of Lesbian & Gay Alcoholism Professionals NALGAP).

ROGER A. MORRIS is Computer Coordinator for the Indiana Prevention Resource Center and has a Master's degree in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. Roger is currently working on a Master's degree in Library and Information Science. He received Novel CNE certification in 1994.

KATHLEEN MULLEN is the manager of the library of the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She also helped develop the first two editions of the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus and will continue this same work on the upcoming third edition. Kathleen has served as Chair FY96 and Past Chair FY97 of SALIS.

MARK A. POGUE, M.S., C.P.P., serves as the Education and Training Coordinator for the Indiana Prevention Resource Center and as Lecturer in Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University - Bloomington. His areas of expertise include drug abuse prevention, drug education, education and training, and higher education programming. Mark currently is the President of the Indiana Association of Prevention Professionals, Inc., which was incorporated in 1997 to provide encouragement for the development of a prevention profession, and to enhance the prevention profession in the State of Indiana.

RUTH RUSSELL, Re. D., is an Associate Professor of Recreation and Park Administration and Associate Dean of Faculties. She is involved in research activities in tourism impact and is the author of numerous papers on research methodology, tourism in developing countries, recreation programming, measuring recreation experience satisfaction and leisure as a cultural phenomenon.

BARBARA SEITZ DE MARTINEZ, Ph.D., M.M., M.L.S., C.P.P. is Chair of SALIS and Head Librarian of the Indiana Prevention Resource Center where she created and maintains the library portion of the IPRC web site. She is also CSAP's RADAR Network Liaison for the State of Indiana and a member of its National Steering Committee. Barbara has numerous publications, including articles, books, and databases. Over the past years she has given several papers and workshops related to the use of databases to put library collections on the web and for the management of library collections and clearinghouse functions.

DAGOBERT SOERGEL, Dr. Phil., Professor, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, has authored Indexing Languages and Thesauri, Construction and Maintenance (1974), and Organizing Information (1985,ASIS Best Book Award). He is chief consultant on the AOD Thesaurus and chairs NIAAA's Thesaurus Advisory Committee (1989). He has developed thesaurus software that produces both the print and the web version.

NANCY SUTHERLAND, longtime SALIS member Nancy Sutherland is Director of Library and Information Services at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, a research center at the University of Washington in Seattle. At ADAI, she oversees the Institute's library, web site, and a listserv for UW substance abuse researchers. She has held several positions on the SALIS Board, including Chair, and is currently the manager of the SALIS-L discussion list.

BARBARA S. WEINER, M.L.S., is the Reference Consultant for the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, MN. This chemical dependency library provides research and information support for all Hazelden employees and business partners. One special project was computerization of this collection via Procite software. Barbara also is Library Consultant for the regional hospital in St. Croix Falls, WI. She is active in SALIS, RADAR, and other local library groups.

JAN WROLSTAD, M. Div., is a project manager at the Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center, University of Missouri-Kansas City. She has been involved in research methods and library work for 10 years, and has worked in the faith community on SA issues. Last year Jan presented a workshop on ATTCs at the SALIS conference.

WILLIAM L. YARBER, H.S.D., is Professor of Health Education, Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington. He is Senior Director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, a joint project of Indiana University and Purdue University. Dr. Yarber has published extensively in the HIV/STD education and sexuality education areas. He has authored four school HIV/STD curricula, including the nation's first comprehensive school AIDS education curriculum, and over 75 social science and pedagogical-related articles on HIV/AIDS and sexuality education professional journals. He has received over $1.5 million in grants and contracts from both federal and state agencies.

Adding Value: More of the Same in a Changing Workplace -- Librarians have always participated in adding value to information by identifying, organizing, and disseminating information. Our changing work environment (due to the advancement of web technology, corporate downsizing, and the "information explosion") continues to bring many challenges to the profession, but librarians and information professionals will always have a place in this new environment because of their ability to assess their clients information needs and determine how to organize and present relevant information to clients. This panel will feature three case studies examining libraries "adding value" to their parent organizations:
The Bottom-Line Adventure: One special library's experience in proving its value to its organization, Barb Weiner, Hazelden Changing Perceptions
Changing Roles, Samantha Helfert, PIRE
Breaking Away: Engaging Our Users in a Virtual World, Sheila Lacroix, CAMH Samantha Helfert, panel chair.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- In 1997, American home video rentals accounted for $7.4 billion, with videotape sales adding another $7.6 billion. Sixty-three percent of 10-17-year-olds watch at least one rented video per week. Although no direct cause-and-effect link between entertainment content and youth substance abuse has been established, how movies treat drugs, alcohol, and tobacco clearly has an effect on young viewers. The co-presenters invite their SALIS family to join them in looking at clips from several of the Hollywood movies available to America's families on home video as a family media literacy exercise. Participants will be encouraged to give their own 'thumbs up-thumbs down' critiques of information about alcohol, tobacco and drugs these films provide. Included will be scenes from movies that support substance abuse prevention messages. George Marcelle and Leigh Hallingby, presenters.

HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse -- The gravity of the current HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease problem in our country will be discussed, with information concerning risk behaviors of adults being provided. Currently, between 1.1 and 1.5 million people in the U.S. are injection drug users, costing an estimated $58.3 billion each year. However, even more alarming than the numbers of injection drug users throughout the country is the rate at which this group is contracting HIV. According to CDC, more than 200,000 reported AIDS cases in the United States, or 32% , are among injection drug users. This presentation will highlight the prevalence in IDU in various population groups, such as adolescents, women, and African Americans. Relying heavily on the literature, I will discuss why drug users share needles, why needle exchange programs are needed and how they are effective in reducing the spread of HIV. Prevention efforts beyond needle exchange programs, particularly those aimed toward adolescents, will be discussed. The traits of successful programs will be highlights. William L. Yarber, presenter.

Let's Hear From You! Input Wanted for the Third Edition of the AOD Thesaurus -- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is currently developing the third edition of the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus along with the National Institute on Drug Abuse. NIAAA would like to hear from SALIS members. Do you have any suggestions that you would like to see incorporated into the third edition? The roundtable discussion will begin with a brief update on the third edition and briefly describe proposed additions and modifications and then invite feedback from the audience. We solicit input on terminology and concepts, term definitions, format, and dissemination efforts and strategies. Kathleen Mullen, presenter.

Resource Centers: Achieving Greater Accessibility Through Uniformity -- With increased use of the Internet to publish and deliver substance abuse resources, the "virtual clearinghouse" concept, and a paperless society seemingly on the horizon, the idea of achieving a system of cataloging and accessing hard copy documents that is uniform to most resource centers seems less than urgent. Yet, while some professionals in substance abuse and related fields are becoming savvy to the wonders of electronic technology, many are not yet computer literate and have no regular access to a computer. Many average "people on the street" in need of ATOD resources have even less access. This presentation will address the challenge of how to provide access to all people in need of resources by using existing systems that can be employed by every library and resource center, whether or not they are accessible via the Internet. Stephanie Asteriadis, presenter.

Searching the AOD Thesaurus Database on the Web -- The second edition of the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction (AOD Thesaurus) has just been placed on NIAAA's web site alongside the ETOH database, utilizing DB/TextWorks database software (the same one that is used for ETOH). This presentation will demonstrate how to search the database of Thesaurus terms, explain the various display options, and how to use it to search the ETOH database.

Society's Mixed Messages: Countering the Influence of Popular Music on Creating an Environment Conducive to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use -- As the title implies, this presentation will explore the messages sent to society via popular music, and many times this message has not been a positive influence. This activity was designed as a focused prevention activity on countering the influence of popular music on creating an environment conducive to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, for Indiana Division of Mental Health-funded after-school prevention programs serving ten- through fourteen-year old youth. It has served as an entertaining and stimulating way of opening discussions on the role that social and cultural factors in one's environment play in creating a situation where drug use is tolerated or accepted as a normal part of everyday life. The activity can lead to the development of an action plan by participants to reduce the impact that these factors have on promoting drug use in their communities.  William J. Bailey and Mark A. Pogue, presenters.

Therapeutic Communities in Correctional Settings: Professional Practice Informed by Research -- Roughly eighty percent of all persons incarcerated are serving time for committing a drug-related offense. With increased attention toward severing the link between drugs and crime, addiction treatment opportunities for incarcerated and parolee populations are expanding. Today the Therapeutic Community or TC is the most prevalent addiction treatment modality within correctional settings. This workshop provide a summary overview of the Therapeutic Community model, its key distinguishing characteristics, methods and goals as well as adaptations for correctional settings as supported by research findings, recent data concerning recidivism, and aftercare considerations. Of particular interest to librarians and information specialists will be a review of electronic resources addressing addiction treatment for criminal justice populations. Tom Colthurst and Jan L.Z. Wrolstad, presenters.

Toward Data-Driven Prevention: A View of Prevention in the 21^st Century -- During the last half of the 20^th Century, prevention has evolved from emotion-driven practices to a science-based profession that is using research, theory, and data to improve efficiency and effectiveness. The recent history of prevention practice is explored, and six ways in which data can drive prevention decisions are discussed. The benefits of delaying program implementation while waiting for scientific consensus of program effectiveness are weighted against the personal and societal costs. A Common sense approach to prevention decision-making is proposed, leading to "scientifically-defensible prevention." A new source of prevention planning data, desktop demographics and marketing data, is demonstrated. William J. Bailey and Roger A. Morris, presenters.

Toward a New, Collaborative Model for Web Publishing of Substance Abuse Information -- The explosive growth of Internet publishing bring the challenge of managing an enormous volume of information-both from the perspectives of the end user, organizations publishing on the web, and the substance abuse information field in general. This workshop will demonstrate how Join Together Online (JTO) is attempting to solve these problems. We will look "under the hood" at three unique JTO information tools: (a) a hierarchical subject coding scheme that permeates the entire site; (b) subject-matching algorithms that associate different types of information objects on the same page, matched on the fly by subject code; (c) a dynamic, database-driven publishing system that enables us to "give away" most of our site's content, in customized form, to dozens of like-minded web sites. We will then discuss the implications of these tools for potential large-scale, cross-organizational content partnerships for contributing, managing and distributing substance abuse information on the Web.

What Makes A Great Web Site? An Evaluation Exercise Based on Sites Selected by our Members -- The participants have each selected a favorite web site to demonstrate for the purpose of pointing out the features that make these excellent sites. Sites are from a variety of organizations and both content and presentation features will be highlighted. There will also be time allotted for the audience to provide input that will be recorded. At a later date, the key elements will be combined and organized to provide guidelines that can be used as pointers in both our work in evaluating web sites and creating web pages and sites. Sheila Lacroix, panel chair and presenter. Nancy Sutherland, Nancy Kendall, Kathleen Mullen, Leigh Hallingby, and Samantha Helfert, presenters.