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Need Software for CD-ROM? Check Our New Bulletin Board

Do you want to expand your options in using that compact laser disk (CD-ROM) you just

Product Sales and Information bought from the Census Bureau? We have a

. To order tapes, microcomputer bulletin board, accessible through your modem,

diskettes, and microfiche, contact -- that may have just what you need.

Customer Services On the bulletin board, you'll find “software

Bureau of the Census developed to access the databases we're

Washington, DC 20233 beginning to put out on CD-ROM,” notes Jim

301/763-4100 Fax: 301/763-4794 Clark of the Data User Services Division.

• To order reports, contact -The software provides simple search and

Superintendent of Documents
retrieval capability for data on our CD-ROM's.

Government Printing Office (GPO)
This is good news for those who don't use dBase

Washington, DC 20402 III, the format used to store most data on our

202/783-3238 Fax: 202/275-0019 CD-ROM's.

• To order maps, contact -

Data Preparation Division “Programs are specific

Geography Branch to databases,” explains

Bureau of the Census Census and You

Jim. "Rather than being

Jeffersonville, IN 47132
Volume 24, No. 7 command-driven, most

812/288-3192
July 1989 have a common ‘point and

shoot' interface. We've Editorial Information

made these programs Editor: Neil Tillman

software for data on CD-ROM. Sound like what

unique because each Contributors: Jackson Morton and Mark database is unique."

you need? You can access the bulletin board on Mangold

301/763-1568. For more information on the

Jim stresses that these Staff: Mary Kilbride, Dorothy Prince,

bulletin board itself, contact Customer Services at and Mary G. Thomas

are simple programs that 763-4100.

help users obtain the level Please send your comments to Neil

Those who do not have modems can obtain

of detail they need, such Tillman, Data User Services Division,

CD-ROM software from a clearinghouse

as data by State, county, Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC

established by the University of Tennessee. 20233 (301/763-1584).

ZIP code, or SIC code.

UT also maintains a list of vendors who sell

“We watched people The Secretary of Commerce has deter

software developed to access Census CD-ROM's. mined that this publication is necessary in

using the interactive

Get in touch with the Center for Electronic Data the transaction of the public business

programs at our exhibits.

Analysis; 316 Stokley Management Center; required by law of this Department.

We realized that users

Department of Marketing, Logistics, and would like to have these

Transportation; University of Tennessee; Subscription Information

programs because they

Knoxville, TN 37996 (615/974-5311). For sale by the Government Printing

are so easy to use and Office. $12 per year; $15 for foreign

provide immediate access mailing. Remittances from foreign

to the data -- even though Historical Statistics countries must be by international money

they are limited in order or by a draft on a U.S. bank. Make function. It seemed

Historical Statistics of the United States, check or money order for subscription

appropriate to make them Colonial Times to 1970 is a two-volume compayable to the Superintendent of Docu

available through a

pendium of statistics of vital use to anyone ments and send to the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

public domain bulletin

studying the Nation's history. It has data on Use the code “DUN” in your order.

board. The bulletin board

population, the labor force, manufacturing,

and other subjects. Out of print from GPO, To subscribe using a MasterCard,

provides a convenient

the book (ISBN 0-527-91756-7) can now be

and efficient means of VISA, or GPO deposit account, call the

obtained from a private company. Contact Government Printing Office at 202/783- releasing new software

commercial book-sellers for ordering 3238. To correct subscription problems, and software updates."

information. Data User Services Division also contact the Government Printing Office

Jim predicts that the

can give you more details (301/763-5299). at 202/275-3054.

bulletin board eventually
will provide a library of

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