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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
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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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