Announcement
		 ADS NODE WORKING GROUP MEETING
                       ADS USERS MEETING
               Thursday-Friday, November 5-6, 1992
                   Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA


Dear Astrophysics Data System User/Node supporter,

We will hold the ADS Node Working Group meeting on Thursday, November
5, and the ADS User meeting on Friday, November 6.  Both meetings will
be at The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers in Boston, Massachusetts
following the ADASS '92 meeting being held November 2-4, 1992.

The timing of this meeting will allow us to introduce the ADS 3.0
release, which will debut a 'point and shoot' X/Motif Graphical User
Interface.

Those of you who attended the last meeting may recall that we plan to
hold these every six months to:

 a) receive the input and comments of the ADS user community, and 
 b) inform the user community of recent and upcoming improvements to ADS.

In order to better meet the divergent needs of different kinds of ADS
users we plan to hold 2 back-to-back separate meetings.  In the first
we will turn to the desires and problems of the suppliers of data and
discuss the underlying technology / operability / coordinations
issues; in the second we will focus on the interests of scientists
eager to retrieve data or receive services through the ADS.

This is very much YOUR system and these meetings are meant as working
group forums for the exchange of ideas and for planning.  The node
meeting will have a strong technical/operational flavor and we expect
(and encourage) lively interaction throughout.

Please note the following:

1.  Please fill out the ADS registration form available via anonymous
    ftp (sao-ftp.harvard.edu or 128.103.42.3) in the pub/softconf
    directory (get the file "ADS_registration")

2.  Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible.  Hotel
    registration forms are available over anonymous ftp in the file
    hotel_res.

We will place the agenda for the 2 meetings in anonymous ftp as soon
as they are available.

Please send your registration to the following addresses:

	gei@cfa.harvard.edu
	mew@ipac.caltech.edu
	nousek@astro.psu.edu
	softconf@cfa.harvard.edu

For further information, and to receive a set of forms, please contact:

    Patricia Buckley
    Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
    60 Garden Street, MS 83
    Cambridge MA  02138     USA