Proceedings of the conference. Volume one covers new information technologies, major issues and new directions in international collaboration, discovering information values, mangement decisions, development and operation of geoscience databases, finding sources for information, managing data in large organizations, the role of marketing, information in emergencies, visualization of images using colour, resource inventory databases, managing collections and archives, international information systems, and knowledge-based systems. Volume two covers networking and information exchange, international bibliographic databases, applications of geographic information systems, terminology, disseminating information, literature analysis studies, and database case studies.