THE MOST-REQUESTED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Some of us are fortunate enough to be able to attend one or two IEEE
conferences each year, to meet again with technologists in our
specialties and hear first-hand about the latest developments. Still,
you can't get to them all, and some developers are restricted, for
financial reasons, to only attending local events.

The CPMT Society has three ways for you to obtain the published papers
for the other dozen symposia you would have LIKED to attend this year:

First, many of these books (and CDs) are on the CPMT Website:
www.cpmt.org/proceedings/. There you'll find volumes for sale going
back, in some cases, for 15 years. This site is great for North America
orders, or for non-NA engineers who can send a personal or company check
(we aren't set up for credit cards).

Second, for recent Proceedings (say, since 1998), you can easily
purchase them from the IEEE's Website: shop.ieee.org. You can use a
credit card here, and (from North America) you can use their toll-free
number: +1-800-678-IEEE. Ordering and shipping is quick and easy.

Third, if you spot a reference to a paper from one of our conferences,
and would like a copy of it, IEEE has their "ASK*IEEE" service which
will retrieve any particular paper (or list of them) for a nominal
charge, and either mail or FAX it/them to you. More information is on
their Website: www.ieee.org/services/askieee/.

So, which Proceedings are the "most-requested" ones? Over the past
several years, the two "winners" are those from the ECTC and from
SEMI-THERM. Many people order the past three or four years of ECTC
(probably engineers or librarians who has JUST discovered this
conference), and the "recent-10-years" package from SEMI-THERM is a hot
seller. Next conferences (in number of shipments) are I-THERM, IEMT,
and ICT.

New books that are recently in stock: the EMAP (Electronic Materials and
Packaging) 2001, held recently in Korea, with 5 keynote talks and 75
papers covering the spectrum from materials to packaging and
reliability. And the ICT (Int'l Conference on Thermoelectrics) for 2001
in Beijing can now be ordered for shipment in January.

You can help share technology developments within your company. Have
your librarian or department administrator order useful or missing
volumes, for your staff's use. This allows you to protect your private
copy for your OWN use!

------------------------------ Paul Wesling, CPMT Vice President