The CD-ROM System has been moved from LBNL to UC Berkeley. The LBNL Web pages are no longer maintained and are provided temporarily for historical purposes only. Users not needing the historical information should refer to the new CD-ROM home page, at UC Berkeley.
NOTE: This page is not fully up to date. URLs referring to bigsur.lbl.gov or cedrcd.lbl.gov may be inoperative due to the move of computers from LBNL to the UC Berkeley Library. These Web pages will be updated when the move is completed.
LOOKUP is an experimental WWW server for retrieving data from 1990 U.S. Census Summary Tape Files. A WWW client with forms capability is required.
University of California CD-ROM Information System
publications
Merrill D, Parker N, Gey F and Stuber C. 1995.
The University of
California CD-ROM Information System.
Communications of the ACM 38(4) pp.51-52 (1995).
Merrill DW, Parker NG, Holmes HH, Stuber C and Gregg VJ. 1996.
1990 U.S.
Census LOOKUP: Mining a Mountain of Data.
D-lib magazine, March 1996.
external reviews of LOOKUP
Glenn Davis, Cool
Site of the Day, June 21, 1995.
Jeffery Kahn, Lab's
Census Database Has Day of Fame. (complete issue of LBL Currents, archived
at LBNL)
Jeffery Kahn, Lab's Census Database Has Day of
Fame. (excerpt of one article)
Michael Batty, "The
Computable City."
Best of the Best on
the Internet: Census and Demographic Information
three
star review in McKinley Magellan
review
in excite NetDirectory
Internet Business 500
"Premiere Site" Ryan Bernard, Ventana Press, November 1995
The Great American Web Book, Times Books/Random House (paperback, $17)
September 1996. A Book of the Month Selection. Author: Raphael Sagalyn, Bethesda MD, (301) 718-6440.
Internet Eye On The Web, Inc.
lookup_doc.html 5/15/98
lookup@census.gov (Merrill, Stuber)
1/30/09
dennie2:\\j:\dwmerrill\mdocs\cdrom\doc\lookup_doc.docx (Word
2003)
dennie2:\\j:\dwmerrill\mdocs\cdrom\doc\lookup_doc.html (filtered Web page)
http://merrill.olm.net/cdrom/doc/lookup_doc.html