This Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) Forum on Federal Information Policies focused on the impact of OMB (Office of Management and Budget) Circular A-130, which revises administration policy on information dissemination and the use of automated systems by federal agencies. Introductory remarks by James P. Riley, Kent A. Smith, and William J. Welsh were followed by the keynote speech by George E. Brown, Jr., who opened the morning session with a discussion of Circular A-130 and the transformation of society through developments in the information field. Continuing the theme of information policies and public access, the session included speeches on executive branch initiatives on policy information (Franklin S. Reeder), freedom of information concerns (Harold C. Relyea), the interests of the Office of Technology Assessment (Frederick W. Weingarten), and Circular A-130 and technology-based issues (Thomas Giammo). The afternoon session, which focused on the theme of federal electronic information systems and access, included a description of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) automated system, MEDLARS (Donald A. B. Lindberg), an explanation and demonstration of the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (Amy L. Goodman), a discussion of the impact of federal electronic information systems (Robert Gellman), and statements about the concerns of the information industry (David Y. Peyton) and information users (Eileen D. Cook). (KM)