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The CD ROM contains the fully searchable proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components and a bibliography of abstracts on service life, durability and asset management. The "SL/AM IT" CD-ROM is a technology transfer technique to handle large corpora of technical information related to service life and durability. "SL/AM IT" is an Information Technology (IT) tool to interactively browse over 1500 abstracts and full text documents in the domain of service life and asset management. The product described in the associated paper in the 8dbmc Proceedings is a compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM)-based, interactive bibliography on service life prediction, durability and asset management. The paper describes the problems of accessing the existing large volumes of data and information related to service life prediction, durability and asset management. It outlines sophisticated IT tools currently available for indexing and searching large corpora of technical information. It details the interface and background data structure of the SL/AM-IT (Service Life/Asset Management -Information Technology) methodology and product. It also discusses advantages of such techniques in the domain of service life and asset management and other similar technical domains. It is hoped that other researchers involved in conferences or publications related to service life and durability will build on the existing "SL/AM IT" information base, and will include their own data and information in similar products, making "SL/AM IT" a dynamic, evolving tool for our research community., 8th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components, May 31, 1999, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada