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_Current_Cites_
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Volume 2, no. 10
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October 1991
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Library Technology Watch Program
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University of California, Berkeley
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Edited by David F.W. Robison
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Contributors:
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Teri Rinne, Vivienne Roumani, Lisa Rowlison, Mark Takaro, Roy Tennant
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Hyper- and Multimedia
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Herther, Nancy K. "Interactive Multimedia at Philips: CP Interviews
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Philips' Bert Gall About CD-ROM, XA, CD-I and Their Future." CD- ROM
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Professional 4(5) (September 1991):34-37. An up-to-date look at
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the settling of standards for Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I) and
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the development of the bridge between PCs and CD-I. This interview
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provides an insider's perspective on the market viability of the
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technology and the approach to its development for the future. With
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the MPEG standard in place, companies such as Philips can begin
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introducing their own units in a unified context within the industry,
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leading to a more cohesive future market for their products. -- MT
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Bajarin, Tim. "Everyone You Know Doesn't Use A Computer" Computer
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Currents 9(9) (September 24, 1991):16-19. A short column about
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future computing with pen-based and multimedia technologies. The
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increasingly digital world can become more accessible to those who
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do not now own a computer through developments like these. -- MT
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Information Transfer
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Ingebretsen, Dorothy and Steven Tice "Searching Los Angeles Times
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Dialog On Disc: The Times Editorial Library Experience" CD-ROM
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Professional (September 1991):86-90. Dialog provides the full text
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of the Los Angeles Times from 1986 to the present on CD-ROM. This
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article discusses searchable fields, Easy Menu interface geared to
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the end user, and the more sophisticated Dialog command search for
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experienced searchers. -- VR
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King, Alan. "Full Text & CD-Rom: Variations on a Theme." Online 15(5)
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(September 1991): 107-108. King describes the benefits of full text
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databases on CD-Rom albeit the limitations of this technology. -- VR
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Miller, Carmen. "End-Users: From Which Menu Should You Order?"
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Online 15(5) (September 1991): 26-33. This article reviews D-S
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Business Focus and Dialog Business Connection databases, two
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menu-driven approaches to business databases on competing
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systems. -- VR
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Williams, Robert F. "Is optical storage legal?" ASIS 17(5) (June/July
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1991): 14-15. "Are optically stored records legally admissible in
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court and administrative hearings?" This article covers some of the
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legality issues of optically stored information, and the implications
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for the future. -- VR
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Networks and Networking
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Barlow, John Perry "The Law Comes to Cyberspace" BYTE (October
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1991):332. Here Barlow recounts the events in May of 1990 that led
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he and Mitch Kapor to found the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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See the General section below. -- DR
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Cerf, Vinton "The Internet Society" reprinted through
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LISTSERV@BITNIC.BITNET (GET INTSOC CERF_V) from EDUCOM Review
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26(3/4) (Fall/Winter 1991). Cerf explains why the Internet Society
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was founded, what it is, what its goals are, what its membership is
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and how one can get involved in this new organization that is
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expected to be fully operational by the end of the year. -- DR
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Kapor, Mitch "Building the Open Road: The NREN as Test-Bed for the
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National Public Network" Network Working Group RFC 1259
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(September 1991). This paper is an excellent update on the NREN
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and NII. Kapor suggests first that the NREN will stimulate
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technological advances yet to be imagined, and the at the NREN
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should be thought of as a prototype for the National Publia Network.
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This is a must read. Available via anonymous ftp from nnsc.nsf.net
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(128.89.1.178) with pathname rfc/rfc1259.txt.
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Nielsen, Brian. "The Coalition for Networked Information: Realizing
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the Virtual Library." Online 15(5) (September 1991): 96-97. Nielsen
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enthusiastically describes a relatively new group, Coalition for
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Networked Information (CNI), and its role in the development of
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NREN. -- VR
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Roberts, Michael M. "Positioning the National Research and Education
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Network" reprinted through LISTSERV@BITNIC.BITNET (GET POSNREN
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ROBERT_M) from EDUCOM Review 26(2) (Summer 1991). Roberts
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explains where he believes the NREN and National Information
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Infrastructure (NII) is heading as a cooperative venture between
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government, educators, and industry. He also points out that
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technological advances in the last decade have outpaced related
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political and legal advances. -- DR
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Thompson, Tom "Networking with System 7.0" BYTE (September
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1991):337-340. Thompson has worked with the new Macintosh
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system for several months, and despite "some snags" he feels the
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benefits of changing over to the new systems are worth it in the
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networked environment. With the new system, file sharing becomes
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almost transparent, without the need for a server. The combination
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of interapplication communication (IAC) and the Mac's publish and
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subscribe application allows users to share data while operating
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different applications. And that's no mean feat! -- DR
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Optical Disc Technologies
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Bonime, Andrew "The Promise and the Challenge of CD-I" CD-ROM
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Professional 4(5) (September 1991):17-30. This article provides a
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fairly complete overview of CD-I, which is slated for release this
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fall, with its target audience being the mass consumer market. CD-I
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is a subset of CD-ROM which includes an international set of
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standards for encoding and integrating audio, video, still pictures,
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and text. Consumer players will be priced at $1,000 initially, with
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an anticipated drop to around $500 within two years. -- TR
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Brooks, Martin "Multimedia and the Future of CD-ROM" CD-ROM
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Professional 4(5) (September 1991):8-10. Martin Brooks, vice-
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president of electronic publishing at R. R. Bowker presents his
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concerns regarding the hype surrounding multimedia. He fears that
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hype generated might shift the interest from high-quality,
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extremely important research databases to any product that has
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sound and graphics in it. He poses the question: "For the researcher,
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should it not be more important to have a hypertext system that
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works intuitively than a database that plays back the mating calls of
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certain selected bullfrogs?" -- TR
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Brueggeman, Peter "Memory Management for CD-ROM Workstations,
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Part I" CD-ROM Professional 4(5) (September 1991):39-43. In this
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series of two articles, Brueggeman presents a "crash course" on
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memory management in the DOS environment. In the second part of
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the series, he will give readers specific tips and ideas on how to
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maximize your hardware/software investment and more effectively
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run your CD-ROMs. -- TR
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Harvey, David A. "CD-ROM Drives: How Good is the Third Generation?"
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BYTE 16(9) (September 1991):268-276. Harvey boldly suggests that
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"the winter of our discontent with CD-ROM may be over," citing the
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new "third generation" of CD-ROM drives with faster access times,
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improved data transfer rates, and lower prices than their
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predecessors. He reviews six external CD-ROM drives by Chinon,
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Hitachi, PLI, Texel, and Toshiba. -- TR
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Rizzo, John "Double Duty Drives: Multifunction Optical Storage"
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MacUser 7(11) (November 1991):108-114. This article features
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reviews of multifunction optical storage drives recently released by
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Hewlett-Packard, Pioneer, and Panasonic. These drives utilize both
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erasable optical and WORM (write once/read many) cartridges. A
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multifunction drive offers more flexibility than any other optical
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storage device. In erasable mode, a multifunction drive is slower
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than a hard-disk drive but offers nearly unlimited capacity and
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greater data security. In WORM mode, the drive can create permanent
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archives (up to 100 years) with the convenience of random access. -
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- TR
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General
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Kapor, Mitch "Current Legislative and Policy Efforts" Effector Online
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[eff-news@eff.org] 1(11) (September 20, 1991). Among other
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actions, the EFF is involved in the NREN and fiber optic planning
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activity on Capitol Hill, supporting communications privacy in the
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face of federal actions against secure encryption, joining with the
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ACLU, library organizations and IIA to oppose legislation that would
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allow the government to copyright software it produced in
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cooperation with a private firm, and the EFF also opposes legislation
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that would allow the government to charge royalty fees for
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"accessing a government electronic data base of public information."
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-- DR
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Special note: with this issue, Current Cites is now being published
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electronically on the Public Access Computer Systems list (PACS-
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L@UHUPVM1.BITNET)--Welcome to our new readers!
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Current Cites 2(10)(October 1991)
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