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_Current_Cites_
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Volume 5, no. 1
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January 1994
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Information Systems Instruction & Support
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The Library
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University of California, Berkeley
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Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
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ISSN: 1060-2356
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Contributors:
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Nathan Meyer, David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Vivienne Roumani-Denn, Roy Tennant
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Electronic Publishing
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Goodyear, Mary Lou. "Information Policy for Electronic
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Information Resources" The Public-Access Computer Systems
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Review 4(6) (1993):23-31. [Also available via e-mail
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from LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU. Mail message should read "GET
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GOODYEAR PRV4N6 F=MAIL"]. This article is a brief outline
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of three policy issues that Goodyear believes should be
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of concern to library and information professionals.
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The issues outlined are access, privacy and intellectual
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property. The speed with which information has become
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available electronically has made it difficult for policymakers
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to keep up. Legislative actions seem to be in favor of
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access over privacy. However, the article warns, privacy
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concerns of individuals and institutions need to be addressed
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if information is to continue to flow freely. - DR
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Wilson, David L. "A Journal's Big Break" The Chronicle of Higher
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Education (January 26, 1994):A23, A25. The editors of the
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electronic journal Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials
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"believe that they may have a model for electronic journals that
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can be replicated in other disciplines." One measure of success
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is that the journal has been selected by the National Library of
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Medicine for inclusion in the Medline database. - VR
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Wilson, David L. "Project Seeks to Expand Use of Electronic
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Networks For Publishing" The Chronicle of Higher Education
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(January 26, 1994):A24-A25. Thirteen College and University
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Presses, including UC Press, have been selected by the
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Association of American University Presses and the Coalition for
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Network Information to participate in an electronic publishing
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project. - VR
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Information Transfer
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U. S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Making Government
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Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services. Washington, D. C.:
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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993. Will electronic delivery
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of government information to citizens, organizations,
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institutions, be the norm in the future? This report examines the
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myths and realities of electronic delivery of government
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information, and offers some conclusions. - VR
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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Parisi, Paula. "The Picture Exchange" Wired 2.01 (Jan. 1994):32.
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Eastman Kodak Co. has teamed with fourteen stock photography houses
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to create a commercial online image database. The database, called
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"The Kodak Picture Exchange", uses Kodak's own Photo-CD technology
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to mount low-resolution, searchable images. Once the online fee is
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paid, and the desired image is found, the client can order a
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high-resolution hard copy image from the stock photo house by filling
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out an online form. A special version of Picture Exchange is aimed
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at the film industry as an aid for locating appropriate filming
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sites. This version, called "Eastman Exchange" is being installed
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at Warner Brothers, Fox, Disney, and Universal, in the hopes that
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the big four will become permanent subscribers. - RJR
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Joscelyne, Andrew. "VR means Virtual Reconstruction" Wired 2.01
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(Jan. 1994):115. Going well beyond postcard snapshots of ruins,
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visitors to the ruins of the Abbaye de Cluny in France can now tour
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a digital reconstruction of the Romanesque abbey, though it hasn't
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stood intact since the French Revolution. Two engineering graduate
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students from the provence of Cluny used the notes of the late
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Harvard Architecture Professor, John Kenneth Conent to compile a
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database of all the architectural details of the abbey. Then IBM-
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France provided them the equipment to create a full virtual
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reconstruction of the once great building. The virtual abbey can
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presently be visited only at the real site by using VR goggles
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and gloves. A digital recreation of the Thermes de Luce (the Roman
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town on the site that is now Paris) has also been accomplished,
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and other virtual reconstructions of gems from antiquity are on
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the way. - RJR
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Renjilian, Jerry. "Hypercard - The Poor Librarian's Online Card
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Catalog" Computers in Libraries 13(10) (December 1993):10-12.
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Librarians at New Canaan High School in New Canaan, Connecticut
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created a research tool for students using the Mac based hypermedia
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application, Hypercard. They combined a search screen, a dictionary
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of authors, and thirteen Hypercard stacks of indexes from books in
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the library. Using the search screen, students can search for instances
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of a word in a title. They can search the author dictionary, or search
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the full text of many of the books indexes for referrals to other
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sources. For minimal cost (in equipment, not necessarily in staff's
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time) they have recreated the search features of an online catalog
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and a few CD-ROM literary databases. So far, they have compiled
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1800 pages of indexes, and tables of contents from 763 books. This
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tool can aid in research of literary topics by focusing a student's
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search for material considerably before the student even approaches
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the shelves, and do so in a relatively user friendly manner. - RJR
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Fowler, Richard, et. al. "A Hypermedia System to Explain Library Use"
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Computers in Libraries 13(10) (December 1993):14-16. The authors
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describe the effort and the final result of a project to create a
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hypermedia package that introduces users to The University of Texas-
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Pan American Library. Since this software package was designed to
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be the first level of user interaction with the library, it had to
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be broad, informative, and easy to use. The creators settled on an
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icon-based system on a PC that would replace, or at least supplement,
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the library's handbook as well as several leaflets on topics such as
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remote access, hints on using the OPAC, floor maps, and more. They
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found that embedding as much information as possible in the iconic
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(pictorial) layer of the system attracted users to the system, and
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reduced the number of layers necessary to convey basic information.
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The system designers exploited the features of hypermedia that
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allow introductory information to blend into access: the top layer
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(or first screen) contains an icon that allows direct access to the
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online catalog. While the development of OPACs involves nation-wide
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cooperative efforts, the creation of introductory software is often
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done in relative isolation, making this article a useful piece. - RJR
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Networks and Networking
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"Gore Endorses EFF's Open Platform Approach," EFFector Online
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6(8) (Dec. 28, 1993) [available via anonymous FTP from
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<URL:ftp://ftp.eff.org/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/effector6.08>].
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At a speech to the National Press Club, Vice President Al Gore
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presented a White House telecommunications policy that incorporates
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some of the major elements of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
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Open Platform Policy recommendations [version 2.0 of this document
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(cited in the November issue of Current Cites) and other related
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files are available via anonymous FTP from <URL:ftp://ftp.eff.org/
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EFF/Papers/Open_Platform>]. Some of the points outlined include
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encouragement of private investment, promotion and protection of
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competition, providing open access to the network, a regulatory
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"safety net" to make sure everyone benefits (the 'have nots' as
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well as the 'haves'), and encouragement of flexibility. EFF's position
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will continue to be heard at the highest levels of policy making
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for the National Information Infrastructure, as EFF Board Chair
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Mitch Kapor and Board member Esther Dyson were two of 27 persons
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recently appointed to the NII Advisory Council by the Clinton
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administration. - RT
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Government Information Locator Service, "Using Z39.50 in an application
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for the Government Information Locator Service (GILS)." [Available via
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anonymous FTP from <URL:ftp://128.230.33.81/USGS/gils_profile.txt>]
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The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) project seeks to
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articulate a standards-based application profile for the development
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and testing of government information locator databases. This paper
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describes the refinements made to the high-level specifications as
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developed in the previously published _Government Information Locator
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Service_ (Christian : 1993). These refinements include descriptions
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of: a GILS User Model; GILS Searching; GILS Browsing; GILS use of
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Z39.50. The paper includes references to previous discussions of GILS
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and Z39.50 as well a list of project members and directions for
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commenting on the ongoing project. - NM
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McClure, Charles R. "Network Literacy in an Electronic Society:
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An Educational Disconnect?" in The Knowledge Economy: The Nature
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of Information in the 21st Century, Annual Review of the Institute
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for Information Studies, (1993):137-178. McClure argues
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persuasively that there is a need to expand the traditional
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definition of literacy beyond print literacy to encompass not
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only media literacy and computer literacy, but also "network
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literacy" to form "information literacy". Only by having the basic
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knowledge and skills required to find and utilize information on
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computer networks, will all our citizens be empowered by the
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network. McClure outlines what network literacy might
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encompass and what may be required to achieve such a goal. This
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is no paltry vision, and McClure is equal to the task of helping
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us envision it as well. - RT
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"Senate FTP Site Online," EFFector Online 7(2) (Jan. 25, 1994)
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[available via anonymous FTP from <URL:ftp://ftp.eff.org/EFF
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/Newsletters/EFFector/effector7.02>]. The U.S. Senate now has
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its own FTP site <URL:ftp://ftp.senate.gov>, and while not much is
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available yet, Senators Kennedy (MA) and Stevens (AK) have
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information there now, it is likely to grow. There is general
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information on the U.S. Senate available here as well. Although
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this article does not mention it, this site also serves as the
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U.S. Senate gopher server <URL:gopher//gopher.senate.gov:70>. - RT
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"Wrap-Up on Technology and Networking Bills," ALAWON 3(1)
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(January 3, 1994). An overview of networking-related legislation
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from the library perspective, most of which has passed the House but
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awaits action in the 1994 session of the Senate. Of primary interest
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is H.R. 1757, which passed the House, and S. 4, with related provisions,
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which was not passed prior to adjournment. - RT
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Optical Disc Technology
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Breeding, Marshall. "Networking Made Easy" CD-ROM World 9(1)
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(January 1994):70-71. Breeding introduces the concept of adding
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or enhancing the capabilities of an existing network to accommodate
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CD-ROMs. This article provides capsule summaries of various
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CD-ROM network solutions, such as peer-to-peer CD-ROM networks,
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optical server/redirector networks, NLM-based products,
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server-independent attachment hardware, expanded access
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products, performance enhancement products, and menuing
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systems. - TR
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Flanagan, Patrick. "Rent-A-Rom: Setting Up Rental Kiosks" CD-ROM
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World 9(1) (January 1994):76-77. This interview with optical
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disc evangelist and president of Interactive Media/CD-ROM
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Exchange Jack Olmstead describes the relatively novel concept
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of CD-ROM rentals in video stores. Olmstead views the
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acceptance of CD-ROM as a chicken-and-egg situation: "The only
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way people can see what CD-ROM is, is to get their hands on it.
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In the multimedia business, the software sells the hardware."
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With so many libraries now circulating videos, can CD-ROM
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circulation be far behind? - TR
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Fritz, Mark. "CD-ROM Gives Trainers Room to Grow" CD-ROM World
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9(1) (January 1994):85-87. This article outlines the
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advantages and disadvantages to training with CD-ROMs. Among
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the advantages cited is the storage capacity and
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standardization. Disadvantages include access time and a
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low "level of trust" among consumers. The article also
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describes training projects utilizing CD-ROM undertaken by
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MicroMentor. - TR
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Papathakis, Scott. "Device Drivers: Is There a Difference in
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Performance?" CD-ROM World 9(1) (January 1994):88-91.
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Papathakis' skepticism regarding misleading advertising claims
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of CD-ROM disc drive access times prompted him to conduct a
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test of device drivers. The device drivers and versions tested
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were: Trantor 3.10, Optical Media International 1.6, FWB CD-ROM
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Toolkit 1.0.3, and CharisMac Engineering Anubis AllCache 1.17.
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-TR
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Schoenfeld, Noa. "Roll Yer Own: Building Your Own CD-ROM" CD-ROM
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World 9(1) (January 1994):72-74. Schoenfeld outlines the
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several approaches to building the perfect CD-ROM and then
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highlights the way one might choose to display data onscreen.
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Kodak Photo-CD and CD-Recordable are showcased. - TR
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Current Cites 5(1) (January 1994) ISSN: 1060-2356
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California, Berkeley. All rights reserved.
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