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Volume 5, no. 7
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July 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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John Ober, Margaret Phillips, David Rez, Richard Rinehart,
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Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Electronic Publishing
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Price-Wilkin, John. "Using the World-Wide Web to Deliver Complex
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Electronic Documents: Implications for Libraries." The Public-Access
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Computer Systems Review 5(3) (1994):5-21. [URL: gopher://info.lib.uh.
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edu:70/00/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary/pacsreview/v5/n3/pricewil.5n3]
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-- The University of Virginia is clearly on the forefront of using
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existing and emerging standards for electronic text markup (e.g.,
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SGML, HTML) to deliver rich (marked up) text and images to its users
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and the Internet at large. This article briefly describes the
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technologies used by the University of Virginia Library's Digital
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Image Center, and provides a series of specific examples of how
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scholars have used these capabilities to create interesting and
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instructive online works. For those with access to NCSA Mosaic or a
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similar World-Wide Web browser, at least some of the URLs provided
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in this article should be explored for some excellent examples
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of what is possible using existing technology. Price-Wilkin and his
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colleagues are definitely pushing the envelope and anyone who is
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working in the SGML/HTML/WWW arena would do well to pay attention
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to what they are doing at the University of Virginia. -- RT
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Wilson, David L. "Creating Electronic Texts" Chronicle of Higher
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Education 40(41) (June 15, 1994):A19+. -- This article provides an
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overview of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) that attempts to
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develop a set of international standards for producing electronic
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texts. Proposed by a panel of scholars, these guidelines are
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expected to benefit researchers, librarians and archivists. -- MP
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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Lazarus, Anthony. "School's Out on CD-ROM: Private Developer
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Invests in Public Education" Digital Media 4(1) (June 8, 1994):
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37. -- San Francisco State University's multimedia program has
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received an interesting arrangement for funding from a private
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CD-ROM publisher. the Interactivity Research Lab at SFSU
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recently entered into an agreement with Wadsworth publishing
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and Haukom Associates to produce 3 new CD-ROM titles based on
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their educational experience. The CD-ROM titles will cover an
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intro to multimedia, as well as designing and producing
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multimedia titles. The agreement is notable because it was not
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a grant that the university is using to fund a broad project,
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but rather each student and faculty member who works on the
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project will be compensated and share in the profit from sales.
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The titles may be marketed toward other institutions with
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multimedia programs, but will not be limited in focus to
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educational institutions. Of course this brings up the obvious
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issues of control over academic programs, and although private
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funding is nothing new to universities, this direct arrangement
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poses new implications as well as possibilities for new digital
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media programs. The actual titles produced will hopefully be of
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equal interest to this novel funding arrangement. -- RR
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Peterson, Norman, and Wilhelm, Laurn. "Multimedia in a
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Traditional Library Setting" Computers in Libraries 14(6) (June
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1994):23-26 -- The main issue this article deals with is
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integrating information technology into the educational process.
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In a very clear manner, the authors explain that the first step
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should be to integrate this new technology into the education
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of teachers. To accomplish this, the education program at the
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University of Wyoming entered into a partnership with the
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library to provide a computer laboratory for students of
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education, and for pilot classes they may teach to local high
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school students. The crux as they saw it was that multimedia
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needed to be used as a tool in learning, and not necessarily a
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subject itself, nor as merely an add-on to traditional ways of
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educating. Seeing digital technology as a tool helped the
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decision to locate the laboratory where other learning tools are
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located: the library. Placing the tools within the library eased
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issues of access, and leveraged use of scarce computer resources
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among many programs. The article is very useful in its outline of
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the issues raised in integrating new technology into education,
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and as a guide for setting up an educational computer laboratory.
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-- RR
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Networks and Networking
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Andreessen, Marc and Eric Bina. "NCSA Mosaic: A Global Hypermedia
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System" Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and
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Policy 4(1) (Spring 1994):7-17. -- In this overview article, two
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of the developers of the NCSA Mosaic World-Wide Web client program
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describe what has been referred to as the "killer" Internet
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application. Unfortunately, the article does nothing to dispel the
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common misconception that Mosaic is equivalent to the World-Wide
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Web and vice versa. In fact, it may add to the confusion by implying
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that the World-Wide Web (HTTP) servers that are used as examples in
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the article can only be accessed via Mosaic. Nonetheless this
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article can serve as a useful overview of Mosaic, examples of its
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use, and future capabilities. -- RT
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Dowling, Thomas. "Internet Resources for Engineering" College
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and Research Libraries News 55(6) (June 1994): 52-353+. -- Another
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in the regular series of articles in C&RL News that lists essential
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Internet resources in specific academic disciplines. This article
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focuses on resources in engineering. -- MP
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Frazer, Karen D. "Congress Watch: An Update on Current National
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Information Infrastructure (NII) Legislation" NSF Network News
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1(2) (May/June 1994):2,7.
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[URL:http://www.internic.net/newsletter/may-june94/congress.html]
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Frazer describes major categories of NII concern, including
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Regulatory Reform, Universal Access, Security and Privacy,
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Intellectual Property, and Access to Government Information, while
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also providing a summary table of current legislation. This is one
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of several articles in this valuable overview of network activity
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published bimonthly by the InterNIC. -- JLO
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Kessler, Jack. "Networked Information in France, 1993: The Internet's
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Future?" Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and
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Policy 4(1) (Spring 1994):18-30. -- In this entertaining and insightful
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article, Kessler examines four major issues and events that are related
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to the present and future state of French networking: 1) the
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Bibliotheque de France, 2) the Bibliotheque des Arts, 3) the Minitel,
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and 4) the French publishing industry. Kessler compares French
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networking with the U.S. Internet and muses on the differences of these
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models and the likelihood of one or the other proving to be replicable
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in other nations. -- RT
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McClure, Charles R., John Carlo Bertot, and Douglas L. Zweizig.
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_Public Libraries and the Internet: Study Results, Policy Issues,
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and Recommendations_ June, 1994. Available from the U.S. National
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Commission on Libraries and Information Science. -- This final report
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of a study commissioned by the National Commission on Libraries and
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Information Science provides few surprises in results (e.g. 20.9% of
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U.S. public libraries are connected to the Internet, though libraries
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serving larger communities are more likely to have access than those
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serving smaller communities; there are significant regional variations
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in access) but does provide thorough and readable sections outlining
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issues and making recommendations. Here the authors use the extensive
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survey to support a list which includes suggestions for policy makers
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(e.g. "Promote Statewide Networks," "Use Public Libraries to Deliver
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Government Information and Services") and for public librarians
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themselves (e.g. "Increase Knowledge and Training Related to the
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Internet," "Collaborate with Other Local Organizations"). -- JLO
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"Putting the Information Infrastructure to Work: A Report of the
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Information Infrastructure Task Force's Committee on Applications
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and Technology" Committee on Applications and Technology of the
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Information Infrastructure Task Force, 1994.
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[URL: gopher://iitfcat.nist.gov:95/0/.catitem/Library]
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-- This "draft for public comment" is an interesting source of
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the scope and assumptions underlying the NII. There is a specific
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section about libraries which begins with the sublime --
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"Policymakers must determine how to sustain, in the electronic
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age, the democratic and equal access to information that free
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public libraries have provided in the age of print" (Librarian
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of Congress, James H. Billington) -- and concludes with the
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straightforward -- "libraries are central to the success of the
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NII." In between, sections describe the "application arena" of
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libraries, the current state of networking and libraries, some
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goals and objectives, and finally name strategies by which to
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move from the present to the envisioned future. A version of the
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library portion of the document has been marked up in HTML, for
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access through World-Wide Web clients, by Nick Arnett at
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Multimedia Computing Corporation. This better formatted version,
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with some embedded links to other named sources, is available at
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http://www.portal.com/~nicka/libnii.html. The document has already
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generated discussion and comment, some of which is available
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through the Internet. The interested reader might check, for example,
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the _ALA Washington Office Newsline_ 3(31) (July 11, 1994) for the
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ALA draft response to the paper (available on the ALA gopher at
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[URL: gopher://gopher.uic.edu:70/11/library/ala/ala-xi/40712000]).
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-- JLO
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Rinaldi, Arlene. _The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette_ Florida
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Atlantic University, July 1994. [URL: ftp://ftp.lib.berkeley.edu/
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pub/net.training/FAU/netiquette.txt, .ps, netbrochure.ps] -- This
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succinct yet thorough guide to network etiquette is a useful
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compendium of tips and guidelines for all network users. It comes
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in three formats: 1) a brochure PostScript format that is designed
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to be copied on two sides of one sheet of paper and folded, 2) a
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full-sized formatted document of nine pages in PostScript format,
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and 3) a straight text version. The brochure format is handiest for
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distributing to a class or a group of users, but the print size is
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fairly small. -- RT
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Tennant, Roy, John Ober and Anne G. Lipow. _Crossing the Internet
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Threshold: An Instructional Handbook_. 2nd Ed. Berkeley, Library
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Solutions Press, 1994. -- An updated edition of the popular handbook
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that was one of the first to provide information professionals with
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a structured approach to teaching the Internet. The second edition of
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_Crossing the Internet Threshold_ once again proves to be an important
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resource that provides a practical, organized and informative
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introduction to the Internet. Designed as both a self-paced workbook
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for new users and a guidebook for teachers, the second edition includes
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new chapters on Gopher, World-Wide Web and WAIS as well as an expanded
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glossary, updated exercises in e-mail, telnet and ftp, and more slides
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that can be copied onto transparencies. -- MP
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Veljkov, Mark D. and George Hartnell. Pocket Guides to the Internet
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Westport, CT : Mecklermedia, 1994: v. 1. Telnetting; v. 2. Transferring
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Files with File Transfer Protocol; v. 3. Using and Navigating Usenet; v.
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4. The Internet E-mail System; v. 5. Internet Utilities; v. 6. Terminal
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Connections. -- With an increasing number of Internet "guides" showing up
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on the bookstore shelves these six brief volumes may be unique by living
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up to their billing as "handy instructional reference" tools for the
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Internet. Each of the six volumes is small enough (averaging 56 pages)
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to allow the user to quickly familiarize themselves with its contents.
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These pocket guides are more useful to beginning and intermediate
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Internet users rather than experienced Internet surfers. -- DR
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Wielhorski, Karen. "Teaching Remote Users How to Use Electronic
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Information Resources" The Public-Access Computer Systems
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Review 5(4) (1994):5-20. [URL: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/00/
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articles/e-journals/uhlibrary/pacsreview/v5/n4/wielhors.5n4]
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-- Wielhorski begins with a brief history of remote access to
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electronic information. She follows it with a discussion of remote users
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and a suggested categorization of their needs. Other topics discussed
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include the respective roles of the library and campus computing center
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in training remote users, which concepts should be covered, and how the
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instruction should be delivered. Overall, this is an excellent overview
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article of the challenges of instructing remote users and the ways in
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which to meet that challenge. -- RT
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Wilson, David L. "Metering the Internet" Chronicle of Higher Education
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40(39) (June 1, 1994), A17-A19. -- This article offers an overview of
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the recent controversy surrounding a potential change in the Internet
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pricing system. As the National Science Foundation plans to transfer
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control of its key traffic areas -- the so-called NSF backbone -- to
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the private sector, a movement that calls on the NSF to prohibit private
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companies from adopting any kind of usage-based pricing (as opposed to
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the flat rates currently in practice) is gaining momentum among consumer
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advocates and other net users. Proponents of volume-based pricing argue
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that metered pricing may be necessary to discourage unnecessary traffic
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on the Internet; they also argue that metered pricing is unlikely to be
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applied directly to individual users. -- MP
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Optical Disc Technology
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Burke, David. "What You Need to Know Before Networking CD-ROMs" CD-ROM
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World 14(6) (June 1994):16-22. -- Systems librarian Burke argues that
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while some may view CD-ROM as a transitional storage medium, "those
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shiny little discs will be a part of our lives--and our networks--for
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a long time to come." With that in mind, Burke proceeds to describe
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in detail the necessary steps to the "all-encompassing task" of
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providing networked access to CD-ROM. These steps include selecting
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a networked CD-ROM product, configuring the workstation, choosing
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(or creating) the user interface to CD-ROM database selection,
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deciding what to do about printing, and ensuring network security.
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-- TR
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General
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Ensor, Pat. "SilverPlatter Embraces the Future: The Electronic
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Reference Library Becomes a Reality" Computers in Libraries
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14(6) (June 1994):28-31. -- This article outlines one solution to
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the growing problem of libraries presenting users with multiple
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interfaces to digital resources. The ideal solution is to have
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one user interface for access to all of a library's computer-based
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resources, whether they be CD-ROMs, Internet sites, or databases
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on a local hard disk. These differing technologies and to some
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extent the variety of content demand otherwise, but SilverPlatter
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has made a valiant effort at unification, at least at the initial
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user-access point. The Electronic Reference Library is a
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software package available free to institutions that have
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SilverPlatter titles already. It uses a client/server model to
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deliver a front end to a LAN, from which point it branches out
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to further access points. Each workstation can be configured
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to access only those resources appropriate for its use,
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and ERL supports remote access as well. ERL does not currently
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support many protocols that are called 'standards' (Z39.50 is
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one) but it will try to incorporate these in the future. This
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last issue will be crucial in deciding the usefulness of a
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universal access-point interface, but SilverPlatter has shown a
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promising direction for software vendors targeting
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information-providing institutions. -- RR
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News Bits
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"Current Contents of Computing and LIS Journals" College and Research
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Libraries News 55(6) (June 1994). [URL: gopher://ukoln.bath.ac.uk:7070/
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11/BUBL_Main_Menu/E] -- This valuable resource provides tables of
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contents for a wide range of library and information science
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publications and includes a small number of computing publications as
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well. In some cases, short abstracts of the articles are provided. This
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resource is a cooperative venture of library and information
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professionals around the world, with contents transcribed and submitted
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by volunteers. The tables of contents are searchable with the gopher
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search facility, allowing the user to search the entire text of the
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tables of contents, including abstracts when available, with keywords
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and boolean operators. The only drawback to the system is its uneven
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currency. While entries for some journal titles are up-to-date, others
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lag behind by six months to a year. -- TR
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