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_Current Cites_
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Volume 6, no. 10
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October 1995
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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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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1995/cc95.6.10.html
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Contributors:
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Campbell Crabtree, John Ober, Margaret Phillips,
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David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Editor's Note: The Current Cites web site has moved to the
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UC Berkeley Library's brand new SunSITE. Please change your
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bookmarks accordingly. Web manager and senior cites
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contributor Roy Tennant has taken this opportunity to
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enhance our web site with a new design and retrospective
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HTML mark-up for back issues. Check it out!
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Electronic Publishing
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Cronin, Blaise and Kara Overfelt. "E-Journals and Tenure"
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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46(9) (October 1995):700-703. -- A brief discussion
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about the role of electronic publishing in the promotion
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and tenure process for university scholars. Though it is
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not yet clear whether the academic reward system is
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embracing e-journals as criteria for advancement, it is
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clear that a growing number of individual scholars and
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administrators believe e-journals to be worthy of inclusion
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in the review process. -- DR
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DeLoughry, Thomas J. "Copyright in Cyberspace" Chronicle
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of Higher Education 42(3) (September 15, 1995):A22, A24.
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-- A report issued by the Commerce Department's Working
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Group on Intellectual Property Rights
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[http://www.uspto.gov/web/ipnii/] has recommended certain
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changes to copyright law that would accommodate access to
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information on the Internet. Librarians and educators have
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expressed concern that the report is dominated by business
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concerns favoring the rights of copyright owners over the
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needs of academia. Many have also expressed concern over
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the recommendation that network operators be held
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responsible for copyright infringements; they fear that
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those responsible for running networks would be required
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to become "copyright police." -- MP
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DeLoughry, Thomas J. "Panel Urges Saving Digital Data for
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Posterity" Chronicle of Higher Education 42(2) (September
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8, 1995):A31. -- The Commission on Preservation and Access
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and the Research Libraries Group has created a task force
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to investigate how best to insure continued access to
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records stored in digital form. The report issued by this
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task force calls on individuals and organizations interested
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in digital archives to work together on developing standards
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and mechanisms for moving digital materials into usable
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formats; it also calls for cooperation between copyright
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owners and archivists in determining who has access to the
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archived materials. The report, which is still considered by
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its authors to be in an interim stage is available at
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http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/ArchTF/. -- MP
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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Bearman, David, ed. _Hands On Hypermedia and Interactivity in
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Museums_ (ISBN:1-885626-12-6) Pittsburgh: Archives & Museum
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Informatics, 1995. -- This book is a publication of the papers
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and articles presented at the Third International Conference on
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Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums. The diversity of issues
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covered is great: from audiences and new technology, new media
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in instruction and research, detailed case studies of multimedia
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projects, to intellectual property and more. This book and its
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companion volume, "Multimedia Computing and Museums"
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(ISBN: 1-885626-11-8), raise issues that are of interest even
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beyond museums, and will be fruitful reading for anyone in the
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cultural heritage community. -- RR
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Besser, Howard & Jennifer Trant. _Introduction to Imaging:
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Issues in Constructing an Image Database_ (ISBN: 0-89236-361-4)
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Los Angeles: Getty Art History Information Program, 1995.
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[available at http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/home.html]
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-- This booklet is a very readable and concise guide to the
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process of imaging with the end-goal of using the images in
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any type of image database for online display and delivery
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over networks. It covers image standards, quality control,
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techniques and more. The book will be of great use to the
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manager or technical staff beginning an imaging project,
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and contains a glossary of terms as well as a bibliography
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for further reading. -- RR
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Networks and Networking
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Bournellis, Cynthia. "Internet '95" Internet World 6(11)
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(November 1995):47-52. -- One of the most commonly asked
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questions on the Internet relates to the "vital statistics"
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of the net itself; that is, how many users, files, servers,
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etc., can be found on this world wide network. Whether this
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curiosity stems from a sense of awe at the phenomenal
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growth the Internet has seen, or a desire to justify capital
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outlays for Internet services, the urge to quantify is
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clearly not going away anytime soon. In this article
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Bournellis highlights some of the network surveys that have
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been done to try and quantify what seems to be nearly
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unquantifiable. URLs to key statistical sources are provided
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as well so readers can keep up with the rapidly changing
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statistical picture. -- RT
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Chrzastowski, Tina E. "Do Workstations Work Too Well?:
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An Investigation into Library Workstation Popularity and
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the Principle of Least Effort" Journal of the American
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Society for Information Science 46(8) (September 1995):
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638-641.-- Chrzastowski looks at statistics taken from
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library workstations at the Chemistry Library at the
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that seem to
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show a trend among users away from the more exhaustive
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print indexes (in this case Chemical Abstracts) in favor
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of the less comprehensive electronic indexes available
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via the library workstation (Current Contents). -- DR
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Green, Tim. "Online Information Services: Caught in the
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Web?" Online 19(4) (July/August 1995):22-31. [available
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at http://www.research.ibm.com/xw-library] -- Green
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describes how online database providers such as Dialog,
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Lexis-Nexis, STN International and others are using
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the World Wide Web. Common uses include marketing,
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product testing and limited free services. Screen shots
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from most of the services mentioned are included. -- RT
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Heaney, Michael. "Object-Oriented Cataloging" Information
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Technology and Libraries 14(3) (September 1995):135-153.
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-- Amidst an outcry from librarians to "catalog the
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Internet" (as if that were possible), Heaney's article
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appears to indicate that such an activity would be like
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loading more people on the Titanic while it sinks beneath
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their feet. Certainly many of the limitations and problems
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with existing bibliographic standards like AACR2 and MARC
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are well-known among librarians conversant with them, but
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Heaney goes much farther than most would go in his attempt
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to bring cataloging practice into the networked age. He
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proposes an entirely new cataloging standard (AACR3 as it
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were) based upon object-oriented modeling. He freely
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acknowledges, however, that the sheer weight of existing
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standards presents a formidable barrier to the drastic
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changes that he proposes. Nonetheless it can be provocative
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and informative to consider his proposal. -- RT
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Lewis, Peter H. "Most Go On Line at Home, Study Finds"
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New York Times 145(50,224) (October 23, 1995):C6. -- An
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online survey conducted in mid-1995 by Yahoo, Inc. and
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Jupiter Communications concludes that computer networks
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have become a mass market medium faster than many insiders
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had expected and suggests that most people access the Web
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from home, not from the office or at school. A majority of
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participants in the Yahoo survey said that they had cut
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back on television watching in order to spend more time on
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the Internet and many said they visited the Web or another
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online service more than once a day. Meanwhile, other
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surveys have found that nearly 14,000 new commercial online
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service accounts are being opened each day with 9.9 million
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Americans now subscribing to an online service, a 78 percent
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increase from last year. -- MP
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McMillan, Gary A., Margaret R. Dittemore, Carol Ritzen
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Kem. "Internet Resources for Sociology" College &
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Research Libraries News 56(9) (October 1995):639-643.
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-- Another bibliography of selected Internet resources,
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this month's C&RL News guide is designed to be a resource
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for librarians introducing Internet resources in
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sociology to faculty and students. It includes a list
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of scholarly discussion lists and electronic conferences,
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electronic journals, subdiscipline-related sites and
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sources for finding information about grants and funding
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sources. -- MP
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Noack, David R. "Visiting Museums Virtually" Internet
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World 6(10) (October 1995):86-91. -- Noack gives a virtual
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tour through an incredible variety of online exhibits and
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displays, ranging from dinosaurs to modern art. The article
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includes pointers to Web servers, museum-related electronic
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discussions, FTP sites, Gopher servers, and Telnet-accessible
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databases. -- RT
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Rinehart, Richard. "The Museum Information Access
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Continuum" Spectra 23(1) (Fall 1995):28-29. [available
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at http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/continuum.html]
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-- Rinehart, a frequent contributor to Current Cites,
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places museum digital access projects somewhere on a
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continuum from stewardship to pedagogy. Stewardship leads
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to "detail-rich" records of collection items in order to
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better preserve and manage them, whereas pedagogy encourages
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"context-rich" records to place collection items within "an
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envelope of history or ideas." Rinehart asserts that neither
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end of the spectrum should be preferred over the other --
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both are required to fulfill the mission of most museums.
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Rather he uses this context to help explain the complex
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problems of providing online access to information spanning
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the spectrum in a unified and easy to use way. -- RT
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Robertson, Neil. "WWW: The Next Generation" Internet World
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6(11) (November 1995):32-34. -- Tired of plain HTML? Have
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you mastered forms and tables and are looking for the
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next thrill? This article gives a brief look at several
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cutting-edge Web technologies: Netscape server push and
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client pull, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
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and NCSA Mosaic's Common Client Interface. Essential URLs
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are included. -- RT
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Seabrook, John. "Home on the Net" The New Yorker (October
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16, 1995):66-76. -- In this year's "home issue," the New
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Yorker's technology writer John Seabrook
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[http://www.levity.com/seabrook/] recounts the adventures
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and mis-adventures of creating his own home page (get it?).
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He provides a clear, simple description of the Web for
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network novices while at the same time offering seasoned
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Webmasters thought-provoking analysis of Internet culture
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and how individual identity is manifested there. The
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readability of Seabrook's insights make up for the
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credibility he loses for not actually doing the mark up for
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his own home page! -- MP
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"Special Issue of Geographic Information Systems (GISs)
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and Academic Libraries" The Journal of Academic
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Librarianship 21(4) (July 1995). -- Academic libraries
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are increasingly facing the challenges relating to making
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geographic information systems available to their
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clientele. This set of articles explains GISs and the role
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that libraries can play, and gives working examples of
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libraries that have integrated such systems into their mix
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of services. The articles provide many good citations and
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URLs for further reading and exploration. -- RT
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Optical Disc Technology
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Herther, Nancy. "CD-ROM Publishing Today: What's Hot
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& What's Not" Database 18(4) (August/September 1995):
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27-41. -- Herther asserts that CD-ROM publishers have
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"passed from the 'bleeding edge' of design to clearly
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leading edge products that compete well against their
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online and print counterparts. Beyond this, whole new
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works by 'electronic artists' are establishing CD-ROM
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as a legitimate medium for creating what may be
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tomorrow's masterpieces." While prices for CD-ROM
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drives and discs continues to fall, overall quality
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continues to rise. Herther uncovers the hottest trends
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in CD-ROM design in the following categories: reference/
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information titles, computer software on CD-ROM,
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books with enhanced text, art and images on discs,
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government CD-ROMs, games, software tutorials,
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education and training, newspapers, magazines and
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catalogs on CD-ROM, and musical CDs. -- TR
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General
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BYTE Magazine's 20th Anniversary Special Issue 20(9)
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(September 1995). [available at
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http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/sec7.htm] -- One of
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the most authoritative magazines devoted to small systems
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is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special issue
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looking both backward and forward. BYTE editorial staff
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select the top 20 in a number of categories, from
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essential (Top 20 Technologies) to hilarious (20
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Spectacular Failures). Besides bringing back a lot of
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recent memories that seem ancient (anyone remember the
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Commodore PET?), it dramatically demonstrates how far
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computing has come in so little time. -- RT
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"Found! The Best Books of 1995: A Roundup of Books That
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Can Make a Difference" Computer Currents (Bay Area
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Edition) 13(11) (October 17, 1995):37-53. [available at
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http://www.ccurrents.com/covr] -- 28 computer-related
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tomes are abstracted and reviewed in five different
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categories: Inside Computing, Hands-on Help, Windows
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Saviors, Internet for the Rest of Us, and For Web-Meisters
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Only. As the subject headings suggest, coverage is broad,
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with the latest from Cliff Stoll and Scott Adams alongside
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Windows 95 survival kits. If you are looking to fill in
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the gaps of your info tech library, this would be a good
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place to start. -- TR
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Gorman, Michael. "Five New Laws of Librarianship" American
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Libraries 26(8) (September 1995):784-785. -- In this article
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adapted from his recently released book ("Future Libraries:
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Dreams, Madness and Reality"), Gorman humbly offers his
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revision of S.R. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science,
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which were promulgated more than sixty years ago. They are:
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1) Libraries serve humanity, 2) Respect all forms by which
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knowledge is communicated, 3) Use technology intelligently
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to enhance service, 4) Protect free access to knowledge,
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and 5) Honor the past and create the future. -- RT
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Swerdlow, Joel. "Information Revolution" National Geographic
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188(4) (October 1995):5-36. -- Although this article on the
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"information revolution" (aren't we tired of that yet?) is
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relatively superficial and fairly brief, yet it is the
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illustrations that make it well worth the price of admission.
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The opening photo brings an oft-quoted phrase into reality
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with a force that only an image could provide, as a lone
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person sits in a darkened room surrounded by 500 (yes, count
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them) television screens to depict the hundreds of television
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channels that will supposedly be our daily fare in the
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not-too-distant future. Then check out the "photo" of the
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monkees in the library reading room. Don't say I didn't warn
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you. -- RT
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Current Cites 6(10) (October 1995) ISSN: 1060-2356
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California, Berkeley. All rights reserved.
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