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_Current Cites_
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Volume 7, no. 11
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November 1996
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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/1996/cc96.7.11.html
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Contributors:
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Campbell Crabtree, Terry Huwe,
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Margaret Phillips, David Rez, Richard Rinehart,
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Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
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Butter, Karen, Robin Chandler and John Kunze. "The Cigarette Papers:
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Issues in Publishing Materials in Multiple Formats" D-Lib Magazine
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(November 1996) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november96/11butter.html) --
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A brief overview of several publishing projects relating to a
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collection of tobacco company Brown and Williamson internal
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documents that were leaked to, among others, the University of
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California, San Francisco. The UCSF Library subsequently published
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them in various forms in association with UC Press. A number of issues
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relating to these efforts (not the least of which being litigation by
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B&W to try to recover the documents) are briefly described. As an
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overview piece it serves its purpose, particularly with the links to
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pertinent resources online, but I couldn't help wishing for more
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details on how they scanned, indexed and published the material (some
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8,000 documents). -- RT
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CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use
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(http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/confu.htm) --
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Spawned by the federal National Information Infrastructure project,
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the working group on Intellectual Property Rights convened the
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Conference on Fair Use: a meeting of stakeholders in copyright from
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content developers and publishers to end-users, universities, and
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libraries. This working group was charged with developing broadly
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accepted guidelines for fair use (free, educational use) of electronic
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resources, from databases to multimedia. Five areas were chosen to
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focus on: Distance Learning, Multimedia, Electronic Reserves,
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Interlibrary Loan, and Image Collections. The Multimedia and Images
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groups lead in reaching tentative agreements (all of which can be read
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online). The groups convened were not individuals, but rather
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professional organizations such as the College Art Association, the
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American Association of Museums, the Visual Resources Association,
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Association of Research Libraries, Association of American
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Publishers, and so on. This suite of documents deserves reading by
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anyone involved in electronic media for education at any level and
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anyone developing or distributing electronic resources. This is a very
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large group; but then again, this project will have equally large
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implications for these areas. -- RR
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Gasaway, Laura N. "Libraries, Educational Institutions, and Copyright
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Proprietors: The First Collision on the Information Highway" The
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Journal of Academic Librarianship 22(5) (September 1996): 337-344. --
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Focusing on the Clinton administration's White Paper on Intellectual
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Property Rights in the National Information Infrastructure and the
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impact that its recommendations will have on libraries and educational
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institutions, here is yet another article that describes the
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implications that passage of this legislation will have on access to
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information. Libraries and educational institutions, in providing
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copyrighted materials to the public whether they be students,
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teachers, scholars or researchers, see themselves as advocates for
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society at large. The recommendations put forth in the White Paper,
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however, favor the copyright owners and will make it more difficult
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for libraries to make electronic works available to the public in the
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same way that printed materials are made available. -- MP
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Stover, Mark. "The Librarian as Publisher: A World Wide Web Publishing
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Project" Computers in Libraries 16(9)(October 1996) :40-43. -- This
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article touches on many issues surrounding web journals: refereed vs.
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nonrefereed publication, access, copyright, design, and includes a
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sidebar underscoring the value of librarians as publishers on the web.
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While it is yet to be seen how successful scholarly web journals will
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be, arguments are made for making available full-text journals with
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the added value of indexing and judicious hyperlinking. The author
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makes his points using the experience of a scholarly journal published
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by an independent graduate school, Progress
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(http://www.phillips.org/progress.htm) -- CJC
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MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA
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Hurtig, Brent. "A/V Streaming Brings the Web to Life....Almost" New
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Media 6(14) (October 28, 1996):52-63. -- Libraries, archives, museums
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and universities are quickly moving to the next stage in developing
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their electronic resources: moving from text databases and static web
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pages to making available their audio/visual resources online. If you
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are considering making available your oral history archive, video
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archive, or even just adding bits of sound and moving image to
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existing text-based resources this article will be useful reading. It
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is more practical in bent than theoretical. Although it does not
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promote or discuss standards-based solutions which would be especially
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useful for non-ephemeral collections, the article is very helpful as
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an up-to-date overview of the tools and issues involved in putting
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multimedia resources online now. Streaming is the means of making
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multimedia content available to the end-user without making them
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download a huge multimedia file before viewing/playing. One can
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"stream" the content, or play it as it comes in. This makes it
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feasible to deliver these resources in an acceptable manner. The
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article covers most of the major tools and formats currently
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available, and how they do, and don't, do the job. Again, this is a
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discussion of mostly proprietary formats for streaming multimedia, but
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even they can be useful as a temporary delivery mechanism, while the
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master copy remains in a standards-based form, itself "archived",
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waiting for tools to come along for its immediate delivery. -- RR
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Pierce, Jeffrey. "The Image Makers: Finding A Scanner That's Right For
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You" Adobe Magazine 8(1) (November 1996): 61-65. -- So what's there to
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know about scanners? More than you may realize, and once you do you
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will want an article like this to tell you about it. Learn about
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optical resolution, dynamic range, bit depth, and a lot more that will
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help make you an effective scanner shopper and user. Learn from those
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who scan for a living. -- RT
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NETWORKS AND NETWORKING
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"The Economics of the Internet: Too Cheap to Meter?" The Economist
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341(no. 7988) (October 19-25, 1996):23-27.
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[http://www.economist.com/issue/19-10-96/sf0774.html] -- The editors
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summarize the challenges of pricing the use of the Internet. The
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non-commercial roots of the Internet, they argue, now work against its
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effectiveness as a medium for digital commerce. Hence the meteoric
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growth of corporate intranets, and "extranets"--wide area networks
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that include business partners. "Internet II", the university-led
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initiative to build a faster network is one manifestation of this
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trend. However, Internet commerce in its current form has generated
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"halo" effects; modem users are using telephony to get to the network,
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which in some cases boosts telecommunications profits. Pricing models
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pose further difficulties. "Use-based" pricing could dampen growth,
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while flat fee pricing fails to address the fact that billing a
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customer costs more than Internet connect time does. The basic
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trade-off is between cheap (or free) flow of information at the
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expense of speed, or lightning fast service--for a fee. -- TH
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Maxwell, Bruce. How to Access the Federal Government on the Internet
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1997 Washington, DC : Congressional Quarterly, 1996. -- An updated and
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expanded edition of last year's publication of the same name, this
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guide includes descriptions of more than 400 federal Internet sites,
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more than 150 of which are new in this volume. The annotated entries
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explain how to access each site and describe the site's focus and
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coverage. With the Internet being such a changeable environment and
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the nature of politics being what it is (the November election has
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rendered the list of email addresses and web sites for Members of
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Congress out-of-date even before 1997 has arrived), one is justified
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in questioning the value of a printed directory to the Internet. Yet
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this book is valuable despite these anachronisms because it gives more
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than just the address of a particular site; it outlines how to conduct
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a search for federal information and provides tips about where to
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start a search and how to use some of the search tools. -- MP
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Ridinger, Robert B. Marks. "Internet Resources in Gay and Lesbian
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Studies" College & Research Libraries News 57(10) (November 1996):
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658-660, 671. [http://www.ala.org/acrl/resnov.html] -- The emergence
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of gay and lesbian studies as a legitimate area of academic inquiry is
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evidenced by the steady increase in books and articles related to the
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life, culture and issues of the gay and lesbian community in the
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United States and worldwide. Along with the growth of print media,
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there has been an explosion of resources on the Internet. This guide
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to Internet resources provides references to gateway sources (like
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Infoqueer http://www.3wnet.com/rainbow/gnl.html) and Web sites for
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gay and lesbian organizations (see the homepage for the Lamda Legal
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Defense and Education Fund -
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http://www.gaysource.com/gs/ht/oct95/lambda.html). Also find
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references to libraries and archives (June L. Mazer Lesbian Collection
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- http://www.lesbian.org/mazer/index.html), academic departments and
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discussion groups (QSTUDY-L) and news media (The Advocate -
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http://www.advocate.com/). -- MP
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
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Ubois, Jeff. "Future Effect: Author and Futurist James Burke Waxes
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Philosophic on the Way the Internet is Changing Society" Internet
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World 7(12) (December 1996):76-82. -- If you want to know about the
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effect of the Internet on society, placed within an historical and
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intellectual context, who better to give it to you than James Burke?
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Although the article lacks the visual power of his TV programs, Burke
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does not disappoint. -- RT
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GENERAL
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Hallmark, Judy and C. Rebecca Garcia. "Training for Automated Systems
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in Libraries" Information Technology and Libraries 15(3) (September
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1996):157-166. -- This article on staff and user training for library
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automated systems is a highly readable account of a series of
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interviews with staff from 49 libraries of all types. The interviewees
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describe the often painful training experiences and what they learned.
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Rather than being a dry exposition of research findings, this
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insightful and easy to read account is chock-full of useful advice.
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I'll even forgive the fact that a quote was not attributed correctly
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(apparently footnotes 7 and 8 were inadvertently switched). Anyone
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faced with training or retraining staff or users on automated systems
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would do well to study this article beforehand. -- RT
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Wilson, David L. "New California State Campus has Ambitious Plans for
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Technology" Chronicle of Higher Education XLIII(8) (October 18,
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1996):23-24. -- With a focus on multi-disciplinary study and
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information technology, CSU Monterey Bay has been touted as an
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experiment in high technology learning. However, according to John C.
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Ittelson, director of distance learning, "getting people to do things
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differently is a process of seduction." Although it's early to draw
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conclusions, Wilson interviews a variety of faculty and students and
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finds at least some resistance to the plan: "too much email and
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voicemail," says one professor. Yet top administrators, including
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President Peter P. Smith, are committed to finding new ways to teach,
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and show no sign of retreat from their vision. -- TH
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Zastrow, Jan. "The Inner Workings of a Document Delivery Pilot
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Project" Computers in Libraries 16(9)(October 1996):20-24.
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[http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/oct/docdel.htm] -- The Emergency
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Medical Services Document Delivery Pilot Project
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(http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/ems/illdoc.html) is the third installment
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of a three part project at Kapiolani Community College in Honolulu,
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Hawaii, covering bibliographic instruction, remote access to CD-ROM
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databases and document delivery. Paramount to the project's goals was
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that research be free and available to eligible users. Patrons were
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able to request documents they found citations for, and receive
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photocopies. Because of the scope of this project, copyright violation
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was not an issue. Operating on a very small budget, this project was
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able to fill all document requests, though lack of funds made it
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difficult, when documents were not locally available. Based on the
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success of this project, the first integrated interlibrary loan system
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for KCC will be partially funded and expanded next year. -- CJC
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_________________________________________________________________
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Current Cites 7(11) (November 1996) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright (C) 1996
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by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. All rights
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