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_Current Cites_
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Volume 8, no. 10
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October 1997
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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/1997/cc97.8.10.html
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Contributors:
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Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe,
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Margaret Phillips, Richard Rinehart,
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Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant
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DIGITAL LIBRARIES
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Friedlander, Amy. "D-Lib Magazine: Publishing as the Honest Broker"
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The Serials Librarian 33 (1-4) (Spring 1998)
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(http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/friedlander.html). -- Ask anyone
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involved in the creation of digital libraries what the most important
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journal is in their field, and most will name D-Lib Magazine. In it
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you get cutting-edge research reports, descriptions of production
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services, highlights of new projects, and much more. In the two years
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since it was begun it has already become an indispensable resource,
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for which the evidence is here in your hands (at Current Cites we cite
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only the best, and a number of D-Lib Magazine's articles have made cut
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over the last two years). The editor Amy Friedlander bridges the
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library and computer science communities with aplomb, and gathers
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articles that illustrate issues and advances that inform the work of
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both. In this piece she describes the philosophy behind the D-Lib
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server organization. -- RT
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Duranceau, Ellen Finnie. "Beyond Print: Revisioning Serials
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Acquisitions for the Digital Age" The Serials Librarian 33 (1-4)
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(Spring 1998) (http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/duranceau.htm). -- As
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many librarians have realized by now, the game has changed. Not only
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are we not doing the same thing we did five years ago, but in many
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cases we could not have even imagined it. If you need proof of this,
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read this article. Web-based serials simply cannot be dealt with in
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the same fashion as print, although even floppy-disk and CD-ROM-based
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serials were not enough to break the print mold. This article provides
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a thorough description of what makes Web-based serials so different in
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terms of library procedures. Read it and weep. -- RT
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Dartois, Myriam, et. al. "A Multilingual Electronic Text Collection of
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Folk Tales for Casual Users Using Off-the-Shelf Browsers" D-Lib
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Magazine (October 1997)
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(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october97/sugimoto/10sugimoto.html). -- I
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admit to having been very skeptical of the claim made by this article
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that an "off-the-shelf" Web browser could simultaneously display folk
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tales in three different languages -- English, French, and Japanese.
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Yes, Japanese. Without special fonts or language kits. It is a good
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thing I'm not a betting man, or I'd be eating my hat right now. Run,
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don't walk, to http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales and see for yourself.
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I loaded their applet over a 28.8K modem connection using Netscape
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3.01 and was very impressed. By contrast, other (admittedly more
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complex) applets I 've recently tried to load over a 10Mb network
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connection using Netscape 4.0 have not only taken orders of magnitude
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longer to load but have also crashed my computer. This project is well
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worth checking out if you want to be either a producer or a consumer
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of texts in non-Roman character sets. -- RT
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Xu, Amanda. "Metadata Conversion and the Library OPAC" The Serials
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Librarian 33 (1-4) (Spring 1998)
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(http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/xu.htm). -- Every once in a while I run
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into an article that gives me a distinct impression that the person
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writing it is living before their time. This is one such. I have a
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feeling that most of what Xu writes about in this article will be
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barely understandable to most people and yet may be taken for granted
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within five years. Xu's basic thesis is that the best interface to
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information for library users is the library catalog. Given that, why
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should we force our clientele to use a separate interface to access
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Web resources? Why not "suck in" metadata from Web resources into our
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library catalogs and provide our users with "one-stop" shopping? Why
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not indeed? Well, the very idea is anathema to many -- mainly those
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charged with creating and maintaining a highly structured and
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high-quality library catalog database. To some degree, this
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philosophical issue is at the very core of our future digital
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libraries. Will our users increasingly see a division between print
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and digital? Or will we use technology to bring them ever closer
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together? Xu is of the latter camp, but unfortunately she may just be
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a few years too early for most readers. Read this article, read it
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again, then read between the lines. Then think about possibilities and
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our users who depend upon possibilities realized. -- RT
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NETWORKS & NETWORKING
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Junion-Metz, Gail. K-12 Resources on the Internet: An Instructional
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Guide. Berkeley, California: Library Solutions Press, 1997.
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ISBN:1-882208-22-6. (Instructor's Supplement: ISBN: 1-882208-23-4) -
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An update of last year's edition, this workbook continues in the fine
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tradition of other Internet workshop guides published by Library
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Solutions Press. Serving a dual purpose as both a self-paced guide for
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individual teachers and librarians who want to learn about the
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Internet and as a model training tool for those teaching the Internet,
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this guide is divided into three modules: Module 1 provides a broad
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overview of the Internet and includes everything from the history of
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the Internet to the obligatory treatise on netiquette; Module 2
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focuses on teaching offering suggestions for setting up a general
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Internet teaching strategy and creating assignments; Module 3, for
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those teachers and librarian who are not yet online, outlines the
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basic issues of acquiring the Internet. Each module contains an
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annotated list of resources for further exploration. New to this
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year's addition is an accompanying disk that can be used with a web
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browser and lists the most up-to-date addresses for the many resources
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listed in the print guide. Also new to this edition is a section on
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searching the web (gone are references to Veronica and Jughead). Of
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particular use in this volume is the extensive bibliography of books
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and journal articles (yes, print resources). As with the many other
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Library Solutions Press guides, the Instructor's supplement includes
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Windows and Macintosh disks which contain presentation slides that can
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be used for instructional purposes. -- MP
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Auditore, John and Kristin Stoklosa. "Health Statistics" College &
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Research Libraries News 58(9) (October 1997):627-630, 639
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(http://www.ala.org/acrl/resoct97.html). -- This guide to Internet
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resources lists sites for accessing current, relevant national
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statistics published by reputable organizations. The first part
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includes references to good starting points like the National Center
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for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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(http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/nchshome.htm). Topics of other sections
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include aging, AIDS, cancer, environmental health, ethnic health
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issues and mental health. Most of the references are to U.S. sites but
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there is a brief section on international statistics. -- MP
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Lan, Zhiyong and Santa Falcone. "Factors Influencing Internet Use - A
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Policy Model for Electronic Government Information Provision" Journal
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of Government Information 24(4) (1997):251-157. -- The article
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discusses four key issues that must be considered in order to foster
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widespread acceptance of the Internet: 1) Technical development
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efforts should focus on enhancing ease of use by increasing the speed
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of information processing as well as creating standard to avoid
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systems incompatibility. 2) Because Internet access is expensive, and
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because private investment is heavily involved in the information
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revolution, government information disseminated through the Internet
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only reaches the well-to-do. This factor must be considered in any
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attempt to render the Internet the primary mode of access for
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government information. 3) Institutional arrangements which lead to
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the centralization of information services and the effect of economies
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of scale which lead to monopolies in the information services market
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are factors that may hamper unrestricted access. 4) Finally,
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psychological factors influencing information processing to be taken
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into consideration include "fearful attitudes toward the Internet" as
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well as lack of acceptance of this new medium by users. -- CG
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Max, J. and W. Stickle. "Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on
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the Internet". Request For Comments 2150; FYI 31. IETF Network
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Working Group, October 1997 (http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2150.txt)
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-- This is an easy-to-understand explanation of the Internet and all
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of its various services with the particular needs of artists and
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humanists in mind. For those who match the profile audience and who
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have resisted using the Internet, this may be just the document to
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inspire them to get online and describe what they can do when they get
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there. But give it to them on paper, please. In the early days of the
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Internet we would joke that one could learn to use the Internet if one
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could only learn to use the Internet, since everything describing how
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to use it was online. Better yet, give them a copy of this document
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and send them off on a long coffee break while you connect their PC to
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the network. Then, when they return all jacked up on caffeine, sit
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them down in front of a Web browser and show them how to type in the
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URLs listed in the RFC they just read. Just be sure to escape before
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they ask you what "Request for Comments" means. -- RT
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Maxwell, Bruce. How to Access the Federal Government on the Internet.
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Washington, DC : Congressional Quarterly, 1997. An update of his 1995
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guide, the 1998 version contains descriptions of more than 600 federal
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government Internet sites, hundreds of which are new to this edition.
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Maxwell does not claim to list every federal Internet site or every
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document ever produced by the government; for this reason, the first
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section of the book lists such important gateways such as United
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States Government Information
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(www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/gov/us/federal.htm) or the U.S. Federal
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Government Agencies Page (www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html) describing
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these gateways as excellent starting points in a search for federal
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government information. Maxwell's descriptions of each site are
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concise yet evaluative. He also does a good job of putting the
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Internet into perspective noting that not everything published by the
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government is on the Internet and cautioning the researcher to
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question the accuracy of information retrieved. One wonders if the
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publishers of this guide, Congressional Quarterly, Inc., will ever
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make a website out of this guide. I, for one, would definitely place
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such a website high up in my list of bookmarks. -- MP
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_________________________________________________________________
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Current Cites 8(10) (October 1997) ISSN: 1060-2356
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Copyright (C) 1997 by the Library, University of
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California, Berkeley. All rights reserved.
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