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Volume 5, no. 3
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March 1994
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Information Systems Instruction & Support
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The Library
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University of California, Berkeley
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Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
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ISSN: 1060-2356
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Contributors:
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Nathan Meyer, David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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Baker, Kim and Sunny "Grandma and Me & Photo CD" CD-ROM World
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9(4) (April 1994):64-67. - This article will be useful to the small library
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or historical museum, or even to individuals. It shows how to become a
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multimedia CD-ROM author using only a normal PC, a CD-ROM drive
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capable of reading multisession Kodak Photo CDs, and a relatively
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inexpensive software product called "Create It," also by Kodak. The museum
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or library would not need much in the way of equipment or expertise, or even
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a scanner, because the presentation can be created using normal photos or
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film, and the Create It software, which are taken to any Kodak developer to
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put into Photo-CD format. This is a value-added way of displaying visual
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collections because unlike space-consuming wall-mounts, or film it allows
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user interaction through individual pacing and selection, and hyper-links
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between segments. -- RJR
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Conway, Paul "Digitizing Preservation" Library Journal 119(2) (February
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1, 1994):42-45. - This article, from the head of Yale's Open Book Project,
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explores the issues facing an institution on the verge of deciding to digitize
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part of its collection. He compares the advantages of digital imaging over
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microfilm: remote access and ease of use; as well as the disadvantages:
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cost and unknown longevity. One intelligent answer to the main obstacle,
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cost of equipment and expertise, is the formation of consortiums between
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university departments (such as Berkeley's Museum Informatics Project)
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or between universities (such as The Digital Preservation Consortium,
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mentioned in the article). The article is also useful in its partial listing of
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pilot imaging projects currently underway at public institutions around
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the country, mentioning as well the major corporate partners involved.
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The author warns that with the quick obsolescence of equipment
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(not to mention the raised expectations of patrons) that investment in
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digital imaging must be a continuing one. -- RJR
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Sullivan, Jeffrey "Freebies of the Month: The 1993 CIA World Fact Book"
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Computer Shopper 14(4) (April 1994):616. - This 1600-card Hypercard stack
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is a freeware version of the comprehensive world affairs resource already
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available via many gopher services and on some commercial CD-ROMs.
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The main advantages, of course, is that it is free, and you don't need to dial
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up to use it each time. Having this tidbit of world info locally loaded allows
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library or school users added ease and speed of access, and would even allow
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them to take it home for use on a computer without a modem. (The article
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doesn't mention any specific Internet sites, so keep looking.) -- RJR
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Networks and Networking
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Billings, Harold, et al. "Remote Reference Assistance for
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Electronic Information Resources over Networked Workstations"
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Library Hi Tech Issue 45 12(1) (1994):77-86. - The objectives,
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problems and accomplishments of a grant funded project at the
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University of Texas Austin General Libraries are outlined in this
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very readable piece by Billings, et al. The Library set out to
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research, implement and evaluate the feasibility of an
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interactive online librarian. The objective was to allow the
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librarian to provide remote assistance and intervene (if
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requested) during and online search session; a sort of "pilot,
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copilot" interaction. This is one interesting and creative
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approach to providing reference services as more of our library,
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information and academic communities become flooded with
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electronic information. -- DR
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Caplan, Priscilla "You Can't Get There From Here: E-prints and
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the Library" The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5(1)
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(1994):20-24. [available via gopher URL:gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70
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/1/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary/pacsreview/v5/n1/caplan.5n1]
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- Pre-publication versions of articles or manuscripts (pre-prints)
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have long been important to scientists, and the electronic versions
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(e-prints) of these documents are making it much easier and faster
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for researchers to access this information. Caplan asserts that libraries
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can play an important role in collecting, organizing, and providing
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access to this information, as they do for print materials. -- RT
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Coalition for Networked Information, "Electronic Billboards on the Digital
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Superhighway: A Report of the Working Group on Internet Advertising,
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Draft" March 18, 1994.
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[URL:ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/wg.docs/modernization/adpaper-draft.txt]
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[URL:gopher://gopher.cni.org/00/cniwg/modernization/adpaper-draft.txt]
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This short (18 page) document represents the thinking-to-date of CNI's
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Working Group on Internet Advertising. The paper starts with an overview
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of Internet culture as it has been, and proceeds to outline "other forces"
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at work presently, such as commerical access, commercial data services,
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and product vendors. Issues of free speech, consumer benefits (more
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"information rich" advertisements available as needed, not unsolicited),
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the types of ads presently found and ultimately desireable are discussed.
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In particular, the spectre (and probable reality) of a email box full of
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"junk email" is worth noting. Conclusion: no advertiser could resist the
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Internet as a source of customers and guidelines are in our (the netter's)
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best interest. -- NM
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"EFF Statement on FBI Draft Digital Telephony Bill" EFFector
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Online 7(4) (February 24, 1994):n.p. - Available via anonymous FTP from
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[URL:ftp://ftp.eff.org/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/HTML/effect07.04]
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This short article outlines EFF's analysis of the Digital Telephony
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Bill and EFF's position with regard to the proposed legislation. EFF
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comes out strongly against the provisions of the bill, opining that
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it "lays the groundwork for turning the National Information Infra-
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structure into a nation-wide surveillance system" and radically ex-
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tends the state's access to information about electronic communications.
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EFF's critique revolves around the disparity between the invasive power
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of the FBI's proposed technologic and legal access and the lack of legal
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and technologic safe-guards of behalf of citizens. The article includes
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Internet pointers to relevant source documents and is well worth
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reading. -- NM
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"Electronic Storefronts Open Doors for Server Services" The Internet
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Letter 1(6) (March 1, 1994) - An increasing number of companies are
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offering Internet server services, whereby a company can present
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its wares electronically to Internet users. This article describes
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four such outfits and the types of services they provide to other
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commercial organizations. Perhaps one of the most well known of
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these "electronic storefronts" is the Global Network Navigator by
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O'Reilly & Associates. Using World-Wide Web and Mosaic client access,
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O'Reilly presents services and products from a variety of companies.
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Although there are presently few takers for such services, it is
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likely that this is a growth industry. -- RT
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Kalin, Sally "Collaboration: A Key to Internet Training"
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Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 20(3)
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(February/March 1994):20-21. - The Penn State University Libraries
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handle the library staff Internet training issue through a cooperative
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effort with their university's Office of Computer and Information
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Systems. This approach has proved to be very successful and has
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helped create an evolving partnership between two disparate
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campus units. -- DR
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McLaughlin, Pamela Whiteley "Embracing the Internet: The
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Changing Role of Library Staff" Bulletin of the American Society
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for Information Science 20(3) (February/March 1994):16-17.
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A narrative outline describing how the Syracuse University Library
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responded to the increasing demand on library professionals to
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understand and navigate the expanding volume of information
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available in an electronic form. -- DR
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Reinhardt, Andy "Building the Data Highway" BYTE 19(3) (March
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1994):46-74. - If you read one article on the Internet this month,
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make it this one. Reinhardt identifies all the key players, protocols,
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and policies that are in the process of trying to create the highly
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publicized "information superhighway." Ranging from technical
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details to federal legislation, Reinhardt steers clear of the kind of
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overwrought hyperbole that tends to blemish other stories on this topic,
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while providing an insightful and informative overview of the
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challenges and opportunities relating to the creation of a national
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information infrastructure. Highly recommended. -- RT
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Tennant, Roy "Tips & Techniques for Internet Trainers" Bulletin
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of the American Society for Information Science 20(3) (February/
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March 1994):22-24. - A good overview and introduction for the
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potential Internet trainer. Tennant, an experienced Internet
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instructor, offers practical information that will prove valuable to
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the new Internet trainer. Advice on focus, preparation and
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presentation is outlined with particular attention paid to
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preparation. -- DR
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Tetzeli, Rick "The Internet and Your Business" Fortune 129(5) (March
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7, 1994):86-96. - This article describes a number of ways that
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businesses, both large and small, are using the Internet. Although
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not many companies are making much money over the Internet now,
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nonetheless many are banking on it becoming a lucrative new market.
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When Fortune starts paying attention to the Internet, you can bet that
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the 500 largest companies that it identifies each year won't be far
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behind. -- RT
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Tuss, Joan "Roadmaps to the Internet: Finding the Best Guidebook
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for Your Needs" Online 18(1) (January 1994):14-26. - The
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number of books published on or about the Internet is rapidly
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growing as popular interest and use increases. Tuss has reviewed
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and selected eleven of the "best books about the Internet." She
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has critiqued and organized the books according to user focus:
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those who have not yet but want to access the Internet, those who
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are using the Internet and want to do more and those who want to
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teach about the Internet. The strengths and substance of each of
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the eleven books are outlined as well as the author's
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recommendations for those looking for information on a particular
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Internet subtopic. -- DR
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Zakon, Robert H'obbes' "Hobbes' Internet Timeline" posted to
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NETTRAIN@UBVM.BITNET on March 17, 1994. [available by
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sending a message to timeline@hobbes.mitre.org] The best single
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listing of dates and events relating to the Internet that I have seen.
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It goes from the very birth of packet switching in the 1960's up
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to the first Internet-connected White House. -- RT
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The publication of the online journal Internaut marks an
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interesting milestone in the history of publishing. This
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journal is made freely available on the Internet in a
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compressed file of HTML-marked up documents and associated
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image files. Users of NCSA Mosaic, a client program for
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accessing Internet servers of many different varieties
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(World-Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, etc.), can uncompress the
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Internaut files and view them via Mosaic in a user-friendly
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point-and-click mode. The premier issue of Internaut includes
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articles on the beginnings of the Internet and the Community
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Memory Project, Cable Internet (cited below), and other topics
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as well as links to online resources (e.g., TCP/IP software for
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but it is clear that Internaut stands well enough on its own.
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[URL:ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mailcom/internaut/internt1.zip].
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-- RT
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Aboba, Bernard "Understanding Cable Internet" Internaut
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1 (1994):n.p. - Aboba describes how the coaxial cable that
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pipes signals to your TV can be harnessed to bring the Internet
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to your computer instead. But read the article before dashing
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out in search of the magic cable converter with which to
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accomplish this feat. It's harder (and possibly more expensive)
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than you may think.
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Aboba, Bernard "Understanding Information Ecology" Internaut
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1 (1994):n.p. - A free-ranging and thought-provoking essay on
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networking, its impact on our lives and perhaps more importantly
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the impact that we all have on each other as we scramble to
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get our piece of the bandwith pie. Barry Commoners "Tragedy
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of the Commons" as it applies to the Internet.
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Cerf, Vinton and Bernard Aboba "How the Internet Came to Be"
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Internaut 1 (1994):n.p. - Aboba's transcription of Cerf's account
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of the beginnings of the Internet.
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Felsenstein, Lee and Bernard Aboba "How Community Memory
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Came to Be" Internaut 1 (1994):n.p. - Felsenstein describes to Aboba
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the beginnings of an interesting project to bring electronic
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communications to an entire San Francisco Bay Area community.
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Optical Disc Technologies
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Campbell, David K. and Kraig Proehl "Optical Advances" BYTE
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19(3) (March 1994):107-116. - Campbell and Proehl explain why
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MO (magneto-optical storage) is "poised to shake off its 'slow-moving'
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image." Today's 1.3-GB capacity for 5.25-inch MO technology is
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expected to double before 1995, again before 1996, and once more
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before 1998, jumping to a 10.4-GB capacity in less than four years.
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MO is seen as the perfect solution for storage-hungry applications
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such as image management, network data management, online
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archives, and unattended backups. -- TR
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Gunning, Kathleen, et. al. "Networked Electronic Information Systems
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at the University of Houston Libraries: The IRIS Project and Beyond"
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Library Hi Tech Issue 44 11(4) (1993):49-55, 83. - This article describes
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an innovative grant-funded project undertaken in 1989 by the University
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of Houston Libraries in which an experimental Intelligent Reference
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Information System (IRIS) was built. The IRIS project established a
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ten-workstation CD-ROM network that provided access to 19 CD-ROM
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databases, and developed an expert system to recommend reference
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sources. In 1992, the Libraries initiated a new project to replace the IRIS
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network infrastructure, expand the number of networked workstations,
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increase the number of networked CD-ROM databases, offer remote
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access to CD-ROMs, and provide access to new types of network
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resources, such as electronic serials and OPACs on the Internet. Future
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plans will be to continue to explore new technologies in an effort to build a
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comprehensive electronic information system that offers access to diverse
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types of networked information both within the library and from users'
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offices, dorms, and homes. -- TR
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Nicholls, Paul and Pat Ensor "Ten Significant CD-ROM Developments in
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1993" Computers in Libraries 14(2) (February 1994):48-51. - Industry experts
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Nicholls and Ensor recap what has been deemed a "watershed" year
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for CD-ROM. Rounding out their top ten list: CD-ROM hits the
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mainstream, installed base and implementation, CD-Recordable,
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multimedia, publishing, network licensing, trade publications,
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retail distribution, software distribution on CD-ROM, and declining
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hardware and software prices. -- TR
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General
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Lippert, Margret "Continuing Computer Competence: A Training
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Program for the '90s" Bulletin of the American Society for
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Information Science 20(3) (February/March 1994):18-19. - A brief
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description of how the Engineering and Science Libraries at the
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology deal with training library
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staff in computer competence. Because more and more library
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materials are becoming available in electronic format, the libraries
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at MIT chose a comprehensive, twenty-class series to train their
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staff in most nearly every facet of computing in a library. -- DR
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Current Cites 5(3) (March 1994) ISSN: 1060-2356
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