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_Current Cites_
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Volume 6, no. 11
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November 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/cc95.6.11.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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Electronic Publishing
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Jacobson, Robert L. "Research Universities Consider Plan to
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Distribute Scholarly Work on Line" Chronicle of Higher
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Education 42(10) (November 3, 1995):A32. -- The Association
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of American Universities (AAU) and the Association for
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Research Libraries (ARL) have come up with a proposal that
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would create a computerized network for distributing
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scholarly work. As a not-for-profit entity funded by member
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universities, the proposed network would facilitate scholarly
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publishing based on the cost of the information rather than
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"cost-plus." As the cost of scholarly publishing continues to
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rise, academic institutions have had to go outside higher
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education to publish scholarly works while at the same time
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having to pay commercial publishers for access to their own
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material. The proposed AAU/ARL plan would be one way to avoid
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this trend and would give scholarly publishing more autonomy.
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-- MP
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Lehman, Bruce. "Royalties, Fair Use & Copyright in the
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Electronic Age" Educom Review 30(6)(November/December
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1995):30-35. -- Anyone who is interested in the role of
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copyright in a networked environment will likely appreciate
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this interview with the Clinton administration's point man
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for intellectual property rights. Lehman is the Commissioner
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of Patents and Trademarks and chair of the Working Group on
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Intellectual Property Rights within the Information
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Infrastructure Task Force headed by Secretary of Commerce
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Ronald Brown. His working group recently released their
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report "Intellectual Property and the National Information
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Infrastructure" [http://www.uspto.gov/web/ipnii/], which
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makes this interview timely as well as informative. -- RT
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Markoff, John. "With a Debut, a Test of On-Line Publishing"
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The New York Times 145(50,244) (November 13, 1995): C7.
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-- This article analyses the evolution of electronic
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publishing as it profiles the upcoming debut of a new
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electronic magazine, Salon [http://www.salon1999.com]. As
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electronic journals emerge, they are starting to take
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advantage of the new technological capabilities available
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on the Web creating magazines that are interactive rather
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than mere electronic versions of traditional print magazines.
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In addition to creating a new model for electronic publishing
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based on technological innovations, the magazine will generate
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a more creative business model; Salon will be underwritten by
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several big name financial backers and will also be financed
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by advertisements.-- MP
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O'Reilly, Tim. "Publishing Models for Internet Commerce"
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OnTheInternet 1(4) (September/October 1995):29-35. -- Who
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better to discuss the impact of the Internet on publishing
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than a publisher who is helping define the market? O'Reilly
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and Associates has long been known of pithy computer books,
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including _The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog_
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-- most likely the single most successful Internet title to
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date. In this lengthy but highly readable article, O'Reilly
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offers insights and predictions about the future of publishing
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on the net. Those who are new to the game, or librarians who
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must wrestle with a new paradigm for library "acquisition"
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of electronic texts, would do well to pay attention. -- RT
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Roselaren, Steve. "Publishing Beyond Paper" MacWorld
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[http://www.macworld.com/] (December 1995) 12(12):96-102.
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-- [http://www.macworld.com/pages/december.95/Feature.1630.html]
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This article is a good introduction to digital publishing.
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It compares many publishing and design issues compared across
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three media; print, CD-ROM, and WWW. Sometimes it compares
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apples to oranges, but for the most part this information
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would be very useful for a museum or library gearing up their
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publications unit to take on new media. It contains an
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explanation of HTML (as a subset of SGML), image formats,
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typeface (where it can be controlled; where it can't), and
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delivery means (WWW servers for WWW, Macromind and the like
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for CD-ROM). It also contains WWW URLs for further
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exploration, and a list of products for digital publication,
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including tools for text/HTML, images, and audio. The article
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would also be useful for anyone considering how to best
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re-purpose their digital information across these media. -- RR
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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"1996 Multimedia Tool Guide" New Media Special 13th Annual
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Issue (November 1995) -- [http://www.hyperstand.com/SITE/toolguide/1996.ToolGuide.html]
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This entire issue of New Media magazine is a guide to software
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and hardware for the authoring and delivery of multimedia.
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The issue is broken down into six sections: authoring, online,
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audio, video, storage, and display, with subsections on specifics
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like sound cards, MPEG encoding systems, CD Recording Systems,
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etc. The sections could have been re-thought, but a lot of
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useful info is contained in this issue, along with product
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specs, uses for the products, prices, and company phone
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numbers. Useful for comparison shopping for any museum or
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library deciding on tools for digital projects. New Media is
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now available also on the Web at http://www.hyperstand.com.
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-- RR
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Fillmore, Laura. "Literacy's Last Best Hope" OnTheInternet
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1(4) (September/October 1995):37-42. -- Laura Fillmore
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founded the Online BookStore, which has since become Open
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Book Systems [http://www.obs-us.com/]. In this article
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adapted from a speech at EDMedia 1995 in Graz, Austria,
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she takes us on a sojourn that both begins and ends in
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Graz, but stops many places in between:
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[http://www.obs-us.com/obs/english/papers/gr1.htm].
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It is a journey well worth taking, and best taken online
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so the side paths she offers as examples of her points can
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be explored as well. She mainly talks of "hyperliteracy"
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which she defines as "the capability to recognize, access,
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and apply hypertext ideas and tools online," and which she
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fervently hopes will be nurtured rather than controlled or
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censored. -- RT
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Heid, Jim. "The Mac Recording Studio" MacWorld
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[http://www.macworld.com/] (December 1995) 12(12):112-118.
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-- [http://www.macworld.com/pages/december.95/Feature.1632.html]
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This article explores the range of tools one can use
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to capture, edit, and output digital audio for a variety
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of uses. The author covers very effective low-cost
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solutions, using the hardware built into any newer Mac
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with software-only audio programs, to high-end hardware/
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software combination packages for editing/authoring audio
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for professional output. This would be a useful article for
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someone already introduced to basic digital audio issues,
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such as standard file formats (AIFF, WAV, AU), and quality
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(kilohertz), and who is now looking for solutions for
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producing audio for a specific use (online delivery,
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background music for an educational CD-ROM, etc). -- RR
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Networks and Networking
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Flohr, Udo. "Hyper-G Organizes the Web" BYTE 20(11)
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(November 1995):59-64. -- The overnight explosion of the
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World Wide Web following the introduction of NCSA Mosaic
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for personal computers may tend to blind us to the fact
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that it may not be the best tool for the job. In this
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overview article on a Web competitor called Hyper-G, Flohr
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identifies flaws in current Web technology and how Hyper-G
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solves them. Some of the Hyper-G features include the
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ability to attach links to read-only files such as those
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stored on CD-ROM, or within objects such as Postscript files
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or video clips. This and more comes at little cost, as
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Hyper-G servers can support standard Web clients (albeit
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without the full Hyper-G functionality), while offering
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these advanced features to Hyper-G clients. This is
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definitely a technology worth checking out, which you can do
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at the Hyper-G site at http://hgiicm.tu-graz.ac.at/. -- RT
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Hoffman, Irene M. "Fundraising: A Selected List of Internet
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Resources" College & Research Libraries News 56(10) (November
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1995): 692-693, 717. -- This month's C&RL News feature on
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Internet resources focuses on online sources in fundraising,
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highlighting those sources of particular interest to those in
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library development. -- MP
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Jacobson, Robert L. "Researchers Temper Their Ambitions for
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Digital Libraries" Chronicle of Higher Education 42(13)
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(November 24, 1995):A19. -- In tackling the issue of
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interoperability of electronic material available in a
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network of interconnected digital libraries, librarians
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and computer scientists concluded at a recent conference in
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Santa Barbara that it may not be practical to seek one
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overarching plan for cataloging, searching and retrieving
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data from network collections. Computer users are so varied
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in terms of age, background and information needs while at
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the same time digital materials vary so widely in type (text,
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graphic, sound, video) that creating a single, all-purpose
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method for creating material or for retrieving it would not
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only be impossible but impractical. -- MP
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McLeod, Jennifer and Michael White. "Building the Virtual
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Campus Bit by Bit: World Wide Web Development at the
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University of Maine" Computers in Libraries 15(10)
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(November/December 1995): 45-49. -- Startled by what
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seemed to be a real lack of central organization at many
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academic Web sites, the University of Maine set out to
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develop a well organized and unified Web site for their
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campus. This article, and its companion sidebars ("Top-
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Quality Web Presence Offers Appeal, Consistency, and
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Current Information" and "Seven Guidelines for Building
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Campus Web Systems"), summarize the research and experience
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involved in implementing a Web cite at the University of
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Maine. Visit the Maine site at http://www.ume.maine.edu/
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-- DR
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Markoff, John. "If Medium is the Message, the Message is the
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Web" The New York Times 145(50,244) (November 20, 1995): A1,
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C5. -- The World Wide Web seems to be the official media
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darling of business and technology sections in daily
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newspapers throughout the nation as evidenced by this front
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page story in the New York Times. Technology reporter John
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Markoff discusses the role of the Web within the larger
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historical context of mass media and analyses how and why it
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has become such a popular means of communication. The Web has
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skyrocketed in popularity, Markoff reports, because it is a
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medium that is technologically innovative and at the same time
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has support of corporate backers who see its profit potential.
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The fact that individuals can create Web sites so easily has
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led to a democratization of the medium with social implications
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for new kind of technology-based community. -- MP
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Young, Jeffrey R. "Classes on the Web" Chronicle of Higher
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Education 42(10) (November 3, 1995):A27, A32-A33. -- In
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describing the experiences of several college professors who
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have taken advantage of network technology by making course
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materials available on the World Wide Web or by having their
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students submit their papers online, this article illustrates
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some of the practical, educational applications of new network
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technologies. These technologies enable professors to offer
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more current information and allow them to be more flexible
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since they can alter materials throughout the term. Professors
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have noticed that many of their students are more engaged with
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the new medium and therefore are more likely to explore the
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Internet beyond just the immediate coursework. On the other hand,
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there are other students who prefer hard copies and, of course,
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there are still many unresolved copyright issues. Despite the
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obvious advantages of using the network in teaching, there seems
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to be little administrative support for network technologies
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which means that those incorporating the net in their teaching
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must learn how to create Web sites and digitize course materials
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on their own time. -- MP
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General
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Stigliani, Joan. _The Computer User's Survival Guide_
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Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1995. -- If you are
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a computer user and have ever wondered why your back hurts,
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or your arm tingles, or your eyes sting this is the book for
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you. Not so much for how it explains these consequences
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(although the explanations are clear and the diagrams are
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excellent), but more for the tips on how to prevent yourself
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from experiencing those consequences or worse. This book is a
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good and concise guide to all the various health problems
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associated with computer use and how to avoid them. Few
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organizations can afford to be without such information, as an
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ounce of prevention is (as they say) worth a pound of cure.
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-- RT
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