From bjones at unf.edu Fri Jul 24 08:31:54 1998 From: bjones at unf.edu (Bob Jones) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:34 2005 Subject: Magnets Near PCs In-Reply-To: <35B7E446.3BF6@tpgi.com.au> Message-ID: As indicated by another web4liber, shielding is the solution. Rather than shielding each of the components affected, we sheld the "deactivator" unit itself. We had 3-sided (sides and top) unit fabricated from sheet metal. This works fine. Bob Jones mailto:bjones@unf.edu Head, Public Services Division and Systems Coordinator University of North Florida Library http://www.unf.edu/library/ P.O. Box 17605 (904) 620-2552 (SC 861-2552) Jacksonville, FL 32245-7605 FAX: (904) 620-2719 ARIEL: 139.62.208.88 On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Elizabeth Fielding wrote: > Hello List Members > > A distress call from Queensland, Australia. > > We are switching from dumb terminals to PCs at our circ desk and now > find that the deactivator magnets under the desk (which are part of our > security system) are going to be too close to checkout stations. This > looks like being a logistic problem for us and am wondering if anyone > else has found a workable solution. > > In particular I'd be grateful if someone could tell me: > > 1. What is the minimum safe distance between a magnet and the hard > drive? (I have heard 3 feet.) > > 2. What is a safe distance from the monitor? > > 3. Have you any advice, answers or experiences? > > The security product in question is a RAECO Alarm 2100. Our circ desk is > an optimum height for staff so an ergonomic arm is not an appropriate > solution. > > Thanks in advance. > > Libby Fielding > Cooloola Shire Library Service > From bsnapp at ccm.edu Fri Jul 24 10:17:06 1998 From: bsnapp at ccm.edu (Brian K. Snapp) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:34 2005 Subject: Need some firewall wisdom. Message-ID: <35B89762.986F25D4@ccm.edu> Hi all, I'm new to the list and have a few questions about implementing a firewall on campus here. I've been evaluating firewalls and have my eye on Ukiah Netroad 2.0, Secure Computing firewall for NT and Watchguard Firebox 100. They all get good ratings from the industry rags and are reasonably priced (as far as firewalls go). Has anybody had experience with any of these, specifically involving library services? The major concern on campus is that the folks in the Library Resource Center subscribe to 3rd party services like UMI, Silverplatter, Information Access and some .GOV sites. From what I understand a subscriber will register a certain # of IP addresses with the service. Only these users (IP's) are allowed to connect to the service and access the database. However, some firewalls use Network Address Translation (NAT) to hide that IP address to the outside world. Some also act as an application proxy. Does anyone know how these two scenarios effect 3rd party services and whether or not there are ways around these problems should they exist? Any comments welcome! thanks for your time. -- ********************************************************************* Brian Snapp Phone (973)-328-5094 LAN Technician FAX (973)-328-5068 County College of Morris bsnapp@ccm.edu 214 Center Grove Rd. Randolph, NJ 07869 ********************************************************************* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vcard.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 267 bytes Desc: Card for Brian Snapp Url : http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/attachments/19980724/921eb634/vcard.vcf From amutch at tln.lib.mi.us Fri Jul 24 09:47:28 1998 From: amutch at tln.lib.mi.us (Andrew J. Mutch) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:34 2005 Subject: CGI SCRIPT HELP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks for everyone who responded with suggestions. Bob Pasicznyuk was gracious enough to provide a script that did exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks Bob! Andrew Mutch Northville District Library Northville, MI From amutch at tln.lib.mi.us Fri Jul 24 10:36:21 1998 From: amutch at tln.lib.mi.us (Andrew J. Mutch) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: RUNNING A MAIL SERVER -- SUMMARY In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Once again -- the list comes through with a lot of great suggestions. I have summarized the responses and it includes products not only for NT but some suggestion for using UNIX-based solutions and Macs. Thanks Again! Andrew Mutch Northville District Library Northville, MI And, in no particular order ..... We ended up going with Exchange Server. This is an expensive solution and require MS Outlook clients to achieve full capabilities, but since we are finding ways to leverage it's groupware capabilities, the extra cost was probably worth it. Your mileage may vary. If you just want basic SMTP/POP and maybe IMAP services, you might try http://www.tucows.com to see if they have some free/shareware solutions or demonstrations of less expensive commercial solutions. Then you can standardize on any mail client that supports these standard protocols. Good Luck! David David S. Vaughan, Systems Librarian ******************************************************************* We use the EMWAC Internet Mail Services software. It's free. Mike Mitchel ******************************************************************* We run Post.Office from Software.Com. I've been using it for 2 years now, and I love it. It runs great under NT 4.0. It's a POP3 based system, so you can use shareware/freeware clients from Eudora, Netscape, Microsoft, etc to access it. Looks like the current price is $495 for up to 100 users. Tech support costs extra, but I've never had to use it. Admin is all web based. It will also do mailing lists, in case you want to set one up (I have, it's easy, they work very well). http://www.software.com/ ******************************************************************* I've heard fairly good things about GroupWise, if you happen to be in a Novell environment already. Frankly, though, I personally feel it's best to stick with the long-standing Best Way to do anything Internet related, and use a Unix variant. The obvious choice here (for both web service and email, and you can host them on the same box) is Linux. Red Hat makes a lovely distribution, which will install happily on a spare 486 or better, and will even provide a running Apache web server and sendmail deamon right out of the box. While you can download the installation free from www.redhat.com, you can also get it on CD at most computer stores (our local Best Buy started carrying it nearly a year ago...) ******************************************************************* ...If you're already a devout Linux administrator...Sendmail has its problems (mostly security-related, but frankly there is some advantage using an O/S where the security holes are understood and documented... See www.cert.org for more info) but it's cheap (well, the software is free, and will happily run on a moldly old 386) and probably far and away the most common mail service in use today (not too long ago, it was about the only mail service in use...) ******************************************************************* I am also running an NT but on an Alpha. The Email program, PostOffice, I am using is also available for Intel NT 4.0 and can be downloaded from http://www.software.com They have newer versions one called InterMail but I know the PostOffice program is free to use for up to about 5 or 10 users and 1 or 2 lists. It uses a WEB Interface and I felt it was very user friendly for setup and maintaining. I think its only available in POP3. It looks like I might be in trouble that they may have stopped supporting the Alpha NT. Thomas ******************************************************************* Hi! If you download the free upgrade for NT Server from Microsoft, the Option Pack, you will receive, as part of the package, a free Internet Mail server. I'm not using it, since it won't benefit my library at my institution, but it looks fairly full featured. The download is fairly large, 40-50+ MB, but it does include a number of worthwhile upgrades to NT Server. --Richard =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Richard M. Page ******************************************************************* Netscape provides free of charge its mail server to public libraries. It's a very good server and not terribly difficult to set up (from what I understand). Look at the netscape site for details. http://live.netscape.com/comprod/server_central/edu_drive.html ======================================================= Gary Giannelli ******************************************************************* If you have a Macintosh there is a free mail server EIMS. In not sure how well it will go is you push it to tens of thousands of accounts but a few thousand should be fine (depends on the machine). There are also free list serving packages which will work with it (Autoshare and Macjordomo). Tony ******************************************************************* For security reasons I'd recommend getting a 486 box w/ about 32-64 megs ram and like a 4 gig drive. That should be enough to run Linux or FreeBSD. I suggest the second. Its quite secure and also stable. Vladislav Davidzon ******************************************************************* I have been looking at operating a Listserv also and in doing research I have found a wide range of options. If you are running WinNT you could go to http://serverwatch.internet.com/listservers.html and another one that I think we will be using is Free and has a reputation of being very good and easy to mannage. http://www.pegasus.usa.com/ The Listserv software that they provide is Mustang and it is free for non proffit's. Roy Lewis rcl@onramp.net ******************************************************************* From richard at goon.stg.brown.edu Fri Jul 24 11:03:15 1998 From: richard at goon.stg.brown.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Need some firewall wisdom. References: <35B89762.986F25D4@ccm.edu> Message-ID: <35B8A233.7EEF89B@goon.stg.brown.edu> Brian K. Snapp wrote: > Any comments welcome! Tell us what you want to use the firewall for - application proxying, stateful packet inspection, packet filtering, IP masquerading, etc.? Firewalls use different technologies to achieve different ends, and you need to tell us what your ends are in order for us to be able to offer sensible comments. -- Richard Goerwitz PGP key fingerprint: C1 3E F4 23 7C 33 51 8D 3B 88 53 57 56 0D 38 A0 For more info (mail, phone, fax no.): finger richard@goon.stg.brown.edu From jmorris at dtx.net Fri Jul 24 07:29:32 1998 From: jmorris at dtx.net (John M. Morris) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Need some firewall wisdom. In-Reply-To: <35B89762.986F25D4@ccm.edu> Message-ID: On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Brian K. Snapp wrote: > However, some firewalls use Network Address Translation (NAT) to hide > that IP address to the outside world. > Some also act as an application proxy. Does anyone know how these two > scenarios effect 3rd party services and whether or not there are ways > around these problems should they exist? Well I dunno how NewToy deals with those issues, but if you dig yourself out an old 486 box and stick Linux on it it can easily handle the job. Put your internal hosts on a 'fake' network and have all traffic appear to be issuing from the single real IP on your firewall/proxy box. This way the databases work just regardless of what is going on behind the firewall. If you are fairly new to the inner workings of networking you might find a local propellerhead to help out with configuring the firewall since security is not always the best place for on the job training. Even if you hire the whole job done you would probably come out cheaper than even just the price on the firewall package and have a box you have complete control over and can quickly get patches for as new exploits appear. In time you will figure out what's going on in the config files and start thinking up all sorts of new uses/features you can provide. I have never before seen anything so seamless for upgrades! All you do is subscribe to the mailing list and when a upgraded package is announced a command line will be shown in the mailing which you just cut/paste into a telnet session connected to the machine to be upgraded which contains a ftp URL on it. The system then does the work of retrieving the upgraded software installing it. John M. http://www.dtx.net/~jmorris This post is 100% M$ Free! Geek code 3.0:GCS C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L+++ W+ N++ w-- Y+ 5+++ R tv- b++ e* r% =========================================================================== The views expressed certainly don't reflect those of CCC Internet Services. From templar_7 at hotmail.com Fri Jul 24 14:13:16 1998 From: templar_7 at hotmail.com (Shelden DeVained) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Tips on Protecting Children from Message-ID: <19980724181317.676.qmail@hotmail.com> I looked at your link....at first I thought, not another online newspaper...but as I read on....very funny! >From web4lib@library.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 23 12:18:23 1998 >Received: from localhost by library.berkeley.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/29Oct94-1209AM) > id AA02499; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:11:51 -0700 >Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:11:51 -0700 >Message-Id: <1DDAE93A2402D11188BD0000C02213F5082E59EF@gobo.sequent.com> >Errors-To: listchek@webjunction.org >Reply-To: absher@sequent.com >Originator: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu >Sender: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: "Linda Absher (absher)" >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: Tips on Protecting Children from "Inappropriate Material" >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas >X-Comment: Web4Lib Information - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/ > > >As always, "The Onion" (http://www.theonion.com/) suggests some unique ways >of protecting minors from inappropriate material. Some of the methods might >be a little labor-intensive, however: > > >http://www.theonion.com/onion3325/childonlinechart.html > >WARNING: some of the suggestions might be a little raw for the more >sensitive subscibers to this listserv. You are warned. > >LInda Absher > >-- >Linda Absher absher@sequent.com >Intranet Librarian (503) 578-3485 >Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, OR Fax: (503) 578-4410 > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From templar_7 at hotmail.com Fri Jul 24 14:17:43 1998 From: templar_7 at hotmail.com (Shelden DeVained) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: FW: mouse welfare Message-ID: <19980724181743.3563.qmail@hotmail.com> We chain our mice to the desks!!! >From web4lib@library.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 23 14:31:31 1998 >Received: from localhost by library.berkeley.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/29Oct94-1209AM) > id AA20887; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:25:36 -0700 >Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:25:36 -0700 >Message-Id: <318932BAD440D111BDB800A024BDEBA82C3BA3@misnt1.usiu.edu> >Errors-To: listchek@webjunction.org >Reply-To: tedelblu@usiu.edu >Originator: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu >Sender: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: Thomas Edelblute >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: FW: mouse welfare >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas >X-Comment: Web4Lib Information - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/ > >We tried to set our mice free, but they did not go anywhere so I guess >they want to stay. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gilles Poitras [mailto:gpoitras@c3po.ggu.edu] >Sent: Thursday, July 23, 1998 11:16 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: RE: mouse welfare > > >At 3:55 PM -0700 7/22/98, Thomas Dowling wrote: > >> "...So if Sunday you're free... >> >> "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" >> --Tom Lehrer > >One of the truly great singing mathematicians in history. > >Anybody got recipies for small furry critters? > >Gilles Poitras gpoitras@ggu.edu >Golden Gate University - University Library > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From slak at infohouse.com Fri Jul 24 14:37:12 1998 From: slak at infohouse.com (Slak) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Web Development Tools - Thanks Message-ID: I just want to thank everyone who responded to my post both privately and publicly. What I have is a wadfull of informative and useful information on website development; arguments for and against visual editors, librarians working with new WC3 standards and the implications of that for software that produces code, as well as recommendations and specs on most shareware and commercial web-tools. What came accross the most was librarians respect for standards, organization and clarity -- in the face of anarchic web. Luisa Sabin-Kildiss Aigars Kildiss Luisa Sabin-Kildiss 110 Suffolk Street New York, New York 10002 From morganj at iupui.edu Fri Jul 24 17:09:06 1998 From: morganj at iupui.edu (morganj@iupui.edu) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: IIS question/problem Message-ID: We have just set up Microsoft's web server software, IIS 4.0, on a Windows NT 4.0 server that has service pack 3 installed. We've noticed that browsers connecting to it receive the html file they request, but never seem to receive an end-of-transmission marker. If the browser user clicks on "stop" the full page is displayed, but otherwise it appears that the page is still being transmitted. Some friends we asked said they'd heard this was a known bug in IIS 4.0, and that there was a fix, but couldn't remember any details. Has anyone on this list encountered the problem or seen a fix for it? Jim Morgan morganj@iupui.edu From fingram at mindspring.com Fri Jul 24 21:01:32 1998 From: fingram at mindspring.com (Floyd Ingram) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Web-site Development Tools In-Reply-To: <017f01bdb57b$e290fec0$e16ccfa9@dwinells> Message-ID: <000601bdb767$c3955460$34f810d1@ms115919> Most critics of FP and other MS products are just anti-Microsoft or anti-Bill Gates folks with a lot of envy. ********************************************************************* Floyd Ingram Columbia, South Carolina E-mail: Homepage: "'Tis better to be flamed and burn than to drown in the deep waters of silence." ********************************************************************* > -----Original Message----- > From: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu > [mailto:web4lib@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Sheryl Dwinell > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 10:45 AM > > I work with FP and then tweak the code If I encounter errors > after running a > page through a validator. And, believe it or not, I usually find that the > pages I work on in FP pass the validation process with no > problems. Amazing, > ain't it?? I know people like to trash FP for various reason, but if it > works for my site's need, that's all that matters, right? Each site is so > different and every site manager's needs differ slightly, so the final > choice you make in HTML editors depends upon what works for you. From his at virtuallibrarian.com Fri Jul 24 21:57:02 1998 From: his at virtuallibrarian.com (H.I.S.) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Web-site Development Tools In-Reply-To: <000601bdb767$c3955460$34f810d1@ms115919> Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980724215702.006f47d8@mail.virtuallibrarian.com> Hi. I love my Office products from Microsoft. Frontpage is a slick and easy interface for web developers. However if you happen to look at the server software required to run Frontpage adequately (another MS product) you'll see why many folks in the industry don't like Frontpage and it's proprietary tags. The MS Server that Frontpage works with is a mess, with a lot of security holes. I prefer O'Reilly's Website, and Allaire's Homesite to Microsoft products in this arena. Cynthia Hetherington, tech. librarian Englewood Public Library, NJ At 06:07 PM 7/24/98 -0700, Floyd Ingram wrote: >Most critics of FP and other MS products are just anti-Microsoft or >anti-Bill Gates folks with a lot of envy. > >********************************************************************* >Floyd Ingram >Columbia, South Carolina >E-mail: >Homepage: >"'Tis better to be flamed and burn than to drown in the deep waters of >silence." >********************************************************************* > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu >> [mailto:web4lib@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Sheryl Dwinell >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 10:45 AM >> >> I work with FP and then tweak the code If I encounter errors >> after running a >> page through a validator. And, believe it or not, I usually find that the >> pages I work on in FP pass the validation process with no >> problems. Amazing, >> ain't it?? I know people like to trash FP for various reason, but if it >> works for my site's need, that's all that matters, right? Each site is so >> different and every site manager's needs differ slightly, so the final >> choice you make in HTML editors depends upon what works for you. > > > From csnow at purdue.edu Fri Jul 24 21:38:06 1998 From: csnow at purdue.edu (Carl Snow) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Web-site Development Tools In-Reply-To: <000601bdb767$c3955460$34f810d1@ms115919> Message-ID: <003301bdb76c$df5ff240$1e056018@apple.gte.net> I don't usually comment but I have just finished researching a number of web development tools. I wanted to find a product that would produce code that could be used by Netscape and by I.E. and still be able to develop basic as well as sophisticated pages. Our choice was NetObjects Fusion 3.0. It is a WYSIWYG editor but it also comes with Homesite 3.0 a powerful tag editor. This gives us the ability to edit HTML pages in both modes depending on the user's level. NetObjects Fusion 3.0 advertises that it will produce HTML that is used by either MSIE or Netscape thus giving us the widest possible audience. At the same time we have chosen to purchase Cold Fusion as our "middle ware" for putting databases on line. One of the major reasons for our choice of cold fusion was the need to be able to remain independent of any one manufacturer. At the same time we are looking at a plugin for NetObjects Fusion that will simplify the development of web pages that interact with databases. Should the tool work well we believe that we will have a very powerful tool for our users. As for front page I have worked with it and found that it adds a lot of unnecessary code and of course slants the output to MSIE. It also encourages the use of IIS another MS product. Like most thing from MS each product is designed to work very well with other MS products thus pulling an organization into the MS orbit. There may be times that MS has the best product for a particular solution but at this time I personally do not feet that Front Page is the best solution for our particular situation. Carl Snow Network Access Librarian Purdue University Libraries csnow@purdue.edu -----Original Message----- From: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu [mailto:web4lib@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Floyd Ingram Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 8:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: RE: Web-site Development Tools Most critics of FP and other MS products are just anti-Microsoft or anti-Bill Gates folks with a lot of envy. ********************************************************************* Floyd Ingram Columbia, South Carolina E-mail: Homepage: "'Tis better to be flamed and burn than to drown in the deep waters of silence." ********************************************************************* > -----Original Message----- > From: web4lib@library.berkeley.edu > [mailto:web4lib@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Sheryl Dwinell > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 10:45 AM > > I work with FP and then tweak the code If I encounter errors > after running a > page through a validator. And, believe it or not, I usually find that the > pages I work on in FP pass the validation process with no > problems. Amazing, > ain't it?? I know people like to trash FP for various reason, but if it > works for my site's need, that's all that matters, right? Each site is so > different and every site manager's needs differ slightly, so the final > choice you make in HTML editors depends upon what works for you. From nmclees at ezonline.com Fri Jul 3 09:24:02 1998 From: nmclees at ezonline.com (N. McLees) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Physician addresses Message-ID: <199807031324.JAA05760@mail.dcls.org> This isn't a hospital staff list, but you might find it useful if you need physician addresses : AMA's Physician Select at http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm Nancy McLees > Hi All, > Several years ago when we first ventured to create a Web Page, many > Hospital and Medical Center Web pages contained pages of staff > physicians. Some were mere addresses; some were more elaborate with > pictures and bios. Now, I cannot find very many Web Pages offering > this > type of service. > If your institutional web page offers a physician listing (or had > one > then took it off) , please e-mail me your URL. And please let me know > of > any reasons or history behind having a list or not. > TIA. > > Charlotte McClamma > cmcclamma@chsd.org > > > > From amutch at tln.lib.mi.us Fri Jul 3 11:28:18 1998 From: amutch at tln.lib.mi.us (Andrew J. Mutch) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: FREEHAND In-Reply-To: <199806180253.WAA30941@goon.stg.brown.edu> Message-ID: Hi all, Is anyone out there using Macromedia's Freehand 8 for your web graphic design needs? I've been asked to purchase this product for a staff member for creating graphics, artwork, etc. but I'm wondering what the learning curve is and what kind of training might be needed to make full use of this product. This staff member has limited computer skills and I'm afraid that this product will overwhelm them. How does it compare to Adobe Photoshop -- which I'm familiar with?? Thanks! Andrew Mutch Northville District Library Northville, MI From spearce at ilalpha.infolink.org Fri Jul 3 07:43:22 1998 From: spearce at ilalpha.infolink.org (spearce@ilalpha.infolink.org) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Lost link Message-ID: <9807031539.AA19379@ilalpha.infolink.org> Someone from the UK had posted a link to an online publication that had a chapter on internet links. I found it very useful, and was checking out different sources, left the reference desk to helpsome one and another librarian closed me out before I had a chance to book mark. I tried to find it in the archives to no avail, can the poster resend me the information sue/nj spearce@infolink.org From charta at inetdirect.net Sat Jul 4 01:29:32 1998 From: charta at inetdirect.net (Christopher Handy) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: PDF files, part II: How does IE know? In-Reply-To: <86256635.00696C42.00@HenNote1.co.hennepin.mn.us> Message-ID: On 7/2/98, Rich.Harrington@co.hennepin.mn.us wrote: |>Hi, more on the wackiness of linking to PDF files. |> |> I told you all before how our machines with IE4 -- but only some of our |>IE3.x machines -- were able to deal with a link to a PDF file even if the |>target didn't have a .pdf extension (see < |>http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html >. None of the PDF links |>there have a .pdf extension). |> |> |> Perhaps you are thinking that I am fixating a little too much on this |>little problem, and perhaps you are right. But I do hope to gain some |>understanding of how the browser works, so if any of you have some insight, |>I'd sure be interested to hear it. The rules of the game are that any time a server sends a file -- of whatever type -- to a client browser it also sends along various metadata, including content-type information (e.g. application/pdf in the case of a PDF file) so that the browser knows what to do with it. Consequently, while the extensions that one ordinarily sees on files downloaded over the Internet are very handy, I don't think they're theoretically necessary in order for files to be correctly interpreted by a standards-compliant browser. The browser should figure this out from the content-types. Probably the file extensions are more important on the server side, since the server is responsible for determining what content-type designation to assign to each file. But even on a server I don't believe that content-types need to map rigidly to specific file extensions. I think the mapping can be customized. In the case you mention you'll notice that the .html files are all in a directory called "/html/..." and the .pdf files all in a directory called "/pdf/..." (surprise). A guess might be that this is how the server determines which is which. You'll recall that in Explorer's "file helper" settings each file type has associated with it not only the content-type (MIME), but also a file extension (suffix). I think the browser uses this latter information to guess at files in cases where the content-type is ambiguous or unknown. It may even be the case that Microsoft allows the extensions to override or mask the content-types. One way or the other, the problems you describe are probably related somehow to this sort of content-type/extension conflict. Have you tried simply deleting the extension associated with .pdf files in the "file helper" settings of the misbehaving IE3? Maybe this would force the browser to pay attention to the content-type. Might be worth a try. Chris Handy charta@inetdirect.net From ttripp at inforamp.net Sat Jul 4 15:57:10 1998 From: ttripp at inforamp.net (Tim Tripp) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Adding a "stamp" to PDF files... Message-ID: <359E8915.1353459A@inforamp.net> Greetings, Gentlefolk, I have a pdf question, which might be better posted to one of the pdf listservs, but they're so voluminous, I unsubscribed long ago. I'm hoping someone on this, my favourite mailing list, might have a recommendation for me. I have over 100 documents on our intranet which were scanned into pdf format a while back, which our R&D department have now deemed as sensitive with regards to intellectual property. I've been tasked with adding an appropriate stamp, on every page, top and bottom, to this effect to each one of these documents. Although this stamp will be added to the hard copy originals of each document, I would really prefer not to have to rescan them. I know that there are third party tools out there that will do this from checking the Emerge PDF Zone (I have the Adobe Acrobat 3.01 suite already, and am working in an NT4 environment). Have any of you dealt with a similar situation, and be willing to offer any recommendations or tips? Thanking you in advance, Tim -- Tim Tripp, Librarian Spar Space Systems (Brampton) Spar Aerospace Ltd. 9445 Airport Road Brampton, Ontario, Canada L6S 4J3 http://www.spar.ca/ Tel:(905) 790-2800 ext. 4108 Fax:(905) 790-4423 Work: ttripp@spar.ca Home: ttripp@inforamp.net ### I saw two shooting stars last night, ### I wished on them, but they were only satellites... ### It's wrong to wish on space hardware. - Billy Bragg From tdowling at ohiolink.edu Sat Jul 4 15:00:18 1998 From: tdowling at ohiolink.edu (Thomas Dowling) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: PDF files, part II: How does IE know? Message-ID: <01bda77d$fcb7daa0$94ce430c@thomas.ohiolink.edu> -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Handy To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Saturday, July 04, 1998 12:49 AM Subject: Re: PDF files, part II: How does IE know? >On 7/2/98, Rich.Harrington@co.hennepin.mn.us wrote: > >|>Hi, more on the wackiness of linking to PDF files. >|> >|> I told you all before how our machines with IE4 -- but only some of our >|>IE3.x machines -- were able to deal with a link to a PDF file even if the >|>target didn't have a .pdf extension (see < >|>http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html >. None of the PDF links >|>there have a .pdf extension). >|> > > > >|> >|> Perhaps you are thinking that I am fixating a little too much on this >|>little problem, and perhaps you are right. But I do hope to gain some >|>understanding of how the browser works, so if any of you have some insight, >|>I'd sure be interested to hear it. > >The rules of the game are that any time a server sends a file -- of >whatever type -- to a client browser it also sends along various metadata, >including content-type information (e.g. application/pdf in the case of a >PDF file) so that the browser knows what to do with it. Consequently, while >the extensions that one ordinarily sees on files downloaded over the >Internet are very handy, I don't think they're theoretically necessary in >order for files to be correctly interpreted by a standards-compliant >browser. The browser should figure this out from the content-types. Prior to version 4, MSIE had a well-known problem by which it would always override the server's explicit Content-type header if it perceived a file extension that pointed at some other application. When it sees a file extension it does not recognize, I have not seen it do anything except take the Content-type header at face value. I did see two things that could be causing this at the server end. First, Rich's server sends out HTTP headers terminated only by a line feed, not the specified carriage return-line feed combination. This is something servers "should not" do in HTTP 1.0 and "must not" do in 1.1. Second, when I send a HEAD request for a PDF file on that server, I get back a normal header, but if I send a GET request, the header is apparently MIME-encoded; on other servers, a GET for a PDF file brings back the plain text version of the header and then the rest of the file is encoded. In short, while MSIE 3 has known problems with MIME types, this could also be a server problem. Thomas Dowling Ohio Library and Information Network tdowling@ohiolink.edu From ttripp at inforamp.net Sat Jul 4 16:10:21 1998 From: ttripp at inforamp.net (Tim Tripp) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Dialog Web reliability References: <318932BAD440D111BDB800A024BDEBA82C3B32@misnt1.usiu.edu> Message-ID: <359E8C2B.DA45A4A@inforamp.net> Thomas Edelblute wrote: > > I am puzzled by the lack of responses regarding the use of Dialog's Web > based product. Are people not using it because it is not reliable, or > are there silent satisfied customers out there? If we turn our students > loose on it, will they be able to find what they are looking for? > Thomas, I was probably too quick on the delete key when your original message was posted. I don't mind DialogWeb, but as with so many things, it's a matter of picking the right tool for the job. I like to use Dialog Web when I'm doing a search in an area I'm not familiar with, or when I'm just trying to get a sense of what might be out there. I love the fact that I can do a DialIndex search without having to log in to the system. Someone pointed out that it's slow and clunky, and I would have to agree. The frames interface can be a real problem, especially when your firewall doesn't have enough open connections to handle all the engineers checking out the Dilbert Zone when you want to do a search over the lunch hour. If I'm doing a focussed search on a select number of databases that I'm familiar with, then I prefer the command line interface either through telnet or dial-in. It's quicker and more efficient, but with the new pricing algorithm, probably not any cheaper. This of course, is from an intermediary searcher point of view. I can't really offer any tips on turning your students loose on it. Although, come to think of it, I do like the web interface if I've got my client looking over my shoulder. It can be nice to sit back and review the output, and pick selected items for displaying. I do believe DialogWeb was discussed here a couple of months back (or may be it was Buslib-L?). Might be worth doing a search on the archives. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Tripp, Librarian Spar Space Systems (Brampton) Spar Aerospace Ltd. 9445 Airport Road Brampton, Ontario, Canada L6S 4J3 http://www.spar.ca/ Tel:(905) 790-2800 ext. 4108 Fax:(905) 790-4423 Work: ttripp@spar.ca Home: ttripp@inforamp.net ### I saw two shooting stars last night, ### I wished on them, but they were only satellites... ### It's wrong to wish on space hardware. - Billy Bragg From Ldavids at nwu.edu Sat Jul 4 15:16:55 1998 From: Ldavids at nwu.edu (Lloyd Davidson) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:35 2005 Subject: Electronic Books Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980704141655.00918100@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Peter H. Lewis, "Taking on New Forms, Electronic Books Turn a Page" NY Times Circuits section, Thursday, July 2, 1998, p.D1 col 1, p.D7 col 1 A description of several near-future electronic book projects in the works including "Rocketbook" from Nuvomedia ($500), "Softbook" from Softbook Press ($300) and "EB Dedicated Reader" from Everybook ($1500). The most impressive of these is the EB Dedicated Reader. It actually resembles a book and can display two full-size, facing pages at once in color with full graphics. The EB Reader uses PDF formatted text and seems to be simply a specialized LCD screen portable computer, although the display technology is not described in detail. Rocketbook holds 4,000 b/w pages and lasts 20-40 hours on battery power, Softbook 100,000 b/w and halftone pages and lasts 6 hours, and EB Dedicated Reader 500,000 color pages and lasts 4 to 6 hours. These products are not likely to compete with the printed book, but they are, after all, only the first generation of such devices. None of them are actually on the market as yet, but all are expected by the end of this year or early next. Softbook is backed by Barnes and Noble and Bertelsmann A.G. It comes with a modem and will require a $20/month subscription package for downloading text as needed. Rocketbook must be plugged into a computer with Internet access and downloads text from any online bookstore Web site that makes such material available. Both claim to have reached agreements with many major publishers. MIT's electronic ink technology project is noted in passing, but "[r]ealisitically, a digital book printed with electronic ink is years, if not decades, away." One problem, especially for older text that is converted into electronic, is that "[e]stablishing electronic royalties for authors and illustrators would be a legal morass." Cheers, Lloyd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lloyd A. Davidson, Ph.D. Life Sciences Librarian, Head, Access Services and Kaplan Humanities Fellow Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering 2233 N. Campus Drive Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 Ldavids@nwu.edu (847)491-2906 (Voice) (847)491-4655 (fax) From jenright at interlog.com Sun Jul 12 08:31:13 1998 From: jenright at interlog.com (Jeanne Enright) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: PURL Server Message-ID: <199807121222.IAA20416@smtp.interlog.com> Ed, In Sept. 1996, the Systems Development Dept. at the Toronto Reference Library initiated a project to create PURLs using the software downloaded from OCLC. We have been running our own PURL server since then. I'm the cataloguer responsible for adding the 856 to records, and creating and maintaining the PURLs. The 856 is primarily added to records for print government publications where the full-text is available via the Internet. Other links are for monographs and serials that have related information on the Web, for example, a table of contents, updates or additional information. I've created a few MARC records for Internet resources. The results of the first link check indicated that 14 out of the 209 URLs had either moved or disappeared (6.7%). The new URLs for all but 3 records could be located (these documents may have been taken down). The Toronto Reference Library's PURL page is located at http://199.71.64.73/ Jeanne Enright Cataloguing Librarian Toronto Reference Library Toronto, Ontario jenright@gwmail.mtrl.toronto.on.ca (work) jenright@interlog.com (home) >Hi Web4Lib: > >I am curious if anyone out there has experimented with, or are >currently using the freely available PURL server >(http://purl.oclc.org/) to manage URLs in their online catalog, in >their website, or in any other interesting way. > >Sincerely yours, >Ed Summers >Electronic Resources Cataloger >Old Dominion University >Norfolk, VA >USA > > From pem at po.cwru.edu Sun Jul 12 15:58:15 1998 From: pem at po.cwru.edu (Peter Murray) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: blocking telnet to selected IPs? Message-ID: <4468759.3109247895@tier3-016.tier3.cwru.edu> --On Tue, Jul 7, 1998 12:34 PM -0700 "Dave Vose" wrote: > We may be forced to discontinue email access in the library but we'd like to > retain telnet capability for access to other OPACs, etc. Is there a way > to block telnet access to selected IP addresses in Netscape 3.x and > 4.x? If you have access to the machines providing the e-mail access and if they are UNIX machines, you can install the TCP Wrappers package on the e-mail machines to deny access from your OPAC stations. Here is some info about the TCP Wrappers package: With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for the SYSTAT, FINGER, FTP, TELNET, RLOGIN, RSH, EXEC, TFTP, TALK, and other network services. The package provides tiny daemon wrapper programs that can be installed without any changes to existing software or to existing configuration files. The wrappers report the name of the client host and of the requested service; the wrappers do not exchange information with the client or server applications, and impose no overhead on the actual conversation between the client and server applications. This package is maintained by Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl), and a mirror in the USA can be found at: ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/tcp_wrappers/ Peter -- Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager pem@po.cwru.edu Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio W:216-368-5888 From pem at po.cwru.edu Sun Jul 12 16:04:34 1998 From: pem at po.cwru.edu (Peter Murray) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: Menu system Message-ID: <4491575.3109248274@tier3-016.tier3.cwru.edu> --On Wed, Jul 8, 1998 4:33 PM -0700 "John M. Morris" wrote: > p.s. Please fix your mail client so it won't put those annoying =20's at > the end of lines. Tell your client NOT to mime encode your text, it's an > old bug in older versions of Microsoft's Inbox. Actually, I believe this is caused by the LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU listserv software not passing the MIME headers through in the messages it distributes. I exchanged mail with Roy Tennant a few weeks ago and he said he was looking into the issue. Peter -- Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager pem@po.cwru.edu Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio W:216-368-5888 From davidzon at metronet.lib.mi.us Sun Jul 12 16:12:42 1998 From: davidzon at metronet.lib.mi.us (Vladislav S. Davidzon) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: blocking telnet to selected IPs? In-Reply-To: <4468759.3109247895@tier3-016.tier3.cwru.edu> Message-ID: I am not sure if you can block sendmail via TCPWrappers, as sendmail usually runs as its own process, not via inetd. I've never seen sendmail filtered out via tcpd [tcpwrappers], HOWEVER sendmail can be configured not to accept connections from certain hosts. On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Peter Murray wrote: > --On Tue, Jul 7, 1998 12:34 PM -0700 "Dave Vose" > wrote: > > > We may be forced to discontinue email access in the library but we'd like > to > > retain telnet capability for access to other OPACs, etc. Is there a way > > to block telnet access to selected IP addresses in Netscape 3.x and > > 4.x? > > If you have access to the machines providing the e-mail access and if they > are UNIX machines, you can install the TCP Wrappers package on the e-mail > machines to deny access from your OPAC stations. Here is some info about > the TCP Wrappers package: > > With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for the > SYSTAT, FINGER, FTP, TELNET, RLOGIN, RSH, EXEC, TFTP, TALK, and other > network services. > > The package provides tiny daemon wrapper programs that can be installed > without any changes to existing software or to existing configuration > files. The wrappers report the name of the client host and of the > requested service; the wrappers do not exchange information with the > client or server applications, and impose no overhead on the actual > conversation between the client and server applications. > > This package is maintained by Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl), and a > mirror in the USA can be found at: > > ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/tcp_wrappers/ > > > Peter > -- > Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager pem@po.cwru.edu > Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html > Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio W:216-368-5888 > > > From pem at po.cwru.edu Sun Jul 12 16:47:01 1998 From: pem at po.cwru.edu (Peter Murray) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: blocking telnet to selected IPs? Message-ID: <4644834.3109250821@tier3-016.tier3.cwru.edu> --On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 4:12 PM -0400 "Vladislav S. Davidzon" wrote: > I am not sure if you can block sendmail via TCPWrappers, as sendmail > usually runs as its own process, not via inetd. I've never seen sendmail > filtered out via tcpd [tcpwrappers], HOWEVER sendmail can be configured > not to accept connections from certain hosts. I may have read too much into the original message, but I assumed the author wanted to prevent telnet access to a multi-user machine of some sort where people were accessing mail. In that case, TCP Wrappers installed on the telnet port of the e-mail machine would prevent access from OPAC machines. It is possible to use TCP Wrappers to filter SMTP connections, but since it involves forking another process for each incoming mail message rather than running sendmail as a daemon, it is usually not seen as an efficent way of blocking connections. I believe later versions of sendmail have facilities for doing this if blocking SMTP connections from particular machines is the original goal: http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html#RefuseMail Peter -- Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager pem@po.cwru.edu Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio W:216-368-5888 From davidzon at metronet.lib.mi.us Sun Jul 12 19:07:23 1998 From: davidzon at metronet.lib.mi.us (Vladislav S. Davidzon) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: blocking telnet to selected IPs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'm sorry, I was tired. I take that back. The program in question is telnetd, the telnet daemon, not the mail daemon, sendmail. Telnetd can be filtered using TCP wrappers. Regards, Vladislav Davidzon Technology Assistant, Farmington Community Library (248) 553-0300 (#333) Unix/NT/Network Consultant & Web Designer "The word impossible is not in my dictionary." -Napoleon Bonaparte On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote: > I am not sure if you can block sendmail via TCPWrappers, as sendmail > usually runs as its own process, not via inetd. I've never seen sendmail > filtered out via tcpd [tcpwrappers], HOWEVER sendmail can be configured > not to accept connections from certain hosts. > > On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Peter Murray wrote: > > > --On Tue, Jul 7, 1998 12:34 PM -0700 "Dave Vose" > > wrote: > > > > > We may be forced to discontinue email access in the library but we'd like > > to > > > retain telnet capability for access to other OPACs, etc. Is there a way > > > to block telnet access to selected IP addresses in Netscape 3.x and > > > 4.x? > > > > If you have access to the machines providing the e-mail access and if they > > are UNIX machines, you can install the TCP Wrappers package on the e-mail > > machines to deny access from your OPAC stations. Here is some info about > > the TCP Wrappers package: > > > > With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for the > > SYSTAT, FINGER, FTP, TELNET, RLOGIN, RSH, EXEC, TFTP, TALK, and other > > network services. > > > > The package provides tiny daemon wrapper programs that can be installed > > without any changes to existing software or to existing configuration > > files. The wrappers report the name of the client host and of the > > requested service; the wrappers do not exchange information with the > > client or server applications, and impose no overhead on the actual > > conversation between the client and server applications. > > > > This package is maintained by Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl), and a > > mirror in the USA can be found at: > > > > ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/tcp_wrappers/ > > > > > > Peter > > -- > > Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager pem@po.cwru.edu > > Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html > > Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio W:216-368-5888 > > > > > > > > From burt at northwest.com Mon Jul 13 02:17:32 1998 From: burt at northwest.com (Filtering Facts) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: PORNOGRAPHERS USE LIBRARY TO ATTACK COMMUNITY STANDARDS Message-ID: PORNOGRAPHERS USE LIBRARY TO ATTACK COMMUNITY STANDARDS http://www.filteringfacts.org/arizona.htm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 13, 1998 Contact: David Burt David_Burt@filteringfacts.org 503 635-7048 Lake Oswego, Or --- Can unfiltered Internet access at your local public library really pose a threat to your community's ability to protect children from pornography? The pornographers think so, according to a legal motion filed in Phoenix, Arizona pleading that the material they were making available to children was no worse that what children could view via the Internet at the Phoenix Public Library. The anti-pornography group Enough is Enough has been warning communities of just this possibility. A recent EIE thought piece titled "A Trojan Horse in the Local Library?" made the following prediction: "Astoundingly, some libraries have become the Trojan Horse to bring hard-core pornography into their communities. There is scarcely a public library in the country whose selection policy would extend to a Hustler magazine or a Deep Throat video. But many libraries are hooking up to unfiltered Internet access that brings in illegal obscenity and child pornography." "That Trojan Horse is the very real threat of the erosion of community standards and harmful to minors laws until they are meaningless", says David Burt, President of Filtering Facts. The publisher of a pornographic Arizona tabloid called the Beat was recently arrested for distributing his tabloid in sidewalk vending machines where they could be accessed by minors. He offered as his defense in a motion to dismiss the case that the Phoenix Public Library "has materials available for minors which are infinitely more graphic than Defendant's newspaper." The defendant, Beat publisher Jerry Evans, has even bragged that "all the porno lawyers are supporting me". Burt offered this advice, "Communities need to be aware, as 'all the porno lawyers' are, that if they allow their local libraries to offer free access to obscenity and pornography, they are putting their ability to restrict sexually oriented businesses, and their children's health, at risk." ***************************************************************************** David Burt President, Filtering Facts Website: http://www.filteringfacts.org E-Mail: David_Burt@filteringfacts.org Phone/Fax: 503 635-7048 From burt at northwest.com Mon Jul 13 02:21:39 1998 From: burt at northwest.com (Filtering Facts) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:37 2005 Subject: One Librarian's Story By Heidi Borton Message-ID: This is a true story by a librarian who resigned after 10 years at the King County (Wash.) Library rather than carry out the library policy of providing pornography to children: One Librarian's Story By Heidi Borton http://www.filteringfacts.org/borton.htm I didn't intend to become an activist. Or to resign from a position that I found to be both intellectually and emotionally satisfying. But after almost ten years as a librarian in a large library system, I recently resigned. The reason for this decision: I could not in good conscience support an "equal and open access" Internet policy. What this policy means in fact and practice is that librarians must sit silently by while any and all library users access pornography and other information of a defamatory nature which materials selection policy would disallow as a valid use of materials budget. The conventional wisdom is that the brave new world of the Internet is an uncontrollable medium, therefore we have no possibility of controlling what is accessed once we provide access. Filters, admittedly an imperfect solution, are dismissed as unworkable, and in fact a whole new apologetic of reasons for providing unrestricted access to the Internet has developed amongst library leaders and is being touted as the position of authority in library periodicals. I am glad that David Burt and a few library systems have braved intimidation and threatened lawsuits by the ACLU in order to at least attempt some measures that bring a sense of sane responsibility to this issue. A year and a half before I resigned I asked our Library Board to consider the ramifications, both legal and ethical, to providing unrestricted Internet access to all ages. Subsequently the system decided to install the Bess filter on our children's terminals. In fact, this was a good move; at least then when the newspapers reported on the issue they could laud the fact that we cared about children (though they never saw the kids accessing porn at adult terminals). Some librarians protested even this move. Sad as it may seem there are those who think there is nothing wrong with pornography being viewed by children, young adults, or adults. Isn't it strange how we always talk about the power of information to change lives, and then discount that viewing defaming and demeaning words, pictures and sound can have any significant influence on someone's behavior? The precipitating incident leading to my resignation came in November 1997. It was a usual Saturday; we were busy and a little short-staffed. A phone call came in and was referred to me by one of our library assistants. The caller identified himself as a fourteen-year-old. He wanted to know if the library allowed him to access pornography (his term) on our library computers. At that point I knew I had a choice. I could either "hide" the truth or tell him the truth. I chose to tell him what the library policy was: that he could access whatever he wanted to, provided it wasn't illegal child pornography. He then replied that he just wanted to see pictures of "naked women". He also went on to ask a very logical if shocking question: If the library allowed him to view these porn Internet sites why didn't the library also subscribe to certain hard-core magazines? At that point I told him that he would have to speak to the library manager who would be in on Monday. On Monday I spoke with the manager and with the head of the library system, confirming that I had stated library policy correctly. I was told that I had. Immediately I realized that I could never violate my own sense of morality in this way again. Whatever library policy was, it was wrong to give a fourteen-year-old (or for that matter a forty-year-old) access to smut in a publicly funded and supported institution. I hope that my story will encourage other librarians who feel the same way as I do to speak up and not be intimidated. I hope and pray that more sense of responsibility will be shown by library administrators and those that are helping libraries to become Internet access points. Let's have some written policies that encourage (dare I say demand) a certain level of behavior in order to have access to the Internet, that require parental permission, that authorize the use of filters. Let's openly publicize our policies and expose ourselves to some public scrutiny. Let's try to do the right thing, not just what is "politically correct". ***************************************************************************** David Burt President, Filtering Facts Website: http://www.filteringfacts.org E-Mail: David_Burt@filteringfacts.org Phone/Fax: 503 635-7048 From bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us Sat Jul 18 13:00:46 1998 From: bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us (bmenk@hampton.lib.nh.us) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:39 2005 Subject: RUNNING A MAIL SERVER In-Reply-To: <35AFC18D.7B15AC3F@am.appstate.edu> Message-ID: <17E50290491@LIBRARY.HAMPTON.LIB.NH.US> Hi We had the same situation with our ISP some time back and we decided to run the Mercury mailserver on our Novell net. Mercury is stable, simple, and free of charge. It comes in both NT/95 and Novell flavors at http://www.pegasus.usa.com/dl/ We've had absolutely no trouble with it in just over two years up and running. Support via a searchable newsgroup is available too. It's the server half of the great Pegasus mail software line. Just a satisfied customer. Bobb Menk > Andrew J. Mutch wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We recently learned that our ISP, which had previously provided our > > e-mail services for no charge will now be charging us $85 per account. > > Since we have over 30 accounts, this is a substantial charge for us. > > Since I've already been planning on migrating our web pages to our own > > server, I was thinking that I should probably explore doing the same > > with our mail services. I've just been doing a little bit of research > > and the software available runs in the $600 -- $1500 range so we would > > save money by doing it ourselves but how difficult is this to do? > > > > For those running your own mail services, how difficult is it to do? > > What products would you recommend. Is this more trouble than it is > > worth? We run NT Server 4.0 on a Compaq Proliant 1500 with 128 MB RAM so > > NT product recommendations please! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew Mutch > > Northville District Library > > Northville, MI > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University > Computer Consultant II University Library > bennettt@am.appstate.edu > http://www.library.appstate.edu/admin/ > > Voice: 704 262 2797 FAX: 704 262 3001 > > In librarianship--as elsewhere--the quality of service is not measured by > the number of complaints received > > Bobb Menk, Internet Librarian, Lane Memorial Library Hampton, NH 03842 603-926-3368 bmenk@hampton.lib.nh.us From tedelblu at usiu.edu Sat Jul 18 13:30:41 1998 From: tedelblu at usiu.edu (Thomas Edelblute) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:39 2005 Subject: RFP guidelines Message-ID: <318932BAD440D111BDB800A024BDEBA82C3B88@misnt1.usiu.edu> Does anyone know of any good guidelines from writing an RFP? ============================================== Thomas Edelblute, Systems Librarian phone (619) 635-4683 United States International University fax (619) 635-4689 Education to take you places e-mail: tedelblu@usiu.edu From dpajur at irb.hr Sat Jul 18 16:48:52 1998 From: dpajur at irb.hr (Danijel Pajur) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:40 2005 Subject: disable wallpaper Message-ID: <000e01bdb28d$79816d20$c88035a1@default> >On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, fonmee wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to disable the right click functions in Netscape. >> We are trying to stop patrons to save image as wallpaper, and also save >> images into the PC. There is a shareware product from a UK based software company Softtech Development called Sentry 98 that does miracles to security issues with Windows 95. I found it to be the answer to all the security problems with windows, and you can set up the user rights any way you like (for example hiding drives from them, hiding the control panel,or run button from start menu etc). I'm certain it would solve your problems too. -Danijel From nplatt at legarto.minn.net Sat Jul 18 19:40:21 1998 From: nplatt at legarto.minn.net (Nina Platt) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:40 2005 Subject: RFP guidelines Message-ID: <01BDB27B.878C91E0@dialup-tc-1-27.minn.net> > >Thomas Edelblute wrote: > >Does anyone know of any good guidelines from writing an RFP? > >============================================== > >Thomas Edelblute, Systems Librarian phone (619) 635-4683 >United States International University fax (619) 635-4689 >Education to take you places e-mail: tedelblu@usiu.edu > > Thomas, Are you looking for information on the RFP process for library automation? We've looked for links to include in the ILSR website (where we have a page of sample RFPs for libraries) but have found that very few resources on this topic exist on the Internet. One link that we've found useful is a paper called The RFP Process . This overview of the RFP process is actually part of the University of Arizona LIS 613 class "System Analysis and Evaluation" taught by Stuart Glogoff. A couple books which may be a bit dated but still useful include: Contracts,_Rfps,_and_Other_Procurement_Documents_for_Library_Automation by Edwin M. Cortez, 1986 Proposals_and_Contracts_for_Library_Automation_:_Guidelines_for_Preparing_Rfps by Edwin M. Cortez, 1987 Another book that may be useful but is directed more broadly for government institutions: The_Request_for_Proposal_Handbook by Michael Asner, 1995 A book that contains information on the RFP process in libraries along with additional information on library automation: Automating_Media_Centers_and_Small_Libraries:_A_Microcomputer-based_Approach by Dania B. Meghabghab, 1997 Articles that deal with the topic: Boss, Richard W. "The Procurement of an Automated Library System with a Model RFP," Library_Technology_Reports, v. 30, no. 3, May-June 1994. (the entire issue deals with this topic) Wilkinson, F.C. and Thorson, C.C. "The RFP process: rational, educational, necessary or there ain't no such thing as a free lunch," Library_Acquisitions:_Practice_&_Theory, v. 19, no. 2, 1995, pp. 251-268 Glogoff, Stuart. "Reflections on dealing with vendors," American_Libraries, April 1994, v. 25 no. 4, p. 313-314. Also, you may be able to find more articles on the topic by using the following web sites: BUBL Journals - Library and Information Science. Includes searchable index. http://bubl.ac.uk/journals/lis/ Ebsco's Library Reference Center. A free service that provides citations to articles from 30 library journals and magazines. Includes searchable index. http://www.epnet.com/lrc.html Finally, please take a look at some of the RFPs at http://www.ilsr.com/sample.htm. The Minnesota Library Information Network Project (MnLINK) site provides a very good example of an RFP that covers all aspects of an integrated library system. It also provides an excellent example of the documents created during the vendor selection process. If anyone knows of resources on RFPs available on the web or in print that should be added to our site, please let us know. Nina Platt, co-editor ILSR, Integrated LIbrary System Reports nplatt@minn.net or nplatt@ilsr.com From me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au Sun Jul 19 05:13:22 1998 From: me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au (me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:46 2005 Subject: RUNNING A MAIL SERVER Message-ID: At 3:36 PM 1998/07/17, wrote: > Hi! If you download the free upgrade for NT Server from Microsoft, the > Option Pack, you will receive, as part of the package, a free Internet Mail > server. I'm not using it, since it won't benefit my library at my > institution, but it looks fairly full featured. > The download is fairly large, 40-50+ MB, but it does include a number of > worthwhile upgrades to NT Server. If you have a Macintosh there is a free mail server EIMS. In not sure how well it will go is you push it to tens of thousands of accounts but a few thousand should be fine (depends on the machine). There are also free list serving packages which will work with it (Autoshare and Macjordomo). Tony _______________________________________________________ mailto:tonyb@netinfo.com.au | Ningaui Pty Ltd mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au | GPO Box 1680 http://purl.oclc.org/NET/Tony.Barry | Canberra ACT 2601 Phone +61 4 1242 0397 | AUSTRALIA From ahunt at unixg.ubc.ca Sun Jul 19 14:00:56 1998 From: ahunt at unixg.ubc.ca (Andrea Hunt) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:46 2005 Subject: tracking internet use Message-ID: We are library students working on a project to study how the internet is being used in public libraries. We are new to this list and apologize if this topic has been discussed before and for duplication due to cross-posting. Does anyone know of or has done (either formally or informally) a study of how the internet is used by the public in libraries using raw data from computer logs? Specifically, studies that look at what types of sites people are looking at. We are also interested in finding out about software (or any other method) that allows a library to log the sites accessed on multiple terminals. We are not interested in the identity of the user only the sites visited. Thank you in advance. Andrea and Shirley __________________ Andrea Gorgec ahunt@unixg.ubc.ca From stoerger at jaguar.dacc.cc.il.us Sun Jul 19 19:23:49 1998 From: stoerger at jaguar.dacc.cc.il.us (Sharon Stoerger) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:46 2005 Subject: tutorial Message-ID: I have been working on a basic web-based library research tutorial for our community college students. It is primarily designed for students who either don't have the opportunity to attend instruction sessions, those who are taking classes off campus, or students who want to reenforce the material covered in our hands-on instruction sessions. The URL is http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~stoerger/help.html This is still a work in progress, but I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. Thanks, Sharon Sharon Stoerger Public Services Librarian Danville Area Community College Danville, IL 61832 (217) 443-8739 stoerger@jaguar.dacc.cc.il.us From ruzaifd at klcc.com.my Sun Jul 19 20:13:14 1998 From: ruzaifd at klcc.com.my (Ruzaif Adli) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:46 2005 Subject: Digital / Virtual Library Policy Message-ID: <48256647.0000E0C0.00@klcc22n.klcc.com.my> Does anyone know of any good guidelines for Digital/Virtual Library policy and AUP- Acceptance Used Policy for Library users ? Ruzaif Adly ruzaifd@klcc.com.my Kuala Lumpur City Centre From cpeterson at mail.bluefield.edu Sun Jul 19 20:33:38 1998 From: cpeterson at mail.bluefield.edu (Cynthia Peterson) Date: Wed May 18 14:15:46 2005 Subject: url and ideas for math's virtual project References: <35B02F96.A5FDF51B@cet.ac.il> Message-ID: <35B29061.2F10EEC7@mail.bluefield.edu> Take a look at http://www.enc.org/ This is the site for the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education. They are the official collection center for these types of materials and you can locate any type of materials using their search engine. You can break it down by type of material and grade level. They have MANY urls devoted to these subject areas. Hope this helps. hlild wrote: > I am looking for information, url or anything about math activities > using the internet for the fifth grade. we r beggining a new project of > learning math from the student home, and thats why i'm looking for math > and geometry's new and unusual ideas. > if u can help me please by sending urls or anything > thanks a lot > talila > Talila Levi > Everything takes longer than you think. > http://www.cet.ac.il/personnel/talila > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ????? From rjtiess at juno.com Mon Jul 6 06:36:09 1998 From: rjtiess at juno.com (rjtiess@juno.com) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: Java/JavaScript Disabling Message-ID: <19980706.074344.3366.1.rjtiess@juno.com> I'm curious to learn if anyone here disables JavaScript and/or Java and, more importantly, your reason(s) for doing this. Robert Tiess - _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] From tdowling at ohiolink.edu Mon Jul 6 08:07:00 1998 From: tdowling at ohiolink.edu (Thomas Dowling) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: Java/JavaScript Disabling In-Reply-To: <19980706.074344.3366.1.rjtiess@juno.com> Message-ID: <001001bda8d6$94f8c140$711e99c0@ohiolink.edu> I regularly disable "Active Scripting" in IE and "Scripting Languages" in Opera. I turn it off because the great majority of Javascript use I find is more annoying than helpful. If I ever feel I need it, it's just a few clicks away. Thomas Dowling OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network tdowling@ohiolink.edu > I'm curious to learn if anyone here disables > JavaScript and/or Java and, more importantly, > your reason(s) for doing this. > > > Robert Tiess > From jfgreen at pilot.msu.edu Mon Jul 6 09:21:59 1998 From: jfgreen at pilot.msu.edu (Jim Green) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: Proxy server help Message-ID: <003b01bda8e1$0e6d1620$21010823@jfgreen.cl.msu.edu> I am forwarding this question from the Jim LeBay, Project Leader of our (university-wide) web group here in the Computer Center at Michigan State. He has caught the assignment to set up some way of providing MSU-affiliated users with remote access (i.e., access from IP addresses other than those given to the vendors) to web-accessible resources (such as Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest Direct, IAC SearchBank, etc.) licensed by the MSU Libraries, all of which rely on IP authentication by the vendors. Other institutions seem to be using "proxy servers" to accomplish this. I searched the Web4Lib archive and found some postings from mid-June pointing to user documentation at Northwestern, Penn State, U. of California Irvine, and U. of Wisconsin. However, for the reasons stated below, Jim believes that a "normal" proxy will not work for us. Can anyone help Jim with the technical details of existing proxy implementations like the ones listed above or similar? Thanks in advance for your help. Respond directly to both of us, or to the list if appropriate: Jim Green, Project Leader, Library Support Services, jfgreen@pilot.msu.edu Jim C. Lebay, Project Leader, Web Group, lebay@pilot.msu.edu >I need to do a similar thing for a different reason. I have been >considering both Apache's mod_proxy and a squid accelerator, but so far >neither seems quite up to the task at hand. > >Scenario: Our university has purchased access to a particular web-based >database. The license allows access to all 55,000 of our faculty, staff >and students, but the vendor controls access by IP address range only. In >order to give our people access from off-campus machines, I want to use an >HTTP gateway that authenticates the user, and "proxies" all traffic >between the user's browser and the vendor's HTTP server. > >A normal HTTP proxy might work fine, if we had a closed network and a >firewall, but we don't. Reconfiguring every user's browser to use a >full-time proxy is out of the question. Even using an auto proxy would >be a major problem. > >I want to tell our users that database XYZ is available on my server at >"http://xyz.msu.edu". I want my gateway to handle all requests, and fetch >the corresponding data from "http://dbserv.xyz.com". I don't want the >user to ever access the vendor's server directly. > >Squid in accelerator mode handles part of the problem, but it doesn't do >user authentication (AFAIK). I'd prefer to use Apache, with our local >auth module, and "ProxyPass / http://dbserv.xyz.com" seems to do the same >job as a squid accelerator. > >But the major loophole in any such solution is that I have no control over >the documents generated by the database vendor. Any HTML file with an >absolute URL would cause the browser to bypass the gateway and get "access >denied" by the vendor's server. I think I need to parse every HTML file, >and rewrite every tag that might contain a URL (eg. "HREF=", "BACKGROUND=", >"ACTION=", etc). This would be a slow and error-prone task. And because a >module cannot filter the output of a response handler (yet), I'll probably >have to rewrite mod_proxy. > >Any suggestions? Has anyone else dealt with a similar problem? Can >anyone think of a better way? > >Thanks. > >----- >Jim C. LeBay - Michigan State University - Computer Laboratory > ------ > "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably > the day they start making vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge > > > From jmorris at dtx.net Mon Jul 6 09:38:08 1998 From: jmorris at dtx.net (John M. Morris) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: Java/JavaScript Disabling In-Reply-To: <19980706.074344.3366.1.rjtiess@juno.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 rjtiess@juno.com wrote: > I'm curious to learn if anyone here disables > JavaScript and/or Java and, more importantly, > your reason(s) for doing this. I turn off Java because 95% of applets are an utter waste of time under the best conditions, combined with the instability of Java in some of the X versions of Navigator makes it an even more compelling argument. Turning it back on again for the remaining 5% is not that much bother. As for JavaScript, I used to kill it too because of instability problems, but those seem to have settled down and so many idiot webmasters have replaced the traditional A tag with Javascript that flaming webmasters (Althoughg I did convince C|Net to stop the wretched practice) became more bother than leaving JS enabled. John M. http://www.dtx.net/~jmorris This post is 100% M$ Free! Geek code 3.0:GCS C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L+++ W+ N++ w-- Y+ 5+++ R tv- b++ e* r% =========================================================================== The views expressed certainly don't reflect those of CCC Internet Services. From BOUCHARD at LIB.IS.TCU.EDU Mon Jul 6 10:19:25 1998 From: BOUCHARD at LIB.IS.TCU.EDU (Kerry Bouchard) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: Proxy server help Message-ID: <01IZ2PPBD1RQ001000@LIB.IS.TCU.EDU> For the past couple of years, the TCU Library has been using a transparent proxy that works in the manner described below; it is documented at: http://lib.tcu.edu/www/staff/bouchard/cgi_logon/cgi_logon Kerry Bouchard, K.BOUCHARD@TCU.EDU Assistant University Librarian for Systems Mary Couts Burnett Library, TCU >But the major loophole in any such solution is that I have no control over >the documents generated by the database vendor. Any HTML file with an >absolute URL would cause the browser to bypass the gateway and get "access >denied" by the vendor's server. I think I need to parse every HTML file, >and rewrite every tag that might contain a URL (eg. "HREF=", "BACKGROUND=", >"ACTION=", etc). This would be a slow and error-prone task. And because a >module cannot filter the output of a response handler (yet), I'll probably >have to rewrite mod_proxy. > From richard at goon.stg.brown.edu Mon Jul 6 10:36:43 1998 From: richard at goon.stg.brown.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: Proxy server help References: <003b01bda8e1$0e6d1620$21010823@jfgreen.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: <35A0E0FB.249D8344@goon.stg.brown.edu> This is a response to Jim Green/LeBay's question regarding off-campus access to licensed databases. The long and short of it is: Take a look at: http://www.stg.brown.edu/pub/proxydoc/report.shtml Jim states the essence of the "proxy problem" very well. Basically, we would all be using regular proxies (like Squid), except that: 1) they require every user to reconfigure their browser (in ways that may not even be allowed by their ISPs) There is also the problem that 2) regular proxies (like Squid) don't do secure authentication It is possible to configure Apache to run in pass-through mode, which solves some of these problems. The problem here, though, is that, as Jim notes: 3) we have no control over the documents generated by the database vendor Jim's conclusion is that he'll have to rewrite Apache's proxy module. The answer here, we've found, is that it is in fact possible to rewrite the Apache proxy module to do very fast, fairly reliable filtering. See: -- Richard Goerwitz PGP key fingerprint: C1 3E F4 23 7C 33 51 8D 3B 88 53 57 56 0D 38 A0 For more info (mail, phone, fax no.): finger richard@goon.stg.brown.edu From nickbere at salpublib.org Mon Jul 6 10:47:09 1998 From: nickbere at salpublib.org (Nick Berezovsky) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <01BDA8C3.0F24C900@splnberezovsky.salpublib.org> DIGITAL IMAGING AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP (http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/conf/imaging) WHEN & WHERE... Kansas State University, Salina campus, eight hours per day, three days, Thursday, August 6, through Saturday, August 8, 1998. WHO SHOULD ATTEND... This course is for records managers, librarians, and archivists who have been assigned to specify, install, or manage a document imaging system, and must start immediately. Students will gain an understanding of how document imaging can be used and managed in both small and large scale organizations. Document imaging is the process of taking documents out of file cabinets, and off shelves, and storing them in a computer. Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing, transmitting, storing, protecting, locating, retrieving, viewing, printing, and preserving documents for document imaging systems and digital libraries. Image and document formats, multimedia, rich text, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), CAD (Computer Aided Design), and image enabled databases will be discussed. System design issues in hardware, software, ergonomics, and workflow will be covered. Emerging technologies such as the DVD Digital Video Disk and very high speed Internet, intranet, and extranet links and protocols will be discussed. The course will include the DVD's role in completing the merging to the PC and television, the merging of telephony, cable, and the Internet, the merging of home and office, the merging of business and entertainment, and the management of the resulting document types. The implications of Windows 98's for system design will be reviewed. This course is designed for non-technical professionals. Several system designs will be done based on system requirements provided by the students. Students are encouraged to bring the requirements for their planned document imaging system to class. THE INSTRUCTOR... Steve Gilheany has taught classes similar to this one to document imaging users and managers in the UCLA Extension, to librarians, in legal records management, and to various industry groups. He has worked in digital document management and document imaging for seventeen years. His experience in the application of document management and document imaging in industry includes: aerospace, banking, manufacturing, natural resources, petroleum refining, transportation, energy, federal, state, and local government, civil engineering, utilities, entertainment, commercial records centers, archives, non-profit development, education, and administrative, engineering, production, legal, and medical records management. At the same time, he has worked in product management for hypertext, for windows based user interface systems, for computer displays, for engineering drawing, letter size, microform, and color scanning, and for xerographic, photographic, newspaper, engineering drawing, and color printing. In addition, he has nine years of experience in data center operations and database and computer communications systems design, programming, testing, and software configuration management. He has an MLS Specialization in Information Science and an MBA with a concentration in Computer and Information Systems from UCLA, a California Adult Education teaching credential, and a BA in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His industry certifications include: the CDIA (Certified Document Imaging System Architect), the AIIM Master, and AIIM Laureate, of Information Technologies (from AIIM International, the Association of Information and Image Management), and the CRM (Certified Records Manager) (from the ICRM, the Institute of Certified Records Manager, an affiliate of ARMA International, the Association of Records Managers and Administrators). FURTHER INFORMATION... To request registration information, visit KSU website at http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/conf/imaging), contact Bettie Minshall at (785) 532-2567 or e-mail minshal@dce.ksu.edu. For information about the course content, please contact the instructor, From hudsonl at ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu Mon Jul 6 11:15:40 1998 From: hudsonl at ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu (laura hudson) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:10 2005 Subject: OCLC PRISM transfer Message-ID: <2.2.32.19980706151540.006e67d0@oak.cats.ohiou.edu> Hello folks, We are trying to transfer ILL Web form data directly to the OCLC PRISM review file. I have just begun to look into this, and am not a programmer, so I'm not sure how complicated the process is. OCLC has told us that they don't have time to help, but pointed us in the direction of Olivet University, where they are doing what we need to do. Olivet University has helpfully placed their scripts for download by other libraries. However, they seem to be writing in a Unix Shell, and we are running a DEC Alpha NT machine with Internet Information Server, not (sadly) a UNIX server. I know that I'm sort of clueless, but does anybody have any suggestions for where to look for help? Anybody writing scripts like these in perl or C that might run on NT? Thanks in advance. Laura Laura Hudson Reference and Instruction Librarian Bibliographer for Electronic Resources and Communication Alden Library Reference Department Ohio University Libraries email: hudsonl@ohiou.edu phone: 740-593-9683 fax: 740-593-9680 From jratner at wilsun.willard.lib.mi.us Mon Jul 6 11:18:29 1998 From: jratner at wilsun.willard.lib.mi.us (Jane Ratner) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:11 2005 Subject: Types of www sites In-Reply-To: <35811EC2.FD@spider.usp.br> Message-ID: You might also try the "Collection Policy Guidelines" under individual areas in the menu of http://mel.lib.mi.us They differ by subject areas but give a good idea of how folks at the Michigan Electronic Library choose areas to include at their site. Jane Ratner Willard Public Library Battle Creek, Michigan --------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Ana Duckworth wrote: > On Fri., 12 June 1998, Ana Duckworth wrote: > > > I've been looking for evaluative criterias for WWW sites but it seems > that there are no mention about the diversity of sites'types one could > find. All criterias I found are just dealing information resources. > There are no other criterias for educational sites for example? Thanks > a lot for any help and guidance. > Ana > > From cmerat at liberty.edu Mon Jul 6 14:57:34 1998 From: cmerat at liberty.edu (Carl Merat) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:11 2005 Subject: Proxy server help Message-ID: The Virtual Library of Virginia hosted a workshop on remote user authentication for restricted databases on December 9th at Virginia Commonwealth University. This page offers links to setup information for several different schools includling George Mason University, University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech. http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/authenticate/workshop.html Clifford Lynch at the Coalition for Networked Information also published a relevant document "A White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources." that speaks to most of the major issues of this authenication problem. http://www.cni.org/projects/authentication/authentication-wp.html Carl Merat Technical Services Librarian Liberty University From hj97 at dial.pipex.com Mon Jul 6 13:40:14 1998 From: hj97 at dial.pipex.com (Eric Sandelands) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:11 2005 Subject: New virtual university articles Message-ID: <35A10BFE.298C@dial.pipex.com> Dear all The latest issue of the Virtual University Journal is now complete, with some limited free access to peer reviewed papers. Go to: http://www.openhouse.org.uk/virtual-university-press/vuj/welcome.htm Abstracts and keywords ---------------------- Content Design Frameworks For Internet Studies Curricula And Research R.William Maule, Ph.D. This article examines instructional frameworks for university-level education in Internet content design. Examined are academic constructs, philosophies and strategies from two disciplines traditionally associated with content - herein denied as instructional science and informational studies. These approaches are then extended into a curricula paradigm for academic studies in Internet content design. The intent of the article is to begin dialog on the development of university-level curricula and degree programs in Internet Studies. Keywords: Internet, academic programs, information management, Internet content, Internet curricula. -- PEDAGOGY, GRAMMARS AND ART: towards art and design higher education strategies D. Bruton The impact of computational grammatical design on pedagogy has received little attention in art education due to the dominant modes of traditional approaches to art and design education. This paper explores the pedagogical implications of grammatical strategies using computers for judgements of design within an art educational setting that uses generic graduate qualities as a starting point. -- MBA ACTION LEARNING: A MALAYSIAN PERSPECTIVE Richard Teare and Jill Baker Internet conference report outlining experiences and views of students and tutors involved in an International Management Centres' MBA course. Outlines some of the benefits of Internet resourcing, virtual tutoring and Open Set learning combined with Action Learning. Focuses on how students integrated learning with work. Discusses the pressures involved in learning while at work. Looks at action learning in a Malaysian context. Keywords: Internet, Action Learning, Distance Learning, Continuing Education, Learning -- BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR: YOU MIGHT JUST GET IT Richard Wertheimer and Mario Zinga As hardware becomes available, because school districts are willing to purchase it, a critical question must be asked: when and how do we use the technology? The question requires that teachers begin to deconstruct the learning task in order to decide how to integrate the technology. There will be problems that the technology solves and tasks that technology makes easier. There will be problems that the technology creates and skills that the technology replaces. As teachers we need to understand the ramifications, advantages and constraints that technology brings with it. Keywords: Education, new technology, learning. -- COLLEGE FACULTY AND DISTANCE EDUCATION (HTML|PDF) Daniel Eisenberg (Ph.D., Brown University) It is in the interest of college faculty to participate in shaping the world of on-line education. Present difficulties will be solved as university structures and hardware infrastructures evolve. The same technology that serves students at a distance also permits faculty to work where they can be most productive, not on the traditional campus. Change is coming whether faculty like it or not. If we are not involved in shaping it, others will do it for us. Keywords: Distance learning, higher education, open learning, education, learning -- FREE ACCESS TO THIS PAPER AT: http://www.openhouse.org.uk/virtual-university-press/vuj/welcome.htm -- THE INTERNET AND ITS USES IN EDUCATION Arun Kumar Tripathi Covers briefly many aspects of the Internet from the early days to what the future holds for this global method of communication. Looks at the Internet as a source of information for those involved in education and backs up the text with Web site addresses for further information. Outlines the benefits for students and educators using the Internet. Provides an extensive glossary of distance education and Internet terms. Keywords: Internet, Education, Internet content -- To access these papers go to: http://www.openhouse.org.uk/virtual-university-press/vuj/welcome.htm For columnists, conferences and much more on virtual learning and learning themes, go to: http://www.openhouse.org.uk/virtual-university-press/ Eric Sandelands VUP International From DBurt at ci.oswego.or.us Mon Jul 6 12:22:40 1998 From: DBurt at ci.oswego.or.us (Burt, David) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:11 2005 Subject: Cost of providing Internet Access Message-ID: Does anyone have any figures on the cost of providing public Internet access? Specifically, *The cost of ownership for a PC per year *The cost per PC of Internet access (I know this varies widely) *The total cost per public Internet PC Thanks David Burt, Information Technology Librarian Lake Oswego Public Library, Lake Oswego, Oregon e-mail: dburt@ci.oswego.or.us phone: (503) 675-2537 fax: (503) 635-4171 From mark at bookwire.com Mon Jul 6 12:54:56 1998 From: mark at bookwire.com (Mark Annichiarico) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:11 2005 Subject: New on LJ Digital for the week of 7.6 Message-ID: <012f01bda8fe$ce0d9c80$8498ecce@Mark> Headlines from LJ Digital (http://www.ljdigital.com/), the electronic offshoot of Library Journal magazine, the oldest independent national library publication: NEWS (http://www.bookwire.com/ljdigital/leadnews.articles) --Outsourcing Task Force Seems Poised To Take Harder Line --ALA Offers Guidelines and FAQ on Internet Use --New Jersey Library Association Endorses User Choice on Filters --American Chemical Society Is Research Libraries' First Publishing Partner --Let Her Eat Cake: AAP's Schroeder Says If Libraries Win, WIPO's Dead INFOTECH (http://www.bookwire.com/ljdigital/infotech.articles) --UMI To Create Largest Digital Collection --Alderson Broaddus Contracts with Geac BOOK NEWS (http://www.bookwire.com/ljdigital/book-news.articles) --Random House and Sierra Club Sign Co-publishing Venture --ITP Distributing Nolo Press Titles JOB SEARCH (http://classifieds.bookwire.com/ljdigital.classifieds) Positions open include: --News & Features Editor, School Library Journal, NYC --Head of Access Services, University of California, Santa Cruz --Head, Acquisitions, New York University Libs. Mark Annichiarico, Bookwire mark@bookwire.com From rtennant at library.berkeley.edu Mon Jul 6 13:44:55 1998 From: rtennant at library.berkeley.edu (Roy Tennant) Date: Wed May 18 14:26:11 2005 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Forwarded by request. Please respond to Stephen Sloan . Roy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:10:03 -0300 (ADT) From: Stephen Sloan At the risk of being called an idiot, I've been experimenting with JavaScript links on some pages that are not yet public to my users. One easy way to provide both JavaScript and more traditional HTML pages is to write a CGI script that converts the JavaScript file "on the fly". A link on the JavaScript version can call the script. This leaves you with only one file to maintain but gives your users an option. A simple perl script with a loop such as: open(IN,"./filename.html"); while() { if (/Alternate/) { next; } if (/won't work/) { next; } if (/----/) { next; } if (/^