Table of contents: issue3

Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview

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An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant.

George Brett set up CNIDR (pronounced 'Snyder' – the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval) in 1992, with a three year grant obtained from the National Science Foundation. CNIDR exists to promote and support the implementation of networked information discovery and retrieval tools through working with applications developers and through its involvement in producing networking standards.

View from the Hill: Rob Ainsley

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Rob Ainsley, editor of a clutch of Internet-based classical music journals, expounds on the dynamics of ejournals on the Internet.

Future Publishing, based in Bath, publishes 36 magazine titles covering sport, computing, music and leisure. In 1987, the year Rob Ainsley joined it as a staff writer, it published only three. Ainsley became features editor of Classic CD magazine when it began in 1990, and then took over as editor the following year. Early this year, he decided it was time for a change.

Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed

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Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

What do you do in the world of networking/libraries/WWW

Down Your Way

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Alison Kilgour checks out the networking facilities in the Library of York University.

The University of York has a very long history in terms of networked service. In 1989 the Computing Service section wrote and set up the Campus Wide Information Server. The original service was then converted to gopher, but little subsequent development was made with this service as it was soon apparent that the Web would take over. York proceeded to set up a group whose remit was to organise the structure of the new service.

Copyright Corner

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Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of.

Part of the basic philosophy of the eLib programme is to explore issues to do with copyright, to engender culture change amongst librarians, users and copyright owners about copyright, and to explore novel contractual or technical means to overcome the difficulties that copyright poses. In this article, I look at some of the major project lines and the copyright issues that might be raised from them.

Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries

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Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain.

Current public library Internet activity can be divided into four main types:

Minotaur (Sceptics Column)

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Mary Hope doubts the wisdom of children using the Internet at school.

The Internet cannot be avoided. Our children will be affected by it whether we like it or not and, as information specialists, we need to get involved. Ignore it and we are doing a disservice to students young and old.

Sideline

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Sheona Farquhar makes the mistake of thinking that any conference held outside Aberdeen has to be warmer.

Trips from Aberdeen to most places take a long time. Not being one to turn down the rare opportunity to travel abroad in my library's interest, I journeyed for 12 hours via three Flughafens and four Bahnhofs, two planes and three trains to a conference on Electronic Publishing and Libraries in Bielefeld, Germany. It's very cold in Northern Germany in early February, much colder even than Aberdeen. The temperature outside did not rise much above -9oC during my visit.

Burnside Writes

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John Burnside has a quick look at poetry on the Net.

It's is one of those hot questions in the poetry world: does poetry work on the Web, and if so, how? How is electronically transmitted verse different from poetry read aloud, or scanned from a conventional book? Is there a magic in the book's physicality, in the smell and feel of it, in the intimacy of it all? In the end, I think there is. On the other hand, poets and poetry lovers can find good stuff on the Web, and in recent weeks, I've been drifting around, in a more or less random fashion, looking for the interesting sites.