The Cybrarian's Manual

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1 The Cybrarian's Manual P A T E N S O R E d i t o r SUB Gtittlngen A 572 American Library Association Chicago and London 1997

2 Preface vii 1 TIlB lnt8nlbt TIlB The Usual Internet General Information and History 3 Basics 1-17 Check These Out Regularly 5 Organizations Cybrarians Should Know About 7 Internet Size and Growth Patrick Flannery 9 2 Are You Wired In? The American Public, the Public Library, and the Internet: An Ever-Evolving Partnership Karen Starr 21 Internet Access Options for Libraries Kate Wakefieid 34 It's Time to Ask [Alternate] Dr. Internet! Thomas Dowling 45 Your Hardware Platform for Internet Access: LANs and SLIP/PPP Connections Marshall Breeding 47 It's Time Once Again to Ask [Alternate] Dr. Internet! Thomas Dowling 60 Wireless and Ubiquitous Computing Steve Cavrak 62 3 R Colleagues in Cyberspace: A Guide to Using Mailing Lists Ann Thornton 75 Usenet and the Library Larry Gainor and Erin Foster 83 Urban Legends and Hoaxes on the Internet 90 4 K Access to Electronic Information, Services, and Networks: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights American Library Association 95 Crime and Punishment in Cyberspace Sonia Orin Lyris 98 The Communications Decency Act 104 It's Time Once Again to Ask [Alternate] Dr. Internet! Thomas Dowling 106

3 A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace John Perry Barlow 108 Security and Authentication Call Your Agent Intelligent Agents: Software Servants for an Electronic Information World (and More!) Marina Roesler and Donald T. Hawkins 115 Clarence Meets Alcuin, or, Expert Systems Are Still an Option in Reference Work Eric Lease Morgan Power Tools for Cyberspace The Cybrarian's Tool Kit Bill Britten 137 Browsers, Extensions, and the Kitchen Junk Drawer Judi Copier 144 It's Time Once Again to Ask [Alternate] Dr. Internet! Thomas Dowling 152 Searching Cyberspace Robert Craigmile and Andrew Wohrley 154 Welcome to the Hololib James Powell 165 Inquiring Minds Want to Know... UNIX Kate Wakefieid 172 Information Retrieval: The Client/Server Model and Libraries Anthony Toyofuku We All Heed a Happy Horn Webmaster Beware: Corporations Know They Need a Web Site... but Do They Know Why? Lou Rosenfeld 193 Spinning the World-Wide Web: An HTML Primer James Powell 196 HTML Which Version? Jon Knight 206 UW-Madison Campus Libraries' Web Page Standards and Guidelines Electronic Library Access Committee User Documentation Working Group 209 You've Got a Web Page What Next? 212 Considering Computer-Mediated Communication: The Future Is Now! Craig A. Summerhill Using Multimedia File Formats Thomas Dowling 223 The Digital Library Initiative: Collections in an Electronic World 237 Imaging the Archives: Now Is the Time Kenneth A. Cory and David W. Hessler 239

4 Reference in Cyberspace Reference Services on the Internet Judy Myers 249 OPACs and More Steve Hardin 255 Cool or What? Quality and Evaluation 262 Cyber-Citing: Citing Electronic Sources Kristin D. Vogel 264 Civic Cybrarianship: Government and the Information SuperHighway Public Lanes John Shuler 273 Beyond Surfing: Serving Information to Our Patrons Larry Schankman 283 I've Grown Your (Inter) Face Why Can't a User Be More Like a Librarian? Pat Ensor 297 Knowbot Explorations in Similarity Space Martin Halbert 301 Seven Buttons: A User-Friendly, Patron-Appropriate Technique Rebecca Owl and Robert Morgan 309 New Online or the Old Online? One World Linked by the Universal Machine Barbara Quint 315 There's Nothing New Under the Sun: Or, All New! All Improved! It's Online Searching! Pat Ensor 320 Consumer Online Services 324 It's Time Once Again to Ask [Alternate] Dr. Internet! Thomas Dowling Cyberspace Needs Cataloging the Internet: Issues and Viewpoints Judy Myers 331 Technical Service How "Helathy" Is Your OPAC? Terry Ballard Do You Have a License for That? Electronic Data Pricing: Or, Through the Looking Glass Pat Ensor 343 Zen, and the Art of CD-ROM Network License Negotiation Thomas C. Wilson 348 Press 1 for Vendor Relations Nancy Buchanan 354

5 14 Stc Information Standards 365 Uniform Resource Names: A Progress Report William Arms 368 SGML Documents: A Better System for Communicating Knowledge David Stern So, You Want to Technologies Change Organizational and Occupational Structures: Librarian, Cybrarian, or? Barbara Best-Nichols 385 What Is Cyberspace? Michel Bauwens 395 Using the Internet for Promoting Your Skills and Services: Two Basic Techniques Michael Strangelove Cyberfuture Nanotechnology: The Library of Congress in Your Pocket Roberta Wallis 411 Reference Services in the Virtual Library Judy Myers 418 Cyberpunk: Information as God Milton T. Wolf 426