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Brownrigg, Edwin – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992
Provides background on the California State Library Packet Radio project, which will use packet radios to deploy a wireless, high-speed, wide-area network of 600 nodes, including 100 libraries, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Project goals and objectives, plan of operation, equipment, and evaluation plans are summarized. (MES)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Networks
Bishop, Ann P.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992
Reports results of a preliminary evaluation of the New Connections Program, which provides free dial-up connections for certain kinds of institutions to NYSERNet (i.e., a regional computer network in New York State) and describes a plan for full evaluation of the program. The interview schedule, user log, and questionnaire are appended. (11…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Frost, Carolyn O.; Janes, Joseph – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1994
Describes plans for an investigation of gopher protocol use for browsing and searching for information available via the Internet. Use of classification schemes based on traditional library models will be compared to the use of an existing gopher. Research questions, literature on related issues, construction of the classification schemes, and the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks
Shane, Jackie C. – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1994
Discusses using the Internet as a tool for delivering information to rural areas and the possible benefits, such as telecommuting, effective dissemination of medical information, and the promotion of grass-roots activism. The means rural residents use to connect to the Internet and their use of bulletin board systems are described. (nine…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Activism, Citizen Participation, Computer Networks
Moen, William E. – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992
Discussion of issues related to the development of navigational tools for networked resources considers parallels and differences between traditional library materials and networked resources. Four domains of the networked environment--applications, information containers, information content, and users--are identified; and results of a pilot…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks
Larson, Ray R. – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1994
Describes collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley and four other universities to develop interoperable servers containing each participant's Computer Science Technical Reports and to make them available over the Internet using standard protocols. The proposed library architecture, approaches to indexing and retrieval, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Computer Networks
