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FYI France: new books -- on Internet, libraries, books
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
Mon May 18 20:03:59 1998
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:37:36 -0500
From: Jack Kessler <kessler@well.com>
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Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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FYI France: new books -- on Internet, libraries, books
You can find far more than I can provide here, in Internet / library /
"The Book" information by and about France and the French, online at
http://www.fyifrance.com -- including a new feature, "How to Digitize a
Nation...", which will debut there on (I promise) June 15.
But here, for now, are several new and interesting sources -- printed -
book format -- about the Internet, libraries, and books, all published
recently in France: as always, no recommendation, just the suggestion --
* "Amour, Sexe Et Internet" (Paris : Micro Application, Dec 1996) Series:
PC Poche, ISBN 2742905146
Included here, perhaps too obviously, for its title -- I have no idea what
it is about -- someone please read it and tell me... The BnF's entry says,
cryptically, "Internet -- Erotisme -- La couv. porte en plus : 'le guide
secret des NetCharmeurs'". What, I wonder, is a "NetCharmeur"? Has the
Acade'mie okayed this term? Will this oeuvre go into the "Enfer"?
* Franc,ois Cointe, "Ca Tourne Pas Net Sur Internet" (Paris : Eyrolles,
Nov 1997) Series: Albums d'Humour, ISBN 2212035837
Again, a good title -- nearly the equal of Christian Huitema's wonderful
"Et Dieu Cre'a l'Internet".
* Rives, "Communication Et Publiciet Sur Internet" (Paris : Eyrolles, Nov
1996) ISBN 2212089244
Request for information: what does "publiciet" mean? I thought that this
was a typo...
* Daniel A. Tauber, "Comprendre Internet En Quelques Heures" (Paris :
Sybex, Feb 1998) ISBN 2736128494
The best "how - to" book on the Internet in French, I hear from French
friends, is "l'Internet Pour Les Nuls": "The Internet for Dummies",
translated. But that now is old -- 1994. There is a great need for French
- language "how to" books on this subject now, in this era of great
Internet expansion in France, and for a people as "printed book" -
oriented as the French. So I suggest Tauber's book not for its contents
but for its currency; if anyone can suggest recent Internet "how - to"
books in French which are better I would like very much to hear.
* John Ross, "De'couvrir le World Wide Web" (Paris : First, Feb 1998)
Series: De'couvrir, ISBN 2876914042
* Brian Pfaffenberger, "De'couvrir l'Internet" (Paris : First, Sep 1997)
Series: De'couvrir, ISBN 2876913801
Pfaffenberger has written some very interesting things: something called
"Caste in Tamil Culture", a number of books on actually using digital
information for writing, and one or two on the social policy implications
thereof. I read his "Democratizing information : online databases and rise
of end-user searching" (c1990), and it was very good. People seeking
recent French - language introductions to l'Internet might look in his
direction -- he also has written "Publish it on the Web!" (1996), "Web
search strategies" (1996), and "World Wide Web bible" (1996).
* Johanne De Luca, "Dictionnaire Anglais - Franc,ais des
Te'le'communications et de l'Internet" (Paris : Masson, Jul 1997) ISBN
2225829721
* Databeker, "Dictionnaire Info Internet" (Paris : Micro Application, Aug
1997) ISBN 2742910158
Digital information having become -- at last -- very much an affair of
language, a good Infospeak Dictionary now is indispensable: simply to
translate American Internet argot into understandable English, not to
speak of torturing it into French infospeak and vice versa. All this was
less important back when "machine" and "programming" languages were the
only ones in use -- then it was miraculous enough to get systems to accept
ASCII English as input and to produce ASCII English as output. Things have
progressed, however: now it is the Age of the User, and the User speaks
French, and German and Hindi and Chinese... We need Infospeak Dictionaries
now, badly. In France, already and increasingly, "internauts" and
"internautes" and "surfeurs" and "surfeuses" are busy on the "Ouebbe"...
* "Guerre Sur Internet" (Paris : Patrick Banon, May 1997) Series Opinions
Internationales, ISBN 284192064X
Essays on Internet policy.
* Patrice Martin Lalande, "L' Internet un vrai de'fi pour la France"
(Paris : La Documentation franc,aise, 1998) Series Rapports Officiels,
ISBN 2110039272
Internet policy from the French official point of view.
* "Patrimoine et multime'dia : le ro^le du conservateur" (Paris : La
Documentation franc,aise, 1997) Colloque 23, 24 et 25 octobre 1996 a` la
Bibliothe`que nationale de France -- Ecole nationale du patrimoine, ISBN
2110037970.
Internet policy from the French librarianship point of view -- patrimoine
and preservation.
* Jason Page, "Internet: cybe`respace m'e'tait conte" (Paris : Gallimard
Jeunesse, 1997) [avec la collab. de Fernando Worcel] [ill. par Paul
Daviz] [trad.-adapt. de l'anglais par Aalam Wassef] ISBN 2070509710
Cyberspace for children, in French!
* Jean-Paul Buffelan-Lanore, "Administration citoyenne & cyberdroit"
(Paris : Ed. de l'IRIJ, 1997) ISBN 2911578007
Digital information law -- "Cyberdroit" -- _there_ is a word you hadn't
heard of...
* Pierre Reboul, "Commerce e'lectronique: techniques et enjeux" (Paris :
Eyrolles, 1997) ISBN 2212089635
Ecommerce -- the big question, now -- not just for the US but particularly
for smaller European and Asian economies, which are physically remote from
the enormous and beckoning US "refuge currency" market, and especially for
countries like France which have been burdened with 12+% national
unemployment for a very, very, long time.
* Organisation de coope'ration et de de'veloppement e'conomiques,
"Convergence et tarification des infrastructures de l'information: le
reseau Internet" (Paris : Organisation de coope'ration et de
de'veloppement e'conomiques, 1996) [rapport pre'p. par le Dr. Sam
Paltridge] Series: Documents de travail de l'OCDE, ISSN 1022-2219
Will / should ecommerce be taxed? The point of view from outside of the
US. Free trade worked for the British Empire, when all the trade was
British...
-- And now several interesting "cyberculture" works: "what does it all
mean?" -- the French are very good at this --
* Jerome Colombain, "La cyberculture" (Toulouse : Milan, 1997) Series: Les
e'ssentiels Milan 79, ISBN 284113525X
* Philippe Oberson, "L'Internet et l'intelligence e'conomique: me'thode de
veille e'conomique par l'Internet" (Paris : les Ed. d'Organisation, 1997)
ISBN 2708120077
* Dominique Nora, "Les conque'rants du cybermonde" (Paris : Gallimard,
1997) Series: Folio Actuel 52, Nouv. e'd. re'v., ISBN 2070329461
* Max-Henri Pinton, "Le monde de l'Internet: Intranet, Extranet,
Outernet" (Paris : les Ed. du Telephone, 1997) ISBN 2909879275
There are "technical" folks in France, too -- anyone else wonder what an
"Outernet" is?
-- And recent works on French libraries:
* France -- Inspection ge'ne'rale des bibliothe`ques, "Rapport annuel de
l'Inspection ge'ne'rale des bibliothe`ques. 1995 (Paris : Inspection
ge'ne'rale des bibliothe`ques, 1996)
* Anne-Marie Moulis, "Les bibliothe`ques" (Toulouse : Milan, 1996) Series:
Les e'ssentiels Milan 37, ISBN 2841133729
* Claudie Tabet, "La bibliothe`que hors les murs" (Paris : Ed. du Cercle
de la librairie, 1996) ISBN 2765406243
* Centre de documentation des bibliothe`ques de la Ville de Paris, "Les
concours des bibliothe`ques et de la documentation" (Paris : Centre de
documentation des bibliothe`ques de la Ville de Paris, 1996) Ed. 1996,
nouv. e'd. re'v., corr. et augm., ISBN 2906869910
-- And, finally, "books":
* Pierre Vican, "Livre" (Paris : Seuil jeunesse, 1996) Series: Un me'tier
en poche, [texte de Pierre Vican; dessins de Manu Boisteau] ISBN
2020286467
Books and librarianship, as a career, for kids?
* France -- Direction de l'information scientifique et technique et des
bibliothe`ques, "Premier recensement des me'tiers des bibliothe`ques"
(Nanterre : Universite' de Paris X-Me'diadix, 1995)
Books and librarianship, as careers, "pour nous autres"...
* Unesco, "Rapport mondial sur l'information" (Paris : Unesco, 1997) Ed.
1997-1998, ISBN 9232033410
No reason to ignore the good information produced by these people, just
because the US isn't a member...
* Noe Richter, "Introduction a l'histoire de la lecture publique et a la
bibliothe'conomie populaire" (Bernay : Socie'te' d'histoire de la lecture,
1995) ISBN 2950972705
* Noe Richter, 'Lecture populaire, ouvrie`re, lecture et travail" (Bernay
: Socie'te' d'histoire de la lecture, 1998) Series: Mate'riaux pour une
histoire de la lecture et de ses institutions 3, ISBN 2912626021
Richter is prolific...
* Roger Chartier, "Culture e'crite et socie'te': l'ordre des livres:
XIVe-XVIIIe sie`cle" (Paris : A. Michel, 1996) ISBN 222608701X
* Roger Chartier, "Au bord de la falaise: l'histoire entre certitudes et
inquie'tude" (Paris : A. Michel, 1998) ISBN 2226095470
As is Chartier...
Bonne(s) lecture(s).
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