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Re: PACS-L Message Archive Via the Web
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Caroline Arms)
Tue Mar 21 20:06:12 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:01:10 -0500
From: Caroline Arms <caar@LOC.GOV>
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Another (lurking) voice from the past!!
Much to my surprise, I find that I posted a message before Bernie. In
August 1989, I find a message in which I posted some paragraphs from
"Campus Strategies for Libraries and Electronic Information" as an attempt
to explain the difference between the Internet and BITNET. I remember
wondering hard about whether it was OK to give the book a plug and tell
people how they could get it. Remember, this was when commercial use of
these networks was frowned on. I decided that if I couldn't tell people on
a library list how they could get a book about libraries, that didn't make
much sense.
Editing that book persuaded me that interesting things would be going in
libraries -- for a computing person. Since then, I've spent 5 years in a
medical library and now close to 5 at the Library of Congress, with the
National Digital Library Program -- helping to bring you American Memory.
And I've lurked on the PACS-L list most of that time. For me part of the
value has been that I've been listening to what Walt, Bernie, Bill,
Millard, et al. have been saying for years and feel that I understand the
context for what they are saying even when it isn't explicit. It's been a
good way to maintain a sense of general progress.
And I'm still trying to explain technical things to the slightly less
technical -- and hoping people will actually read them. Here's another
plug!!
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/libt1999/
Getting the Picture:
Observations from the Library of Congress on Providing Online
Access to Pictorial Images
is the latest attempt to hit the web. Although, since it was published in
print first, it was close to a year between manuscript and publication.
One advantage of being a government employee is that it is at least in
the public domain and I could put it up on the web for free.
I'm delighted that PACS-L is alive again.
Caroline Arms caar@loc.gov
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Sloan, Bernie wrote:
> Interesting. I went to the archive and located the very first message I ever
> posted to PACS-L: Tuesday, October 3, 1989, at 8:59AM. More than ten years
> ago!
>
> The topic was database pricing and access. At the time, I thought we were
> pretty close to figuring out the issues related to database access and
> pricing. So, what am I doing today? Grappling with database pricing and
> access issues! And things don't seem any closer to resolution. :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. [mailto:cbailey@UH.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 10:00 AM
> To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
> Subject: PACS-L Message Archive Via the Web
>
>
> For those of you who want to stroll down memory lane, the PACS-L message
> archive is available at:
>
> http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/pacs-l.html
>
> The archive can be browsed or searched.
>
