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Librarians and the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Mon Jul 13 09:36:55 1992
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 08:32:40 CDT
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From: jahb@Lehigh.EDU (JENNIFER A. HEISE)
Subject: Re: Librarians and the Internet
>From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
>In regards to the difference between those reporting on ALA versus ASIS,
>I would have to agree with both of them. . .the people at ALA (and state
>LA's) have been much less happy with computers and networks than those a
>person meets at national and local ASIS meetings.
Quite candidly, I'd like to suggest that this difference may have to do with
the relative COSTS of attending ALA & ASIS. At ASIS, I think you are getting
a more prosperous crowd, also a more academic (in the sense of library
education) one.
Jennifer Heise
Reference Dept., Bitnet: jahb@lehigh
Fairchild-Martindale Libraries #8A Internet: jahb@ns.cc.lehigh.edu
Lehigh University Phone: (215)758-3072
Bethlehem, PA 18015
My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.
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From: Jim Julich 319-335-5946 <CADJIMTS@UIAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Librarians and the Internet
I've always viewed the Internet as a natural extension of online
searching, with our sturdy friend telnet performing functions similar
to the Public Data Networks like Tymnet and Sprintnet. We are getting
a sophisticated technology at a fraction of the market cost. If it's
any comfort to anyone contemplating the plunge, the Internet is much
less anxiety producing than doing a Science Citation search on DIALOG
at $160 an hour with a paying customer looking over your shoulder as
you make typos.
For colleagues who get interested in networking, I call their attention
to Caroline Arms' article, "A New Information Infrastructure" in the
September, 1990 issue of ONLINE, still the best discussion I've seen of
networking from a library point of view.
Personally, I like the analogy of travelling. I speak a little DOS,
less Unix, and sometimes get in way over my head. But as anyone who
has lived in a foreign country knows, if you want to wait until you
have a perfect grasp of the grammar and vocabulary of another language
before trying to communicate, you will probably die of starvation and
loneliness.
Jim Julich
Univ. of Iowa--Main Lib.
james-julich@uiowa.edu
