Hi all- This post takes a somewhat different tact than what has been discussed so far. Rather than discussing how we react to electronic mail querys, I am...
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David Lankes
rdlankes@...
Jan 10, 1998 5:19 pm
Greetings Diggers I have to admit the scale of this list took me by surprise. We are now over 700 people subscribed in two days! I have made a few requested...
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Richard Hathaway
rhat@...
Jan 10, 1998 5:44 pm
I think Vin meant to send this to the list. Dick Hathaway University of Michigan Library MLink/MEL...
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Barbara J. D'Angelo
bdangelo@...
Jan 10, 1998 5:10 pm
Leslie, I'm in the process of setting up a real-time reference service via a MOO. It will be similar to what the Internet Public Library has done but will be ...
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David Lankes
rdlankes@...
Jan 10, 1998 9:02 pm
For users who signed on early and got that confidential stuff, here is the updated subscriber information. Those of you who signed on Saturday got this ...
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David Lankes
rdlankes@...
Jan 10, 1998 9:05 pm
This is the welcome message I sent to the list, so the newer folks might not have seen it. It is now set to be the default welcome message sent when someone...
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Kathie Olds - Otsego ...
keolds@...
Jan 11, 1998 12:36 am
I LOVE MEL! and it's the first source I refer patrons to who are looking for information on the Internet. I'm so glad you started this list Dave. It's great...
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Bob Parks
bobp@...
Jan 11, 1998 3:20 am
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David Lankes
rdlankes@...
Jan 11, 1998 9:05 pm
Sorry...just trying to fix the "From" problem. ... "Virtual" Dave Lankes <rdlankes@...> Associate Director ERIC IT/AskERIC ...
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Susan D. Barb
sbarb@...
Jan 11, 1998 6:01 pm
... I enjoyed looking at your site as this is something I am trying to do for our patrons in-house. I would be very interested in anyone's input on your...
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Sara Weissman
weissman@...
Jan 11, 1998 9:26 pm
You might be interested in a discussion my colleague Lynne Olver wrote up for the Digital Library Group of the NJ state library. I'll be doing a workshop on...
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David Lankes
rdlankes@...
Jan 11, 1998 9:28 pm
One last test of the header today. ... "Virtual" Dave Lankes <rdlankes@...> Associate Director ERIC IT/AskERIC http://ericir.syr.edu/~rdlankes...
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Joe Schallan
jschall@...
Jan 11, 1998 7:43 pm
... Still shows as coming from David Lankes, not the list. -- Joe Schallan jschall@......
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Kathie Olds - Otsego ...
keolds@...
Jan 11, 1998 11:10 pm
That's good that it shows the individual that it's coming from. It doesn't show up as a *personal* message, but that it comes from a list. Isn't that the...
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Sara Weissman
weissman@...
Jan 12, 1998 7:59 am
Thought our basic premises/experiences, which underlie our web work, might be of use? We've provided public access to the Internet since 1993 and I spent three...
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Ken Umbach
kumbach@...
Jan 12, 1998 5:42 am
Hi ... At 11:59 PM 1/11/98 -0500, you wrote: ... I understand your point ... but nonetheless ... the amount, quality, and (for those who know what they are...
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David Lankes
rdlankes@...
Jan 12, 1998 4:04 pm
I want to be careful that we don't start defining digital reference too narrowly. I think it is more than simply "better web surfing" and creating yet another...
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Terry Calhoun
splendid@...
Jan 12, 1998 4:16 pm
David's point about identifying user needs relates to a question that arose when I met with my development team Sunday morning: "Where are people going from...
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Gailhodge
Gailhodge@...
Jan 12, 1998 5:52 pm
Sara, I am interested in the distributed, collaborative approach that NJ is taking for a state digital library. At the federal level, I am working with...
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Cousineau, Laura
lkc@...
Jan 12, 1998 5:39 pm
Apologies in advance for all of my spelling mistakes. Richard J Hathaway (Dick), MLink Director, University of Michigan writes ... Your pages look very well...
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Rees, Phil J.
PJRees@...
Jan 12, 1998 11:26 pm
... do ... You could use a cgi script to do the tracking. Then instead of you site's links being: <a href=http://some.other.orgs/dir/page.htm>Link to an...
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Nettie Lagace
alagace@...
Jan 12, 1998 6:34 pm
Terry, David Carter at the Internet Public Library, a former colleague of mine, wrote a Perl script that does in spirit what you describe (not the "invisible...
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Rees, Phil J.
PJRees@...
Jan 12, 1998 11:46 pm
Following on from Laura Cosineau's comments: Shouldn't we be looking at changing the structure of the cataloguing process, so that the categorical information...
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Alan R. Schwartz
alanschwartz@...
Jan 12, 1998 6:56 pm
Ken Umbach wrote: <snip> ... Ken Umbach's point is well taken. There has always been a lot of information. The problem has been ease of access and then turning...
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Abby Kasowitz
abby@...
Jan 12, 1998 7:08 pm
Sara, The kinds of questions from students that you mention are identical to some of the questions received by some "AskA" (Ask An Expert) services. It's...
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Ken Umbach
kumbach@...
Jan 12, 1998 4:11 pm
It seems to me that search engines are the way to go when one needs specific information, but categorized lists of sites (online or in books like "The Internet...
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Alan R. Schwartz
AlanSchwartz@...
Jan 12, 1998 7:28 pm
Cousineau, Laura wrote: <snip> ... As a "digger," I find many different approaches useful, and do not see a cookie cutter. There is one additional approach to...
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laura hudson
lhudson1@...
Jan 12, 1998 7:10 pm
... We use a redirect CGI script to do tracking and get statistics for use of outside resources. However, it does not account for the usesage which results...
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Hal P. Kirkwood Jr.
kirkwood@...
Jan 12, 1998 7:23 pm
Terry, I acquired a small CGI script that redirects the user through a 'tally' page and then moves onto the link that was selected. You can then take this...
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Lynn Bry
lynn@...
Jan 12, 1998 6:51 pm
If you're using the apache or NCSA httpds, you can set the "referer_log" which should track incoming and outgoing URLS (depending on how your server is...
