From: Stephen Gant <gants_at_ils.unc.edu>
Service Announcement
The Congressional Record Filter (CRFilter) has been extended to support
searching the Congressional Record Text back to 1989 (101st Congress).
A new resource has been developed for people interested in following
US legislative action on particular topics. CRFilter
(http://crfilter.ils.unc.edu) is a Web-based information filter for the
US Congressional Record text and extends the resources of the Library of
Congress' THOMAS search system. CRFilter creates a personalized search
page for THOMAS, so that users can periodically check to see the latest
developments in their areas of interest as well as search the CR back to
1989.
CRFilter is a free service and should be of particular interest to people
who regularly search with THOMAS, such as legislative assistants,
librarians, journalists, lobbyists, researchers, and students.
CRFilter is part of a doctoral dissertation on the adoption of filtering
technology being run by Steve Gant at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Users are required to fill out a 40 question survey and
agree to have the frequency (but not content) of their use of the filter
measured.
* Requires NetScape Navigator 3.0 or later.
* Not compatible with Internet Explorer.
* Not accessible from behind firewalls.
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Steve Gant
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
gants_at_ils.unc.edu (919)-942-3337
http://ils.unc.edu/gants
Received on Wed Apr 15 1998 - 18:23:07 EDT