Information Retrieval List Digest 376 (October 13, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-376 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 13, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 38 Issue 376 ***************************************************************** I. QUERIES/NOTEWORTHIES 1. CAIRS (Computer-based Automatic IR System) 2. Northern Lights II. JOBS 1. TextWise: IR Researcher 2. NLM: Sr. Position with Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. User Interfaces and Digital Libraries 2. TIS Journal Issue on Universal Access 3. Subject Specific Scout Reports from Internet Scout 4. JASIS September TOC B. Meetings 1. Information Seeking In Context 2. ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing 98 3. The Origin of Cognitive Sciences IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. Vocabulary project, UC Berkeley ***************************************************************** I. QUERIES/NOTEWORTHIES I. 1. =46r: Larry Hopperton Re: CAIRS (Computer-based Automatic IR System) I have an item that may be of interest to the IR-Digest. I have recently completed my PH.D. dissertation for the University of Toronto. It is entitled Facilitating learning through the feedback of conceptual clusters in free-formed student databases. Essentally, this thesis looks at the effect of using a natural language information retrieval engine when it is applied in a computer conferencing environment. While detailing a series of studies in the development of an IR engine called CAIRS (computer- based automatic information retrieval system), which show that the engine can be built and that it can work in evolving student databases, the main study examines the effect that using this engine has in education at the post-secondary level. While my subject sample size was small, I am able to show that automated information retrieval appears to have a positive effect on learning, and that subjects found it to be a useful addition to their learning experience, stimulating critical and analytical thinking in unanticipated ways. The dissertation will be available on microfiche shortly. I would be happy to provide any additional information. Lawrence Hopperton larryh@exec.senecac.on.ca ********** I.2. =46r: Ran Hock Re: Northern Lights Northern Light is at http://www.nlsearch.com. They came on line in August and are showing a lot of promise. Their major distinction is that retrieval covers not only the Web, but a collection of proprietary databases with a pay-per-view approach. If you remember (the now defunct) NlightN, you'll see a lot of similarities, in the approach, the name, and the style. Unless it is an extremely well-kept secret, there is no corporate connection between the two. As well as proprietary databases, Northern Light also has uniqueness in the way it organizes results into "custom folders." Northern Light seems to have a very large database and some quick benchmarking indicates that it often retrieves more than its competitors. Its spiders seem to go into individual sites much more deeply, retrieving more pages from each site. Its big weakness at the moment is search functionality. For example, it does not yet have full Boolean capabilities (the online documentation indicates that that is on the way). This engine bears watching - and trying. Ran Hock Online Strategies "Training for Effective Web Searching" http://www.onstrat.com ***************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. =46r: John Liddy Re: TextWise: IR Researcher An IR Researcher familiar with Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) or solid experience in monilingual IR and a willingness to become a CLIR expert. The successful candidate will join a creative R&D team whose tasks extend from basic research to implementation in a production level system. The applicant should have a PhD in a relevant discipline, be able to work productively on a team or independently, and be good at meeting deadlines successfully. Experience in non-academic software development a definite plus. TextWise is a technology start-up company situated in a university environment, does government funded research and develops leading edge information products with Manning & Napier Information Services. TextWise's mission is to take research from idea inception to the development of real-world products for emerging information markets. =46or consideration please e-mail your resume' to john@textwise.com or fax t= o (315) 443-4053. ********** II.2. =46r: Alexa McCray Re: NLM: Sr. Position with Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is currently seeking applications for a senior position in the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, a research division of the NLM. The successful applicant will be able to conduct and manage innovative research in a broad range of areas relevant to medical informatics and will be able to assume a leadership role in the Center's R & D activities. The Center conducts leading-edge research and development for the broad purpose of improving health-care information dissemination and use. This involves a wide range of research activities and disciplines. Research staff are actively engaged in developing intelligent information storage and retrieval systems, conducting their research by drawing on a diverse set of scientific fields and methods. Current staff have backgrounds in medicine, biology, computer science, mathematics, library and information science, linguistics, cognitive science, education, and engineering. Research projects include digital library research, vocabulary and thesaurus research, natural language processing, machine learning, expert systems, computer-based learning, and image processing, retrieval, and transmission. The Unified Medical Language System knowledge sources, the Visible Human data set, and MEDLINE data are important sources of knowledge for many of the experiments conducted at the Center. The Center provides training opportunities at the postgraduate, graduate, and undergraduate levels, and staff collaborate actively with members of the health sciences, medical informatics, biomedical engineering, and computer and information science communities in a range of scientific investigations. The NLM is located on the beautiful NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, just a metro-ride away from downtown Washington, D.C. PApplicants must have knowledge of medical informatics including the current state of the art in the areas of computer and information science. An outstanding track record in research and development as evidenced by significant publications in a relevant field; experience in managing a complex program of research in a relevant field; and a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent degree are desirable. Providing a letter of interest and five of your best publications along with your application is highly desirable. A supervisory/ managerial probationary period may be required. Physicians Comparability Allowance may be payable; relocation bonus, recruitment bonus, and moving expenses may be authorized. Salary range $75,935 - $98,714. U.S. citizenship required. Applications will be accepted if postmarked by November 17, 1997. For qualifications and mandatory application requirements, contact Connie Mantzuranis on 301-496-4943. NIH IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ***************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. =46r: Joseph Busch Re: User Interfaces and Digital Libraries Call for Papers International Journal on Digital Libraries Special Issue on User Interfaces for Digital Libraries Guest Editors: Joseph Busch and Isabel Cruz As digital libraries reach an increasingly wide variety of users that need to locate, extract, display, and summarize information, there is a growing need to provide effective user interfaces that can support these activities. This special issue addresses the challenges in designing and building user interfaces for digital libraries. These challenges relate to the multimedia nature of the information, the amount of the information to be accessed and processed for presentation, the distinct functionalities expected by users ranging from naive to sophisticated, and the diversity of the applications and of the capabilities of the output devices. Topics of interest, include, but are not limited to: New Interface Capabilities: * Interfaces for searching, browsing, and filtering information * Access to multimedia colections such as image, audio, and video archives * Interfaces for information retrieval, clustering, classification, and data mining of large collections * Information visualization * Web-based interfaces * Tailorable user interfaces * Spatial and temporal layout of information Applications: * Scaling to very large collections * Interfaces for education, geographical information systems, art collections, and medicine * Bibliographic and classification system based interfaces * Interfaces for collection development and maintenance * Collaborative interfaces and interfaces which support group work User Studies: * Field studies of working systems * Methodology and evaluation techniques * User models, plan recognition, and task support * Educational and social impact of interfaces to digital libraries We invite the submission to the special issue of manuscripts describing new and original research. The deadline for submission is December 15, 1997. Electronic submissions (in the form indicated below) or hard copy submissions (five copies) can be sent to one of the editors: Joseph A. Busch Standards and Research Projects Getty Information Institute 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA jbusch@getty.edu Tel: +(310) 440-6343 =46ax: +(310) 440-7715 http://www.gii.getty.edu/ =46ormats: PDF, MS Word, or HTML Isabel F. Cruz Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Rd. Worcester, MA 01609-2280 USA ifc@cs.wpi.edu Tel: +(508) 831-5357 =46ax: +(508) 831-5776 http://www.cs.wpi.edu/People/faculty/ifc.html =46ormats: Postscript or HTML ********** III.A.2. =46r: Rob Kling Re: TIS Journal Issue on Universal Access CALL FOR PAPERS Universal Service: New Conceptions for a New Age A Special Issue of The Information Society (An International Journal) Edited by Harmeet Sawhney Indiana University, Bloomington There is a new wave of innovation in telecommunications services, including information services on computer networks and wireless telephony. Discussions of who will be served by these services -- especially computer networks (and the Internet) have raised new questions and analyses of universal service. The meanings of universal telephone service have changed over time. As Mueller points out, when Theodore Vail, the architect of the Bell System, first talked about universal service he did not harbor any egalitarian notions of extending telephone service to everyone. He was merely advocating the creation of a "universal" integrated system which would allow any subscriber to talk to any other and thereby eliminate one of the biggest problems of the day -- lack of interconnection between fragmented networks owned by competing companies. The universal service idea has evolved in an interesting way since then. In the 1970s, the Bell System started justifying its monopoly against the competitive inroads of MCI and others in the U.S. by arguing that the preservation of an integrated system was essential for that of universal service -- provision of telephone service to everyone. Even so, young low-income families constitute a major portion of the 3.5 million households without telephones in the U.S. Now as more advanced services, such as Internet access and cellular phones become commonplace among the U.S. middle class, what should universal service mean? Before the divestiture of AT&T in 1984, universal service, for the most part, was a quasi-technical issue handled by a small group of technocrats far removed from the public eye. Today, it is a central issue in a highly charged public policy debate. We need new frameworks which cut through the clutter and provide conceptual clarity for an issue that beckons sagacious choices. Is our thinking too dominated by the wireline telephony model? What would universal service mean when wireless phones (cellular, PCS, and satellite) are as common as transistor radios? Would broadcasting or even post office provide a more appropriate framework for thinking about universal service? Are universal service policies too narrowly focused on subsidies which inevitably dampen innovations by artificially lowering the cost of an entrenched technology? Should their scope be expanded to include initiatives for the development of cost reducing technological alternatives? How about a hypothetical Universal Service Foundation that awards grants for such efforts? Should the concept of universal service which has been rooted in telephony be broadened to include other media? Do we need to develop a vocabulary which goes beyond local loops, cross subsidies, and other telephony-based concepts? Would it be possible to develop a framework that looks at the question of universal service independent of any particular media? Should the concept of universal service also include access to information? If yes, how can we "ration" information when it is so context dependent? Should we in general move away from a prescriptive mode of thinking where experts decide what should be provided to one where the intended beneficiaries of universal service policies make their own selections according to their needs? Should we abandon the notion of an overarching framework for everyone? Would it be better to develop context sensitive micro-solutions for specific population groups such as rural population, the urban poor, the elderly, and people with disabilities? Does universal service have to be uniform service to everybody? Do we need one framework or multiple frameworks? Authors are invited to nominate up to four reviewers who are knowledgeable about the topic (authors, however, should avoid any nominations that involve a conflict of interest). Nominations should include: name, complete address, telephone, fax, and electronic mail address. =46IVE COPIES OF THE PAPER PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE TIS GUIDELINES SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY MARCH 15, 1998. We encourage prospective authors to become familiar with TIS and to discuss possible articles with the Special Issue editor. Manuscript guidelines and a list of the titles and abstracts of articles published in TIS can be found on the journal's web site: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS Please send your manuscript to: Harmeet Sawhney Dept. of Telecommunications Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 ph: (812) 855 - 0954 fax: (812) 855 - 7955 e-mail: hsawhney@indiana.edu _The Information Society_ is a quarterly, refereed journal devoted to studies of information technology and social change, information policy, and related topics and is edited by Rob Kling of Indiana University. Please see the journal's WWW site at http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS to learn more about the journal's scope and recent issues. Rob Kling http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~kling The Information Society (journal) http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS Center for Social Informatics http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI Indiana University 10th & Jordan, Room 005C Bloomington, IN 47405-1801 812-855-9763 // Fax: 855-6166 ********** III.A.3. =46r: Jack Solock Re: Subject Specific Scout Reports from Internet Scout Three New Publications from the Internet Scout Project: The Scout Reports for Science & Engineering, Social Science, and Business & Economics The Internet Scout Project of the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announces the start of three new free electronic publications designed for the higher education community. The new Subject Specific Scout Reports for Science & Engineering, Social Science, and Business & Economics will be compiled by librarians and content specialists and published every two weeks via e-mail and the Web. GOALS OF THE SUBJECT-SPECIFIC SCOUT REPORTS:* To expand the Internet Scout Project's existing current awareness services by providing the higher education community with information that is field-specific * To continue research into the cataloging and archiving of electronic resources with expansion of the content of the Scout Report Signpost, a database of selected Internet resources, to include highly specialized resources * To investigate and implement new subject-based delivery techniques on the Internet using the subject-specific resources archived and cataloged in the Signpost The first report for Science & Engineering was released September 17 on the Scout Report website. (If you would like a plain text email version, send mail to scout@cs.wisc.edu.) The Social Science and Business & Economics reports will begin publication next week. All three reports will be available via an email distribution list, and on the Internet Scout web site. To subscribe to the Subject Specific Scout Reports, send e-mail to: scoutlst@cs.wisc.edu and in the body of the message type subscribe srscieng, or subscribe srsocsci, or subscribe srbusecon, or all three depending on the publications you wish to receive. More than one command can be sent in a single email to scoutlst. As always, the staff at Internet Scout are very interested your feedback. Please send comments or suggestions to the editors at the addresses below. Susan Calcari Project Director and Managing Editor scal@cs.wisc.edu 608.265.8042 Jack Solock Editor, Scout Report and Subject Specific Scout Reports jacks@cs.wisc.edu 608.262.6606 http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/index.html http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/index.html ********** III.A.4. =46r: Richard Hill Re: JASIS September TOC JASIS, Journal of the American Society for Information Science VOLUME 48, NUMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 1997 In This Issue Bert R. Boyce; 771 Special Topic Issue: History of Documentation and Information Science: Part II; Guest Editors: Michael Buckland and Trudi Bellardo Hahn PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS The Documentation and Special Libraries Movements in the United States, 1910---1960; Robert V. Williams, 775 The Cross-Fertilization of the U.S. Public Library Model and the French Documentation Model (IIB, French Correspondent of FID) through the French Professional Associations between World War I and World War II; Sylvie =46ayet-Scribe, 782 NATO Advanced Study Institutes of Information Science and Foundations of Information Science; Anthony Debons and Esther E. Horne, 794 THEORY What Is a ``Document''? Michael K. Buckland, 804 Relevance: The Whole History; Stefano Mizzaro, 810 Bradford's Distribution: From the Classical Bibliometric ``Law'' to the More General Stochastic Models; Vesna Oluic-Vukovic, 833 RESEARCH University Faculty and Networked Information: Results of a Survey; John M. Budd and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, 843 The World at Stage III, but the Net at Stage II; Michael Koenig and Patrizia Sione, 853 BOOK REVIEWS Strategic Management for Public Libraries: A Handbook, by Robert M. Hayes and Virginia A. Walter; Rejean Savard, 860 Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie; Bret H. Parker, 861 Data Mining with Neural Networks: Solving Business Problems from Application Development to Decision Support, by Joseph P. Bigus; Alan T. Schroeder, Jr., 862 Cover: Manuscript: Leonardo da Vinci--Adrienne Weiss, Designer Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 =46AX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@asis.org http://www.asis.org ********** III.B.1. =46r: D.K.Allen Re: Information Seeking In Context: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS Information Seeking in Context: an International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts. Sheffield, United Kingdom, August 13-15 1998 Hosted by: The Department of Information Studies at Sheffield University. CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: The first ISIC conference was held in Tampere, =46inland in August 1996 and was a considerable success with 136 participant= s from 17 countries. The Second Information Seeking in Context conference is intended to build on and develop the themes debated at the first meeting. The Conference will offer an opportunity to hear results of the latest research in the field of information seeking, to debate methodological issues, and to identify areas for further research. All participants at the first ISIC meeting will be welcome in 1998 and we hope that many researchers for whom this will be their first Conference will be attracted. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Information Behaviour and Electronic Environments * Information Requirements and Information Systems Design * Theoretical and methodological issues Information Seeking in Educational, Business and Health Sectors * Longitudinal Studies. Contributions from cognate disciplines such as Marketing, Consumer Studies, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Information Systems and Computer Science are welcome and may lead to separate sessions. CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND PAPERS: Contributors are requested to submit a copy of an extended abstract of about 600 words to the conference secretary. The authors' name, organization and the complete mailing address with phone and fax numbers and e-mail address should be typed on a separate sheet. The papers will be selected on the basis of the extended abstracts. Electronic submissions will be accepted. For detailed instructions on electronic submission of papers are available from the conference www pages. All documents should be sent by October the 31st, 1997 to Professor Tom Wilson, Conference Committee Chair, at the address below. Note: Preference will be given to papers that report research or debate underlying methodological and philosophical issues, rather than those that report on plans yet to be implemented. DEADLINES AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31.10.1997 Notification of acceptance: 31.12.1997 Manuscript due: 31.5.1998 Please check periodically the website for ISIC-98, under construction at: http://panizzi.shef.ac.uk/david_allen/ISIC/isic.html Also, join the Official ISIC-98 e-mail list for e-mail alerts concerning updated information on the conference, paper acceptances, keynote speaker updates and logistical details and deadlines. To do so, send an e-mail message to mailto: m.x.walker@sheffield.ac.uk In the Subject Line of the message type: ISIC-98-SUB In the body type: Your full name and the name of your organization. =46URTHER INFORMATION: ISIC 98 /Department of Information Studies, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP, Telephone: 0114 222 2630 =46ax: 0114 278 0300 David Allen Lecturer Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN Tel: 0114 2222641 WWW URL: http://panizzi.shef.ac.uk/david_allen/da-index.html ********** III.B.2. =46r: Fytton Rowland Re: ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing 98 ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing 98 Towards the Information-Rich Society Conference Centre of the Central European University Budapest, Hungary, 20-22 April 1998 The second ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing will take place on 20-22 April 1998 at Budapest, Hungary. The theme is Towards the Information-Rich Society. As at the first ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing conference held in Canterbury, England, in 1997, papers on technical, human and economic aspects of electronic publishing will be welcomed. The conference will be concerned with electronic publication both for specialist audiences and for the general public. One track will include such topics as electronic scholarly publishing, publishing of technical manuals, electronic art galleries, and other specialist areas. The other track will concern electronic publications in public libraries, and electronic provision of local community or tourist information, government information, and the like. Neither of these lists is meant to be exhaustive and submissions on any topic within the Conference's overall theme will be considered. It is hoped that the keynote paper will be given by Esther Dyson (EDVenture Holdings). The Programme Committee now calls for papers for presentation at the conference. These should report real experiences, research or development projects, or intellectual contributions on the theme of the conference. Papers reporting experience of real-life activities on a significant scale are especially sought. All submissions will be refereed by members of the Programme Committee. The working languages of the conference will be English and Russian, and simultaneous translation will be provided at the conference, but initial submission of abstracts should be in English. The Proceedings will be published after the conference in English; translation of those papers given in Russian will be arranged by the editors. =46inancial support for attendance at the conference by attendees from Central and Eastern European countries has generously been provided by the Electronic Publishing Development Programme of the Open Society Institute, Budapest, and submitted papers from these countries will be particularly welcome. Speakers from other nations whose papers are accepted will have not be charged the conference fee, but will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. Abstracts in English of no more than 500 words should be sent by e-mail (preferred), fax or post to: =46ytton Rowland, Co-Chair, Programme Committee, Second ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing, Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK Telephone (direct line with 24-hour answering) +44 (0) 1509 223039 =46ax +44 (0) 1509 223053 E-mail J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk Closing date for receipt: 12 noon G.M.T., Monday 17 November 1997 ********** III.B.3. =46r: Roberto Poli Re: The Origin of Cognitive Sciences Mitteleuropaeisches Kulturinstitut/ Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura (Bozen) Europaeische Akademie/ Accademia Europea (Bozen) The Origins of the Cognitive Sciences 1870-1930 Theories of Representation December 12-13, 1997 Castel Mareccio (Bolzano/Bozen) DECEMBER 12, Morning Liliana Albertazzi (Trento), Presentational Primitives Martin Kusch (M=FCnchen), The Politics of Representation: Social Variables of the Thought Psychology Controversy, 1900 to 1920 Riccardo Luccio (Firenze), Representation in Psychophysics DECEMBER 12, Afternoon Jan Sebestik (Paris), Logical (Bolzano) and Phenomenological (Mach) Theories of Representation Gianni Zanarini (Bologna), Helmholtz' and Mach's Theories on Consonance Salvo Dagostino (Roma), The Bild Conception of Physical Theory from Helmholtz to Schr=F6dinger Robin Rollinger (Freiburg), Sensorial Localization in Lotze DECEMBER 13, Morning Karl Schuhmann (Utrecht), The Concept of Bild in the Early Husserl Elisabeth Valentine (London), Analytic Psychology in G.F. Stout W. Wildgen, Gestaltpsychologie und Semiotik: der Beitrag Kurt Lewins DECEMBER 13, Afternoon Ruggero Pierantoni (Genova), The Children's Drawings as Sensitive Probes sent into the Realm of Representations Luciano Mecacci (Firenze), Morphological Classification of Concepts Alfred Zimmer (Regensburg), The Function of Multiple Formats in Mental Representation Conclusions A small number of bursaries are available to qualified students in order to meet the costs of participation. =46or information write to: Liliana Albertazzi Department of Sociology and Social Research 26, Verdi street 38100 Trento -- Italy Tel. ++39-461-881-403 =46ax: ++39-461-881-348 e-mail: alberta@risc1.gelso.unitn.it ***************************************************************** IV.C.1. =46r: Michael Buckland Re: Vocabulary project, UC Berkeley Any interested in the following project is encouraged to visit the project website at: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/metadata/index.html News release. AID FOR EFFECTIVE SEARCHING The University of California, Berkeley, School of Information Management & Systems has been awarded a $954,180 research contract to make searching for documents and for data easier and more cost-effective. The project is called "Search Support for Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies" . Searching is likely to be effective and efficient only when the searcher is familiar with the classification, categorizing, and indexing schemes ("metadata vocabularies") being searched. The rapid increase in the number of databases that can be accessed over the Internet means that searches will be increasingly require use of indexes and classification schemes that are unfamiliar to person searching. To provide a cost-effective remedy, the researchers will develop Entry Vocabulary Modules that accept topical statements in the searcher's terms and respond with a ranked list of terms in the system's vocabulary. The Principal Investigator for the three year project is Professor Michael Buckland, with Professor Ray Larson, Associate Professor in the School and Dr Fred Gey, Assistant Director of campus UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance and a recent Ph.D graduate of the School. This project builds directly on several years research in the School on improved searching techniques. The Classification Clustering technique developed by Professor Ray Larson for the CHESHIRE I system will be used with probabilistic document retrieval algorithms developed by Dr Gey with support from the National Science Foundation. The contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA Contract N66001-97-C-8541; AO# F477) and will run from July 1997 through June 2000. Michael Buckland School of Information Management & Systems University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 (510) 642-3159 buckland@sims.berkeley.edu http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~buckland ***************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous =46TP via the host ftp.dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). Search or browse archived IR-L Digest issues on the Web at: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/ These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. 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