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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Library Newsletters Ursinusiana Collection 11-22-1993 Myrin Library News, Vol. 7 No. 2, November 1993 Myrin Library Staff Ursinus College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/library_news Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Staff, Myrin Library, "Myrin Library News, Vol. 7 No. 2, November 1993" (1993). Library Newsletters. 36. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/library_news/36 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ursinusiana Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Newsletters by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact aprock@ursinus.edu. November 22, 1993 Volume 7, Issue 2 Internet Links Myrin to a "Virtual" World of Information! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * MBS Menu Allows Access to Library Catalogs Around the Country and Around the World Now that Ursinus College and the Myrin Library are officially connected to the Internet, it is possible to search hundreds of college, research, and public library catalogs electronically. The online catalogs of over 180 libraries throughout the United States are available to search via a very user-friendly system located on all UC-networked computers and on selected search terminals in Myrin. Choosing the option "INTERNET LIBRARIES" from the Myrin Bibliographic System's main menu starts the program "LIBS - Internet Access Software," which presents the following menu: LIBS - Internet Access Software v2.0a Mark Resmer, Sonoma State University, Mar 1993 On-line catalogs available through the Internet: 1 United States Library Catalogs 2 Library Catalogs in other countries Press RETURN alone to exit now or press Ctrl-C 0 <return> to exit at any time Enter the number of your choice: At last count, there were 187 U.S . library catalogs available to search via the LIBS software. Of these, 10 are Pennsylvania libraries, including the University of Pennsylvania, Franklin & Marshall College, (continued on page 2) Page 2 (continued from page 1) Lafayette University, Bucknell University, and Penn State University. Outside the Commonwealth, we have access to the catalogs of some of the largest academic libraries in the United States, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the University of California system. In addition to the nearly 200 U.S. institutions, the Internet reaches some 140 Ii brary catalogs around the world. There are online catalogs from fourteen different countries, from Australia to the United Kingdom. Some of the notable institutions include Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the Universitiit Heidelberg, where Zacharias Ursinus taught . One wonders if Zacharias, or, for that matter, the founders of Ursinus College itself, could have imagined electronic infor-mation networks linking the entire world. The remote library catalog link is just one component of the "virtual" world of information that now exists via the Internet. In the weeks to come theMyrin Library News will introduce, highlight, and explain other information resources avail-able to the Ursinus community on the Internet. Stay online with us for future articles about the 'net! Contact the Library at ext. 2283 for more details. Myrin Library News Instructional Technology at Ursinus Multimedia Update Technology has been finding its way into every domain of the Ursinus Community. Most recently, the new Internet connection has caused a lot of excitement. The Media Services Department has been doing its share to keep up with this new wave of technology that is sweeping college campuses. The Media Services Department is beginning to add components of multimedia to its existing hardware inventory . What is multimedia? Well, until very recently, there was a lot of confusion with this particular term. Multimedia could simply be using an overhead projector and slides at the same time--2 types of media, hence multimedia. But, in the past couple of years, multimedia has come to mean the marriage of computers with video, animation, audio and graphics. This all takes place at a computer workstation. One of the benefits of this type of system is that users can interact with the media. Users control and are involved in what happens, rather than being passive observers, as is the case with conventional video. Some of the advances the Media Services Department is making include the addition of two laser disc players and a photo CD player to the current equipment inventory. The Photo CD player was donated to the department by Fred Klee. It will be used to preserve photographs that normally are turned into slides and used in the classroom. One of the laser disc players has computer capability and will eventually become part of a multimedia workstation. The other player plays full length video disks as well as disks that incorporate slide shows, film and video. This player was recently demonstrated at the Teaching of Psychology Conference that was recently held at Ursinus. The Media Services Department plans to continue expanding its technological horizons in the semesters to come. Traditional media will continue to have its place in the classroom, but new instructional technologies can greatly enhance the learning expenence. Myrin Library News E-Mail Provides Link to Electronic Conferences I Would you like to part1c1pate in an international conference but find you don't have the time or the means? Or perhaps you ~~%~R"iJ~~mi:~WiWt,~::lii:: are somewhat intimidated by meeting the rm----r •mm · ·=·=·=·=·=·~~::;:~~~ •. \ experts face-to ~face . If any of these constraints apply, then "attending" an electronic conferences may be just the solution. The Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences (7th revision) lists over 1,200 discussion groups or conferences available right from the comfort and convenience of your Ursinus electronic mail account. These ongoing electronic conferences cover topics from every academic field, from Anthropology to Zoology. And, like their real world counterparts, there is a virtual conference for every conceivable academic interest. Some sample topics include First-century Judaic Literature, Bluegrass Music, High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy, and Early Medieval China. Some of the titles hint that they might not be strictly academic, including BUBBA-L ("a list devoted to the conversational language, culture, lifestyles, history, and humor of the Southern United States") and PLA Y-L ("multidisciplinary perspectives on play, games, and sport") . Also, participation is not limited to faculty. In fact, the Ursinus Biology Department is in the process of developing its own discussion list which will serve as a forum for beginning Biology students across campuses worldwide. To take part in any of these conferences, you must first register or, in the electronic vernacular, "subscribe." To do this you need to know the name of the electronic conference and the "listserv" address of the computer which is hosting the conference. This information is provided in the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. For example, to subscribe to the conference called MODBRITS (discusses modem British and Irish literature), which has the listserv address LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU, you would send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (continued on page 4) Page 3 Academic Index Top 10 Journal Citations A report from Academic Index, the Library's most used CD-ROM database, provides a ranking of the journal citations printed out in the last academic year. The following are the "top 1 O" along with the count of citations printed: The New York Times .. . . 3,717 JAMA ............... 1, 198 Time . .. .. . .. .. . . . . . . 1,195 Business Week ........ .1 ,116 The Economist . .. ... . . 1,040 Newsweek . ... . ... . .. .1 ,039 U.S. News& WorldRpt. .. . 999 Nature .... . . . ......... 874 Science . .............. . 793 Science News .... . ... . . . 719 The Library keeps its own statistics on the use of the journal collection. Though the rank order was not identical , the Academic Index "top 1 O" included the most heavily used journals in Myrin's collection. :::~~~-· 91~W,~( : 211~~~li: [l~ft1p . Editor: :David Fl Mi11 Page 4 (continued from page 3) The text of the message is simply this : SUBSCRIBE MODBRITS FIRSTNAME LASTNAME Myrin Library News After subscribing, you receive an e-mail acknowledgment with specific information about the discussion list and how it operates. Similarly, to leave the discussion list (or "unsubscribe"), you would send the command "unsubscribe" followed by the name of the conference (in this case, MODBRITS) to the listservaddress, for example: UNSUBSCRIBE MODBRITS To see what discussion groups are available in your areas of interest, come by the Library to look at the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. Please ask at the Information Desk to see our copy. November 24 (Wed.) .......... 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. November 25 (Thu.) .......... Closed November 26 (Fri.) .. - . Closed L~ November 27 (Sat.) .... . ...... Closed November 28 (Sun.) .......... 5:00 p.m. - Midnight 

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