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                    Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 70.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
                  <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

             Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:30:07 +0100
             From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
             Subject: June D-Lib Magazine: http://www.dlib.org/

    NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
    News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
    from across the Community
    June 19, 2000

                       June 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine available
                                  <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/
                    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/06contents.html

    CONTENTS INCLUDE:

    MAIN STORIES:
    * "Value-Added Surrogates for Distributed Content: Establishing a Virtual
    Control Zone," by Sandra Payette and Carl Lagoze, Cornell University

    * "Lessons Learned: Digitization of Special Collections at The University
    of Iowa Libraries," by Carol Ann Hughes, Questia Media, Inc. (Formerly,
    University of Iowa)

    * "Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web: The Collaborative
    Digital Reference Service (CDRS)," by Diane Nester Kresh, Library of Congress

    BOOK REVIEW:
    * Usable Information Designs: A review of two recent books:
    -- "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity," by Jakob Nielson,
    New Riders Publishing: 2000; and
    -- "Information Design", edited by Robert Jacobson, MIT Press, 1999.
    By Jeremy Hylton: "...both books suggest that the measure of a design's
    quality should be its effect on user behavior and satisfaction and that the
    only way to achieve that quality is to do real tests with real people
    during the design process."

    IN-BRIEF ITEMS include:

    "Gottingen Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital"
    Norbert Lossau, State- und University Library Goettingen

    "Cooperation between the British Library and UK Universities"
    Alicia Wise, Old Library, Kings College London

    "New Open Access Resources from Bartleby.com"
    Megan Schade, Bartleby.com

    =============================================

    >Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:04:09 -0400
    >From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson@cnri.reston.va.us>
    >To: Dlib-subscribers@dlib.org
    >>available.
    >
    >Greetings:
    >
    >The June 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine
    ><http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ is now
    >available. The table of contents is at
    ><http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/06contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/j
    >une00/06contents.html. This month's issue
    >features three stories, nine 'In Brief' items, and a generous selection
    >of 'Clips and Pointers'. In addition, Jeremy Hylton, software architect
    >at the new company BeOpen PythonLabs, has provided a review of two
    >recent books on information design: Designing Web Usability: The
    >Practice of Simplicity, by Jakob Nielson, New Riders Publishing: 2000;
    >and Information Design, edited by Robert Jacobson, MIT Press, 1999. The
    >Featured Collection for the June issue is MEDLINEplus.
    >
    >D-Lib has mirror sites at the following locations:
    >
    >UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, Bath,
    >England
    ><http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/mirrored/lis-journals/dlib/>http://hosted.ukoln.
    >ac.uk/mirrored/lis-journals/dlib/
    >
    >The Australian National University Sunsite, Canberra, Australia
    ><http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib>http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/d
    >lib
    >
    >State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Gettingen,
    >Gettingen, Germany
    ><http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/>http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw
    >/d-lib/
    >
    >Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    ><http://www.dlib.org.ar>http://www.dlib.org.ar
    >
    >Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
    ><http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/>http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/
    >
    >(If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the June issue of
    >D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay
    >between the time of the magazine is released in the United States and
    >the time when the mirroring process has been completed.)
    >
    >The stories in the June 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine are:
    >
    >Value-Added Surrogates for Distributed Content: Establishing a Virtual
    >Control Zone
    >Sandra Payette and Carl Lagoze, Cornell University
    >
    >Lessons Learned: Digitization of Special Collections at The University
    >of Iowa Libraries
    >Carol Ann Hughes, Questia Media, Inc. (Formerly, University of Iowa)
    >
    >Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web: The Collaborative
    >Digital Reference Service (CDRS)
    >Diane Nester Kresh, Library of Congress
    >
    >The 'In Brief' items are:
    >
    >Report on the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000 Conference
    >Pamela Memmott, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
    >
    >Open Archives Initiative
    >Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
    >
    >First ACM/IEEE CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Announced
    >Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
    >
    >Gottingen Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital
    >Norbert Lossau, State- und University Library Goettingen
    >
    >Cooperation between the British Library and UK
    >Universities
    >Alicia Wise, Old Library, Kings College London
    >
    >A National Union Catalogue for the UK?
    >Peter Stubley, University of Sheffield
    >
    >OED Online for FE and HE Institutions
    >Susanna Lob, Oxford University Press
    >
    >New Open Access Resources from Bartleby.com
    >Megan Schade, Bartleby.com
    >
    >Naval Research Laboratory Press Release
    >Public Affairs Branch, Naval Research Laboratory
    >
    >Bonnie Wilson
    >Managing Editor
    >D-Lib Magazine
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