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I deleted the message but I seem to remember someone was doing something with dinosaurs...here is a website that might complement a student activity if you have Internet access. Please be gentle if this is the wrong list or not information you can't use. It is late on a Friday and I am afraid my mind is in a weekend mode. Dianne Parham San Diego Public Library (from the SCOUT REPORT) 13. Internet Public Library Exhibit Hall--Dinosaurs [QuickTimeVR] http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/dino/ IPL Exhibit Hall http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/ The Internet Public Library has recently made available this exhibit, provided by the Exhibit Museum at the University of Michigan, and created as a student project of the School of Information at the same university. This extremely graphics-intensive site contains QuickTimeVR movies of sauropods, perissodactyls, and artiodactyls, along with explanatory text. Users can move around in the galleries, and zoom in and out. The exhibit also contains a multi-node movie, which incorporates all three galleries in one movie, allowing the user to move from one gallery to another. A special QuickTime plug-in is needed for this movie, and is pointed to from the site. This exhibit, like the Oriental Institute Virtual Museum (discussed in the July 19, 1996 issue of the Scout Report) gives us a primitive, yet exciting glimpse of what the virtual museum of the future might look like. The Dinosaur Exhibit joins a number of other interesting and eclectic exhibits in the IPL Exhibit Hall. [JS] f