Re: Another Excellent Web Resource

[Jan Knoll <glk807@ONRAMP.NET>]

So everyone will know, some correspondence between Peter Milbury, owner of
this list and myself precedes this referral.  Please read and enjoy:  ===:)

At 01:41 AM 8/9/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Guy,
>
>If you feel that this is something that would be of interest, please feel
>free to post the message. If it gets out of hand, I am sure I will hear
>about it.  ;-)
>
>Peter Milbury
>Co-owner of LM_NET    pmilbury@ericir.syr.edu
>Serving 5,000+ in the Virtual School Library Media Community
>Librarian, Chico High School, Chico, CA
>A National Blue Ribbon School & California Distinguished School
>..............................................................
>+Peter Milbury's School Library & School Librarian Web Pages+
>          http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~pmilbury/lib.html
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 glk807@onramp.net wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>> I do check out these resources before and prior to making recommendations.
>> What I am not comfortable with is making recommendations over the list
>> without your permission.  If you want me to just post these referrals on
>> grounds that my research can be trusted, please say so.  I do check these
>> things out.  So would you clarify on this for my comfort zone.
>>
>> Regards
>> Guy Laurence
>>
>> At 11:45 AM 8/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Hello Guy,
>> >
>> >   I would suggest that any resources recommended to the group be
>> >thoroughly examined before doing so, especially those of a commercial
>> >nature. If you feel this is an excellent resource after making use of it,
>> >it would certainly be appropriate to recommend it to the members.
>> >
>> >Peter Milbury
>> >Co-owner of LM_NET    pmilbury@ericir.syr.edu
>> >Serving 5,000+ in the Virtual School Library Media Community
>> >Librarian, Chico High School, Chico, CA
>> >A National Blue Ribbon School & California Distinguished School
>> >..............................................................
>> >+Peter Milbury's School Library & School Librarian Web Pages+
>> >          http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~pmilbury/lib.html
>> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> >
>> >On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Guy Laurence wrote:
>> >
>> >> Peter,
>> >> I would like to make another post to the LM Net group referring them
to this
>> >> page:  http://www.newspage.com
>> >>
>> >> Now it does require a subscription and password to get in, but its
"free" so
>> >> you have to take a little time to register.
>> >>
>> >> Once registered, you have access to everything in print, books, CD roms,
>> >> software, shareware on any subject under the sun, and you can go with
their
>> >> links direct to publisher's home pages and software company's home
pages and
>> >> many many more.  With email links, you can get referrals to exactly the
>> >> company/titles you are researching.  Most of these companies will know the
>> >> Education versions and relative discounts and can give you price
quotes "on
>> >> line"
>> >>
>> >> For any librarian, or anyone else in education, a resource like this
should
>> >> speak for itself.

NOTE:  There are pay for subscription levels on the newspage and pay per
view articles on this newspage service.  You can subscribe to those if you
want to.  But I have found the way around this issue is to get from the
article the name of the company you are wanting to read about, and go to
their home page.  (You can use the search browser at http://www.onramp.net
if you do not have one. I recommend you bookmark this particular search
engine as it is indeed what it claims to be -- the fastest and most accurate
on the web.)

Once you get to their home page you can find the exact article or an email
address where you can request the article or at least, the same information.
Remember, automatic newsbrowsers pick these articles up.  Newspage uses
them.  Or they might have an agreement to charge for access to some
articles, but that does not mean the article is proprietary.  If it is, the
company posting the proprietary article may have a legal obligation to
control its distribution, but the company itself, who produced the article
in the first place, what we call the author:  They can and will tell you
direct if it is and if it is, how you can access it.

Anyway, the content on the newspage is a handy reference all good librarians
and other -- teachers, administrators and the like should know about and
make use of, in my honest opinion.  But you can't use it if you don't know
about it.
>> >>
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