Re: LM_NET Digest - 2 Sep 1996

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> There are 5 messages totalling 244 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
>
>   1. CD-ROM tower vs load it on the hard drive
>   2. Info Skills Continuum
>   3. LOST LM_NET INFORMATION
>   4. Olympic websites
>   5. new job/first week
>
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> Date:    Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:35:47 -0700
> From:    Jean Townes <townesj@PEAK.ORG>
> Subject: CD-ROM tower vs load it on the hard drive
>
> I am working out what I want to put into a funding proposal.  I know that
> I would like to make an electronic encyclopedia available to the
> classrooms through our new file server.  I am leaning towards adding a
> dedicated hard drive to the server and loading the encyclopedia on it,
> rather than going through a tower.  I don't foresee  that I'll be able to
>  scare up the money to put very many additional CD-ROM resources on the
>  network.  What are recommendations for the size of the hard drive?
>  What else will I need to make this work?
>
> Any additional words of wisdom or advice about how best to make this happen?
>
>
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> Jean Townes, Media Specialist                  townesj@PEAK.ORG
> Waverly Elementary School                      Phone: 503-967-4617
> Greater Albany Public Schools
> 425 Columbus
> Albany, Or 97321
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>
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>
> Date:    Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:49:51 -0400
> From:    Rob Darrow <Robdarrow@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Info Skills Continuum
>
> -------Holly Wolf, Macedon Elementary School, wolfh@vivanet.com wrote:
> >In short, would any of you agree with me that writing a good =
> >library/information skills curriculum is more difficult than writing a =
> >good curriculum in (say) math?
>  --------------------------
> It seems that many of us are doing the same type of curriculum
> work...establishing Information Literacy Skills curriculum, which are a
> combination of "old" Library, Information and Technology skills.   Our LMTs
> spent three days this summer realigning our skills continuum to better meet
> our needs.   We decided to use the Big 6 Framework as our guide, which worked
> very well.  There must be a place on the web (maybe ERIC) where we could all
> put our Info Skills continuums in an effort to establish universal skills
> needed for our citizens of the 21st century and share what many have already
> accomplished!!
> Robdarrow@aol.com -- LMT, Alta Sierra Intermediate, Clovis, CA
>
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>
> Date:    Mon, 2 Sep 1996 15:16:06 +1000
> From:    Govett <govett@REAL.COM.AU>
> Subject: LOST LM_NET INFORMATION
>
> Hi all
>
>
> Can anybody help me by sending me the information that you get when you join
> LM_NET because my computer crashed yeaterday and I lost all of my files.
> Unfortunately I do not have a copy of that page. Thanks.
>
>
>
> Sally Govett
> Student (teacher librarian)
> University of Technology
> Sydney Australia
>
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>
> Date:    Mon, 2 Sep 1996 01:05:03 -0500
> From:    Kay Ellis <tcb027@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>
> Subject: Olympic websites
>
> Loads of Links:
> Roselle's It's ATLANTA!
> ww2.remaxhq.com/dave/
>
> Drysdale's The 1996 Summer Olympic Games
> www.mindspring.com/~drysdale/olympics.htm
>
>
> Media Sites:
> Atlanta Games
> www.atlangagames.com
>
> NBC
> www.olympic.nbc.com
>
> SI Online
> www.pathfinder.com/si/athens/olyhome.html
>
> USA Today Latest Olympic News
> www.usatoday.com/olympics/oly.htm
>
> CNN--Olympics
> www.cnn.com/SPORTS/OLYMPICS/index.html
>
> ESPNET SportsZone--Olympics
> espnet.sportszone.com/editors/atlanta96/index.html
>
> NandO Times Olympics Features
> www4.nando.net/newsroom/sports/oth/1995/oth/oly/feat/oly.html
>
> SportsNetwork Olympics Page
> www.sportsnetwork.com/bo/bo.html
>
>
> Cool video:
> Cams Across Atlanta
> www.atlantagames.com/cams/
>
> Atlanta Games--Virtual Atlanta
> www.atlantagames.com/vrml/vratl1.htm
>
> AtlantaVR
> www.atlantavr.com/
>
> CityCam
> vista.homecom.com/webcam/cam2.html
>
>
> History & Reference:
> AAF Olympic Games Primer
> www.aafla.com/pubs/olyprim2.htm
>
> Olympic Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
> www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/1996-olympics-faq/faq.html
>
> The First Olympic Games--Athens--1896
> www.wam.umd.edu/~yiannis/
>
>
> Trivia:
> Olympic Trivia
> jax.jaxnet.com/~len/1qolym.htm
>
> Atlanta Magazine--Olympics--Believe It or Not
> atlantamag.atlanta.com/atlf4.html
>
>
> Official Organizations:
> 1996 Centennial Olympic Games
> www.atlanta.olympic.org/
>
> The Olympic Movement
> www.olympic.org/
>
> Guide to 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games
> www.paralympic.org/
>
> Sydney 2000
> www.sydney.olympic.org/
>
>
> Specific Sports:
> International Yacht Racing Union
> www.sailing.org
>
> International Soccer Results & Club Homepages
> www2.webbernet.net/~bob/international.html
>
> USA Gymnastics
> www/usa-gymnastics.org/usag/
>
> USATF (Track & Field)
> www.usarf.org/
>
> Volleyball WorldWide
> www.volleyball.org/index.html
>
>
> Corporate Sites:
> AT&T 1996 Olympic Games Site
> www.olympic.att.com/
>
> Coca-Cola Company
> www.cocacola.com/olympics/
>
> Reebok's Track & Field Stars
> planetreebok.com/bios.html
>
> Visa
> 204.71.0.243/cgibin/vee/se/olympics/main.html?2+0
>
>
> Helpful Information:
> INTELLiCast--Atlanta Weather
> www.intellicast.com/weather/atl/
>
> CityNet's Georgia Links
> www.city.net/countries/unites_states/georgia/
>
> Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
> www.itsmarta.com
>
>
> Offbeat:
> Hack the Olympics!
> montag33.residence.gatech.edu/~decius/olympics.html
>
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>
> Date:    Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:53:54 -0700
> From:    "R. Jean Gustafson" <gustafsj@DESTINY.ESD105.WEDNET.EDU>
> Subject: Re: new job/first week
>
> So I am assumming that the library is automated and then you have LOTS of
> help from aides or volunteers?  You also probably have an extended
> contract so that you can come in before school starts to get everything
> new thats come in over the the last three months processed and put away.
> For all of the librarians out there that still aren't automated, don't
> have any help and have several thousand or hundred dollars worth of new
> stuff to put away.  I say let your teachers and your administration know
> what you are doing every second that you aren't open yet.  Let them see
> you maddly zooming around helping the teachers get their rooms and summer
> fantastic ideas off the ground as you are putting away three months of
> magazines, getting all of those new items processed and the books shelf
> ready so that you are able to open the library.
> I was given the first week of school to get the major portion of the piles
> whittled down.  I didn't have any paid library assistants.  I had as many
> students as I could beg borrow or steal from other teacher assistant
> positions.  (They received full credit for working in the library)  I had
> not one, but two libraries to get up and running as was not automated.
> While I realize she didn't say her situation, I believe that before we
> give her false information we should find out what is the situation to
> better assist any NEW librarian to function.
> I just switched from that position to a new one.  I volunteered to go back
> to my old school and explain and answer any questions the new person
> should have.  I offered to be a mentor and to help her in any way that I
> could.  Some of what I had to explain to her she wasn't taught even during
> the time she took to receive her masters.  Not everybody is automated!  I
> get so tired of the library schools teaching just to that system.  After
> four hours I think she was running on system overload, so I gave her my
> e-mail address and she has my home phone number.  She has nine pages of
> notes and I gave her the name of one of the students that I trained to
> help her.  I bet she is THANKFUL that she doesn't have to be ready to open
> on the first day of school with a full schedule of classes.
>
> R. Jean Gustafson
> Librarian Extraodinaire
> Lince Intermediate School
> Selah, WA. 98942
>
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