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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:59:53 -0500 library (Middle School/ High School level) and have been pushing to have the new computer lab attached (possibly adjoining room with plexiglass window/wall) to the library when we begin our much-needed expansion. I have found that having computers in the library is a good thing - it enables students to begin word-processing their papers during the time a class has scheduled into the library for research time. Of course I am fortunate enough to be on flexible scheduling here - no assigned classes; teachers book time for particular projects and assume I will be in on the planning of those projects. I also consider the Internet to be part of my "domain"; it's a research tool, after all. I had never used it when the T1 line came in last September, yet the day after it was installed teachers started coming to ME to ask how they could use it... let me tell you I ran out and bought four books and spent many many hours learning my way around cyberspace in the next few weeks! We happen to have lots of access here - a T1 line with 50 available logins at any time in our district, which is very small. There are few problems with kids logging on to unsavory sites, however, because we have bought into a provider called SurfWatch, which denies access to any site containing certain language. It's not a perfect system - some stuff gets through, and sometimes we are blocked from sites which are legitimate, but we are able to work with SurfWatch and customize our screens when this happens. But I will admit - the network workstations do take up a lot of my time! I am constantly answering questions about programs and fielding printing problems, etc. If I were all alone here (I have an assistant) I might lose my mind! But I have to say that on the whole, having an arm of the local area network in here has been a plus and not a minus, for me, at least. For someone else, this may not be the case. To the LM_Netter who is opposed to havin a lab in the library, there is always a way to legitimately argue the point. Will it be staffed or will the librarian have to man the lab? - this might present a contractual basis for argument. If this doesn't work, perhaps the librarian might draw up a document detailing the services currently provided to students and staff and then (with great regrets) outline to the rest of the staff ( and perhaps parents) those services that he or she will no longer be able to provide, given the added demands of the lab. Robin Dorsty, Librarian Pierson High School Sag Harbor NY 11963 shdorsro@sagharbor.k12.ny.us =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST * NOTE: Please allow time for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= From: Viviane Lampach <lampach@VOYAGER.BXSCIENCE.EDU> Subject: CD Roms for biology, medicine and physics I am asking this for a colleague who is a libraian at another magnet science high school. Can anyone recommend any CD Rom titles in the ares of biology, physics and medicine.TIA Viviane J. Lampach, Librarian The Bronx H.S. of Science 75 W. 205th Street The Bronx, New York 10468 (718)817-7730 or (718)817-7700 ext.162 lampach@voyager.bxscience.edu "Home of 5 Nobel Laureates" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST * NOTE: Please allow time for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=