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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:23:46 EDT
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- From: Diane Kovacs <DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu>
- Subject: Examples of questions answered via Internet
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- The questions I've answered using Internet resources:
- This afternoon: Latest weather report for Alaska with details.
- (used Hytelnet to connect to UofMi Weather Bulletin Service)
- I'm going to Bowling Green U this afternoon...do they have
- these books/journals we don't have? (telnetted to BGU)
- In past:
- I need Gaelic Language tapes. (after exhausting print directories and
- Internet library access to other libraries within driving distance and
- other sources...I searched the archives of Gaelic-L@IRLEARN for the
- keywords "learning" and "audio" to discover that there were lots of
- Gaelic tapes but they all had Gaelic titles...telnetted to Cleveland
- Public and found that they own almost all of those recommended by
- Gaelic-L participants).
-
- Has anyone done research on French or Spanish translation in journalism
- instruction? (after searching through MLA on CD, Humanities Index, etc. I
- sent an e-mail message to JOURNET@QUCDN. The researcher received many messages
- that clarified that no one knew of any but would be very interested to hear mor
- about it. The researcher ended up writing an article on the topic).
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- There have been many times that connecting to an Internet library has solved
- a bibliographic verification problem. Many times I've searched the holdings
- of an Internet library to verify that they own something so that the researcher
- could travel there in confidence.
-
- I've used Internet libraries to identify books in a subject area...eg.,
- University of California libraries have a larger ethnmusicology collection
- I search there by subject and generate a bibliography for graduate students
- to Interlibrary Loan from. In foreign languages we've searched German
- and Swiss Libraries to identify needed titles that were not listed in
- easily retrievable form from a U.S. library.
-
- I've introduced many researchers (faculty and grad students) to general
- e-mail based conferences in an area in which they are interested. This
- has proven valuable for several of them as an access point to current informati
- on and focused discussions.
-
- There are lots lots more...but I'm running out of clear memory.
- Cheers!
- Di
- dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu
-