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Friends,
On July 20 the University of Waterloo went "live" with its UW Electronic
Library. I could variously describe the UW Electronic Library as a
virtual library, a hypermedia information system, a web server, etc. but
perhaps I can "cut to the chase" by simply reposting the original notice
I sent yesterday to various news groups (including comp.infoserv.announce)
plus a number of home pages (including CERN, NCSA, Canadian Home Page,
and so on). Please see the end of this message for the original posting.
What I would like to draw your attention to is the cartographic materials
home page. If you are using Mosaic, Cello, Lynx (or other web client
software) then simply go to http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/. This is the
UW Electronic Library. Then cursor down to "By discipline" and click on
it. Then click on "Cartographic materials" and you will be connected to
a document that links to some very interesting Internet resources: USGS,
NASA, Natural Resources Canada, Xerox PARC Viewer, CIA maps (from Texas),
weather maps, earthquake maps, campus maps, and so on.
Alternatively you could open the following URL:
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~pinnell/cm.html and this will take you
directly to the cartographic home page. I would VERY much appreciate
comments, criticisms, suggestions about this page. What works, what
gives error messages, what significant resources have not been included,
and so on. I do plan to include a few more iconized graphics to make the
initial interface more user-friendly without unnecessarily slowing down
the initial loading process. Let me know if your institution has made
gopher or web campus maps available on the Internet; all I need is the
appropriate URL.
Let me not push the cartographic home page too much. The parent home
page, UW Electronic Library, has some very interesting features including:
web access to the Oxford English Dictionary, web access to our online
catalogue (called WebCat) in addition to telnet access (WATCAT), walking
tours of the three libraries which constitute the University of Waterloo
Library, electronic forms for ILL and reference assistance, and much
more. The UW Electronic Library is the creation of the UW UWInfo -
Internet Resources Committee of which I am a member (my email address
is: [log in to unmask]).
Here is the announcement I sent out to news groups and home pages:
******* ANNOUNCEMENT *******
The University of Waterloo Library at the University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario, announces its WorldWideWeb server and Electronic Library
hypermedia information system at http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/. This web,
ftp, telnet, and gopher service is intended to address some of the teaching
and research informational needs of students, faculty, and staff at the
University of Waterloo by providing them with access to a wide range of
electronic source materials.
The Electronic Library includes access to Internet resources organized by
discipline, walking tours of the libraries at the University of Waterloo,
web interface to the Library's online catalogue, electronic forms for ILL
and reference assistance, links to several web search engines, and more.
UW Library staff are actively involved in the construction of this
information system and would welcome comments and suggestions.
Comments may be sent to any one of the following UW Library Internet
Resources Committee members:
Margaret Aquan-Yuen [log in to unmask]
Ian Goldberg [log in to unmask]
Linda Hastings [log in to unmask]
Larry Helfand [log in to unmask]
Christine Jewell (chair) [log in to unmask]
Esther Millar [log in to unmask]
Bill Oldfield [log in to unmask]
Jim Parrott [log in to unmask]
Richard Pinnell [log in to unmask]
Marina Wan [log in to unmask]
R. Pinnell
94.07.20
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