----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Happy New Year fellow MAPS-Lers: Vigdor Schriebman provides another wonderful service for the government information community described below. It is easy to access and use. Aimee [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________________________ _ Dear Friends, As recreation during this holiday season I have been constructing a "digital library" of important public policy papers that are providing the structure for the emerging Information Age. The library is organized around the legislative committee jurisdictions where public policy is enacted. This includes four directories at present: 1) Public Information; 2) Information Resources Management; 3) Information Infrastructure; and 4) Telecommunications Infrastructure. You will notice that there is no synthesis between this legislative organization and the major purposes to be served, to which our efforts are directed: 1) the Depository Library Program; 2) the National Research and Education Netowrk; and 3) the National Information Infrastructure. The library is constructed at the inforM (Information for Maryland) system. Of immediate interest to all who will receive this message are the two reports that we posted this day concerning the JCP, GPO, and DLP. They can be viewed and retrieved at either CapAccess, "All the Gopher Servers of the World," or by telnet inforM.umd.edu /Educational_Resources/Computers_and_Society/Public_Information. Happy New Year to each of you. Vigdor