new resource for Internet guides

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

From: lou () engin umich edu (Lou Rosenfeld)
Subject: new resource for Internet guides
Date: 3 Sep 1993 19:19:13 GMT


The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource 
Guides


The University of Michigan's University Library and School 
of Information and Library Studies are sponsoring a new 
Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides. 
The goals of the Clearinghouse are to serve as a common 
location for the many subject-oriented guides now produced 
by citizens of the Internet, and to increase use of these 
guides by providing multiple means of Internet access to them. 
Current access tools are anonymous FTP and Gopher (see below 
for further information).


CURRENTLY AVAILABLE GUIDES include such Internet classics as
Not Just Cows (W. Drew) and The Electric Mystic's Guide to 
the Internet (M. Strangelove), as well as guides produced by 
information and library studies students at the University of 
Michigan.  We will attempt to make available all 
subject-oriented Internet resource guides currently published 
via the Internet.  The guides have been WAIS-indexed (via
Gopher) for searching.


GUIDE CREATORS:  If you are creating a guide to the Internet's 
resources in a particular subject, please consider making it 
available via the Clearinghouse. Information about how to do 
this is available from the Clearinghouse (via FTP and Gopher).


NET TRAINERS may find these guides useful in tailoring 
Internet workshops to the interests of specific audiences.


SYSTEMS BUILDERS and LIBRARIANS may find these guides serve 
as useful "blueprints" for designing subject-oriented Internet 
systems (e.g. branches in Gopher servers).


INTERNET USERS may find these guides useful for narrowing 
down the number of resources to investigate; some guides 
also provide quality assessments of the resources that the 
Internet offers.


ACCESSING THE CLEARINGHOUSE:


anonymous FTP:
host:  una.hh.lib.umich.edu
path:  /inetdirs


Gopher:
via U. Minnesota list of gophers
menu:  North America/USA/Michigan


Gopher .link file:
Name=Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource 
Guides (UMich)
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/inetdirs
Host=una.hh.lib.umich.edu


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Questions and comments are welcome; please contact Louis
Rosenfeld (lou () umich edu).