| FEATURES
|
Building Your
Database and Mounting It on the Web: A Model You Can Follow
In order to provide
online access to United Nations Centre for Regional Development publications,
this author traveled to Japan to acquire the materials, prepared a database,
and published a Web site. Here is his "blueprint" for making the complex
collection freely available.
by Christopher C.
Brown
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Page 10 |
Creating a Global
Information Portal: Our 9-Month Odyssey
These corporate librarians
decided to build an information portal for their company's intranet, and
handled every aspect from conception to launch and maintenance. They discovered
that creating your own site requires time, attention, and patience--the
kind of commitment any newborn would demand.
by Sharon Srodin
and June Strupczewski
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Page 14 |
Sowing
an Information Garden: Gemini's Home-Grown Catalog![[Full Text]](../ft.gif)
What home-grown project
could be bigger than creating your own customized OPAC? If you think you
need a big staff and big money to do it, think again. This article from
an observatory library in Hawaii illustrates how two people grew their
own online catalog from seed.
by Ruth Kneale and
Colin Aspin
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Page 20 |
How I Built
a Failure-Resistant Web Server for Free
The philosophy behind
building a failover Web server is simple: In the event that your primary
server fails, the secondary server takes over until the original is back
in place. Here's how you can build a backup server—like "plato," the server
this author created—for free.
by Christopher Jacoby
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Page 24 |
| COLUMNS
|
The
View from the Top Left Corner
Board Meeting Becomes Love Fest for
First Amendment
by Michael Schuyler
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Page 30 |
Digital
Librarianship
Enhancements of Systems and Products
with Web Resources
by Péter Jacsó
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Page 33 |
Online
Treasures
Can You Build
It? Yes You Can!
by Janet L. Balas
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Page 36 |
Techman's
TechPage
Create Your Own 'Quick-and-Dirty'
Handouts
by D. Scott Brandt
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Page 39 |
| DEPARTMENTS
|
Editor's
Notes
A Tribute to
the Do-It-Yourself Crowd
by Kathy Dempsey
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Page 6 |
| Newsline |
Page 8 |
| People &
Places |
Page 42 |
| SPECIAL
SECTIONS
|
| How to Contribute
to CIL 2002 |
|
| ADVERTISING
|
| Library
Tech Connection [PDF]
|
Page 52 |
| Index
to Advertisers
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Page 53 |
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