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Susan Calcari's Home Page; Susan Calcari;Manager, Net Scout Services;Computer Sciences Department;University of Wisconsin - Madison;scal@cs.wisc.edu;My title is Internet Scout, and I manage Net Scout Services from the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scout;Services is a project of the InterNIC;and is supported by the National Science;Foundation. Net Scout Services supports Internet users in the;higher-education community by providing timely information about the best;resources and tools on the Internet. Our goal is to help researchers and;educators use the Internet effectively in their work. Each week we filter;hundreds of items about the Internet, edit and organize the most;important, and present the information in multiple usable formats.; Services include the Scout Report, the Scout Toolkit, Net-happenings, and coming soon;the Scout Sprouts Report, a newsletter written by kids for kids.;Over 35,000 people receive the Scout Report each week via email, and;thousands more read it on the Web. The Scout Report is an annotated;listing of the best new and newly discovered Internet resources and tools,;and it is the only publication of its kind devoted to the research and;education community. The Scout Report is very selective in the items;included in each issue. Over 10,000 people receive Net-happenings;postings every weekday, and again, thousands more read it via the Web or;the newsgroup each day. See the Net Scout Services page for more;information on these and other services.; Professional Background; I have been involved in nation-wide Internet projects since 1989 when;I joined Merit, Inc., in Ann Arbor, the organization that managed the;NSFNET backbone project from 1987-1995. I worked in the Information;Services division of the project, and spent three years speaking to;national and international higher-education audiences about the Internet;and its resources. I also developed and produced the Merit Network Seminar;Series, the first national seminar series focused on the needs of Internet;end-users.; Later I became the Director of Network Information Services for;CERFnet, a respected Internet provider based in San Diego. While there I;co-wrote the proposal which resulted in the award of part of the InterNIC;project under a 5 year cooperative agreement with the National Science;Foundation (NSF). In the third year of the agreement, NSF terminated the;portion of the InterNIC based in San Diego, but chose to continue the work;of the Internet Scout. At that time I elected to relocate to Wisconsin and;requested that NSF approve the relocation of the Scout project to the;Computer Sciences department at UW - Madison, to which they heartily;agreed.; Future Plans for Scout Services;At this time the Scout Services staff includes Jack Solock, Special;Librarian, and myself. During May the project will expand with the;addition of 2 FTE, including an open System;Administrator position and an open Special;Librarian position. On June 6 Matthew Livesey will join the staff as a;Project Assistant. Goals for the new staff will include expansion of the;Scout Toolkit and the addition of discipline-specific services, such as;Scout Reports and Web pages devoted to specific areas of study.;During 1996 Scout Services will also branch into one or more research;areas in collaboration with InterNIC Support Services and with groups at;UW-Madison and other U.S. campuses. Potential research topics include;network information discovery and retrieval (NIDR), and;discipline-oriented information gathering and publication. Depending on;the nature of the research, additional staff will be hired and will;include;computer science researchers at the graduate and undergraduate levels.; For More Information; Visit our Web site to find out more about Scout Services or to join any of;our mailing lists. If;you are interested in applying for any of our open positions, see the;online job descriptions for the System;Administrator or Special Librarian and send a;resume and a writing sample to the address below. Or feel free to contact;me via telephone or email.;Susan Calcari;Internet Scout;Computer Sciences Department;University of Wisconsin - Madison;1210 W. Dayton Street Rm. 3379;Madison, WI 53706;scal@cs.wisc.edu; 608.265.8042;