For users with gopher clients that support bookmarks, these tools can then be set to make subsequent access to the ALA gopher quick and easy. Free gopher software can be secured for users without a gopher client by anonymous FTP to boombox.micro.umn.edu. This directory contains a number of Gopher clients which operate on several different platforms. A demonstration on the ALA gopher will take place in the Exhibits Area during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami Beach, June 25-28. Questions on using gopher software or accessing the University of Illinois at Chicago's Gopher are best handled by Internet users' local system administrators.
Gopher is software that allows document retrieval using menus.
The Internet is the world's largest computer network linking computers across the world. The jury selection process for the 1995 Library Building Awards Program has been reopened. Nominations for jurors are being sought by the BES Library Building Awards Committee. Nominations for the ALA jurors will be considered by the LAMA BES Library Building Awards Committee during the 1994 Annual Conference in Miami, where the committee will submit its recommendations to the BES Executive Committee. The BES Executive Committee, in turn, will forward an approved slate of nominees to the LAMA president, who will make official appointments to the joint AIA-ALA awards jury by July 1, 1994.