Each month we monitor and select from a number of information technology and instruction technology sources that come to our attention and provide brief notes for electronic dissemination to college and university educators. For those without gopher, Wired has an infobot that will allow you to retrieve articles by email. Although many educators are jumping aboard the Internet resources bandwagon, she cautions that we are, for the most part, still using experimental software to access resources that lack the organization, authentication, and permanency that we find in traditional libraries. Closing the library at this time, therefore, is not advisable. The Scholar listserv, sponsored by Queens College Foundation, City University of New York, is an online listserv providing periodic information for text analysis and natural language applications.
Monthly editions contain book notes, articles, software reviews, and job announcements.
A Pen-Based Computer for Chinese Update of Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text Subscribers receive a table of contents listing the items in the latest release of Scholar along with instructions for retrieving them by email. The articles can also be retrieved by Gopher. Electronic dissemination of information and multimedia applications are making copyright a hot issue for users and publishers. One disturbing development is some publishers' use of contract law to circumvent the fair use provisions of current U.S. copyright law. The references cover copyright law as it relates to software and new media technologies, as well as general guides to U.S. copyright law and pointers to electronic resources covering copyright.