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Current Cites is a monthly publication of the Library Technology Watch Program -- The Library, University of California at Berkeley. Over 30 journals in librarianship and computer technology are scanned for selected articles on optical disk technologies, computer networks and networking, information transfer, expert systems and artificial intelligence, electronic publishing, and hypermedia and multimedia. Brief annotations accompany most of the citations. ISSN: 1060-2356 To Subscribe: Current Cites is sent automatically to all subscribers to PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET and PACS-P@UHUPVM1.BITNET each month. Subscriptions to the electronic forma...

Current Cites Volume 13, no. 4, April 2002 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2002/cc02.13.4.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Shirl Kennedy, [5]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [6]Roy Tennant Arar, Yardena. [7]"Just Plug It In: Networking Via Power Circuits" [8]PC World (April 2002) (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,85003,00.asp) - The first iteration of powerline networking, using the HomePNA standard, was doomed by poor performance. However, the new HomePlug specificati...

Current Cites Volume 13, no. 3, March 2002 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2002/cc02.13.3.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Margaret Phillips, [8]Roy Tennant Allen, Maryellen. "A Case Study of the Usability Testing of the University of South Florida's Virtual Library Interface Design" [9]Online Information Review 26(1) (2002): 40-53. - This month's addition to the growing literature on usability in libraries concerns the trials and tribulations ...

Current Cites Volume 13, no. 2, February 2002 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2002/cc02.13.2.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Margaret Gross, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [7]Roy Tennant Borden, Mark [8]"Rip-Resistant CDs Do Not Compute" [9]Business 2.0 (January 2002) (http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,36644,FF.html) - They've succeeded in strangling Napster, and they've sued MusicCity and KaZaA. They're in the process of launching subscriptio...

Current Cites Volume 13, no. 1, January 2002 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2002/cc02.13.1.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Margaret Gross, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [7]Roy Tennant Anandarajan, Murugan, ed. "Internet Abuse in the Workplace" special section [8]Communications of the ACM 45(1) (January 2002). - Information wants to be free, but time is money. Almost all executives believe that workplace Internet use should be monitored, but a much smaller percentage have ...

Current Cites Volume 12, no. 12, December 2001 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2001/cc01.12.12.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Margaret Phillips, [8]Roy Tennant Carlson, Scott. [9]"The Deserted Library" [10]Chronicle of Higher Education 48(12) (November 11, 2001) (http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i12/12a03501.htm). - Our numbers are down: fewer students are coming to the library; circulation statistics are falling; reserve...

Current Cites Volume 12, no. 11, November 2001 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2001/cc01.12.11.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Margaret Gross, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [7]Roy Tennant Ciccone, Karen, editor. [8]"Virtual Reference: Today and Tomorrow [9]Information Technology & Libraries 20(3) (September 2001) (http://www.lita.org/ital/ital2003.html). - In this theme issue of ITAL, the emerging field of network-based library reference service is covered....

CURRENT CITES Volume 12, no. 10, October 2001 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2001/cc01.12.10.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Margaret Gross, [5]Terry Huwe, [6]Shirl Kennedy, [7]Leo Robert Klein, [8]Margaret Phillips, Jim Ronningen, [9]Roy Tennant Agre, Phil. [10]"Networking on the Network" (October 21, 2001) (http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html) - Agre, associate professor of information studies at UCLA, feels "few people have figured out how to use the Net p...

Current Cites Volume 12, no. 9, September 2001 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2001/cc01.12.9.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Margaret Gross, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Margaret Phillips, Jim Ronningen, [8]Roy Tennant [9]Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, August 2001: 52p (http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf). - Building on the foundation of the seminal report [10]...

Current Cites Volume 12, no. 8, August 2001 Edited by Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2001/cc01.12.8.html Contributors: Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Margaret Gross, Terry Huwe, Shirl Kennedy , Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adra, Eytan, and Huberman, Bernardo A. "A Market for Secrets." First Monday 6 (8) (August 6, 2001) (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_8/adar/). - The authors describe a new kind of electr...