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- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 18:14:04 EDT
- Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.BITNET>
- Sender: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.BITNET>
- From: Richard Smith <smithr@clp2.clpgh.org>
- Subject: #8 Bookmark and a Site
-
- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
-
- Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
-
- GOPHER SERVER AND BOOKMARK
-
- Let's look at a Gopher server. Go to the screen "All the Gopher
- Servers in the World."
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- All the Gopher Servers in the World
-
- --> 1. Search Gopherspace using Veronica/
- 2. ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education)/
- 3. ACM SIGGRAPH/
- 4. ACTLab (UT Austin, RTF Dept)/
- 5. AREA Science Park, Trieste, (IT)/
- 6. Academic Position Network/
- 7. Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Slovakia)/
- 8. Alamo Community College District/
- 9. Albert Einstein College of Medicine/
- 10. American Mathematical Society /
- 11. American Physiological Society/
- 12. Anesthesiology Gopher /
- 13. Appalachian State University (experimental gopher)/
- 14. Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server/
- 15. Arabidopsis Research Companion, Mass Gen Hospital/Harvard/
- 16. Arizona State University Gopher/
- 17. Armadillo, the Texas Studies Gopher/
- 18. AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center)/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/44
-
- ********
-
- Hundreds of servers are available. We'll go to the server running
- information from the Chronicle of Higher Education, it is number
- two in this listing (2. ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher
- Education)/.) Selecting number two gives us this screen:
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education)
-
- --> 1. NEW IN "ACADEME THIS WEEK".
- 2. INFORMATION from the August 25 Chronicle: a Guide/
- 3. EVENTS IN ACADEME: August 24 to September 6/
- 4. BEST-SELLING BOOKS on campuses.
- 5. JOB OPENINGS in Academe from the August 11 Chronicle/
- 6. ABOUT THE CHRONICLE: subscriptions, advertising.
- 7. ABOUT "ACADEME THIS WEEK": Search tips and more/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
-
- ********
-
- This screen gives us information about the Gopher server "Academe
- This Week." The Gopher items with a period at the end are text
- files. You may want to explore number seven which gives
- information about the server. I'm unemployed and looking for a new
- position, so I'm curious about the Gopher item that is a directory
- "Job Openings in Academe." We want to select item number 4--Job
- openings. The screen looks like this:
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- JOB OPENINGS in Academe from the August 11 Chronicle
-
- --> 1. SEARCH using The Chronicle's list of job titles/
- 2. SEARCH using any word or words of your choosing/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
-
- ********
-
- This one page information screen gives us two options. The second
- option is a directory that, when selected, will provide you with
- keyword searching of job titles in the Chronicle's job database.
- I'll take the first option, searching using the Chronicle's list of
- job titles. The screen looks like this:
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- SEARCH using The Chronicle's list of job titles
-
- --> 1. Faculty and research positions/
- 2. Administrative positions/
- 3. Executive positions/
- 4. Positions outside Academe/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
-
- ********
-
- More options. These are all directory items, so I'll retrieve
- additional directories from here. I'll select number 2,
- "Administrative positions."
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Administrative positions
-
- 1. Admissions and registrars' offices/
- 2. Athletics/
- 3. Business and financial affairs/
- 4. Conference and events administration/
- 5. Computer services/
- 6. Counseling/
- 7. Development and fund raising/
- 8. Educational administration/
- 9. Extension services/
- 10. Facilities management/
- 11. Financial aid/
- 12. Health and medical-service administration/
- 13. Human-resources administration/
- 14. Grants administration/
- 15. Institutional research/
- 16. International programs/
- 17. Legal counsel/
- --> 18. Library administration/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2
- ********
-
- This is the first of two pages listing administrative positions.
- I have a masters degree in Library and Information Science from the
- University of Pittsburgh, so I'll select the jobs listed under
- "Library administration" to see what I can see.
-
- ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
-
-
- Library administration
-
-
-
- 1. Acquisitions/Collection Mgmt -- Wake Forest University.
- 2. Assistant Director -- Library Computing Systems --.
- --> 3. Assoc. Director of the Library -- Nicholls State -- LA.
- 4. Dean of Libraries -- Eastern Washington University.
- 5. Engineering Librarians -- The Johns Hopkins University.
- 6. Executive Director -- SOLINET -- GA.
- 7. Head-Information and Online Services -- U of.
- 8. Librarian -- Bard College -- NY.
- 9. Librarian -- St. Louis University -- MO.
- 10. Library -- Delta State University -- MS.
- 11. Library -- Georgia State University -- GA.
- 12. Library -- Kenyon College -- OH.
- 13. Library -- Law -- Emory University -- GA.
- 14. Library -- Law -- U of South Carolina, Columbia -- SC.
- 15. Library -- Louisiana State U-Baton Rouge -- LA.
- 16. Library -- Ohio State University -- OH.
- 17. Library -- SUNY at Albany -- NY.
- 18. Library -- Southeastern Louisiana University -- LA.
-
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2
-
- ********
-
- I may be in luck! There are two pages of library administrative
- positions. Note that unlike previous screens all items have a
- period at the end instead of a slash. This means that these Gopher
- items are text files instead of directories. I'll take a look at
- one of the positions--here's one for Nicholls State University down
- in Louisiana.
-
- ********
-
-
-
-
- Position: Assoc. Director of the Library
-
- Institution: Nicholls State University
-
- Location: Louisiana
-
- *****************************************************************
-
- NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY
-
-
-
- Associate Director of the Library
-
-
-
- Nicholls State University is searching for an Associate
- Director of the Library. Specific responsibilities include:
- developing and allocating significant portions of the library
- operations budget; planning and providing for the continued
- implementation of library automation, managing the
- recruitment, training, evaluation and development of library
- personnel; consulting faculty, administrators, and other
- university personnel to facilitate programs; managing the
- library's facilities. Contributions as a professional and as a
- member of the university are required. The associate director
-
- /tmp/gopheAAAa14775
-
- ********
-
- That's great! I've found the position listings from the Chronicle
- of Higher Education on this server, and this is an extremely
- valuable service for those of us looking for work in academia. I
- can check into the server from home, office, or school using the
- Internet and Gopher.
-
- (Remember the Gopher prompt changes depending on your client and
- system.)
-
-
- The position description takes more than one screen, so I press the
- spacebar to continue reading the information. (I could use the
- letter "q" to quit if I'm not interested in this job description.)
-
- ********
-
- with sensitivity to staff at all levels are essential for
- success in this position.
- Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience and
- qualifications. Twelve month administrative position. Deadline
- for initial review: February 15, 1994. Applications will be
- accepted until position is filled.
-
- Send letter of application, resume, and three references to:
- Director of the Library, Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls
- State University, P.O. Box 2028, Thibodaux, Louisiana 70310.
- Nicholls State University is an equal educational institution,
-
- affirmative action employer.
-
-
- From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 22, 1993
-
- Categories: Library administration, Administrative Positions.
-
-
-
- *****************************************************************
-
- Press <RETURN> to continue, <m> to mail, <s> to save, or <p> to
- print:
-
- ********
-
- After reading the information, I'm given three options. I can e-
- mail the item back to my machine or to a friend if I think someone
- else would be interested in this job. I can save this item to a
- file or I can print it out. I'm not sure if my Gopher client is
- set up to print, so I'll save it as a file.
-
- ********
-
- +--------------------------------------------------------------+
- |
- |
- | Save in file: Assoc. -Director-of-the-Library Nicholls LA
- |
- | Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter]
- |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Saving File...
-
-
- ********
-
- I can give the file a new name if I want, I can cancel the process
- by entering ^G--that's control G, (hold down the ctrl key and hit
- the letter "G"), or I can press enter and accept the current name
- of the item as a file name.
-
- Well that's one position to look into, and I will probably look at
- several others. If you read the information I showed you earlier
- about this server, you will find that the job listings are updated
- weekly at noon EST on Tuesday. That means I'll want to check on
- this server once a week.
-
- That's a problem. Although getting around Gopher is pretty simple,
- it can become a royal pain once you know where you are going.
- Remember, I had to go through three screens to get to "All the
- Gopher Servers in the World" and then five screens to get to the
- actual list of jobs.
-
- Fortunately, the Gopher developers have a solution to my problem--
- Bookmarks. Almost anywhere in "Gopherspace" I can add a gopher
- item to my personal bookmark list creating my own private Gopher
- menu. In this example, I want to go up a screen by hitting the
- letter "u" (which will take me back to the screen with "Library
- administration" listed), and I will add that directory listing to
- my bookmark by hitting the letter "a" to add the item.
-
- (If you forget how to add to your bookmark or move up a screen,
- remember to hit the "?" key for quick help.)
-
- Hitting the letter "a" gives me options to change the title of the
- item, cancel the process, or add the item to my bookmark list.
-
- ********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Administrative positions
-
- 1. Admissions and registrars' offices/
- 2. Athletics/
- 3. Business and financial affairs/
- 4. Computer services/
- +---------------------------------------------------------+
- |
- |
- | Name for this bookmark? Library administration
- |
- | [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter]
- |
- |
- +--------------------------------------------------------+
- 12. Human-resources administration/
- 13. Grants administration/
- 14. Institutional research/
- 15. International programs/
- 16. Legal counsel/
- --> 17. Library administration/
- 18. Public affairs/
-
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2
-
- ********
-
- I accept the name as is by pressing the enter key--I've now added
- the directory "Library administration" to my personal bookmark
- list. When I want to look at the Chronicle of Higher Education's
- "Library administration" job listings from anywhere in Gopherspace,
- all I need do is hit the letter "v" for view, and my bookmark menu
- will appear. Here is how it looks:
-
- ********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Bookmarks
-
- --> 1. Library administration/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
-
- ********
-
- Pretty barren. Don't worry though, we'll be adding to our bookmark
- menu throughout this course.
-
-
- Richard J. Smith
- smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
- The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
-
-
- Jim Gerland
- gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology
- Manager, Network User Support Services
-