From jwarren@well.sf.ca.us Mon Feb 14 22:23:13 1994 Received: from well.sf.ca.us (jwarren@well.sf.ca.us [198.93.4.10]) by eff.org (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id WAA25261; Mon, 14 Feb 1994 22:23:11 -0500 Received: from localhost (jwarren@localhost) by well.sf.ca.us (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA06857; Mon, 14 Feb 1994 17:53:39 -0800 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 17:53:39 -0800 From: Jim Warren Message-Id: <199402150153.RAA06857@well.sf.ca.us> To: nobody@well.sf.ca.us Subject: GovAccess#13: Legislat.gopher; Privitized libraries; Online White Haus Status: RO Feb.13, 1994 "Speech and expressive action that is supported by a majority of the population does not need protection. ... The First Amendment protects the unpopular." -- Robert J. Wagman [from Steven Knowlton's signature-msg] === ANOTHER GOPHER SITE FOR FREE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE & STATUTE INFORMATION Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 15:31:31 -0800 [somewhat reformatted, here. --jim] To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu Subject: California bills and statutes University of California librarians have just received this information about how to easily access California legislative material through the gopher at UC Santa Cruz. -------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:28:05 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Watkins Subject: CA Legislative Info on InfoSlug I have just finished the succesful conversion of the Gopher software to enable direct links to the California Legislative Information files that are now publicly available on the Internet by mandate of Assembly Bill 1624. Included are the state Constitution, Senate and Assembly Bills, the California Code and Statutes, and miscellaneous directories and guides to the legislative process and the Legislature. I have added these resources to the "Guide to Government--U.S., State and Local" in InfoSlug, which may be located in several sections within the main menu: The Community The Library -> Electronic Reference Books The Researcher -> Social Sciences I'll be sending a notice out to the GO4LIB-L listserv of library Gopher managers announcing this, too, but wanted to let you know that you can now refer people to InfoSlug as a gateway. I suppose we should forward this to the searcher list on stubbs or wherever else you feel it's appropriate to advertise it. If they need to know how to connect other than through the Melvyl USE command, they should gopher to gopher.ucsc.edu if they have a Gopher client. Or, they can telnet to infoslug.ucsc.edu and login as infoslug. Better yet, for those running other Gopher servers, the link information is: Name=California Legislative Information Type=1+ Port=70 Path=1/The Community/Guide to Government--U.S., State and Local/California Legislative Information Host=gopher.ucsc.edu ____________________________ Forwarded by Ginny Irving Boalt Hall Law Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 e-mail: girving@library.berkeley.edu [Note: The banana slug is UC Santa Cruz's mascot, thus, InfoSlug. -jim] === PRIVITIZING PUBLIC RESOURCES [There are *expolding* examples like this, especially in local governments] Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 03:08:43 -0500 From: Publib Poster To: Multiple recipients of list Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" A third party approached our library about digitizing an index we have spent nearly twenty years creating. It is an extremely useful index which gets heavy use. We can appreciate that an electronic version of this index would be extremely useful. However, the quid pro quo for digitizing this index is that the company would then charge for use of the (digitized) information (though we would be paid for providing access to the material to make it digitized.)). As a public library, we make it our business to provide access to information, and therefore we do not feel completely comfortable with this arrangement. We do not now have the staff time to digitize this information ourselves, but nevertheless, we can anticipate a time within the next several years when if we *can* digitize it, we would then be able to provide widespread "free" public access to this information--for example, through a gopher- -and it would be unfortunate if we had contributed to the privatization of information which we had developed for public use. Suggestions? Recommendations? Observations? Lessons learned? Karen G. Schneider, who in a rare moment is speaking for her institution, Newark Public Library -- Karen G. Schneider kgs@panix.com * * * "It is better to ask for forgiveness * * Than permission." * === THE WHITE HOUSE ONLINE - THE FIRST YEAR Date: February 02, 194 Here is a brief outline of the principle first year achievements of the White House Electronic Public Access Project. 1. In the six months since June 1st, we have received over 100,000 email messages to the President & Vice President. 1a. This is the first Administration to accept email from the public. 1b. President Clinton is the first sitting President to send email to citizens -- 5th graders in Oxford, Ohio spring 1993. 2. This is the first administration to establish internet addresses for President & Vice President: president@whitehouse.gov vice-president@whitehouse.gov 3. Over 220,000 requests for information have been processed electronically since September 1, 1993. 4. In 1993 1,600 public documents were published electronically. 4a. This is the first administration to establish an electronic self-service public document library: publications@whitehouse.gov The service opened experimentally in December 1993. 5. The first ever live online computer conference by a sitting Vice President was done by VP Gore on 1/13/94. The VP took 10 questions in a 45 minute forum. 6. We initiated the first White House forums on commercial networks: America Online, Compuserve, GEnie, MCI Mail 7. Americans Communicating Electronically, an all volunteer organization, was started in Spring 1993. ACE represents the NII in action. It aims to provide government services electronically and enable interactive communications between government agencies and the public, especially those citizens without modem equipped computers. 8. Starting in November, we became the first administration to post audio files of the President's Saturday radio talks to the internet. This use of internet radio is our latest experiment . We plan to continue to roll out new features and services during 1994: The budget on CD-ROM [made available Monday, February 7] Multi-media CD-ROM of the first year's public documents Mosaic "Welcome to The White House" Improved email technology Improved publications@whitehouse.gov technology Additional commercial White House forums Jonathan P. Gill Special Projects Office of Media Affairs The White House (202) 456-7150 === Mo' as it Is. --jim Jim Warren, columnist for MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/415-851-2814 **To join or drop from the GovAccess list, email to jwarren@well.sf.ca.us.** >>Permission herewith granted for unlimited reposting and recirculation.<<