Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:30:17 -0400 (EDT) From: James McDonough Subject: EPIN Summary ********************************************************** =20 SUMMARY OF ELECTRONIC PUBLIC INFORMATION NEWSLETTER VOL. 5, NO. 15; July 28, 1995 ********************************************************** INDEX: 1. CONFEREES AGREE TO BACK A SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL GATEWAY 2. JUDY RUSSELL: GPO ACCESS WILL BE GILS COMPLIANT 3. NCLIS PUBLISHES REPORT ON INTERNET COST MODELS **************************************************************** For more information on the complete ELECTRONIC PUBLIC INFORMATION NEWSLETTER or to receive a FREE sample of the complete printed copy send an email message to EPIN Publishing at epin@access.digex.net. Include your snail mail address. ***************************************************************** 1. CONFEREES AGREE TO BACK A SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL GATEWAY: The House and Senate conferees agreed (7/27) to a Senate recommendation that the Library of Congress (LC) "develop and maintain in coordination with other appropriate legislative branch entities, a single legislative information retrieval system to serve the entire Congress." The purpose of the recommendation is to prod the LC to finish the study Congress had first recommended in 1994. The proposal represents a united Senate and House effort to eliminate "duplication among systems which provide electronic access to legislative information." The recommendation was contained in Senate Report 104-114, which accompanied the House Legislative Branch Appropriations bill (H.R. 1854). 2. JUDY RUSSELL: GPO ACCESS WILL BE GILS COMPLIANT: Judy Russell, head of the Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Service at the Government Printing Office (GPO), stated this week that the GPO Access system will be compliant with the Government Information Locator (GILS). "We don't have any GILS records mounted at this point, but our WAIS server is Z39.50 compliant and therefore GILS compliant," Russell said. Eliot Christian, an official with the United States Geological Service and the GILS' padrino, was pleased to hear that GPO Access would be GILS compliant. "They had said they would be, but this is the first definite statement that they are," said Christian. Russell said that GPO Access has yet to mount any GILS records, but once that is done she will notify Christian so that he can "test" their system. 3. NCLIS PUBLISHES REPORT ON INTERNET COST MODELS: The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) issued (6/21) a study=FEInternet Costs and Models for Public Libraries=FE outlining various cost models for public library costs involved in the use of the Internet. The cost models and worksheets presented in the report are intended to serve as useful guides for public libraries and communities planning Internet connections and services, according to Jeanne Hurley Simon, NCLIS Chair. The report identifies five representative connectivity models and seven broad cost categories. At the low end, the report shows that for an initial one-time cost of $1,475 and a recurring annual cost of $12,635, a public library can establish a minimal level, single-workstation, text-based Internet connectivity. At a more complex level, the report describes a representative multi-media Internet public library connectivity model involving multiple workstations at multiple library locations for a one-time cost of $226,375 and a recurring annual cost of $154,000. *************************************************************** ARCHIVE: EPIN Summaries are being archived on the Electronic Frontier Foundation system. To access past summaries, use the following addresses: =20 ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/ gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/E-journals/EPIN gopher://gopher.eff.org/hh/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/ http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-journals/EPIN/ ***************************************************************** James McDonough, Editor Electronic Public Information Newsletter epin@access.digex.net; Tel:/Fax: (301) 365-3621