Subject: Free Pint No.32 - Environmental Resources & New Library Free Pint "Helping 19,500 people use the Web for their work" http://www.freepint.co.uk/ ISSN 1460-7239 18 February 1999 #32 > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = IN THIS ISSUE EDITORIAL TIPS AND TECHNIQUES "Environmental Information on the Internet" by Micky Allen FEATURE ARTICLE "New Library: now comes the action" by Tim Owen FREE PINT FEEDBACK "Computer Assisted Journalism" "Internet Resources for Seniors" "Best book buys" "Quick Tips" "Becoming a researcher" CONTACT INFORMATION ONLINE VERSION WITH ACTIVATED HYPERLINKS http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/180299.htm > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = BUY MAILING LISTS ONLINE from WWW.MAILING-LABELS.COM Mailing lists for direct mail and telemarketing purposes now available online from http://www.mailing-labels.com/ More than a dozen databases from the UK's leading information providers (e.g. Dun & Bradstreet, Learned Information) with more than 3 million addresses (most with contact names). Make your own selections and get an instant count of matching records. Purchase your list by credit card or credit account, and download immediately as ASCII or print properly formatted labels. No minimum quantities. Libraries & resellers receive 20% discount. > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [wl321] EDITORIAL You'll find two quite different articles in this issue of Free Pint. We start with an in-depth look at a wide range of Web resources about Environmental issues, and this is followed by an interesting view on how the wired world is finding its way into the public library system. The Feedback section is again packed with comments and questions, whilst my new section "Quick Tips", which first appeared in the last issue, went down very well with readers and so now becomes a regular feature including tips on Internet consultancy, training and publishing. As always, please do contact me if you have any comments on Free Pint, and do remember to pass the newsletter on to others who you think may also find it useful. Time now to read and relish your thirty second Free Pint! Kind regards, William William Hann BSc(Hons) MIInfSc, Managing Editor e: william@freepint.co.uk t: +44 (0)1784 455435 f: +44 (0)1784 455436 PS: The Web site at http://www.freepint.co.uk/ contains all past issues and you can reserve your own copy if this is someone else's. > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = SEARCHING FOR HEALTH INFORMATION ON NLM DATABASES A one day training course at the British Library, Friday February 26th. The course will help you find information on health economics; the distribution of health care; health personnel or health care technology. The course leader is Tony McCulloch, a medical information specialist and MEDLINE indexer. 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INTERNET TRAINING Showing Web sites as part of a live demonstration is fine unless the Internet goes down ... therefore press ALT-PRINTSCREEN in your browser and then paste the screen shot into your presentation package. ~ W.Hann ~ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = TIPS AND TECHNIQUES "Environmental information guide" by Micky Allen Apparently we are now in the grip of an ICE age (information, communication, entertainment) hence every business nowadays is an information business. The key attributes of the information age are (a) digital resources - which are paradoxically abundant and (b) workers who can operate with knowledge rather than with machines - who are somewhat rarer. The old value chain model in the physical world consisted of starting with some raw material (such as iron-ore), then transforming it with labour and machinery (into steel sheets) and finally selling it on to someone else to perform a transformation act again (into a tin can perhaps), who would then sell it on to the end user (the baked bean factory). The key process sequences in the information age are: Gather -> Organise -> Select -> Synthesise -> Distribute This 'new' value chain model sounds suspiciously like a well-run website! However the bit that is missing is how you persuade someone to pay for your output, which is the major problem one has running an environmental website. This admittedly is a problem for most websites, but at least it can be partially solved by taking the 'evil advertising dollar'. However if you are supposed to be an independent non-biased source of vital information for the future of the planet... then adverts are out. A large number of environmental websites tend to be Government or NGO based, as after all they are the ones involved in passing the laws that require enforcement. For example at Kyoto various agreements were made about reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions. In the short-term this will mean a cost to business, with no real incentive to implement environmental measures. Obviously in the long-term, if there was to be a rise in sea-level due to global warming, then not doing anything would prove to be far more costly. Having said that the sources of environmental information on the Internet are many and varied, with often, the website pushing a particular agenda or emotive issue (whether it is logging ancient forests, killing whales or growing genetically modified food). Hence the web surfer has to be especially on the lookout for bias in the information that is available. All too often there is a mismatch between the designer of the site (using the latest browser version with plug-ins) and the surfer (who may be browsing from home on a dial-in connection). The latter is after a quick download of hard facts, whilst the former is more interested in the design - such as red text on a blue background. The problem is that the main audience for environmental information is usually an individual, who quite often has a perfectly workable 486 running Windows 3.1 (or the Mac equivalent). Horror of horrors they may even still be running a browser without plug-ins that doesn't do frames! Most of the environmental sites in the USA realise this and offer a choice of 'framed OR non-framed' sites. However over here in the UK some 'enlightened' sites even tell you you must also have Javascript, Shockwave, frames and a password to pass between their hallowed portals. It is after all just common sense - if you are presented with a choice of upgrading to a browser (involving downloading, configuring etc.) the easy option is to just vote with your mouse, and leave the site, never to return. Whilst researching this article I checked the 70 odd links listed below, with Netscape version 4 running on a Sun workstation with ISDN and images on - the process took nearly an hour. I then rechecked them from home (486, 14.4 modem, images off, Netscape version 1.2) the same process took around 20 minutes. Only 15 sites were inaccessible, either because of frames, Javascript or lack of 'alt-tags' - hence no prizes for guessing how I think most people who use dial-up access prefer to view a website. Organisations Societies and Communities worth a view include: Biomednet (a community for biologists) http://www.BioMedNet.com/ Chemweb (a community for chemists) . . http://www.chemweb.com Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library http://www.eevl.ac.uk Engineering Information . . . . . . . http://www.Ei.org Environmental Routenet . . . . . . . http://www.csa.com Laboratory methods . . . . . . . . . http://www.methodsfinder.com Laboratory Supply Industry Association http://www.martex.co.uk/blwa Mining information . . . . . . . . . http://www.infomine.com Physicsweb (a community for physicists) http://www.physicsweb.org World Wide Web Virtual Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.earthsystems.org/Environment.shtml Various publishers have environmental publications on their websites: American Chemical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/index.html Elsevier . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.elsevier.nl ENDS magazine . . . . . . . . . . http://www.ends.co.uk Environmental Business Magazine . http://www.ifi.co.uk Faversham House . . . . . . . . . http://www.edie.net Stanford University Library Scientific Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.highwire.stanford.edu Wiley Interscience . . . . . . . http://www.interscience.wiley.com There are also an ever increasing number of gateways such as: Chemical Database Service . http://www.dl.ac.uk/CDS/ Earth Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/geo/index.html Electronic Library . . . . http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib General . . . . . . . . . . http://www.niss.ac.uk/subject/index.html Grateful Med . . . . . . . http://www.igm.nlm.nih.gov Internet Scout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/indextxt.html Medicine . . . . . . . . . http://www.omni.ac.uk If you are looking for specific medical research with an environmental focus try the following: British Lung Federation . . http://www.lunguk.org/blf_foundation.htm British Occupational Health Research Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.bohrf.org.uk International Agency for Research on Cancer http://www.iarc.fr US National Institute of Health . . . . . . http://www.nih.org World Health Organisation . . . . . . . . . http://www.who.org The Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions (the departments formerly known as Department of Environment and Department of Transport) have amalgamated their sites into one http://www.detr.gov.uk/ which is divided off into around twenty subsites including: Energy efficiency . . . . http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk Road safety . . . . . . . http://www.roads.detr.gov.uk These are then further subdivided, so that information on the UK government's position on sustainability can be found at http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/sustainability/consult/index.htm With the emphasis in the UK on the National Grid for learning there are a wide variety of resources aimed at schools such as: Further Education Resources for Learning http://ferl.becta.org.uk National Grid for Learning . . . . . . . http://www.ngfl.gov.uk Science Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.nmsi.ac.uk Virtual Teacher Centre . . . . . . . . . http://www.vtc.ngfl.gov.uk World Wildlife Fund . . . . . . . . http://www.wwf-uk.org/education Finally there are a lot of other interesting sites such as: Amazing Environmental Organization Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.webdirectory.com British Library . . . . . . . http://www.minos.bl.uk/sris/eis Central European Data Requisition Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.pan.cedar.univie.ac.at Envirolink . . . . . . . . . http://www.envirolink.org Environment Canada . . . . . http://www.doe.ca/envhome.html Environmental law . . . . . . http://www.law.indiana.edu Environmental Resources Information Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.kaos.erin.gov.au European Environmental Agency http://www.eea.dk Friends of the Earth . . . . http://www.foe.co.uk Greenpeace . . . . . . . . . http://www.greenpeace.org INFOTERRA . . . . . . http://www.cedar.univie.ac.at/unep/infoterra Institution of Civil Engineers http://www.ice.org.uk International Society of Exposure Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.isea.rutgers.edu/isea/isea.html Journal of Ecotoxicology . . http://www.bdt.org.br/bdt/english National Environmental Research Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.nerc.ac.uk National History Museum . . . http://www.nhm.ac.uk National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.esdim.noaa.gov National Technical Information Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis/ntishome.html National Toxicology Program . http://www.ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.rec.org Royal Botanical Gardens Kew . http://www.rbgkew.org.uk The EnviroWeb . . . . . . . . http://envirolink.org The US Environmental Protection Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.epa.gov/epahome/text.htm UK Environment Agency . . . . http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk UK Universities offering Environmental courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.ucas.ac.uk UNDP . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.undp.org University of East Anglia . . http://www.env.uae.ac.uk Yahoo's Index of Environmental Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.yahoo.com/Environment_and_Nature P.S. If you fancy coming back and focussing on Kyoto and the contentious issue of Greenhouse gases look at: Earth Science + Technology Organisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.esto.or.jp/index.htm Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Trading Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://gert.org IEA Greenhouse Gas R+D programme . http://www.ieagreen.org.uk Laboratory for Oceanic + Atmospheric Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.enrich.hi.is > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Micky Allen is the webmaster for , a free access virtual community for everyone with an interest in contaminated "brownfield" land. A graduate of Keele University (BA Hons), Imperial College (MSc) and INSEAD (MBA), he has worked as a geologist in Africa and Arabia, and in mining project finance in Western Europe. He has also worked on mining privatisations in East and Central Europe, and has carried out environmental assessments on several German Second World War munitions sites. A devout Marxist (being a follower of Dr Hackenbush's acolyte Groucho Marx) he is also a fan of heavy metal and tries either to hear it, inhale it or ingest it whenever possible! A hyperlinked version of this article can be found at http://contaminatedland.co.uk/red-bus/zknbr-9a.htm > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = +++ WANT A HAND UPDATING YOUR WEB SITE? +++ Would you like your colleagues or employees to be able to update your Web or Intranet site? We provide tailored in-house training courses on your premises to give your colleagues the knowledge to change the HTML and update the pages themselves. Call now to discuss. t: 01784 455435 e: info@willco.co.uk w: http://www.willco.co.uk/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [wc323] >>> Would you like to show you support Free Pint? <<< Then why not add the following code to your Web site today ... Free Pint > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = QUICK TIP ... INTERNET PUBLISHING When producing an email newsletter or announcement then you need a decent text editor. This will allow you to number lines, count words and find and replace complex patterns. Try http://www.textpad.com/ ~ W.Hann ~ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = FEATURE ARTICLE "New Library: now comes the action" by Tim Owen [In a departure from the usual format of Free Pint articles, Tim Owen, Policy Adviser at the Library & Information Commission, explains how the vision of a wired public library service turned into a fully costed blueprint.] Try this experiment. Walk down a bus queue containing 100 people and ask each one whether they belong to a public library. Chances are that every other one - plus a few more - will say yes. Nearly 60% of the entire UK population holds public library membership. Now go back to the head of the queue and ask each one again whether they use the Internet at home. You’re probably going to have to ask something like 15 people before you get a single "yes" response. If you were to believe the news headlines, you might think it was entirely the other way. Cuts and closures are all that seem to interest journalists where libraries are concerned. But when it comes to the Internet, it seems that everybody’s critical faculties are in permanent suspended animation. No-one disputes that the impact of the Internet is going to be huge. But we have time - just a very short space of time - to plan for it. The Government saw this two years back when it published a report on the public library service. Jokily, it was called ‘Reading the Future’. But its conclusions weren’t joky; it saw that if libraries were to continue to play their full part in people’s lives, then they had to get to grips with information & communication technology. So it asked the recently formed Library & Information Commission (http://www.lic.gov.uk/) to find out what needed to be done to tool up libraries effectively for the digital future. Set up in 1995, the LIC’s job is to advise Government on relevant issues and to draw its attention to emerging trends. It does this through a board of fourteen volunteer Commissioners and a staff of just four - although we will be rising to twenty-odd in April after we take over the British Library’s research commissioning activities. Back in 1997, the LIC was still something of an unknown quantity. I don’t know what the Government expected from its request, but certainly what it got cut a swathe through official circles. Published in October 1997, ‘New Library: the People’s Network’ (http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/newlibrary.html) contained nothing less than an inspired vision of what the public library service could be. It proposed that every library service point in the country should be wired to a managed national network, naturally. But it also crucially said that the "technology infrastructure should be fully integrated with the creation of content that people will want to use, with the National Grid for Learning, with training and development programmes inside the library service, and with coaching programmes for users". In other words, the complete package. For good measure, the document was also a lavish production, including a specially commissioned poem by the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, who hated computers but still appreciated the importance of the vision sufficiently to write... Even the most misfitting child, Who’s chanced upon the library’s worth, Sits with the genius of the Earth And turns the key to the whole world. Critics who may have tut-tutted at the imagined expense of producing ‘New Library’ were quickly silenced by the Government’s reaction to it. "A defining moment in the public library service," the Culture Secretary Chris Smith called it, and the rumour in Whitehall is that Ministers bash their permanent secretaries about the head with it and tell them "This is what consultation documents ought to look like!" But the vision came with a price tag - and Mr Smith was quick to remark that "I don’t have £770 million in my back pocket." Nevertheless money was forthcoming - £50 million for the creation of digital content and a further £20 million to train all 27,000 public library staff to use the Network, all from the National Lottery’s New Opportunities Fund. In its formal response to ‘New Library’, in May 1998, the Government praised the vision and then sent the Commission away again to produce the blueprint. Two working groups and a small army of consultants put their heads down again and came up by the end of the summer with ‘Building the New Library Network’ (http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/building.html). Not by accident, it was published on the same day as Tony Blair formally launched the National Grid for Learning. ‘Building’ proposes the development of a New Library Network, initially based on the Internet but capable of evolving into a dedicated broadband network if required. It suggests that local authorities should purchase kitemarked managed services based round a core specification which will vary according to local need. This is compatible with the process being developed by education departments for the NGfL, to which the NLN will be fully connected. On content, it puts forward a framework for defining, creating and managing the resources available on the Network, with libraries offering access to educational and cultural material, and taking on an important new role as creators and developers of content. Finally, it sets out a rapid-action training programme to equip the nation’s librarians with new skills to handle ICT, access online information and take on new roles as guides and instructors. A new body - to be called the New Library Network team - will be established at the LIC to co-ordinate these three elements. So now we have our work cut out. We are about to recruit the NLN team leader, and the NOF is starting to draw up guidelines for the content and training bids which it will be inviting later this year. Also, we’re still £100 million short on what the consultants estimate will be needed to pay for network infrastructure. Fortunately, people have been buying a lot more lottery tickets than expected, so the NOF will be coming to our rescue again, although we don’t know yet exactly how much money it will be able to provide. Finally, the timescale is nail-bitingly tight; we are facing a Network roll-out deadline of 2002. To bring about the biggest revolution Britain’s incredibly popular public library service has ever seen, we have three years - starting from now. > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tim joined the LIC as its Policy Adviser in August 1998. Previously he was Principal Information Officer at the London Research Centre, responsible for the content of its Urbaline and Acompline databases. Before joining the LIC, he also wrote regularly for Information World Review, contributing continuously from its very first issue, and he helped to found CoPI: the Coalition for Public Information. He runs training sessions for Aslib and is the author of the best selling Library Association publication ‘Success at the Enquiry Desk’. He can be contacted on . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >>> WHAT IS A FREE PINT WORTH? <<< Free Pint will never cost you a penny. Therefore, why not visit one of our sponsors (and tell them where you saw their advert) or tell a colleague or friend about the newsletter. It couldn't be easier at: http://www.freepint.co.uk/reco.htm > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = QUICK TIP ... INTERNET CONSULTANCY If you are producing graphics for Web sites then try using a graphics package offering Layers. You can overlay text, graphics and photos easily, and shuffle things around until they look just right. ~ W.Hann ~ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = FREE PINT FEEDBACK Thank you for all your letters, feedback and questions. Keep them coming to . Subject index: * Computer Assisted Journalism (Free Pint #30) * Internet Resources for Seniors (Free Pint #31) * Best book buys * Quick Tips (Free Pint #31) * Becoming a researcher > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subject: Computer Assisted Journalism (Free Pint #30) From: Simon Matty, Information Officer Research and Innovation Centre, The British Library Date: Thursday 4th February 1999 As an addendum to the piece on computer assisted journalism I would like to mention that the British Library Research and Innovation Centre recently funded a project called "Journalism and the Internet" which was a study of the impact of the Internet on the information seeking behaviour of journalists. The project has now finished and I believe a report will be published by Aslib. The project had a website which includes contact details for the researchers, should anyone wish to pursue this. URL is --> http://www.soi.ac.uk/~pw/ji_home.html > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subject: Internet Resources for Seniors (Free Pint #31) From: Emma Aldridge, Age Concern England Date: Thursday 4th February 1999 Thanks for a great newsletter. I work for an organisation called Age Concern so I was particularly interested in John Lewell's article today "Internet Resources for Seniors". Three other valuable resources for seniors and for people interested in ageing issues are the Age Concern England Web site http://www.ace.org.uk, the Age Resource Web site for active seniors http://www.ace.org.uk/ageres and the Debate of the Age Web site for information about how demographic change is affecting our lives, our families, our work and the world around us http://www.age2000.org.uk > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subject: Best book buys From: Andrew Shuttleworth Localisation Engineer SDL International Date: Wednesday 27th January 1999 Just because we all love the net doesn't mean we don't read books anymore (does it?). Well here's a great site to recommend to Free Pinters ... Acses http://www.acses.com/ is a site which very efficiently searches 25 bookstores and tells you the cost of the book (total and broken down) in your own currency and including shipping rates. I always order from Amazon.co.uk without thinking, but I'll certainly check here next time I want a book. I've also found http://www.bestbookbuys.com/ which does pretty much the same thing, but does not include shipping costs. Still, it's worth experimenting with both until you decide which you prefer. Also, as there are many specialists who read Free Pint, can I recommend the Open Directory Project at http://directory.mozilla.org/ where you can volunteer to become editor for as many subcategories you can handle. > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subject: Quick Tips (Free Pint #31) From: Christine Early, Sofregaz US Inc. Date: Thursday 4th February 1999S Being a novice to Web pages, but chosen to maintain our corporate Web site, your tip about ". . . if you are responsible for creating or maintaining a Web or intranet site, then set it as the first page you see when you start your browser. . ." was very timely for me. I've set our Web site home page as my IE4 "home", and take a quick look now most days. Found part of the page was corrupted that way! It turned out to be a glitch with the server, but our system administrator was able to handle it the same day I found it, instead of possibly dozens of potential customers seeing such a mess! The quick tips are very nice, and will come in handy! Keep up the good work, and I'll keep telling folks about this wonderful resource! Thanks! > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subject: Becoming a researcher From: Rik Kershaw-Moore, Web-Design Analyst Date: Wednesday 10th February 1999 For a while I have been thinking of changing my career and I would like to become a researcher. Unfortunately I have no real idea as to how to make this change. 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