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SUMMARY OF ELECTRONIC PUBLIC INFORMATION NEWSLETTER
VOL. 5, NO. 15; July 28, 1995
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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
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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 studyþInternet Costs and Models for Public
Librariesþ 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.
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