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Books Index update from #1,441 to #1,486.

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, August 5, 1998

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New sites going up in Brazil and Australia, as below: 
Africa needed!!!

We should be posting Etext #1500 in a few weeks, and we would like your suggestions for possible titles to use for #1500.  One suggestion is to start our new Public Domain Edition of Shakespeare then, with #1500 but I had #1600 in mind for that, to coincide with the average dates of his major publications, but that is not at all cast in stone or electrons--as we have requests for some of the dates surrounding #1600 as follows:

The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, O.T. Part 2 [2drvbxxx.xxx]1610
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, O.T. Part 1 [1drvbxxx.xxx]1609
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, N.T.        [3drvbxxx.xxx]1582
Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, Both Testaments [0drvbxxx.xxx]1581

So. . .your suggestions would be MOST welcome, on these titles or on other titles you might have in mind that could possible be done by a month from now.

We also have a number of requests for help from some of our Directors and other major volunteers.

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Typists needed for unscannable books!!!  Please contact Dianne Bean.

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We have had multiple requests for various editions of Homer.

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Holmes index. . . .  We have a number of Sherlock Holmes stories, both already done, and In Progress, from various hardback editions and the Strand Magazine editions.  If any of you would like to get together on a Holmes index, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Ludendorff's Memoirs in German, we need help scanning and proofing. Mail To: Mike Menzel <menzelm@cadvision.com>

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From: Siobhan Conway <cs672@greenwich.ac.uk>
Request for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ASAP
We would also love to post one, if we could find a matching paper edition, pre-1923, to any that might already be on the Net. . . . Or we can start from scratch.

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From: Michele Cintolo <cintolom@yahoo.com>
1) "The Innocent Abroad", Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers Publishers (Author's National Edition set), copyright 1869, 1897 & 1899 by The American Publishing Company. copyright 1911 by Clara Gabrilowitsch. I have vol I but need vol II.

2)"Roughing It", Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers Publishers (Author's National Edition set), copyright 1871, 1899 by The American Publishing Company, copyright 1899 by Samuel L. Clemens, copyright 1913 by Clara Gabrilowitsch. Have vol I, need vol II.

3)"The Gilded Age", Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers Publishers (Author's National Edition set), copyright 1873, 1899 by Samuel L. Clemens & Charles D. Warner, copyright 1901 by Samuel L. Clemens & Susan Lee Warner, copyright 1915 by Clara Gabrilowitsch & Susan Lee Warner. Have vol II, need vol I.

We've had a major response to this, so we include it again:

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Since I last wrote to you, I've made a number of improvements to the mirror:

1. There's a search option, whereby users can enter one or more search terms, and use boolean and/or, to locate texts.

2. There's a list by author for those who want to browse.

3. The user can select (generally) between text and zip formats. Only one format is stored, to save space, but conversion to the other is done on-the-fly when requested.

I've also created a USMARC-format catalog, which is used for searching. This is still a long way from being something that Librarians would not sneer at, but provides brief-entry records for the texts. I built this from the GUTINDEX.ALL list, followed by (too many) hours of manual editing. You can view the result at:

http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/catalog.txt

There's a very good Brazilian site that provides public domain
electronic books. It's called VirtualStore:
(www.elogica.com.br/virtualstore)
and Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro (Brazilian Student Virtual Library), at bibvirt.futuro.usp.br

Correction on filename from last Newsletter:

Aug 1998
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit #6
[bsshkxxx.xxx]1430

And now 36 Etexts for September.
(and some from October already: We will be posting at least two Etexts on or by Columbus, as the 12th October Etext and as Etext #1492. . .).
This is the third!! month we have been two months ahead of schedule, an unprecedented feat for our PG volunteers in the summertime, when we usually fall behind schedule a bit. 
My Congratulations!

From Edupage:

INFORMATION AGE HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
Asked about the impact of computers and the Internet on society, Vanderbilt University management professor Donna Hoffman says:  "Will we really transform society through the use of computers and the Internet? Well, the jury is still out.  I certainly think the potential is there, but it will be realized only if we can get access in the hands of everyone.  Otherwise, we are not likely to see revolutionary changes.  And we will still have the schisms and chasms in society where there will be sectors of society in which people are able to partake of the wonderful riches online, and at the
same time other groups are effectively excluded.  I don't think there will be much evidence of the transforming powers found in creating new sources of value until we have people online who we never thought would come online.
If we're serious about change, we need to be thinking of getting entire countries -- the developing countries and societies -- online.  (Exec Sum 98)

MIT'S MANAGEMENT SCHOOL SAYS NO MORE PAPER APPLICATIONS
MIT's Sloan School of Management says it will no longer accept paper applications, opting instead for a fully electronic application process.
School officials say the move will save thousands of dollars in processing, printing and postage costs, plus hundreds of hours of staff time. The school will, however, stick with snail-mail for the back end of the process -- acceptance and rejection letters will be shipped via the U.S. Postal Service.  (Investor's Business Daily 4 Aug 98)

FCC TO HOLD HEARINGS ON DISPARITIES IN TECHNOLOGY ACCESS
The Federal Communications Commission will hold hearings this fall to try to determine why minority groups are less likely to have telephone service or own a computer than white families.  A U.S. Commerce Department reports
indicates that 96% of white households have basic phone service, compared to about 86% of black households and Hispanic households; similarly about 41% of white families own a computer, compared to about 19% of black and
Hispanic families.  FCC chairman Bill Kennard says, "Does this gap in access to technology matter?  You bet it does.  How can you look for a job without a phone?  How can you demonstrate that you have the skills to compete if you
don't know which side of a diskette goes in first?"  (AP 3 Aug 98)

[More on the same story, with a little better statistics:  I counted as one] 

STUDY SHOWS WIDENING GAP IN COMPUTER OWNERSHIP
A new study by the U.S. Commerce Department shows that PC ownership among all Americans grew by 52% between 1994 and 1997, with a penetration of 36.6% of U.S. households.  But although penetration among blacks and Hispanics grew faster than the overall rate, the disparity between them and white households actually widened during that period.  At the end of 1997, 40.8% of non-Hispanic white households owned a PC, compared to 19.4% of Hispanic and 19.3% of African-American households, a gap of 21.5%.  In 1994, the Commerce Department reported a gap of 16.8%.  The study also found that whites were much more likely to subscribe to an online service than either blacks or Hisp>anics.  "The study exposes a growing problem in our economy, one that must be taken seriously:  too many Americans are not able to take part in the growing digital economy," says Commerce Secretary William Daley.
"The growing trend of information 'haves' and 'have-nots' is alarming." (Miami Herald 31 Jul 98)

RIOTS FOLLOW BRAZIL'S SALE OF NATIONAL PHONE SYSTEM
Brazil's national phone company Telebras has been sold for almost $19 billion in the largest privatization deal in Latin American history -- a deal dominated by Spain's Telefonica, Portugal's Telecom, and the U.S. company MCI.  Police used tear gas, batons, and a water cannon to control thousands of angry demonstrators fearful that foreign owners of phone
services will ignore the needs of the Brazilian poor.  (Washington Post 30 Jul 98)

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