Three articles discuss information brokering in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Argentina. A sidebar describes the Working from Home Forum on CompuServe, which is available to information consultants/brokers worldwide. (MES)

Describes the experiences of the AT&T Technical Library in installing a local area network (LAN) and bulletin board using the UNIX operating system. Reasons why a LAN was needed, how the system works, and hardware and software used are discussed. (1 reference) (MES)

The aim of this paper is to indicate to colleagues the purpose and use of the Newswatcher application for news and of listservers for specialist communication. This is the way in which I was able to find out more about WWW sites, as well as that news and specialist lists are of interest in themselves. Firstly I should make clear that all the…

Describes a Northwestern University project exploring how to orchestrate distant mentoring ("telementoring") relationships between science students and workplace scientists. The goal was to develop an audience of (volunteer) scientists to offer students ongoing advice and criticism. Challenges included finding appropriate volunteers,…

Analyzes as to style 200 samples of electronic mail memorandums gathered from 4 organizations. Counts systematically textual features such as sentence and paragraph length, grammatical sentence types, sentence openers, and diction to examine patterns of rhetorical choice common to electronic mail. Finds that writers combined elements of…

Contrasted two survey methodologies: e-mail-Web and traditional mail. Found that: (1) e-mail-Web respondents were proportionately more likely to be male and enrolled in school full-time; (2) more individual question non-response was present for the e-mail-Web sample; and (3) e-mail-Web respondents value different aspects of graduate school. (EV)

Describes how three New York administrators--two principals and a superintendent from separate districts--provide each other advice through email using an electronic mentoring approach called a journal triad. (PKP)

Presents a descriptive study that examined the influence of using electronic mail to support novice teachers as they attempted to sustain action research projects in their classrooms. Suggests that online collaborations are an effective method of supporting novice teachers in their research efforts. (Author/LRW)

Discussion of digital reference services and the use of real-time versus asynchronous services such as email focuses on data from the AskERIC digital reference service to demonstrate that asynchronous services are not only useful but may have greater utility than real-time systems. (Author/LRW)

Responses from 168 of 267 university administrators surveyed indicated that 93% used e-mail daily; it was their preferred means of sending and receiving routine communications; 71% did not have formal e-mail usage policies; having a policy and providing e-mail usage training were correlated; they did not use e-mail for confidential, sensitive,…

Attempted to link preservice teachers (college students) from educational institutions in Texas and Florida for exchanging ideas and activities in the classroom environment. Results for 18 preservice teachers suggest that this e-mail peer coaching made preservice teachers more aware of the challenges facing education professionals and resulted in…

Describes the Public Access Computer Systems Forum (PACS), a computer conference that deals with all computer systems that libraries make available to patrons. Areas discussed include how to subscribe to PACS, message distribution and retrieval capabilities, subscriber lists, documentation, generic list server capabilities, and other…

The article describes the IBM/Special Needs Exchange which consists of: (1) electronic mail, conferencing, and a library of text and program files on the CompuServe Information Service; and (2) a dial-in database of special education software for IBM and compatible computers. (DB)

PHARMLINE, the electronic bulletin board operated by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, is described. Bulletin boards do not provide the opportunity for file and message transfer throughout the continent and overseas, as does BITNET, the network link among universities. (Author/MLW)

Describes how one instructor introduced and used electronic mail as a new learning tool for six developmental reading college students. Offers recommendations for using e-mail with students. (SR)