One of the more exciting prospects for teachers is that of sharing worksheets, handouts, and other materials with other teachers. Although this type of sharing is routine on bulletin boards and regional networks that cater to teachers, anonymous FTP sites hold out the possibility of a worldwide collection of such materials. Send contributed materials (in electronic format) to
ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:/freelore/incoming
by following the instructions in Chapter xx for sending a file by anonymous FTP, or mail a floppy disk (and a return mailer with prepaid postage, if you want it back!) to
The FreeLore Project
P.O. Box 6022
St. Charles, IL 60174.
Make sure your materials have a copyright notice like this course, allowing anyone to copy and distribute them for free (for educational purposes).
<Chapter 15> Special for Librarians
For many years, of course, libraries have been among the heaviest users of information services—for cataloguing or to fill patron requests. Several companies now specialize in providing Internet access to libraries, e.g. ACCESS or DRAnet. Libraries will increasingly use these services because the promise the following benefits:
o Inexpensive access to hundreds of online library catalogues,
worldwide.
o Uniform, and often cheaper, access to information services using
telnet rather than a host of special software packages.
o Access to netwide searching tools like WAIS, WWW, and GOPHER.