Honors 3004 DL, Fall 1997 --- News / Announcements

971201@2pm:

• Please review the project-people page and give me corrections so that I can have a place for everyone, correct email, URLs wherever available, and readable explanations of projects. Please advise if there is any need for something special so you can give your presentations next Monday, beyond what is normally in 104.
• Dec. 1 we also will schedule the order for the presentations next week, go over the contracts (e.g., how you will be graded on the project: in terms of what will be accomplished, how many points for presentation, how many points for writing, how many points for other deliverables), and give you time to work on more courseware extensions.

971112@6pm:

• There is no final.
• All work for the course is due by 11:59PM 12/14/97.
• Remaining quizzes should be up soon.
• CS6604 Project grading instructions are online. See your syllabus for updated grading instuctions on projects. You need to work out a contract with the instructor for your own grading.
• Those interested in ISI's citation databases can contact the instructor to experiment.

971025@3pm:

• Please remember that our 10/27 class will be in the Library. Proceed directly to Newman Library 4th floor science reference area. Ed Lener of the library staff will guide you through hands-on experiences with a number of tools and systems relating to digital libraries.
• Please prepare a written report of progress and plans by next Monday's class about your project activities.

971020@5pm:

• Please attend parts of the IBM Renaissance meetings. See the detailed agenda
• Remember that class next Monday will be in the Library.
• Please prepare a report of progress and plans by the following Monday about your project activities.

970908@6pm:

• There is now a course page on Project Gutenberg.
• Everyone should have the text, which was available under CS6604 in all local bookstores.
• Paul Metz, Principal Bibliographer, University Libraries, and Eileen Hitchingham, Dean of Libraries, will join the class Oct. 13 , discussing acquisition issues. See some early discussion.
• Oct. 21 will be a day of activities about digital libraries, culminating with a keynote address by Bob Heterick, President of Educom. There will be talks and demonstrations about usability of interfaces, and briefings by IBM and other universities on digital library activities.
• Thursday, September 11, 4pm, Haymarket Theatre (Squires Student Center) is when Sherry Turkle, author of Life on the Screen: Identify in the Age of the Internet, will speak on that topic at the ninth annual Mullins Lecture in Social Studies of Science and Technology.
• See about University Libraries services: general, general reference resources, full-text electronic journals.

970827@7pm:

• Now that the Tech Bookstore's 15 copies of our text are sold out, the University Bookstore and Volume II will each have 12-13 copies in by late Thur. 8/28 or early Fri. 8/29, and then each have 7-8 more available by Saturday. The Tech Bookstore also will get 20 more copies, in about a week.
• UH 3004 will co-locate with CS6604 again on 8/28, so that people can discuss together about term projects. The 2 classes will start in McB218, but the crowding will not last long --- after a while we will split up into (4) groups, so that more in-depth discussion can take place about group projects. So, please think a little about the type of term project you want to pursue. Also, remember that classes from next week on will be Monday 3-4:50pm in McB 104c.

970826@9am:

• While our regular meetings, starting September 1, 1997, will be in McB104c, during the first week of classes we will meet together with CS6604 in McB218, for their Tue/Thur 2 - 3:15pm session.
• Please use the proxy system for your WWW browser. Select Options, Network Preferences, Proxies. Click auto configuration, and put the URL http://www.proxy.vt.edu/proxyconf? in the box below the auto configuration button.