E-MAIL TIP

Has it been a while since your initial e-mail training? If so, it might be time for a netiquette (etiquette for the 'Net) refresher. Stop on by Arlene Rinaldi's User Guidelines and Netiquette or David Harris' Electronic Mail Etiquette to brush up on the essentials. You'll find all those forgotten reminders to mind your p's and q's. Or is that ^p and ^q?

And as long as you promise to follow netiquette guidelines not to overuse them, here's The Electronic Frontier Foundation Unofficial Smiley Dictionary.     :-D

INTERNET TIP

If you use Netscape as your web browser, here's a tip that will help you as you go "surfing."

When you visit a web site, links that you've already been to are (by default) purple. Any links you haven't been to yet are blue (also the default). If you want to make sure that Netscape shows you where you've surfed before, check to see if your copy of Netscape has these settings.

If you use Netscape 3.x check:

Options
General Preferences
Appearance
Link Styles
Followed Links
click on Never Expire
click on the OK button

WINDOWS 95 TIP

This tip is straight from F1 Windows95 Helpful Hints:

When you...

double click "My Computer",
and you've double clicked the "C" drive,
and you've double clicked Windows,
and you've double clicked Start Menu,
and you've double clicked Programs...

you've finally found what you were looking for, but you have five cascading windows cluttering up your desktop. Luckily, you can close them all at once by holding down the shift key and clicking on the X in the upper right hand of the "Programs" window. If you want to keep the Start Menu open, you can hold down the shift key and click on the X in the upper right hand corner of the "Windows" window. Now the Windows folder, the "C" Drive folder, and the My Computer folder will all be closed for you.

And just for grins, check out the Top 20 Reasons Dogs Don't Use Computers, just because #20 is "Can't stick their heads out of Windows '95."

USEFUL URL O' THE MONTH

So, you weren't able to get to the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference this year? Join the club! The good news is that you can take a virtual trip to the conference via the web.

The Western Massachusetts Regional Library System has created a web site with links to PLA programs such as "Reader's Advisory on the Internet", "Don't Perspire! ASPIRE (After School Programs Inspire Reading Enrichment)", and "Connecting the Dots: Kids, Parents, Libraries and the Internet."

You can also go to the PLA web site for links to programs such as "Plain English Budgets" and "Multiage Children's Programming: Serving the Developmental Needs of Young Library Patrons." Some links take you to a web site, and others offer documents in various word processing or PowerPoint formats which can be downloaded to your computer's disk drive.

FUN URL O' THE MONTH

How many librarians does it take to change a light bulb? To find the punchline to this joke and others, go to Libraries FAQ: 7.0 Culture and follow their links to the New Jersey State Library Fun for Bookworms page.

The Libraries FAQ also offers links to lists of science fiction and mystery novels in which librarians have a prominent role, a list of sources of librarians in film, and a list of Reveyrand's Library Laws (with apologies to Murphy).

And because the site's link to the Digital Tradition Folk Song Database needs updating, here's a direct connection to the lyrics to the (bawdy) song "The Bold Librarian."

RECIPE O' THE MONTH

is Black Bean Salad.

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