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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 From: Phil Agre <pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu> To: "Red Rock Eater News Service" <rre@lists.gseis.ucla.edu> Subject: [RRE]INFOBITS List-Software: LetterRip Pro 3.0.4 by Fog City Software, Inc. [had to leave that in, just for the sound of it] :-) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). For information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, see <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> or send a message to requests@lists.gseis.ucla.edu with Subject: info rre =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: 1/28/99 5:20 PM From: carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu CIT INFOBITS January 1999 No. 7 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information technology and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... THE CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY On January 20, 1999, the California Digital Library (CDL) opened to the University of California (UC) community at <http://www.cdlib.org/> Many of the CDL's services are not available outside the UC system; however, there are several interesting collections that are accessible to everyone on the Web. The Online Archive of California (OAC) A statewide resource linking to primary resource collections throughout California. General information: <http://www.cdlib.org/guides/oac/> Search the collections: <http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu:28008/dynaweb/oac/> The CDL Library of California Environmental Information Project Focusing on the environment, this project has established a "front-end" Website to make available previously difficult to find electronic environmental resources. <http://www.eip.cdlib.org/> ...................................................................... ONLINE HUMAN ANATOMY IMAGES FOR EDUCATORS Vesalius is a free online graphical educational resource for the medical and surgical communities provided by Lion Reef Software. The site contains two primary sections: Image Archive and Clinical Folios. The Vesalius Image Archive is a collection of images for sixteen regions of the human body. Its purpose is to give physicians a free, downloadable source of images that can be used for education and reference. Users with version 4.0 or better of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape can access images that can be highlighted and marked up with pointers and arrows and then downloaded. The Vesalius Clinical Folios are a "collection of short educational narratives designed for online reference and study. . . arranged by topic and presented in three basic formats: storyboards, procedures, and transparencies." Vesalius is located at <http://www.vesalius.com/> ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists books that have been recommended to me or that I have found particularly interesting and/or useful. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu Three books by Edward R. Tufte, Professor of Political Science, Statistics and Computer Science at Yale University <http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/faculty/tufte.html> THE VISUAL DISPLAY OF QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1983, reprinted 1992. ISBN: 096139210X ENVISIONING INFORMATION. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990. ISBN: 0961392118 VISUAL EXPLANATIONS: IMAGES AND QUANTITIES, EVIDENCE AND NARRATIVE. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. ISBN: 0961392126 All are recommended by William B. Sanders as excellent guides in designing information displays involving graphics and text. Sanders is with The University of Hartford Sociology Department, West Hartford, CT 06117 USA; email: wsanders@mail.hartford.edu For an online article on Tufte and his books, see "The Data Artist," by Scott Rosenberg, SALON MAGAZINE, March 10, 1997. <http://www.salonmagazine.com/march97/tufte970310.html> For more design guidance resources, see "User Interface Design: Bibliography" <http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-05.html> ...................................................................... To Subscribe CIT INFOBITS is published by the Center for Instructional Technology. 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