As many people are discovering, surfing the Internet is not as easy as described in many of the first wave of Internet how-to books. The Internet Troubleshooter, a compact question-and-answer book, addresses such problems as: I sent a message to a mail address - why won't it go through?; I opened a file I'd transferred from another computer, and it's scrambled; I'm getting flooded by mail from a discussion list - how do I turn it off?. An index, section dividers, screen illustrations, and real-life examples should make solutions easy to find, understand, and enact.

Some libraries have become community gateways to the world of the Internet. Here are 18 reports on how they did it and what is happening now. They aim to show you how to become a player in the local information community, linking patrons to Net services with enhancements that only librarians can offer. This text deals with organisation, governance and use of Internet services in all types and sizes of library agencies, from Stanford University's immense electronic matrix to one-telephone libraries in rural New York State.

A collection of actual, successful examples of Internet programs used on a daily basis in elementary, middle and high schools from across the United States. They provide ideas for teaching mathematics, science, history, literature, music and more. This volume features examples such as: a French class in which students are exploring French periodicals on the Net and then downloading them to practice language skills; an earth science class in which students look at daily weather data from a Gopher server, use the data to draw a map of the US and invent a forecast for the next day, and then...