FYIFrance: "Autoroute de l'Information", several new books In France, the "Information Superhighway" -- sorry, the "Autoroute de l'Information" -- has caused an explosion of excitement and feverish publication activity, one almost as great already as that which is coursing across the US. Some of the fever is reported here. There have been many installments of FYIFrance devoted to digital resources in the French networked information explosion. Breaking with this precedent, a few new and interesting paper - and - cardboard - book resources are listed here. For friends in France, French friends elsewhere, all Francophiles, and those Francophobes who persist in thinking of the French as "technological dinosaurs", here are several very interesting new things to read. For Internetters (Internauts?), as always in FYIFrance, here is further proof that it's not just an "anglo - saxon" online world. (Thanks to the libraries of the University of Caen for sharing, via telnet, their apparently - imposing collection of technology and scientific resources, and their fine access and bibliographic record formatting: all increasingly - indispensable services in this age of international serials and book budgets cutbacks, on both sides of the Atlantic -- I have found few of what follows in any libraries outside of France.) The Autoroute de l'Information in France: some new books 1) Policy and Controversy (this _is_ France): Les autoroutes de l'information : rapport au Premier ministre Thery, Gerard La Documentation francaise, 1994. - 127 p. (ISBN : 2-11-003255-3) Collection : Collection des rapports officiels Source of the storm, written by the Father of the Minitel who, while he didn't exactly invent Minitel, was responsible for shepherding it successfully through the Paris bureaucracy, which in France amounts to substantially the same thing. Les autoroutes de l'information : mythes et realites Sandoval, Victor Hermes, 1995. - 122 p. : fig. (ISBN : 2-86601-459-6) Inevitable. They say that if you get two of the French in a room you have an argument, or... Les teleservices en France : quels marches pour les autoroutes de l'informations ? Breton, Thierry La Documentation francaise, 1994. - 615 p^. : fig. , tabl. (ISBN : 2-11-003240-5) Collection : Collection des rapports officiels La circulation de l'information a travers les reseaux RENATER et INTERNET : actes du colloque organise le 11 fevrier 1994 a Paris Groupement francais de l'industrie de l'information (GFII) (Dir.) ; Colloque sur la circulation de l'information a travers les reseaux RENATER et INTERNET (Paris ; 1994) GFII, 1994. - Pagination multiple The way the French do this: centralization -- Paris et le de'sert... -- the national government's RENATER project put an Internet plug in every institution of higher learning in the country in 1994 -- still not a lot of things out there to put into that plug, but they're working on that, too. Les nouveaux maitres du monde La Baume, Renaud de ; Bertolus, Jean-Jerome Belfond, 1995. - 232 p. (ISBN : 2-7144-3253-0) Some title! Can't wait to read it just for that. Et Dieu crea l'Internet... Huitema, Christian Eyrolles, 1995. - 201 p. (ISBN : 2-212-08855-8) Even better title, and this time by one of the long - time Internet Society leaders. 2) General Introductions: Internet pour les nuls Levine, John R. ; Baroudi, Carol Sybex, 1994. - XIX-352 p. (ISBN : 2-7361-1298-9) To begin at the beginning... L'Internet pour nous autres Sanouillet, Anne Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Centre du XXIe siecle, 1995. - 31 p. A French intro, better - titled and reputed than the first. Internet... tout de suite ! Butler, Mark ; Bradshaw, Steph (Ill.) ; Pierchon, Cecile (Trad.) Dunod, 1994. - IX-149 p. : fig. (ISBN : 2-10-002463-9) Version anglosaxonne, if in translation. Sesame pour internet : initiation au reseau planetaire LaQuey, Tracy ; Gore, Al (Pref.) ; Saint-Leger, Olivier (Trad.) ; Su, Jean-Baptiste (Trad.) ; Condat, Jean-Bernard (Adapt.) Addison-Wesley, 1994. - XI-242 p. (ISBN : 2-87908-083-5) Version anglosaxonne again, but a very useful one in any language. (Is that "sesame" as in "Open, sesame!"?) Internet Condat, Jean-Bernard ; Pioch, Nicolas J.C.i, 1994. - VI-225 p. (ISBN : 2-921599-06-6) Two well - known French Internet names: Pioch is the young and brash WebLouvre designer who won the enmity of the older and larger and less - digitized Louvre, and a Best of Web award, for his pioneering work. Internet : guide de connexion. - 3e tir. Andrieu, Olivier Eyrolles, 1995. - VI-239 p. (ISBN : 2-212-08900-7) Le monde Internet : guide & ressources. - 2e ed. Krol, Ed O'Reilly, 1995. - XXIX-543 p. : fig. , tabl. (ISBN : 2-84177-000-1) L'officiel d'Internet Andrieu, Olivier Eyrolles, 1995. - XI-253 p. (ISBN : 2-212-08904-X) La bible Internet Mora, Frederic Addison-Wesley, 1995. - XII-359 p. : disquette 3 pouces et demi encartee in fine (ISBN : 2-87908-105-X) France is a religious country. Cles de contact pour l'Internet Saint-Leger, Olivier ; Pigot, Thierry Sybex, 1995. - XIV-298 p. : diquette 3 pouces et demi encartee in fine (ISBN : 2-7361-1553-8) 3) Technical: Une Introduction a TCP/IP Davidson, J. ; Bazet, Ph. (trad.) ; Bousquet, P. (trad.) Masson, 1991. - 86 p. (ISBN : 2-225-82521-1) Collection : Manuels d'informatique Masson TCP/IP : administration de reseau Hunt, Craig ; Larsen, Renaud (trad.) Addison-Wesley, 1992. - XII-564 p. (ISBN : 2-87908-030-4) Collection : Nutshell Le routage dans l'internet Huitema, Christian Eyrolles, 1995. - XIV-417 p. (ISBN : 2-212-08902-3) 4) Applications: Projet DESS : Transfert des listes de diffusions Internet vers Minicom Renaudineau, Christian ; Le Crosnier, Herve (Dir.) Universite de Caen, 1994. - 43 f. E - conferencing, a` la franc,aise -- under the direction of the moderator of the BIBLIO-FR e - conference, Herve' Le Crosnier. Modifications techniques et modifications des usages : dix ans de reseau a l'IMAG (Institut d'informatique et de mathematiques appliquees de Grenoble). Tome I Heres Renzetti, Francoise ; Tetu, Jean-Francois (Dir.) Universite de Grenoble 3, 1994. - V-IV-382 p. : fig. A model informatised library. L'Internet professionnel : temoignages, experiences, conseils pratiques de la communaute enseignement & recherche (choix, installation et utilisation de logiciels sur Macintosh, PC et stations Unix) Simaray, Alain (Coord.) ; Archimbaud, Jean-Luc (Red.) ; Aumont, Serge (Red.) ; Bisiaux, Guy (Red.) ; CNRS-Universite CNRS, 1995. - 448 p. : fig. en noir et en coul. (ISBN : 2-271-05256) 5) Last but hardly Least: Les nouveaux maitres du monde La Baume, Renaud de ; Bertolus, Jean-Jerome Belfond, 1995. - 232 p. (ISBN : 2-7144-3253-0) A final great title. L'homme numerique Negroponte, Nicholas ; Garene, Michele (Trad.) R. Laffont, 1995. - 295 p. 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