=============================================================================== RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA GOPHER =============================================================================== NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN' Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland GOPHER SERVER AND BOOKMARK Let's look at a Gopher server. Go to the screen "All the Gopher Servers in the World." ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 All the Gopher Servers in the World --> 1. Search Gopherspace using Veronica/ 2. ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education)/ 3. ACM SIGGRAPH/ 4. ACTLab (UT Austin, RTF Dept)/ 5. AREA Science Park, Trieste, (IT)/ 6. Academic Position Network/ 7. Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Slovakia)/ 8. Alamo Community College District/ 9. Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ 10. American Mathematical Society / 11. American Physiological Society/ 12. Anesthesiology Gopher / 13. Appalachian State University (experimental gopher)/ 14. Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server/ 15. Arabidopsis Research Companion, Mass Gen Hospital/Harvard/ 16. Arizona State University Gopher/ 17. Armadillo, the Texas Studies Gopher/ 18. AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center)/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/44 ******** Hundreds of servers are available. We'll go to the server running information from the Chronicle of Higher Education, it is number two in this listing (2. ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education)/.) Selecting number two gives us this screen: ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education) --> 1. NEW IN "ACADEME THIS WEEK". 2. INFORMATION from the August 25 Chronicle: a Guide/ 3. EVENTS IN ACADEME: August 24 to September 6/ 4. BEST-SELLING BOOKS on campuses. 5. JOB OPENINGS in Academe from the August 11 Chronicle/ 6. ABOUT THE CHRONICLE: subscriptions, advertising. 7. ABOUT "ACADEME THIS WEEK": Search tips and more/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ******** This screen gives us information about the Gopher server "Academe This Week." The Gopher items with a period at the end are text files. You may want to explore number seven which gives information about the server. I'm unemployed and looking for a new position, so I'm curious about the Gopher item that is a directory "Job Openings in Academe." We want to select item number 4--Job openings. The screen looks like this: ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 JOB OPENINGS in Academe from the August 11 Chronicle --> 1. SEARCH using The Chronicle's list of job titles/ 2. SEARCH using any word or words of your choosing/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ******** This one page information screen gives us two options. The second option is a directory that, when selected, will provide you with keyword searching of job titles in the Chronicle's job database. I'll take the first option, searching using the Chronicle's list of job titles. The screen looks like this: ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 SEARCH using The Chronicle's list of job titles --> 1. Faculty and research positions/ 2. Administrative positions/ 3. Executive positions/ 4. Positions outside Academe/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ******** More options. These are all directory items, so I'll retrieve additional directories from here. I'll select number 2, "Administrative positions." ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Administrative positions 1. Admissions and registrars' offices/ 2. Athletics/ 3. Business and financial affairs/ 4. Conference and events administration/ 5. Computer services/ 6. Counseling/ 7. Development and fund raising/ 8. Educational administration/ 9. Extension services/ 10. Facilities management/ 11. Financial aid/ 12. Health and medical-service administration/ 13. Human-resources administration/ 14. Grants administration/ 15. Institutional research/ 16. International programs/ 17. Legal counsel/ --> 18. Library administration/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2 ******** This is the first of two pages listing administrative positions. I have a masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, so I'll select the jobs listed under "Library administration" to see what I can see. ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Library administration 1. Acquisitions/Collection Mgmt -- Wake Forest University. 2. Assistant Director -- Library Computing Systems --. --> 3. Assoc. Director of the Library -- Nicholls State -- LA. 4. Dean of Libraries -- Eastern Washington University. 5. Engineering Librarians -- The Johns Hopkins University. 6. Executive Director -- SOLINET -- GA. 7. Head-Information and Online Services -- U of. 8. Librarian -- Bard College -- NY. 9. Librarian -- St. Louis University -- MO. 10. Library -- Delta State University -- MS. 11. Library -- Georgia State University -- GA. 12. Library -- Kenyon College -- OH. 13. Library -- Law -- Emory University -- GA. 14. Library -- Law -- U of South Carolina, Columbia -- SC. 15. Library -- Louisiana State U-Baton Rouge -- LA. 16. Library -- Ohio State University -- OH. 17. Library -- SUNY at Albany -- NY. 18. Library -- Southeastern Louisiana University -- LA. Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2 ******** I may be in luck! There are two pages of library administrative positions. Note that unlike previous screens all items have a period at the end instead of a slash. This means that these Gopher items are text files instead of directories. I'll take a look at one of the positions--here's one for Nicholls State University down in Louisiana. ******** Position: Assoc. Director of the Library Institution: Nicholls State University Location: Louisiana ***************************************************************** NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY Associate Director of the Library Nicholls State University is searching for an Associate Director of the Library. Specific responsibilities include: developing and allocating significant portions of the library operations budget; planning and providing for the continued implementation of library automation, managing the recruitment, training, evaluation and development of library personnel; consulting faculty, administrators, and other university personnel to facilitate programs; managing the library's facilities. Contributions as a professional and as a member of the university are required. The associate director /tmp/gopheAAAa14775 ******** That's great! I've found the position listings from the Chronicle of Higher Education on this server, and this is an extremely valuable service for those of us looking for work in academia. I can check into the server from home, office, or school using the Internet and Gopher. (Remember the Gopher prompt changes depending on your client and system.) The position description takes more than one screen, so I press the spacebar to continue reading the information. (I could use the letter "q" to quit if I'm not interested in this job description.) ******** with sensitivity to staff at all levels are essential for success in this position. Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience and qualifications. Twelve month administrative position. Deadline for initial review: February 15, 1994. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Send letter of application, resume, and three references to: Director of the Library, Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls State University, P.O. Box 2028, Thibodaux, Louisiana 70310. Nicholls State University is an equal educational institution, affirmative action employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 22, 1993 Categories: Library administration, Administrative Positions. ***************************************************************** Press to continue, to mail, to save, or

to print: ******** After reading the information, I'm given three options. I can e- mail the item back to my machine or to a friend if I think someone else would be interested in this job. I can save this item to a file or I can print it out. I'm not sure if my Gopher client is set up to print, so I'll save it as a file. ******** +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Save in file: Assoc. -Director-of-the-Library Nicholls LA | | Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter] | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Saving File... ******** I can give the file a new name if I want, I can cancel the process by entering ^G--that's control G, (hold down the ctrl key and hit the letter "G"), or I can press enter and accept the current name of the item as a file name. Well that's one position to look into, and I will probably look at several others. If you read the information I showed you earlier about this server, you will find that the job listings are updated weekly at noon EST on Tuesday. That means I'll want to check on this server once a week. That's a problem. Although getting around Gopher is pretty simple, it can become a royal pain once you know where you are going. Remember, I had to go through three screens to get to "All the Gopher Servers in the World" and then five screens to get to the actual list of jobs. Fortunately, the Gopher developers have a solution to my problem-- Bookmarks. Almost anywhere in "Gopherspace" I can add a gopher item to my personal bookmark list creating my own private Gopher menu. In this example, I want to go up a screen by hitting the letter "u" (which will take me back to the screen with "Library administration" listed), and I will add that directory listing to my bookmark by hitting the letter "a" to add the item. (If you forget how to add to your bookmark or move up a screen, remember to hit the "?" key for quick help.) Hitting the letter "a" gives me options to change the title of the item, cancel the process, or add the item to my bookmark list. ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Administrative positions 1. Admissions and registrars' offices/ 2. Athletics/ 3. Business and financial affairs/ 4. Computer services/ +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Name for this bookmark? Library administration | | [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter] | | +--------------------------------------------------------+ 12. Human-resources administration/ 13. Grants administration/ 14. Institutional research/ 15. International programs/ 16. Legal counsel/ --> 17. Library administration/ 18. Public affairs/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2 ******** I accept the name as is by pressing the enter key--I've now added the directory "Library administration" to my personal bookmark list. When I want to look at the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Library administration" job listings from anywhere in Gopherspace, all I need do is hit the letter "v" for view, and my bookmark menu will appear. Here is how it looks: ******** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Bookmarks --> 1. Library administration/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ******** Pretty barren. Don't worry though, we'll be adding to our bookmark menu throughout this course. Richard J. Smith smithr@clp2.clpgh.org The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Jim Gerland gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu State University of New York at Buffalo Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology Manager, Network User Support Services .