Only a few minutes : THANKS !!

[UNIVERSITEITSBIBLIOTHEEK KU NIJMEGEN]

Dear colleagues,

Last week I asked you what to do with a last minute planned 5-10 minutes 
WWW-demo for a bunch of bigwigs.
Well, at last I had 15-20 minutes to spend.
Not much time, but it could be done.

|| A lot of you advised not to go online, but to dowload pages and use 
|| them in a presentation program. PowerPoint was named quite a few times.

Yes, I was afraid for network congestions.
I liked the idea to make use of downloaded pages.
But it was too late to buy the specific software and learn to use it (1-2
days left).

|| A few mentioned the possibility to use netscape as replacement for
|| making sheets for an overhead projector.

|| Someone mentioned the existence of WebWhacker

I combined the advises you gave and I did the following:
0- PC with LCD screen, overhead-projector and wall screen
1- I made a html-page with logo, a header and a welcome-greeting 
   (plus clicking to a nice picture of the library)
   (plus klicking to  
2- a html-page with six basic terms (Internet, WWW, Hypertext, Homepage,
   Browser en HTML
3- Klicking on Internet geve a next page with (in <H1>) a 2-line description 
   with in it 'WWW' linking to a next page with 2 line-description of WWW. 
   In that page a link to a page with a 2-line description of hypertext.
4- The other terms were in 1-2 lines orally explained.
5- Clicking to a file that started a rather quick automatic presentation of 
   homepages of libraries/institutions/Whitehouse (showing the PR-value of 
   it for an institution) with finally stopping at our own homepage (and 
   hinting at the importance of it for our library users)
6- Via our own homepage I showed the existence of directories of 
   of information services for the university researchers/scholars.
7- From that I clicked (in the downloaded page I had made a link to another 
   downloaded file) to the Library shop of the Bodleian library (nice 
   stuff, look at it!), showed the order form.
8- Hinted at new document delivery systems  and clicked to a 'good 
   bye'-file

NB1 :   All used files, all used homepages were on the PC.
        I did not make any use of the network. For a demo in such a small 
        amount of time it is indeed advisable.  
NB2 :   I made it the way you didn't have to 'go back'. It was made
        only clicking and going.
Ad 5:   I connected the homepages to each other by building in the
        downloaded pages the option
        <META http-equiv="Refresh" content="3 ; url=filenaam.htm">
        Filenaam: in file A giving a refresh for file B
                  in file B giving a refresh for file C etc
                  in the last file no refresh
        Starting with file A gives a rather quick/smooth overwiew of 
        nice homepages. Quicker than you can do it yourself by the network.
        It showed well!
Ad all: I used WebWhack to download the homepages I used in the 
        presentation. I was the good software for the goals of this
        demonstration.
        I didn't have the time to learn all the ins-and-outs of this 
        software, but I did it this way.
        Via netscape I searched for demo-locations.
        I noted down the URL's of it.
        I left netscape
        I started WebWhacker, created/opended a file, added new URL's
        (the noted URL's) to it and started the option 'Whack'.
        WebWhacker downloaded the homepages (with all the .gif-files
        etc attached to it). One URL can give f.e. 10 downloaded items 
        (.htm-file with .gifs files).
        In the HTM-files I removed (with an editor) the message 'downloaded
        with ...', adapted some links (for linking to files in PC instead of 
        linking to a file on the network), made the 'Refresh'-options and
        made some extra links for smoothly going to another downloaded
        file on the PC.
        

Conclusion
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THANKS TO YOU THE DEMO WENT WELL!!
THANKS A LOT!!

Jaap Verbaas
Universiteitsbibliotheek Nijmegen
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J.Verbaas at ubn.kun.nl