[WEB4LIB] Re: How to keep up

[Roy Tennant]

At 6:46 PM -0700 7/31/01, HTheyer wrote:
>slashdot.org  is a riot along with being useful.
>
>corrante "tech news, filtered daily" is also hot.
>
>Roy Tennant's Web managers reference center

Just to set the record straight, the Library Web Manager's Reference 
Center (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/RefCenter/) is now ably 
managed by Jerry Kuntz, jkuntz at rcls.org.
Roy

>
>all are indexed into the LII (http://www.lii.org)
>
>Hillary Theyer
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Masters, Gary E" <GEM at CDRH.FDA.GOV>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:53 AM
>Subject: [WEB4LIB] How to keep up
>
>
>>  I started out using Byte as my major source, if nothing else it was a
>great
>>  catalog of who was selling what.  Then InfoWorld took over as a major
>source
>>  of information.  During the 80's and early 90's, I could not miss an
>issue.
>>  I even worried about Pammy.  PC Magazine was a good fill in for some areas
>>  and reading Scientific American gave me a better idea of technology in
>>  general.  Since I was in a science library, the IEEE journals and some
>>  others (New Scientist, and even the New Yorker) kept me up to date.  Or as
>>  much as I needed.
>>
>>  However, InfoWorld does not review the same sort of products and the whole
>>  field has shifted.  I don't manage a network anymore, but take care of a
>web
>>  page and help people in our library use their computers.  It is getting
>>  difficult to find a source of information that will help me solve the
>latest
>>  questions I get about Microsoft office products, and my own about how to
>>  manage and create a web page for our Intranet.  This group is probably my
>>  best source of information, even when I just lurk.  I still like PC
>>  magazine, but they have drifted (or I have) away from the same focus.
>There
>>  used to be a time in the late 90's when I had to take every new issue to
>>  work to try a few ideas out.
>>
>>  So, to sum up, what are the best sources for a person who manages a web
>page
>>  and does computer support for a Windows NT system?
>>
>>  Is there another  list(s) that supplements this one?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Gary
>>
>>  Gary E. Masters
>>  Librarian (Systems)
>>  CDRH - FDA
>>  (301) 827-6893