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Poster: Debbie Abilock <debbie@NUEVA.PVT.K12.CA.US>
Subject: Re: new AM home page
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Hi Everyone:
The check-box search page
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
is a wonderful idea. I can send students to this to limit their searching
to a couple of collections, or they can come back to it when they have a
better idea of the content of specific collections. Bravo!
Debbie Abilock
The Nueva School
6565 Skyline Blvd.
Hillsborough, CA 94010
debbie@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us
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irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known,
but to question it." (Jacob Bronowski)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Memory Fellows [mailto:AMFELLOWS@loc.gov]On Behalf Of
> Judith K. Graves
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 5:40 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list AMFELLOWS
> Subject: new AM home page
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
> The AM page designer has this page for testing:
>
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index2.html
>
> "In addition to moving the link to the top, it also has an additional
> JavaScript
> routine that automatically forwards to the home page if the browser has
> a version of JS that does not run the slide show. IE 3.0 has this
> problem. Users with pre-3.0 browsers will still be stuck without
> animation."
> -quote from the designer.
>
> Tell me if you think this might be better - or not.
>
> Judy
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> Judith K. Graves
> Education Resources Specialist
> National Digital Library Program
> Library of Congress
> Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
> jgrav@loc.gov
> (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
>
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