9.11 FYI France: Internet Training & Consulting
Jack Kessler, Publications and Presentations
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by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us
Versions of the following have appeared online regularly, since 1992,
as a feature of the FYI France enewsletter, ISSN 1071-5916, which
is distributed for free via email every month except August. Enewsletter
subscriptions may be obtained via email request to: kessler@well.sf.ca.us.
Here this file is one of a number made available -- hopefully
attractively, all in one place, and relevant to libraries and online
digital information work in France and Europe -- as part of FYI France
(sm)(tm), an online service to which anyone can subscribe by postal
mailing a check for US $45, payable to Jack Kessler, to PO Box 460668, San
Francisco, California, USA 94146 (site licenses also are available):
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Internet Training & Consulting
Jack Kessler, Publications and Presentations
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1) Publications

- Active contributor (1990-current) to PACS-L (Public Access
Computer Systems), EXLIBRIS (Rare Books), and BIBLIO-FR
(French Librarians') electronic conferences on the Internet (copies of
postings available on request).
- Editor of FYI France ejournal (Spring 1992-current, ISSN
1071-5916): monthly report of networked information, information
retrieval, library news from and about France and Europe; global
circulation estimated 15,000 including electronic conferences. Archived
online in several locations: available on request from my own and other
gophers, Webservers, and listserv servers, via email, or in printed
copies. General description and index: the first is the "colophon" which
accompanies each installment --
FYI France ejournal | ISSN 1071-5916 |
FYI France (sm)(tm) e-journal ISSN 1071-5916
*
| FYI France (sm)(tm) is a monthly electronic
| journal published since 1992 as a small-scale,
| personal experiment, in the creation of large-
| scale "information overload", by Jack Kessler.
/ \ Any material written by me which appears in
----- FYI France may be copied and used by anyone for
// \\ any good purpose, so long as, a) they give me
--------- credit and show my email address, and, b) it
// \\ isn't going to make them money: if it is going
to make them money, they must get my permission
in advance, and share some of the money which they get with me.
Use of material written by others requires their permission.
FYI France archives may be found at http://infolib.berkeley.edu
(search fyifrance), or http://www.cru.fr/listes/biblio-fr@cru.fr/
(BIBLIO-FR archive), or http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/pacs-l.html
(PACS-L archive) or http://www.fyifrance.com . Suggestions,
reactions, criticisms, praise, and poison-pen letters all will be
gratefully received at kessler@well.sf.ca.us .
Copyright 1992- , by Jack Kessler,
all rights reserved except as indicated above.
FYIFrance archive index
(Subscribers may read the fulltexts of all of the FYI France
enewsletter issues listed below
in various locations online, and here on the FYI France Online
Service at the address,
http://www.fyifrance.com
/fyi3enws.htm .)
FYI France ejournal archive titles:
- 2013
- Best libraries-in-France resource, le BBF (15 Mar 13)
- New books, on libraries & the digital in France (15 Feb 13)
- Ariège, libraries digital & other (15 Jan 13)
- 2012
- Vint Cerf, the ITU, & digital libraries (15 Dec 12)
- Multilingual Cyberespace (15 Nov 12)
- Voltaire & Du Châtelet, 4 Sale? (15 Oct 12)
- Typography and Europe (15 Sep 12)
- Europeana digital library Newspapers Project (15 Jul 12)
- Grimaud, an Online Global Musical Évènement (15 Jun 12)
- FYI France: a few things to do there, this summer... (15 May 12)
- EXTRA: Books & Texts at MIT, May 3-4! (23 Apr 12)
- Ebooks ex-incunabula : standards, at last? (15 Apr 12)
- Multilingualism in an epub... what's an epub?... (15 Mar 12)
- Book History Workshop, Lyon, June 18-22 (15 Feb 12)
- "Do you have a book about horses?..." -- digital access (15 Jan 12)
- 2011
- L'Ardèche! (15 Dec 11)
- Online music research revolutions, in France (15 Nov 11)
- Recent books, and digital bibliography, in France (15 Oct 11)
- Project Gutenberg and the passing of Michael Hart (15 Sep 11)
- Front National resources update, digital+ (15 Jul 11)
- Paris the City, histories real & digital (15 Jun 11)
- Summer reading : Thinking Different, about The Digital (15 May 11)
- Indie Bookstores Fight Back (15 Apr 11)
- Ouradour-sur-Glane, Bibliothèque (15 Mar 11)
- Digital tortoise or digital hare? (15 Feb 11)
- Recent books on libraries, digital & other, in France (15 Jan 11)
- 2010
- "Internet, the knowledge revolution" (15 Dec 10)
- France.fr, & "LeLabo" @ LeBnf digital library (15 Nov 10)
- Online Actes Royaux at the BnF : seeing history (15 Oct 2010)
- The Roma in France, recent books ; and a Note about the Internet (15 Sep 2010)
- The library, atomized? (15 Jul 10)
- Ideas, from France & the rest of The Outside World? (15 Jun 10)
- A library in the Cévennes... (15 May 10)
- New books, Internet & libraries in France (15 Apr 10)
- Classes in The Book, in Lyon (15 Mar 10)
- A library in the Cher... (15 Feb 10)
- French e-books & e-libraries? (15 Jan 10)
- 2009
- GoogleBooks, the digital library wars (15 Dec 09)
- A library in the Vaucluse... (15 Nov 09)
- Digital and other music library resources (15 Oct 09)
- Google, views from France (15 Sep 09)
- EXTRA: GoogleBooks, the Settlement (Sep 8 09))
- Book history & Lyon, in September (15 Jul 09)
- Biblio-fr, a lament & celebration (15 Jun 09)
- Foucault, an exhibit at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon (15 May 09)
- Book History, Lyon in September! -- & a Homer Note (15 Apr 09)
- Darnton redux, on ebooks & digital libraries &, now, The Google Settlement (15 Mar 09)
- Victor Hugo e-booked, pace Jeanneney... la lutte continue... (15 Feb 09)
- Darwin and isms, in France (15 Jan 09)
- 2008
- La Chute, and "digital library" SDI about it (15 Dec 08)
- "The Digital Era and Vectoralism", by Hervé Le Crosnier (15 Nov 08)
- Recent books, on libraries and other things-digital in France (15 Oct 08)
- Smalltown digital libraries (15 Sep 08)
- Darnton on digital libraries (15 Jul 08)
- Wikipedia gone global (15 Jun 08)
- Libraries digital & other, Antibes-Juan les Pins (15 May 08)
- History of The Book classes, Lyon in September (15 Apr 08)
- Digital libraries, Drancy (15 Mar 08)
- Wikipedia in French, explored (15 Feb 08)
- Cataloging in France, a recon recap (15 Jan 08)
- 2007
- FYI France: recent books on libraries & information (15 Dec 07)
- Reading Victor Hugo, per Google & via iPhone (15 Nov 07)
- Digital libraries : BMLyon finding-aids online (15 Oct 07)
- Digital law libraries, the Cour de Cassation (15 Sep 07)
- The iPhone and Digital Libraries (15 Jul 07)
- Digital libraries: the BMLyon (15 Jun 07)
- A Carolingian digital library (15 May 07)
- The European Digital Library, europeana.eu (15 Apr 07)
- Digital libraries: St. Denis (15 Mar 07)
- Digital libraries: Narbonne (15 Feb 07)
- The French elections 2007, resources [bis] (15 Jan 07)
- 2006
- Collective authors -- "Roger T. Pédauque" (15 Dec 06)
- Library News-in-Depth, at the BM Lyon (15 Nov 06)
- Internet & digital library history -- BIBLIO-FR (15 Oct 06)
- 3 new digital library tools: GoogleEarth, Wikipedia, WikiMapia (15 Sep 06)
- Review of Livre, by Michel Melot (15 Jul 06)
- Printing Museum Lyon, summertime or anytime (15 Jun 06)
- Congratulations to the BBF, on its 50th birthday! (15 May 06)
- An interactive Info Management glossary, for French (15 Apr 06)
- EXTRA -- rare book losses at the Sorbonne? (Plus, a NEW FEATURE: The FRAY...) (21 Mar 06)
- The Arts, "contre" the Internet? (15 Mar 06)
- Review: Word Matters / Enjeux de mots: Regards multiculturels sur les sociétés de l'information (15 Feb 06)
- Les présidentielles, resources (15 Jan 06)
- 2005
- The riots: resources digital & other (15 Dec 05)
- The Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris (15 Nov 05)
- French culture overseas, Warsaw's Zaluski, Part 2 of 2 (15 Oct 05)
- EXTRA: Google co-founder Sergey Brin, online (5 Oct 05)
- French culture overseas, Warsaw's Zaluski, Part 1 of 2 (15 Sep 05)
- Summer reading... (15 Jul 05)
- Digital libraries, at Sélestat (?) (15 Jun 05)
- Google Inc., libraries digital & other (15 May 05)
- Stanford, on France -- the advantages of distance (15 Apr 05)
- Combining "college" & "public", in Clermont-Ferrand (15 Mar 05)
- Google digital library vs. France?... & vs. others? (15 Feb 05)
- New books from France, about the Internet (15 Jan 05)
- 2004
- l'Institut d'Histoire du Livre, & Google (?) (15 Dec 04)
- Mont St. Michel, the digital library (15 Nov 04)
- "Bibliothèques virtuelles" in France: recent books (15 Oct 04)
- Digital libraries at the old BN: the new INHA (15 Sep 04)
- Translating the French... (15 Jul 04)
- Publishing's Crisis, by Hervé Le Crosnier (15 Jun 04)
- Digital Convergence, in Education? (15 May 04)
- Voltaire digital library, Paris & St. Petersburg (15 Apr 04)
- Internet in France, 2004 (15 Mar 04)
- China at the BNdeF -- a Dunhuang Digital Library (15 Feb 04)
- April in Lyon, History of the Book (additional information) (15 Jan 04)
- 2003
- FYIFrance: new -- histories of libraries (15 Dec 03)
- April in Lyon, History of the Book (15 Nov 03)
- InfoScience research in France -- "The Document" (15 Oct 03)
- French periodicals online -- libraries, law, news (15 Sep 03)
- Places bookish, in Europe (15 Jul 03)
- Announcement from the Ecole Nationale des Chartes (15 Jun 03)
- Nearest library? For Conques, see Rodez... (15 May 03)
- Bibliothèques de France and d'Alexandrie -- digital links (15 Apr 03)
- Digital Law & Legal History (15 Mar 03)
- Digital Libraries in France -- a selection (15 Feb 03)
- EXTRA: Iraq War risks -- White House letter (27 Jan 03)
- The Romain du Roi -- the story of a font (15 Jan 03)
- 2002
- Hervé Le Crosnier on the Internet (15 Dec 02)
- The European Library Automation Group / ELAG (15 Nov 02)
- History of The Book resources -- at the Institut d'Histoire du Livre (Lyon), and the Ecole des Chartes (Paris),
plus, a Hugo Bonus! (15 Oct 02)
- Geert Lovink, and the return of Internet dreams? (15 Sep 02)
- The new "Provenance" database at Lyon (15 Jul 02)
- Mountaineering in France, online (15 Jun 02)
- Digital Library work in France (15 May 02)
- The Institut du Monde Arabe (15 Apr 02)
- Auxerre, online (15 Mar 02)
- Le Pen is baack! (15 Feb 02)
- New books, on the Internet & libraries in France (15 Jan 02)
- EXTRA: Jason Epstein, on the text-e econference (2 Jan 02)
- 2001
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France online treasures, of the
French and some other cultures (15 Dec 01)
- Focus -- INA / Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (15 Nov 01)
- FYI France EXTRA: the "text-e" e-conference (31 Oct 01)
- Medical libraries, in the era of "la poudre blanche" (15 Oct 01)
- Institut d'Histoire du Livre, and a note about la solidaritè... (15 Sep 01)
- France & the Internet, 2001 (15 Jul 01)
- The new Institut d'Histoire du Livre, at Lyon (15 Jun 01)
- La Francophonie -- Vietnam (15 May 01)
- French law online -- the Bibliothèque Cujas (15 Apr 01)
- The next Big Paris Project: Art History, at the old BN (15 Mar 01)
- A "City of Books" in France (15 Feb 01)
- The Musée Cluny, online (15 Jan 01)
- 2000
- Some good new books, and new ways to find more (15 Dec 00)
- Biblio-Fr -- the list, and the archive (15 Nov 00)
- The BNdF -- online library priorities, and a Sénat report... (15 Oct 00)
- FYI France EXTRA: "Amazon.fr" is open for business (20 Sep 00)
- Catalogue Collectif de France -- any book in France... (15 Sep 00)
- Amazon.fr? -- of nations and uncommon languages (15 Jul 00)
- Digital libraries, online cartography at Sciences Po (15 Jun 00)
- Two interesting new digital library sites in France (15 May 00)
- New books, on libraries/Minitel/Internet in France (15 Apr 00)
- Two new "digital libraries" (15 Mar 00)
- CSB Rapport -- French libraries, going into 2000 (15 Feb 00)
- Vitrolles -- who watches the watchers? (15 Jan 00)
- 1999
- Finding good French texts online -- INALF/CCRTI (15 Dec 99)
- John Ardagh's new book (15 Nov 99)
- Keeping up with your / the French -- IRCAM (15 Oct 99)
- New things at Lascaux, and BnF statistics (15 Sep 99)
- BU Lyon fire; BNF catalog now on W3 (15 Jul 99)
- Restricting the Internet? (15 Jun 99)
- Internet Child Safety -- Suggestions? (15 May 99)
- BNF Strike results -- the Minister's letter (15 Apr 99)
- Club of Rome bis: Nobelist Ilya Prigogine (15 Mar 99)
- The Club of Rome, and the globe's global view (15 Feb 99)
- For "Digital Library" Collections -- Europrix '98 (15 Jan 99)
- 1998
- BnF Strike, 1st labor action of the Information Age? (15 Nov 98)
- EXTRA -- the BNF On Strike! (23 Oct 98)
- BNF's "Catalan Atlas" online, "Ciel & Terre" (15 Oct 98)
- CSB reports news, on libraries in France (15 Sep 98)
- "How to Digitize a Nation..." (ALA redux) (15 Jul 98)
- "France: National Patrimony, 'Foreign' Digits" (ALA) (15 Jun 98)
- New books -- on Internet, libraries, books (15 May 98)
- "Digital Libraries" in France, 3: Bib. IU Médecine (BIUM) (15 Apr 98)
- EXTRA: Front National news -- a distant mirror? (25 Mar 98)
- "Digital Libraries" in France, 2: The BM Lyon's Enluminures (15 Mar 98)
- "Rencontres de BIBLIO-FR", Caen, April 3-6 (15 Feb 98)
- "Digital Libraries" in France 1: The BnF's Gallica (15 Jan 98)
- 1997
- New FYI France Resource List, on "The Front National" (15 Dec 97)
- Front National (reprise) and some good new books etc. (15 Nov 97)
- The New Information Profession, Chapter 2 -- Allies (15 Oct 97)
- The new Prime Minister => Internet a priority of France (15 Sep 97)
- The New Information Profession in France (15 Jul 97)
- Politics in France -- online resources (15 Jun 97)
- The New Information Profession, Chapter 1 -- Introduction (15 May 97)
- Front National: If you think "information wants to be free"... (15 Apr 97)
- Magazine Littéraire on Libraries (15 Mar 97)
- Bruno Mannoni on "Chopped Liver -- A Little Humor" (15 Feb 97)
- Jacques Lévy, Directeur, Ecole des Mines de Paris (15 Jan 97)
- 1996
- EXTRA: Opening of the Bib Nat.deFrance/F.Mitterrand! (18 Dec 96)
- Internet Digital Libraries, "France" chapter, parts 3&4 of 4 (15 Dec 96)
- Internet Digital Libraries, "France" chapter, parts 1&2 of 4 (15 Nov 96)
- Libraries & info control: M.Melot's proposal (15 Oct 96)
- FYI France: a (new) online library and information service (15 Sep 96)
- Summer reading -- getting ready for 1997 (15 Jul 96)
- Grandes Ecoles Symposium, May 27-30 (3 parts) (15 Jun 96)
- Conf.des Grandes Ecoles -- Multimedia (?) and France (15 May 96)
- E-conferences -- online discussion and research (15 Apr 96)
- Wiring schools: France vs. the US, RENATER and NetDay96 (15 Mar 96)
- Treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale at the Library of Congress, and now on W3 / the WorldWideWeb! (15 Jan
96)
- 1995
- French Libraries Online, Selected (15 Dec 95)
- National Library School online, & all France in '96? (15 Nov 95)
- JOCONDE -- The museums of France are online! (15 Oct 95)
- EXTRA -- BNdeFrance catalogue via W3 and telnet (22 Oct 95)
- France on the Internet -- telnet minitel.fr (15 Sep 95)
- "Autoroute de l'Information", several new books (15 Jul 95)
- French Libraries Online (15 Jun 95)
- Two W3 sites, culture and academic publishing online (15 May 95)
- Networking and Internet at the BibMun de Lyon (2 parts) (15 Apr 95)
- France on the Web -- recommended starting points (15 Mar 95)
- E-text and e-publishing -- a new, French, model? (15 Feb 95)
- EXTRA: the new French cave paintings, already online! (25 Jan 95)
- European MARC, Z39.50, SGML, and ECHO as a source (15 Jan 95)
- 1994
- French Libraries Online (Selected), and BNdF news (15 Dec 94)
- New French Info.Superhighway/Autoroute (2 parts) (15 Nov 94)
- Reliable Internet statistics, and the French! (15 Oct 94)
- France the Internet discovers France (15 Sep 94)
- Using Internet from Minitel ("Interoperability"?) (15 Jul 94)
- French Libraries Online (Selected) (15 Jun 94)
- News sources -- French libraries and networking (15 Mar 94)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France -- Dénouement (15 Feb 94)
- EXTRA -- changes (?) at the Bib.s Nationale & de France (22 Jan 94)
- French Libraries Online -- January, 1994 update (15 Jan 94).
- 1993
- Network Ideas from Europe -- Germany (2 parts) (15 Dec 93)
- The Grandes Ecoles, on the Future (3 parts) (15 Nov 93)
- Network Ideas from Europe -- Italy (2 parts) (15 Oct 93)
- EXTRA -- The Korean Manuscripts Caper!(?) (29 Sep 93)
- Network Ideas from Europe -- the European Community (15 Sep 93)
- E-mail to / from France, BdF news (15 Jul 93)
- Bib.de France politics, Online list, the BN (15 Jun 93)
- The Bib.de France -- bad news? Le Roy Ladurie speaks! (15 May 93)
- E-publishing, online, interactive, a fulltext example (15 Apr 93)
- EXTRA -- France/French on Usenet! (24 Mar 93)
- Chamonix Library, and the Alps, online (WAIS?!) (15 Mar 93)
- Bib.de France, preservation, and Umberto Eco (15 Feb 93)
- Wish-list, French book/library/network serials. (2 parts) (15 Jan 93)
- 1992
- Online French Fulltext, and InfoSci statistics! (15 Dec 92)
- Europe, at least, discovers the users (2 parts) (15 Nov 92)
- What interests Europeans? and some French dial-in opacs (15 Oct 92)
- "Europe"! (15 Sep 92)
- (Fermeture annuelle -- bonnes vacances) (15 Aug 92)
- Some new information sources (15 Jul 92)
- The Bib.de France at Berkeley (4 parts) (14 Apr 92)
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2) Presentations
(some proceedings available -- please see above)

"The Mad Hatter engages in Rhetoric." Image courtesy of: Project Gutenberg
- "Fulltext Online: Defining the Coming Flood", to the 13th National
Online Meeting, New York, May 5-7, 1992.
- "Ressources des Bibliothèques américaines accessible
sur l'Internet", to URFIST, the Unité Régionale de Formation
à l'Information Scientifique et Technique, Ecole Nationale des
Chartes, Paris, February 11, 1993.
- "Networked Libraries: non-Internet?", to the Northern California
Technical Processes Group, California Library Association, Vacaville,
California, April 22, 1994.
- "News from Europe", to the plenary session of ASIS, the American
Society for Information Science, Mid-Year Meeting, Portland, Oregon, May
22-25, 1994.
- "Networking in Europe: Market(ing) Criteria for Reaching the
'General Public' in Europe, Asia, and the US", to XeroxPARC Forum / MBONE
multicast, Palo Alto, CA, June 9, 1994.
- Classes on international library networking, San Jose State
University School of Library and Information Science, September 10 and 19,
1994.
- Interviewed in BIBLIO-FR French librarians' e-conference,
November 17, 1994. Archived at http://www.cru.fr/listes/biblio-fr@cru.fr/
.
- "Using the Internet for International Business", class taught for
the University of California Extension, April 8, 1995.
- "Preservation in the Digital Age: Whether To, What To, How To",
panel organizer and moderator, CARL, the California Academic and Research
Libraries annual conference, San Francisco, California, October 20-21,
1995.
- "The World Wide Web", presentation to the San Andreas Chapter of
SLA, the Special Libraries Association, Mountain View, California,
November 3, 1995.
- "Electronic Information Resources: Development Outside the US", at
Clark Library, San Jose State University, December 4, 1995.
- "Information and Society: the Future for the Information Professions", video presentation to distance-education
classes in San Jose and Fullerton, San Jose State University, December 4, 1995.
- Lectures to classes in "International Librarianship" and "Academic
Librarianship", San Jose State University School of Library Science,
February 20, 1996.
- Interviewed on the convergence of the Internet and Minitel, for an
article in The Link Newsletter (Yellow Pages Publishers'
Association, 1996).
- Organization and moderation of a session on "Multimedia and
Telecommunications", and demonstration and discussion of the WorldWideWeb,
Conférence des Grandes Ecoles / UC Berkeley / MIT International
Symposium III, Sophia Antipolis, France, May 27-30, 1996.
- Adjunct Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San
Jose State University, San Jose California, seminar on "Digital
Libraries", Fall Term 1996.
- Guest speaker, class in "Information and Society", San Jose State
University School of Library Science, March 3, 1997.
- Guest speaker, WESS / Western European Specialists Section,
Association of College & Research Libraries, American Library Association
Convention, Washington D.C., Summer 1998; address "How to Digitize a Nation...
France: National Patrimony, 'Foreign' Digits", available online at, http://fyifrance.com/fy1280a.htm
- Interviewed, "Un 'cube' star en Californie: Le Minitel a ses fans
chez les pionniers du Net", par Emmanuelle Richard, in
Libération Quotidien and Libération
Multimédia, November 27, 2001.
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