Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 22:58:28 CST
From: Patrick Douglas Crispen 
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Subject: TOURBUS - NOVEMBER 16 -- PROJECT BARTLEBY

TOURBUS - NOVEMBER 16, 1995
TODAY'S STOP: PROJECT BARTLEBY
TODAY'S ADDRESS: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/


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In two days, the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn Tiger
football teams will meet on the playing field at Jordan Hare stadium
in one of the biggest rivalries in American college football history.
And, as tempted as I am to tell an Auburn joke (such as "How many
Auburn University football players does it take to change a light bulb?"
(Answer: "One, but he gets three hours of college credit for it")),
I'm bigger than that. :)

Today's stop, instead, will focus on yet ANOTHER of my favorite
sites on the Net: Columbia University's Project Bartleby.  Project
Bartleby, named after Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, The
Scrivener," is another online library.  What makes Project Bartleby
so special, however, is that each of the books in its library is written
in the form of individual Web pages (with hyperlinks from chapter
to chapter).

Unfortunately, because the books are in hypertext format, you can
only access Project Bartleby through the World Wide Web.  If you
only have e-mail access to the Internet, you probably should first
take a look at Dr. Bob's guide "Accessing the Internet by E-mail."
To find out how to retrieve Dr. Bob's guide for free, just send
an e-mail letter to

     LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU

which says

     GET NEWUSER PACKAGE F=MAIL

in the body of your e-mail letter.

For those of you who already have Web access, you can find
Project Bartleby on the World Wide Web at

     http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/

While Project Bartleby's shelves are pretty bare, the books that
they do have online make Project Bartleby one of the most valuable
resources on the Net.  Here is their complete library:

   * Bartlett, John. 1901. "Familiar Quotations, 9th ed."
   * Chapman, George, trans. 1857. "The Oddysseys of Homer"
   * Dickinson, Emily. 1896. "Poems"
   * Innaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
   * Keats, John. 1884. "Poetical Works."
   * Melville, Herman. 1853. "Bartleby, the Scrivner. A Story
     of Wall Street."
   * Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1901. "Complete Poetical Works."
   * Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. "The Elements of Style."
   * Whitman, Walt. 1900. "Leaves of Grass."
   * Wilde, Oscar. 1881. "Poems"
   * Wordsworth, William. 1888. "Complete Poetical Works."

That may not seem like a whole bunch, but take another look at
what the folks at Project Bartleby offer.  If you are a college
student who is just now starting to write those english term
papers that were due back in August, both Bartlett's "Familiar
Quotations" (man, Bartlett sure did say a lot of familiar stuff)
and Strunk's "The Elements of Style" are going to come in handy.
If you are looking for proof that men have NEVER asked for
directions, the story of Odysseus (in Homer's Oddysseys) should
pretty much nail that one down tight.  And, if you know anyone
who says "I would prefer not to" a lot, Melville's short story
"Bartleby" is for you :)

That's really all I can say about Project Bartleby.  This is a
rather short Tourbus stop, but I hope that it will come in handy :)


TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
--------------------------------

BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

(Special thanks goes to Annabel Henley for today's wurd).


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