Re: Re[2]: URLs

Heath Rezabek (mailto:hrezabek@FIAT.GSLIS.UTEXAS.EDU)
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:40:11 -0600

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Date:         Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:40:11 -0600
From: Heath Rezabek <mailto:hrezabek@FIAT.GSLIS.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Re[2]: URLs
To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>

On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, M. Jessie Barczak wrote:

> Alex, see my posted message to the group. I really wonder whether it's
> worth the cataloging labor to try to maintain URLs?

I parenthetically wonder if anyone here has any reactions to the pheasability of implementing a scheme such as OCLC's proposed PURL system.. Anyone who's not looked through this notion can find the server at http://purl.oclc.org ... I'd be curious to hear reactions to this notion.

Heath M Rezabek mailto:hrezabek@gslis.utexas.edu http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~hrezabek/index.html GSLIS Masters Candidate University of Texas at Austin Technical Staff Assistant Perry-Castaneda Library EIC