Riley R A, Shipman B L
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library, Little Rock 72205-7186, USA.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1995 Apr;83(2):221-7.
Gopher software has emerged rapidly as a powerful tool for providing library users with organized access to Internet resources. Building and maintaining Gophers is one way in which librarians' traditional knowledge and skills are being applied in a nontraditional area. In March 1992, the University of Michigan's ULibrary Gopher was created, mainly as a means of providing access to U.S. Census data and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Bulletin Board. In an effort to broaden the scope of the Gopher, librarians were asked to submit ideas for new resources to access. The result was the ULibrary Gopher Working Group, a team of eighteen librarians from six libraries on campus. The Alfred Taubman Medical Library staff drafted a menu design for life sciences resources and received basic UNIX training. In March 1993, the life sciences section of ULibrary became fully operational and now is maintained by the Taubman staff. This paper describes the history of the ULibrary Gopher and the working group, the creation and ongoing maintenance of the life sciences area of the Gopher, staffing issues, and the relationship of Gopher building to traditional collection development.
Gopher软件迅速崛起，成为为图书馆用户提供对互联网资源进行有序访问的强大工具。构建和维护Gopher是图书馆员将其传统知识和技能应用于非传统领域的一种方式。1992年3月，密歇根大学的ULibrary Gopher创建，主要作为获取美国人口普查数据和美国商务部经济公告板的一种手段。为了扩大Gopher的范围，图书馆员被要求提交访问新资源的想法。结果成立了ULibrary Gopher工作组，这是一个由来自校园内六个图书馆的18名图书馆员组成的团队。阿尔弗雷德·陶布曼医学图书馆的工作人员起草了生命科学资源的菜单设计，并接受了基本的UNIX培训。1993年3月，ULibrary的生命科学部分全面投入使用，现在由陶布曼的工作人员维护。本文描述了ULibrary Gopher和工作组的历史、Gopher生命科学领域的创建和持续维护、人员配备问题以及构建Gopher与传统馆藏发展的关系。
