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According to ZD journals, there are an estimated 1 billion web pages "out there" and none of the top 13 search engines catalog more than 300 million of them. About half of all Web pages are indexed by only one search engine, and not all the elided pages are purely personal. To tune up your web searching skills, visit Search Engine Showdown (http://searchengineshowdown.com). It will teach you searching strategies and provide you with search news, reviews, feature comparisons, and mountains of search data and statistics.
The upgraded version of Java WebPac has been loaded. For those libraries that already had working profiles, all is well. But for those libraries still need profiles (Dryden, Weedsport, etc.), the server is not connecting. I have a call into Dynix about this. For the working profiles, the biggest plus is that you can click on the printer icon that appears on pages where you have results displayed to print a text-formatted list of the titles in your results, rather than printing the picture of the screen, which uses up tons of ink.

GAIL MORRISON, Apalachin Reading Center, Director

Apalachin has The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition, c1997, and the 1999 Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs available if any library would like them. They were donated to us in excellent condition, and we already have copies on our shelves. Call or fax, Gail or Becky, 607-625-3333.