Advice on Community Contacts page
(assembled for Barron Park Residents)
Advice on
(telnet)
This is TELNET access, not a Web page
(you are using the same software as on the dumb terminals
in the library branches).
The login name is "library" (stated in the banner as of this writing)
with no password.
You need to know the terminal type that your browser uses
for telnet connections.
For example, "XTERM", "VT100"
You need to go through several screens before you actually get
to the catalog.
You can use the catalog to locate a book: which branch(es),
if it is checked out and when it is due.
You can also use this session to check on what you have checked out
(you need to enter your library card number).
Read the bulletin board screens that come up when you first connect
to find out more information about the system.
There is also a similar link in the city's
under Library
that does not work on some systems.
If this link does not work for you, try theirs.
E-Mail to Palo Alto City Government
Most city staff can be reached via e-mail, using the scheme:
FirstName.LastName@CityOfPaloAlto.org
Previous format: FirstName_LastName@city.palo-alto.ca.us : note that the underscore between first and last names has become a dot and that the domain name has changed.
For example: john.smith@CityOfPaloAlto.org
Getting the right e-mail address may involve some guessing:
Some city staff are listed in the directory
under variants of their official names
(for example, "Bill" for "William", "Sue" for "Suzanne"),
The underscore between the first and last names may be omitted
(this was the scheme announced in the Palo Alto Weekly),
A hyphen may occur in place of the underscore.
The city is planning to make an e-mail address directory available
in the "near future" (said in 8/95).
It has (long) been suggested that the city include "mailto" links
on the staff directory page, but ...
California State Assembly Web Site
Warnings as of May 1997
This site is often very, very slow:
graphics-intensive and seems to be underpowered
(no comment on inferences/jokes about the parent organization).
For those who have their browser options set to
show an alert box before accepting a cookie:
this site requests a lot of cookies to even let you in the door
(again, no comment).
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