The new and improved Kinema Club

[Abe' Mark Nornes]

The new and (hopefully) improved Kinema Club is not online. It dispenses
with the old design, a relic of the early internet, and organizes things in
a far easier structure. There are a number of new features:

---A section on "searching" for this and that.
---A section archiving whatever we want, since we are all historians of one
stripe or another. For the time being, you'll find the two older versions of
Kinema Club in there for posterior's sake.
---A section on teaching that includes syllabi, paper assignments and the
like. There are a few syllabi for classes being taught this fall that will
come online in the near future. As you look at this section, I hope you'll
consider adding your own.
---A section for KineJapan that includes a faq and simple explanations for
how to join and how to sign off (now no one has an excuse for losing the
instruction sheet!). There are also instructions for using the archive. This
will become its own page when the web interface is working. Maureen has
spent a bundle of her own money to allow _us_ to do this, which means that
its going to take some of her time and her staff's time to make it happen.

And a few other thing's you have to find for yourself. Go explore, and tell
us what you think. There are still a lot of little mistakes, some of which I
know about and some of which I have yet to notice. I'd like to hear about
these.

Finally, I would like to think Maureen Donovan, our host for Kinema Club and
KineJapan and Ohio State, for all the work she's done. Neither would be
possible without her technical, financial and, yes, moral support. She has
taken time from a terribly busy schedule to help us renovate Kinema
Club...and this is only the most recent of many such times.

Markus

Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html