The Perfect Gift... A Subscription To Great Museum, No Lines The Jewish News JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT From the beginning, an idea behind the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was to use the facility as the centerpiece of a network of resources that could help scholars and ordinary people alike come to terms with the enormity of the Nazis' crimes. Inevitably, that goal brought the museum onto the World Wide Web, the part of the In- ternet that uses advanced graphics and hypertext "links" to bring together dizzying quan- tities of information. A new Web site offers all the basics about the museum, in- cluding hours of operation, in- formation about tickets and updates on current and upcom- ing exhibitions. You also can find transcripts of recent lectures on Holocaust- related subjects, although the offerings here are some- what meager. And the site of- fers a glimpse of special exhibi- tions—right now, a popular exhibit on the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. But there's more: using the kind of interactive technology that has made the Web the trendiest neighborhood on the Internet, the site allows visitors to tap the museum's prodigious libraries. The results are more like a card catalogue than a complete database; don't expect to find de- tailed information about ances- tors who may have perished. But the sophisticated query sys- tem does provide pointers to the books and papers available at the museum and at other Holo- caust-related institutions around the world. As visitors are reminded, this site is still under construction, a caution that seems to hold true for about half the sites on the World Wide Web. The museum home page is particularly weak in links to other Holocaust-related Web sites. Hundreds exist, but so far, the museum home page offers links to only a few. 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