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2. Working with a pre-packaged collection (Digital Libraries in
Education)
You will need the Greenstone Digital Libraries in Education CD-ROM
Installing a pre-packaged collection
1. Insert your CD-ROM for the course Digital libraries in education into a Windows
computer. If the installation process does not start up straightaway (because the AutoPlay
feature is disabled on your computer), navigate to your CD-ROM/DVD drive (normally D:),
open the folder prebuilt, and double click on Setup.exe.
2. During installation you are offered a choice of folder to install in: we recommend the
default, which is C:\GSDL.
3. You are also presented with the option to run Greenstone from the CD-ROM or to copy the
entire CD-ROM. We recommend the latter: please check the box that says Install all
collection files. It will take at least a couple of minutes to copy the files across.

4. Finally, the installer offers to install the Netscape browser for you. Do not request this
except in the unlikely event that you do not already have a web browser on your computer.
CD-ROMs like this one that contain pre-packaged Greenstone collections do not include the full
Greenstone software. Instead they embody a mini version of Greenstone that allows you to view
the collection but not to build new ones.
Browsing around a Greenstone collection
5. To run Greenstone, open the Windows Start menu, Programs, and select Greenstone, then
the submenu item Digital Libraries in Education: then <Enter Library>.
6. Click the Digital libraries in Education collection’s icon. This takes you to the collection’s
home page, often called the “about” page.
The home page contains an access bar with buttons called search, contents, authors a–z,
modules, and acronyms. This access bar is the key to finding information in any Greenstone
collection.

7. Click <authors a–z>. A list of bookshelf icons appears. Click the one called Marchionini,
G. to see the two course readings by Gary Marchionini.
8. One of these items is a PDF file and the other is an HTML file. Click them both in turn to
open up the documents.
9. Click the <contents> button in the access bar. This shows two bookshelves, one for this
Study Guide and the other for the Course Readings. Choose one and look at what it
contains.
10. Clicking a bookshelf that is open closes it. Close the bookshelf you have just opened and
then choose the other one and examine its contents.

11. Click <acronyms> in the access bar and find the meaning of the acronym “LOM”.
12. Click <search> and search for the word “LOM”. Check out the difference between
searching text and searching titles (use the pull-down box on the search page).
13. Click the collection icon Digital Libraries in Education at the top left. This takes you back
to the collection’s about page.
Beneath the access bar on the collection’s about page is a search box (just the same as the
one that appears on the search page), a description of the collection under the heading
About this collection, and instructions on how to find information in this collection.
Above the access bar is the collection’s icon, saying Digital Libraries in Education. On
the right is an icon saying about, above which are three buttons, home, help, and
preferences.
14. Click <home>. This returns you to the Greenstone home page.

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