Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l
Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:10:26 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      European Catalogs

4 Messages, 162 Lines.
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From: "Vidar Ringstroem" <vidarr@rosa.nbr.no>
Subject: RE: directory of european catalogs.

Try:

   Library bibliographic networks in Europe : a Liber directory / edited
   by Lorcan Dempsey. - 2nd ed. - The Hague : NBLC, 1992. - 110 p.

According to the backside of the cover, this book: "... brings together
in an accessible form descriptions of library bibliographic networks
throughout Europe. In this second edition nearly fifty detailed entries
are included covering networks from 15 European countries. The networks
which are described vary in size, scope and organisation but typically
support shared cataloguing services and union catalogue services by way
of a central database. Each entry includes details on the role and
management structure of the network, membership, size and content of the
database, hardware and software, network environment, operations,
central files, standards, finance and copyright, organisational links
with other bibliographic networks as well as a range of other practical
information."

It does not, as far I can see, register one of the most practical things
to know: an internetnet adress! (Only that a base is reachable via the
internet).

Oh well, hope this helps!

            -vidar
Vidar Ringstroem                       Email: vidarr@rosa.nbr.no
The National library. Rana             Phone: +47 87 21166
Box 278 N-8601 Mo i Rana NORWAY        Fax: +47 87 57506
"The narrow pursuit of knowledge only issues in quantities of informa-
tion that flit by in review, like sparrows hopping from branch to
branch"   - Gadjin Nagao
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From: UNIVERSITEITSBIBLIOTHEEK KU NIJMEGEN <J.Verbaas@ubn.kun.nl>
Subject: Re: directory of european catalogs.
Dear Janusz,

Use the Hytelnet-menus to look for internet-addresses.
Try for example to telnet to:-  du.edu
                                login   : atdu
                                choose in menu: hytelnet
                             -  access.usask.ca
                                login   : hytelnet
                             -  tolten.puc.cl
                                login   : hytelnet
                                password: hytelnet
                             -  nctuccca.edu.tw
                                login   : hytelnet
For the Netherlands the following information:
- Bibliotheek Rijksuniversiteit Limburg  (at Maastricht)
  X.25-Address  : 18802021934   (I don't know if you have to precede this
                  number in your case with for example a 0 :
                  ask your local network-expert)
  Telnet-address: ihol02.rulimburg.nl  (137.120.1.34)
  login         : opc
- Bibliotheek Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
  X.25-Address  : 12911019916
  login         : opc3
- Bibliotheek Erasmus Universiteit  (at Rotterdam)
  X.25-Address  : 12911023099
  X.25-Address  : 020430440141 (fellow world citizens outside the
                  Netherlands)
  Telnet-address: eurbib.eur.nl (130.115.1.106)
  login         : via menu
- Bibliotheek Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht
  X.25-Address  : 12911028099
  Telnet-address: ruut.cc.ruu.nl
  Type after request: brunet
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)  (i.e. National Library)
  X.25-Address  : 129110639
  login         : opc (also access via catalog Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
                       and probably already this month via menu other Dutch
                       catalogs)
- Bibliotheek Katholieke Universiteit Brabant  (at Tilburg)
  X.25-Address  : 18802026992
  Telnet-address: cat.kub.nl  (137.56.0.87)
  login         : cat
  (Campus information system: telnet  kublib.kub.nl
                                      login: kubgids)
- Bibliotheek Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
  X.25-Address  : 18802007099
  X.25-Address  : 02043044008499 (from abroad)
  login         : c kunopc  (after: 'session ... established' <return>
  NB: We are in a transition period!!
      In february/march we will offer you a new OPAC with enhanced search
      facilities!!
      The X.25-Addresses will be the same.
      The X.25 Address for the new OPAC is 188020752 (Login: opc)
      There will be also INTERNET/TELNET-addresses.
      You can try the new OPAC (not open yet for the Dutch public)
      with:
      telnet-address   kunlb1.ubn.kun.nl  (login: opc)
      (there will be an alias-address, more suitable for the public:
      opc.ubn.kun.nl) If this is official, then I will post it to the list.
      We are yet testing: so don't be angry if the new OPAC is not always
      available).
      Thanks to remarks made by members on this list (after I asked for the
      necessity of searching on 'full title' and not only on 'title words'),
      this searchtool is also included. You see the impact of this list!!!!
- Bibliotheek Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  X.25-Address  : 129110159
  Telnet-Address: 129.125.19.10
  login         : opc
- Bibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam
  X.25-Address  : 12911000099
  Telnet-address: ts1.sara.nl  (192.16.188.50)
  login         : uba
- Bibliotheek Vrije Universiteit  (at Amsterdam)
  Telnet-address: ubvucat.vu.nl  (130.37.128.201)

Good luck,


Jaap Verbaas
Universiteitsbibliotheek  (University Library)
Erasmuslaan 36
6525 GG  Nijmegen
The Netherlands
e-mail: J.Verbaas@ubn.kun.nl

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From: "O.M.Stone" <O.M.Stone@southampton.ac.uk>
Subject: directory of european catalogs
-
RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) Technical Report 1 is not
an exact match for what you are looking for, but may be of interest. Entitled
"User Support and Information Services in Europe: A Status Report" it provides
information on 21 national networks, 1 regional network (NORDUnet) and the
European networks CERN and EARN, with summary information, and email addresses
for further information, on the networked library catalogues available through
each system.

Anonymous FTP to:-
mailbase.ac.uk
It's /pub/rare-wg3-usis/rtr-usis-92

Or send message to: mailserv@file.nic.surfnet.nl
with the following in the message part:
send rare/RTR/RTR1.txt (or RTR1.ps)

Hope this helps

Oren Stone                                    Internet: o.m.stone@soton.ac.uk
Southampton University Library            Tel. UK (0703) 592406/592180/593697
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From: Torsten Wesley Adair <torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu>
Subject: Re: directory of european catalogs.
> I'm looking for directory of european network reachable library catalogs
> ( internet, X.25 and other ). I think that it may be interesting to other
> pacs-l subscribers too. Where can I get it from ?

        Hytelnet is an index of library catalogs accessible on-line.  It
does not connect directly, but instead gives the address and login
information of the library.  I don't know the address off hand, since the
local university system has it on a menu.

Torsten Adair   torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu        Omaha, NE
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU