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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:21:24 MEZ
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From:         Ruediger Gaensfuss <GANSFUS@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Subject:      Re: How to Handle Long String Var?

In article <SPSSX-L%92100614432082@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>, GR3461@SIUCVMB.BITNET says:
>I have a question, which may not be hard to do, but hard to explain. Let
>me try my best.
I haven't understood what you want to do? Why do you need SPSS for your
string-variables?

>1) How should I handle those words longer than 8 characters.
>  example:  I put Southern Illinois Universi ty
>I want to output looks like: Southern Illinois University, how can I get
>rid of blank between si and ty
If you only need the output: Use WRITE OUTFILE
name1 1-8 name2 9-16 name 3 17-24 name4 25-32 will produce
SouthernIllinoisUniversity
>3), If I use fix format, how can I get rid of blank between 2 short words
Again, I've the impression that SPSS isn't a usefull programm to solve
your problems.

RUEDIGER GAENSFUSS (GANSFUS@DMSWWU1A.BITNET) UNIVERSITY OF MUENSTER, GERMANY
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From:         "Daud R. Matthews 1-467-5731 (off) 1-4" <D03T005@SAKSU00.BITNET>

Subject: Request for info
We would appreciate any help. We run SPSSx but ..... an agent has
recently been appointed in the Kingdom who seems to know next to nothing
about current releases. The International Support Office has moved from
the Netherlands to the UK and we are no longer aware of current
releases.
We would appreciate:
full information on current releases of SPSSx for VM, and SPSSx for PC's
both WINDOWS and non-WINDOWS versions, and if there is a network
version? If anyone could also supply the current version of SPSS, that
would also help. Thanx in advance.
Daud R. Matthews: Technical Support Manager, Computer Centre,
                  King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
                           (D03T005@SAKSU00.BITNET)
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From:         bmark@mcis.messiah.edu
Subject:      Re: Internet Brochures

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Chris:

I'm sure you'll be swamped with requests.  I would like to see
your Internet brochure for novices.  Now, here my ignorance comes
in--do I need to mail you a disc or can we do this via Internet?

              Beth Mark
              bmark@mcis.messiah.edu

PS If I need to mail, please send address.
From: JOHNSA@CITADEL.BITNET (Alan Johns (803) 792-5160)
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I note from your message you use Logicraft. Have your people been
experiencing the same problems with Logicraft as we have? It has been
very troublesome here, with frequent downtime, intolerable slowness,
and general lack of smoothness whenever a new update is added.
From: williams@cnc.bc.ca (Lynda Williams)
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Subject: Re: LIBRARY AND REFERENCE HOURS
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:17:37 GMT
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I experienced a 24 hour library facility at the University of
Alaska, Fairbanks.  The attraction was terminals, however, not
reference staff.  Students could work through the night on
assignments, and some did.  A lot of late night traffic was
devoted to game playing, however.  Students also had access to
use e-mail.
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Subject: Re: Noise
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:49:39 GMT
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In article <Pine.3.05.9210160821.A24233-a100000@jculib.jcu.edu.au>, Jean
Dartnall <lbjad@groper.jcu.edu.au> says:
>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>How do other academic libraries handle the problem of noisy users ? Does
>anyone have clever ideas about this ?
>
>Our problem is that many users object to high noise levels while other
>users object to being asked to be quiet (even if we had the staff
>available to patrol, which we don't). It always seems to me to be a shift
>from our usual attitude of trying to be helpful and pleasant to everyone
>to become stern about noise yet if we don't we neglect our duty to other
>clients.

   As a Tech Services guy, my input on this issue should be taken with a
grain (or even a pillar) of salt.  However, I don't think that by insisting
on maintaining an atmosphere conducive to research we are undercutting our
"helpfulness" as librarians.  People who are talking to each other can probably
do so anywhere they want; people who are doing library research, however, must
do it in the library and ought to be able to expect the library to be a
suitable place for such work.  I'm not advocating kicking out every patron who
mutters something to a friend or clears her throat or whatever, but I do think
that when librarians ignore patrons who are being noisy they do a disservice
to the other patrons which far outweighs the "service" they provide the talkers
by ignoring them.
   Maybe I'm sounding shrill.  But I really believe that librarians in general
are too timid about asking people to take their loud conversations elsewhere.
Rather than making people feel unwelcome in the library, I believe that such
a policy pursued in a courteous and firm manner will make people more confident
in their library's ability to do what they really want it to do anyway --
that is, to facilitate their information-seeking.

>
>I'd be interested in other people's ideas.
>Jean

      Rick "Patrons? *You* worry about patrons. I'm in Acquisitions" Anderson
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 10:57:50 EDT
From:         Beverley Ruth Shirley <bshirley@tenet.edu>
Subject:      Recycling library

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One of our government agencies is developing a recycling library.  They
are focusing their collection on materials that deal with purchasing
recycled materials, especially materials used for construction.  They have
employed the assistance of the local library school for literature
searches (via DIALOG), but need to go beyond the articles on "Building
your home from recycled tires" that they have retrieved.  If anyone knows
of persons they could contact, organizations or associations (preferably
U.S.-based groups), or materials (bibliographies, directories, etc.) on
purchasing and using recycled materials, please respond to me.  I will be
happy to forward the information I collect to other interested individuals.

Beverley Shirley
Texas State Library
INTERNET: bshirley@tenet.edu
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Subject: RE: Current Contents on Diskette
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:07:31 GMT
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ISI provides samples of all their products.  We usually ask for them in case
faculty want to t
est drive one.  We find most of ISI's products to be high-
quality and would purchase any of them if we could afford the cost.  Current
Contents for the social sciences might be somewhat less expensive than Current
Contents for the basic and life sciences.  Cost is the issue, not quality in
my opinion.

SUNY HSC Library at Syracuse
Hannah King
kingh@snysyrv1
kingh@vax.cs.hscsyr.edu
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:50:34 EDT
From:         "Barbara Wittkopf at LSU" <NOTBJW@LSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: TDD Equipment

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I can't give you a name of a person but I can provide you an address:
Ultratec, 450 Science Drive, Madison WI 53711  (608) 238-5400.
We've been very pleased with the TDD machine at our reference desk.
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Please respond directly to Steve Herro and not to LIBREF-L, thanks,
Gladys.

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Colleagues:

I need your help.  If you respond directly to me, I will
summarize for the list.

A patron is looking for information regarding the origin of
television in St. Lucia.  Specifically, what year did tv first
appear there?

Also, what was the literacy rate in St. Lucia the year that tv
came to the island?

We have already checked the following sources:  WorldCat
(FirstSearch of OCLC), Statistical Yearbook (United Nations and
UNESCO), World in Figures, Europa Yearbook, FactSearch
(FirstSearch of OCLC), World Almanac, Statesman's Yearbook,
Statistics Sources, Demographic Yearbook, and International
Television Almanac.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Herro
St. Norbert College Todd Wehr Library
herrsj@sncac.snc.edu
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From:         Barbara Zybert <EZYBERT@KENTVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Spanish language encyclopedias
              6 Oct 1992 08:41:54 EDT from <lrobare@jupiter.Willamette.EDU>

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I would greatly appreciate any information about content of the course
"bibliotherapy" which is run in American Schools of Library and Information
Science. Thanks in advance.
Barbara Zybert
EZYBERT @ KENTVM. BITNET
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Date: 16 Oct 92 19:31:14 GMT
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
From: "Janet Stewart"  <JANET@delphinus.lib.umb.edu>
Date:     16 Oct 92 12:30:06 EDT
Subject:  Re: Noise

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> How do other academic libraries handle the problem of noisy users ? Does
> anyone have clever ideas about this ?
>
> Our problem is that many users object to high noise levels while other
> users object to being asked to be quiet (even if we had the staff
> available to patrol, which we don't). It always seems to me to be a shift
> from our usual attitude of trying to be helpful and pleasant to everyone
> to become stern about noise yet if we don't we neglect our duty to other
> clients.
>
> I'd be interested in other people's ideas.
> Jean

Jean

One way to handle such a problem is to designate rooms, floors or
areas which are totally silent.  These areas should be well marked,
and those persons wanting total silence should use these areas and
can be referred to theses areas if they complain about noise.

Janet


Janet Stewart
Janet@delphinus.lib.umb.edu
Healey Library
University of Massachusetts at Boston
Boston, Ma
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Like Dawn Thistle, I wasn't able to get a reply through directly to
Sheri Stormes, so am sending this to the list.  (Standard apologies apply!)

When our addition opened in 1987, it was designed to have a room that
has its own entrance and does not connect directly to the rest of the
library.  When classes are in session this room is opne 24 hours a
day.  It is not staffed.  Two security cameras flash alternating images
of the room to the police dispather's desk 24 hours a day.  The room
is a big hit with the students.  (There is also a hotline phone in
there that rings at the police dispatcher's desk as soon as it is picked
up--no need to dial.)

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From: bkatz@cosy.uoguelph.ca

May I ask RObert Clarke at McGill if there are any Canadian references
in _Recoup's American Recycling Market_ ?
Bernard Katz, U of Guelph LIbrary
              Guelph, Ontario
bkatz@cosy.uoguelph.ca

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<Subject:      Recycling library

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
There is a reasonably good directory of American recyclers that might
be useful to a start-up collection on recycling. "Recoup's American
Recycling Market", published by Venture Publications, P.O. Box 577,
Ogdensburg, NY 13669, ISSN 0885-2537, price $125.

Robert Clarke
Head Librarian
Howard Ross Library of Management
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:22:03 EDT
From:         Norine Cashman <AP201030@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      French Revolution Videodisk

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
This query is addressed to purchasers of the FRENCH REVOLUTION RESEARCH
COLLECTION VIDEODISK (Bibliotheque Nationale & Pergamon Press, 1990/91).

Has anyone successfully used this set interactively, i.e. controlling
image display with the software? If so, what brand and model of video-
disk player did you use? Was any local programming necessary?

At Brown University we have been unable to set up the videodisk to
function interactively. We sould appreciate hearing from anyone who has
succeeded in doing so.

Please contact: Norine Cashman (401) 863-3218 or ap201030@brownvm (Bitnet)
From: kathy.kerns@STANFORD.BITNET (Kathryn Kerns)
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Subject: Noise problem
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:16:25 GMT
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I tried several ways to respond privately, but none worked.
************************************************************

Jean,
     The best solution I've seen was to take an area that tends to
be quiet anyway--lots of stacks, individual carrels, not near a
service point--and designate it as a silent study area (with clear
signage).  Let patrons know if there is noise in this area you will
be willing to ask patrons to be quiet--if someone comes with a
complaint, respond immediately.  Make sure staff members are also
quiet in this area.  Good luck.
Kathy Kerns
Library Instruction Coordinator
Stanford University Libraries
cn.kmk@forsythe.stanford.edu
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Reply-To:     Sandra Ballasch <sandra-ballasch@UIOWA.EDU>
From:         Sandra Ballasch <CADSANTS@UIAMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Political Stock Exchange

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I haven't participated in the political stock market but it is listed
in the campus paper here at the University of Iowa (it comes out of
the business or political science department, I can't remember
which) every day.  It is very interesting to watch, the last time
I looked (Monday the 5th) Clinton was in the 60% range, Bush in the
30's and Perot was about 7%.  It will be interesting to see where
it has moved by Monday.
sandra-ballasch@uiowa.edu
From: ltanji@uci.edu (Lorelei A. Tanji)
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Subject: Photos of libraries
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Please respond directly to ltanji@uci.edu and not to LIBREF-L, thanks.
--Gladys

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         I am interested in borrowing photos/slides of libraries that
         take pride in their accessibility to disabled patrons.  CARL
         South is planning a program on the impact of the Americans
         with Disabilities Act for libraries around February 1993. The
         program will focus on library services and personnel issues,
         not on architecture.  However, we would like to create an
         exhibit/display of libraries that have been built with access
         in mind and/or special services for disabled patrons.  Also
         libraries that have made major modifications to exterior or
         interior of bldg ("before and after" pictures would be
         great or even pictures of special
         furniture/shelving/equipment.

         We hope the visual images will raise awareness about what can
         be done to make our libraries more accessible.  If you can
         lend photos or refer me to libraries that excel in this area,
         please contact me directly at ltanji@uci.edu.  Thanks!
         Lorelei Tanji
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From:         Tom Flemming <tomflem@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA>
Subject:      Re: Problems projecting multicolor CD-ROM screens

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We're using a 3M Model 4080 LCD panel with an overhead projector to show
CD-ROM screens on the big screen in our new classroom and are very happy
with its ability to display colour.  We don't actually show on the big
screen the same colours that appear on the computer monitor, since we
found that in projection, some colours need enhancement or change in order
to show up properly, but the colours can be easily enough changed and
adapted and we're very happy with it.  It is a BIG improvement over our
older monochrome Sayette projector!

.........................................................................
Tom Flemming                    Bitnet: tomflem@McMaster
Head of Public Services         Internet: tomflem@mcmail.McMaster.ca
Health Sciences Library         Envoy 100: mac.lib.hsl
McMaster University             LIFEnet: TFLEMMIN@life.jsc.nasa.gov
1200 Main Street West
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From: tynst@lis.pitt.edu (Teresa Y. Neely)
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Subject: RE: Where in US did Ranganathan teach?
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:35:47 GMT
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RANGANATHAN WAS A VISITING PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND
ALSO  RECEIVED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE OF LITERATURE FROM THIS SAME
INSTITUTIION.  MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN THE "ALA WORLD
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES. 1980.

TERESA Y. NEELY
tynst@lis.pitt.edu

On Mon, 12 Oct 1992 KINGH%SNYSYRV1.BITNET@Kentvm.Kent.edu wrote:

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I believe Ranganathan taught for a short time at Syracuse University's School
> of Information Studies.
>
> Hannah King
> SUNY HSC Library at Syracuse
> kingh@snysyrv1
> kingh@vax.cs.hscsyr.edu
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