Newsgroups: bit.listserv.lawsch-l
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:02:00 PST
From:         Terry Carroll <tjc50@JUTS.CCC.AMDAHL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Need names of law school deans

> Within the next week or so, I hope to begin a national
> search for a position on a law school's faculty.
>
> Since I am too late to fully participate in the AALS
> meeting this week, my plan is to send Vitae out to a
> number of law schools. (In the interim, I will register
> with AALS for its Feb 93 distribution.)
>
> It would be very helpful if someone could email to me
> a list of law school deans, and it would be ideal if these
> were complete with full addresses.
>
> Any help, including suggestions for alternative avenues,
> would be appreciated.

The following file, ftpable from fatty.law.cornell.edu (filename
/pub/LII/Directory/readme.1st, might be of help to you:

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Legal Information Institute
Law School E-Mail Directory

README 11/11/92 TRB.

File Manifest:
--------------

	README.1ST		This file
	RTMANUAL.NFO		Folio Views help infobase
	RUNTIME.COM		Folio Views runtime executable
	RUNTIME.EXE		Folio Views runtime executable
	RUNTIME.NFO		The actual directory infobase
	VIEWS.PTR		Folio Views printer drivers

All but this file are compressed using a self-extracting archive program,
and are on your disk as LIIDIR.EXE

To install, change to the local or network drive and directory
where you wish to put the information and type LIIDIR at the
DOS prompt, e.g.:

	C:\TOMSDRIV\EMAILDIR> a:liidir
    or
	Z:\NETWORK\PUBSTUFF\EMAILDIR> a:liidir

Note that the directory is not created for you; you must do that yourself
before extracting the files.

LAN Installation:
-----------------

Those of you running Novell LANs may wish to install the infobase for
multiple users.  Novell provides a Folio viewer as part of its help system;
the executable is in the SYS:PUBLIC directory on your server by default;
the filename is NFOLIO.EXE.  Copy the RUNTIME.NFO file to a world-readable
directory and give your users a mapping to it (for our purposes, let's say
it maps to drive I:).  Assuming that SYS:PUBLIC maps to drive P:, a typical
startup batch file would look like:

   @echo off > nul
   P:\NFOLIO I:\RUNTIME.NFO

Of course, you could equally well set up the runtime version to work over
the network.

Timeliness and accuracy:
------------------------

This version contains 1116 entries, comprised of faculty, staff, and
law librarians at AALS member law schools.

This directory is up-to-date as of 10 November 1992.  We suspect that the
public rollout of the directory will provoke a good many changes and
additions.  The only way to guarantee up-to-date information is to contact
the online version on fatty.law.cornell.edu.  There are a number of ways
to do this:

1) By Gopher:

	Gopher to fatty.law.cornell.edu (132.236.108.5), port 70.  The
	directory appears as the 'Directory of Legal Academia' choice
	in the top-level menu.

2) By Telnet:

	Telnet to fatty.law.cornell.edu (132.236.108.5). Login
	as 'lookup', password 'lookup'.  You'll be placed
	directly into an interactive session with the database
	program.

3) By electronic mail:

	Electronic mail queries can be sent from any system which
	has mail connectivity to the Internet, including CompuServe,
	MCIMail, ABA/Net, ATTMail, America OnLine, Genie, SprintMail,
	and who knows what else (at this point the only large public
	system we know of which does NOT have Internet mail gateways is
	Prodigy).  Send mail to:

		lookup@fatty.law.cornell.edu

	using whatever syntax your system uses to get mail to the Internet.

	In the body of the message, you can put commands like:

	  query name=Bruce
	  query department=Harvard
	  query institution=Case Western

	to search (respectively) for individuals who have the word 'Bruce'
	in their names, all the individuals at Harvard, etc.  The software
	searches for whole words, so parts of names and wildcards don't work.
	The use of the 'department' field is a little different from what
	you might expect.  It contains full names of institutions as well
	as acronyms (like UCLA and AALS), as well as a few other keywords.
	When searching for people by location, then, searching the
	'department' field is often more productive.


Sending us updated information
------------------------------

Our aim is to keep the directory as up-to-date as possible.  To
submit new information, or changed information, send e-mail with
the changes to:

     change-request@fatty.law.cornell.edu

which will guarantee the most timely processing.









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