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From: kovach@austin.cogsci.uiuc.edu (Edward Kovach)
Subject: database for small reading room
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:01:22 GMT
Keywords: database reading room

In the fall, I will be one of 3 "librarians" for a small reading
room (> 2000 books and journals) for a Humanities department 
in my university.  I've been asked to put the card catalog and
"check out system" onto a database.  (The room has  a Mac and
 an IBM.) 

Could anyone suggest appropiate database software for this?  I've
used excel a little, but I'm wondering if there might be something
else available.

Please e-mail any suggestion to me.  Thanks in advance!

Ed Kovach - <kovach@boas.cogsci.uiuc.edu>


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From:         nagray@ualr.edu
Subject:      gov docs and reference

Please send responses to nagray@ualr.edu .  None will be posted to
Libref-L.  Hopefully the poster will summarize his/her results and
post them to Libref-L.  Diane Kovacs, Editor this week.
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I want to know who supervises government documents processing staff.  Is it one
   of the following:

1.  a documents librarian who is also a reference librarian and who is the
   official liason to the U.S. Superintendent of Documents?

2.  a cataloger who does not work at the reference desk and who is not the
   official Su Doc liason?

3.  a cataloger who is the official Su Doc liason and who does not work at the
   reference desk?

4.  a cataloger who is the official Su Doc liason and works at the reference
    desk?

5.  other (please describe)

Any comments on government documents processing, especially:  "should it be
   supervised in technical or public services?" and "should it be supervised
      by the official Su Doc liason?"  Thanks,

Nancy Gray
NAGRAY@ualr.edu
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave
Little Rock AR 72204  501-569-8808
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:20:36 EDT
From:         "Alan Johns (803) 792-5160" <JOHNSA@CITADEL.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: MANDARIN?

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I cannot speak to the Mandarin system, but I have used BiblioFile
and would highly recommend it.
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From: tkoppel@cassandra.cair.du.edu (Ted Koppel)
Subject: Re: Choice Reviews Online?
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 02:45:42 GMT

>>I thought I remembered Choice Reviews being available online.  Can
>>someone confirm with an address or vendor?   Thanks.
>>Don Lanier, UIC Rockford, IL 61107   U17113@UICVM
>
>Try pac.carl.org
>
    About 26,400 Choice reviews are availabel through the CARL PAC in
    Denver.  We update it monthly, around the 25th of the month for the
    following month's issue (except for the combined July/Aug issue).
    Records are fully indexed (i.e. full text of the review as well as
    citation information.)

    We also run citation linking to the various CARL Library databases;
    at the end of each review we list which of the CARL member libraries
    (on the Denver machine) own the title.  (Matching based on ISSN).


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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:01:02 EDT
From:         THARVELL@ACUSD.BITNET
Subject:      priority access to one's own primary users

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

Our library is a at a private institution.  We are considering providing
priority access to our CD-ROM products to our own users (students,
faculty, staff, administration) over outside users.  Do other private
institutions do this?  How do you administer it (sign-up sheets) etc.
As we have added more products, we are finding that our own primary
users are having difficulty getting to use them, do to large numbers
of external users.  Please reply to me, and I will share the results
with the readers of LIBREF-L.   Thank you.  Tony Harvell, Head of
Reference, University of San Diego Copley Library
THARVELL@ACUSD (bitnet) THARVELL@USDCSV.ACUSD.EDU (internet)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:11:02 EDT
From:         "Gary Klein (bear at heart)" <FAC2813@UOFT01.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Choice Reviews being online

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     Last time I checked, it was one of the files available from CARL's
online catalog.

TELNET Pac.Carl.Org

     Everything is menu driven, and all of the instructions & options are
readily displayed.

     I cannot recall which menu number it lies behind, but it is there -
searchable by WORDS and by People's NAMES.  I do not recall how far back
the online version goes, but I once scanned it for the name of someone who
did reviews at my library, and I pulled up all of his work.  You can also
search by Author, Subject heading, Titles, or keyword phrases.

"Librarian, leather bound"
      * * * *          Gary Klein,   Business Librarian,  Univ of Toledo
       *   *                     P.O.Box 12650 / Toledo OH 43606
        * *            WORK: 419-537-2629             HOME: 419-243-2740
         *             BITNET:   fac2813@uoft01        FAX: 419-537-2726
  B4 t+ w- g s+ k             INTERNET: fac2813@uoft01.utoledo.edu
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:19:52 EDT
From:         LMM62@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
Subject:      Call for Papers

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Susan Griswold Blandy (Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY), Deborah A.
Curry (SUNY Albany, Albany, NY) and Lyn Martin (SUNY Albany) are editing a
special issue of THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, "Reference Services and Sources
Related to Racial and Ethnic Diversity."

This special issue will cover such topics as:  collection development and
diversity; reference sources and diversity; references services/programs
and diversity; administrative/personnel issues and diversity and legal/
ethical issues and diversity.

The editors invite papers from LIBREF-L participants, and are especially
interested in papers dealing with diversity issues related to public and
school libraries, as well as with library services for Native Americans.
Other topics are also welcome.

Working titles and abstracts are due by October 1.  Papers must be completed by
January 15.

If you have an idea for a paper, please contact one of the following by
September 15:

Deborah A. Curry
DC297@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
518-442-3599

Lyn Martin
LMM62@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
518-442-3628
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:59:07 EDT
From:         TOM STAVE <TSTAVE@OREGON.BITNET>
Subject:      Referrals among library units

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The University of Oregon Library is examining its practices regarding referrals
of patrons from one library unit to another.  I would like to know how academic
libraries have dealt with this issue in order to ensure that inter-branch
referrals are appropriate, accurate and helpful.  In particular, I would like
to have copies of any policy statements; or any referral forms that libraries
fill out and give to the user being referred, which identify the receiving
unit, details about the request, etc.  Have any libraries developed methods for
evaluating the success of referrals?

Tom Stave, Head
Documents/Microforms Department
University of Oregon Library
(503) 346-3070
TSTAVE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:52:51 EDT
From:         Najwa Hanel <NHANEL@USCVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: cultural diversity programming
              18 Aug 1992 14:59:10 EDT from <prr1@Ra.MsState.Edu>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
At the University of Southern California Science & Engineering Library
we have a program called MEP (Minority Engineering Program).  New students
in this program arrive on campus during the summer and they are given
instruction in time management, academic orientation, as well as a head
start on "Library Orientation"  Handouts related to library policies,
availability of resources, etc. are given.  These students are sometimes
in atheletics programs, but not necessarily so.
This summer, we also had a large group of Senior H.S. students from the
LA neighborhoods who came on a "Head Start" Program.  Most of these are
interested in pursueing higher education in the science and technology.
A library orientation and an introduction to library resources in the
sciences were given.  Most of these were from ethnic minorities.
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:54:02 EDT
From:         Nancy Herrington <LIBNJH@SUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      (humor)

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
How about   disk   and   disc

         potato    and   potatoe (?)

----
   ^---^          Nancy Herrington
   (O O) hoot!    Science & Technology Library
   / v           Syracuse University
  /|   |         315/443-2160
   m m/          BITNET & INTERNET:  libnjh@suvm.acs.syr.edu
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:22:27 EDT
From:         "Alan Johns (803) 792-5160" <JOHNSA@CITADEL.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: priority access to one's own primary users

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
We have many of our CD-ROMs on the VAX and access them through
Logicraft. There have been several software glitches, but the
system allows simultaneous use by internal users. External uses
dial in through a different VAX account.
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:00:00 EST
From:         nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
Subject:      RE: Trouble Communicating with Russia - Please Help
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"Ed Winograd, Colorado College,              719-389-6450"
<EWINOGRAD@CCNODE.COLORADO.EDU> writes

> Here at Colorado College, we have a professor from Russia who has been
> successfully communicating over the Internet with colleagues in Russia.
> Suddenly, her messages are not getting through.
>
> I've heard through the grapevine that the networks in Russia are being
> re-worked in some way, so that old addressing schemes no longer work.  In
> this case, the address that no longer works is
>
>         user_name@femida.sk.su
>
> If anyone has any information about new Russian networking schemes, or
> anything else that could shed light on this problem, please let me know.
>
> - Ed

Both the Info-Nets list and the comp.mail.misc newsgroup have had recent
discussions of problems with mail to the .su domain, the gist of it
being that mail was being bounced by the nac.no mail exchanger as "host
unknown".  Apparently name servers were slow to recognize that nac.no
was no longer a gateway.  As of last week the situation seemed to have
resolved itself; mail was again flowing smoothly.

However, I'm not sure that would answer your question.  I can find no
record of an .sk.su domain.  I can find,

 .irkutsk.su
 .khabarovsk.su
 .krasnoyarsk.su
 .msk.su          Moskva
 .nsk.su          Novosibirsk
 .obninsk.su
 .simbirsk.su
 .tomsk.su
 .troitsk.su

And also

 .minsk.by
 .dnepropetrovsk.ua

So I wonder whether your user has somehow garbled the original workable
address.  If so, I suggest trying it again with corrections.  If it
still fails, a copy of the bounce message, including _all_ headers and
error messages, i.e., omitting only the text of the original attempt,
would probably make it easier to recommend something.

On the other hand, if you are convinced that @femida.sk.su was once a
valid address, then your best source for assistance is probably

         postmaster@hq.demos.su

Ric <nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil>  <nauen%wrmain.decnet@detrick-emh1.army.mil>
           ^^^^^Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
        U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:09:00 -0300
From:         Alberto Courrege Gomide <GOMIDE@BRFAPQ.BITNET>
Subject:      BEEP. Absent until Aug 24.

Please send email to DEMI@BRFAPESP.BITNET or VILSON@BRFAPESP.BITNET
for urgent matters.
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:46:10 +0100
From:         chmie@IFN.ING.TU-BS.DE
Subject:      Mail connection to japan

Hallo everybody,

does anybody know, how do get into contact with people
in japan ? They are using nifty serve. I have an ID
number and want to establish a mail connection.

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Ingo Chmielewski                         Internet: chmie@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de
Technische Universitaet                  Phone:    ++49 5171702225
Braunschweig, Inst. f.
Nachrichtentechnik
Schleinitzstr. 23
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Germany
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 20:34:55 -0600
From:         "Ed Winograd, Colorado College,
              719-389-6450" <EWINOGRAD@CCNODE.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Trouble Communicating with Russia - Please Help

Here at Colorado College, we have a professor from Russia who has been
successfully communicating over the Internet with colleagues in Russia.
Suddenly, her messages are not getting through.

I've heard through the grapevine that the networks in Russia are being
re-worked in some way, so that old addressing schemes no longer work.  In
this case, the address that no longer works is

        user_name@femida.sk.su

If anyone has any information about new Russian networking schemes, or
anything else that could shed light on this problem, please let me know.  The
professor who suddenly can't communicate with her Russian colleagues has been
resorting to phone calls (and will probably resort to faxes), but she can't
afford to continue that for long.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

- Ed

+------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
|Ed Winograd                   | BITNET:   ewinograd%ccnode@colorado          |
|Asst. Director, User Support, | Internet: ewinograd%ccnode@vaxf.colorado.edu |
|  Academic Computing          |           ewinograd@ccnode.colorado.edu      |
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|14 East Cache La Poudre St.   |                                              |
|Colo. Springs, Colorado 80903 |                                              |
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:44:00 EDT
From:         Harry Nicholos <HMN@NCSUVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Sending files to users not on the JNET system?

Jim,

I have a DCL script that does something kinda what you're looking for.  We have
a number of node that no longer exist, but the systems manager have yet to
notify us to post the remove to the bitnet database.

So, to make a long story short, this program looks for .rsc files from those
nodes, converts them to ascii then mails them to a specified account.  You could

hack this up to find the address and the use it as a guide for the real address.

Let me know if you or anyone else is interested in it.

Cheers,
Harry Nicholos
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From:         "Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr" <TERRY@SPCVXA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Sending files to users not on the JNET system?

James Dryfoos - Postmaster <DMPM@DUKEMC.BITNET> writes:

> (DUKEMC) - No such user DRYFO001.  Sending to Dead File Area.
>
> which is misleading and generates questions.  The file actually does get
> to user dryfo001@dukemc (that user just happens to be on another system).
> Creating accounts for each of these users is out of the question as we
> are talking about thousands.  Is there a way to supress these misleading
> messages?  Is there some type of alias file that can be created?  That is
> how I do the mail bit (using PMDF aliases).

  You could probably do something with the MFSDISP exit in Jnet. That will
let you do whatever you want with files and mail. It's documented in the
"green book".

        Terry Kennedy           Operations Manager, Academic Computing
        terry@spcvxa.bitnet     St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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From:         James Dryfoos - Postmaster <DMPM@DUKEMC.BITNET>
Subject:      Sending files to users not on the JNET system?

Our system running JNET is also a system which acts as an email gateway for
many systems.  We create mailids for all these users on this one system
so that there is a centralize mail address to send to.  The gateway then
sends mail to to actual system.  This means that this computer may
have a valid email address of X@DUKEMC.MC.DUKE.EDU (or X@MC.DUKE.EDU) but
there is no actual account X on DUKEMC.  When files are sent to X@DUKEMC
they go into the dead file area.  I have a program which then pulls
them out and puts them into an email to the actual recipient.
The problem is, when the file is sent, the sender gets:

(DUKEMC) - No such user DRYFO001.  Sending to Dead File Area.

which is misleading and generates questions.  The file actually does get
to user dryfo001@dukemc (that user just happens to be on another system).
Creating accounts for each of these users is out of the question as we
are talking about thousands.  Is there a way to supress these misleading
messages?  Is there some type of alias file that can be created?  That is
how I do the mail bit (using PMDF aliases).

On the side, does anyone have a program for extracting received files and
doing something with them like putting them into an email message?  mine
is just a hack and runs into enough problems.

Thanks, Jim
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From:         Richard Budd <KLUB@MARISTB.BITNET>
Subject:      would like info

From my list of BITNET nodes dated August 2

HUNGARY

HUEARN    Computer and Automation Institute, Budapest     RSCS
HUELLA    Computer and Automation Institute, Budapest     UREP
HUGBOX    Computer and Automation Institute, Budapest     JNET
HUBIIF11  Computer and Automation Institute, Budapest     RSCS
HUBPSZ61  Computer and Automation Institute, Budapest     UREP
HUSOTES1  University of Medical Science, Budapest         JNET
HUSZEG11  Jozsef Attila University, Szeged                RSCS

Much better than at this time last year when Hungary was just talking
about EARN nodes.
                                   Richard Budd (klub@maristb.bitnet)
Crosspost from HUNGARY:
UELACZIN@ECNUXA writes:
> Hello!
>
> I've been desperately trying to obtain information on whether there are
> any bitnet connections in Hungary.  Last I heard is that at "SOTE",
> (Semmelweiss Orvosi Tudomany Egyetem) there may be a few people with
> e-mail accounts.  Does anyone know of this, as well as any other
> Universities in the country which may have bitnet access?
>
> Thanx in advance.
>
> Minden jo't ki'va'nok.
>
> *EVA*
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139 South Hamilton Street | Phone:          -(914) 454-5803
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:58:46 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG: Slush Fund Slashed
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/* Written 11:04 pm  Aug 20, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
 cdp:reg.newguinea */
/* ---------- "NO MORE SLUSH FUND" ---------- */
NO MORE SLUSH FUND:  NBC/PNG,  PACNEWS ED-1,  AUGUST 19 1992

The Papua New Guinea government's controversial electoral  development fund
that's landed several parliamentarians before  leadership tribunals has been
scrapped.

The fund, known as the Slush Fund, will instead be replaced by what the present
government says is a bigger and better co-ordinated project allocation.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Planning, Sir Julius
Chan says the Slush Fund is being abolished at the request of the people who
have been very critical of its distribution by MPs.

Sir Julius says the expenditure of these funds have also not been properly
accounted for over the years.

And he's urged people to start planning out their projects  according to
priority for submission for financial assistance under the new  system.
...ends.

--- FD 1.99c
 * Origin: Pactok Project (90:900/990)
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