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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 09:57:00 EST
From:         219 Phil Andrzejewski 239-6440 <ASVMB4@IRISHMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      GTO Overlay Fields

Has anyone modified the GTO overlay program to search only
on one tag field instead of all three?  The supervisor in
our Cataloging area found that a record was overlaid using
tag field 010 since it couldn't find tag field 035.  What
we would like to know is has anyone changed the program
to only allow overlays using the 035 field.  If you have
please contact me.
                          Phil Andrzejewski
                          Tech 1
                          (219)-239-6440
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 10:54:03 EDT
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From:         "Lois C. Severt" <LCSEVE01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU>
Subject:      OVGTSL 1992

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FROM: Lois C. Severt
Head, On-line Records Cataloging
PHONE: 588-6756

OHIO VALLEY GROUP OF TECHNICAL SERVICES LIBRARIANS -- 1992 CONFERENCE

The 1992 OVGTSL Conference will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, May 7-8,
with the theme of "Managing Our Collections: Views from the Basement."
The program will focus on various aspects of controlling our collections
within the context of technical services.

Topics include selection decisions and how they impact technical services;
the importance of preserving and weeding our collections; EPIC and the
technical services librarian; and library school education for technical
services.

The Conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel at I-64 and Hurstbourne
Lane.  For registration information contact Lois Severt, OVGTSL Treasurer,
Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY  40292.
Phone:  (502) 588-6756
BITNET:  LCSEVE01@ULKYVM

Pre-registration is required.  Registration deadline is April 17.
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:02:00 EDT
From:         Jane Aitkens <ADLB002@MVS.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Marking up a Lan keyboard
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At McGill, we (the Systems Office) gave the LAN workstations to the Tech
Services areas with the 4 reworked keys marked with coloured dots (EOF,
CLEAR, etc).  The dots eventually fall off, but by then one's fingers
generally remember.

Re - the diacritics. I worked up a one page sheet of keystroking,
including an alphabetical list by name of the accent. Some of the staff
assistants told me they knew the accents better by sight, and were going
to add them to the sheet. One assistant, who handles the ordering of
French works, has stuck paper onto her keys.

As we are using our workstations mostly for ordering and not
cataloguing, the need for diacritic keycaps has not yet arisen.

Jane at McGill
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:34:55 EST
From:         "Marlene Kemski, Univ. of Windsor" <MARLENE@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA>
Subject:      Re: GTO problems
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              <LB04ILF%MUSIC.TCS.TULANE.EDU@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>

GTO problems:

Does the main library have GTO running with a CD-ROM product or with
OCLC?

If it is not with OCLC, maybe the OCLC program entries are missing in
one of the CICS tables or even in the GTO loadlib.

If GTO was purchased for CD-ROM, another GTO package from NOTIS would
need to be purchased for OCLC.

If the above is not your problem, then perhaps the "add" is missing
from your institution's standard index file definition.

Marlene Kemski,   Systems Analyst,   University of Windsor
Phone  #:  (519) 253-4232 x.2737      Fax  #:  (519) 973-7083
Releases:  NOTIS LMS 5.0,  GTO 3.0,  CICS 1.7,   MVS/SP
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 11:49:39 EDT
From:         Lee Radigan <LIBLJR@SUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      A Group by any name smells.....

Jim -
   From what I've seen, if you're not allocating fine money to NOFA
funds, you don't need to deal with the exception groups at all.
   The Bill & Fine Payment groups, on the other hand, seem to define
how fines can be collected.  If you want fines for a given location or
group of locations to be collected at only one service unit, for example,
you'd set up a payment group covering those locations and authorize only
the operators at that service unit to collect those fines.  This is done
on the "Bill and fine functions" screen (LSCU22) of LSYS operator
security, on the line that says "Authorize all Bill and Fine Payment
Groups?"  You can then authorize all groups, no groups, or a selection
of the groups you have defined.
   Here at Syracuse, for instance, we have five bill and fine payment
groups established:  Forestry, Law, Sciences, and two for the main library.
Forestry and Law collect only their own fines, so operator security for
those two service units specifies the operators are authorized for only
one location group.
   Warning about grouping locations:  I learned the hard way that the
LSYS record size will allow inclusion of only 160 locations in a group.
Having run headon into this while defining technical processing groups,
I decided not to try to exceed that number in defining the payment
group structure.  While it may be possible, I wouldn't bet on it.

Lee Radigan, LIB1            |  "There are many horrible sights in the
Syracuse University Library  |  multiverse.  Somehow, though, to a soul
LIBLJR@SUVM                  |  attuned to the subtle rhythms of a
libljr@suvm.acs.syr.edu      |  library, there are few worse sights
(315) 443-9507  (voice)      |  than a hole where a book ought to be."
(315) 443-9510  (fax)        |                        Terry Pratchett
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:47:16 EDT
From:         "Roy Heinz, WRLC" <RHEINZ@AUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      GTO fix to prevent 010 overlay

You may stop overlays of bib records based on the 010 by commenting out
a line of code in LGT610P at label BIBS.  The line to comment is:

DC   X'010F',C'a',AL1(SNXLIBC),AL4(FMTLCN)

Do NOT comment the similar line at the AUTHS label.

Roy Heinz
Washington Research Library Consortium
(301)731-1000 heinz@wrlcvm
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 10:28:00 CDT
From:         CHERYL@NUACC.BITNET
Subject:      UGRADE TO RELEASE 5.0.2

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL NOTIS COMMUNICATION

In the UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS FOR RELEASE 5.0.2, there was a typographical
error in the redefinition of the LCRFILE.  The correct maximum record
size should be 8184 not 8194.  If you define the file size of 8194
and the buffer space of 19456, you will get a VSAM Define Error for
the buffer space.

If you have already generated you LCRFILE to a maximum record size of
8194, you should redefine it to 8184.

Thank you for participating in the problem resolution process.

NOTIS Systems, Inc.
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:33:00 EDT
From:         LIBMH@CCNY.BITNET
Subject:      CHAT-L Bugs

The following appeared on the Christian list CHRISTIA.  Previous
provenance is unknown:
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I thought all you computer people would enjoy this:

           BUGS
         ========

I think that I shall never see
A subroutine that works for me,
A macro or a zero test
That isn't just a rodent's nest,
A string that doesn't always stray
And mix up bits in wild array,
A process with re-entrant flair
That isn't just a looping snare,
Routines whose timings are not slain
When interrupts begin to rain.,
Maybe God can make a tree,
But bugs are made by people like me!
---------------------------------------------------------

Martin W. Helgesen
Bitnet:  libmh@ccny    Internet: libmh%ccny.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Cohen Library          VOICE: 212 650-7601 FAX: 212 650-7604
City College of New York
Convent Avenue and 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
"Just say know to Gnosticism."
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 10:02:06 CDT
From:         SMUIR@UA1VM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Inventory assistance

We have an excellent inventory report written by our programmer Harry Samuels
(HSAMUELS@UA1VM).  This report provides item number, author, title, call number
city, publisher, etc., copy number, volume number for any specified location
code.  This report also picks up unlinked item records.

We are currently inventorying our entire collection, and this report is
invaluable in our work.

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*  SCOTT P. MUIR               *
*  THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   *
*  SMUIR@UA1VM                 *
*  SMUIR@UA1VM.UA.EDU          *
*  (205) 348-2299              *
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 10:55:30 CDT
From:         HSAMUELS@UA1VM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: 5.0 resource consumption
              8 Apr 1992 08:54:21 CDT from <pkh@RA.ADP.WISC.EDU>

We are a site that has experienced a 2.5 multiplication factor in resource
consumption in moving from LMS 4.6.1 and the BRS KWB to LMS 5.0.1 and
NOTISearch.  We have definitely been able to attribute most of this rise in
consumption to OPAC transactions and we have strong suspicions that
NOTISearch is the primary culprit if not THE culprit.

If you're not using NOTIS OPAC or NOTISearch then you probably won't see
any more impact on your resource consumption than you've already experienced.

Harry Samuels
Programmer/Analyst (TECH 1)
University of Alabama
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Internet: HSAMUELS@UA1VM.UA.EDU
Voice: (205) 348-2877
Fax: (205) 348-9170
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:36:00 CDT
From:         Edie Dixon <DIXON@WISCMACC.BITNET>
Subject:      Authority 010 indexing

Folks -- perhaps it's something local, I don't know for sure so I thought I'd
check here first.

We're at 5.0.  In 4.6.1 we could do an "nl" search and pull up both authority
and bibliographic records in the same index list.  We find we can no longer do
this.  Instead, when we do an "nl" search, we only pull up bibliographic
records.  Anyone have any clues?  Thanks ahead of time


Edie Dixon, LIB1
U of Wisconsin
bitnet: DIXON@wiscmacc
phone: 608-262-3525
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 10:19:28 EDT
From:         Grace Tsai <GTSAI@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: U2495 from LB890

I solved the U2495 problem which I got while running LB890040.  At the
end of the step LB890040, I put

//LIPARM DD *
 D190.C26.F100
/*

This is wrong, there should not be a space before D190, it should look
like the following :

//LIPARM DD *
D190.C26.F100
/*

So program LB395 could not find the valid parameter card.  The program
wants each segment to start with one of these letters : PCDFK, and I
guess LB395 thought the first character was a blank character, thats
why it gave me the code U2495.

Thanks for Phil Andresejewski from Notre Dame and Gary Strawn from
Northwestern.
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:26:38 -0400
From:         "Kathleen Sales Library" <sales@ZACH.FIT.EDU>
Subject:      sentence option in 5.0.1 and f/c
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We're finally upgrading to 5.0.1 and I have two questions

1.  On page 111-112 in the new pages of the user's guide
for the opac a "sentence option" is discussed where you
can specify whether a period or a field tag defines
the end of a sentence in searching with the operators
"with" and "same".  This option is mentioned as being
turned "on" or "off" (I'm not making this up!)  Does
anyone know where this option is set (I can't find it
in nsys or lsys) or what the default is?

2.  Also, what exactly does the "f/c" character case
qualification do?  Would one use this when the first
letter in a word is capitalized?  No real explanation
in the user's guide.  This is discussed on page 123
of the 5.0.1 opac user's guide.

Hope these aren't dumb questions.  I really did try
and look for the answers, but Notis documentation can
sometimes be confusing.  (Small flame).

Thanks for any advice/help.

Kathy Sales
Lib1 at Florida Tech (and sometimes alot of other things,too)
Internet: sales@zach.fit.edu
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 14:21:00 EDT
From:         bryan@WILEY.CSUSB.EDU
Subject:      Re: MDAS -Reader's Guide

We are also getting ready to load MDAS and Wilson indexes, 5 indexes
from 1988 forward. I have the same questions about how long it takes to load
and to regenerate indexes, downtime, etc.

Please answer to the list, or Sara, share your responses with me?

Thanks.

Beverly Ryan, Lib1
CSU, San Bernardino
bryan@wiley.csusb.edu
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:28:15 EDT
From:         Grace Tsai <GTSAI@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
Subject:      Terminals hung in keyword/boolean search

Soon after NOTISearch 1.0 was installed this semester, some of the
terminals here were discovered hung in keyword searches.  This has
happened at least three times.  The system programmer found that the
keyword searches K=RECORDER and K=TEX hung up last night, but I tried
those two searches this afternoon, they are ok.  Can somebody tell me
why?  Thanks in advance.

                                      Grace Tsai
                                      Programmer/Anaylst
                                      SUNY-STony Brook
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:28:36 EDT
From:         Irene Pelak <pelak@PILOT.NJIN.NET>
Subject:      Spine Labels

Thanks to Tulane Univ. for the info about left margins in LC867BAL.  Our
system programmer programmed the Interlynx to define the char height, density
and left margin for the quietwriter, so actually no change to LC867BAL was
needed for our setup.  One small problem remains:  the printer is giving an
erroneous paper out indication frequently enough to be annoying to the
catalogers.  Any ideas about what is causing that or how to fix it?
IRENE PELAK  TECH1  BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE  201-447-9236
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 08:30:53 PDT
From:         Jim Cruse <CN.NX8@STANFORD.BITNET>
Subject:      A Group by any name smells.....

I'd like to get another reading from the more experienced folks on a
couple of things from LSYS.  After going over the Reason/Fund
Exception Groups and the Location/Fund Exception Groups, I think I
understand their function.  These groups allow one to assign money to
a NOFA account based on the location the money is collected for rather
than the fund associated with a fine reason.  At this point we're not
going to allocate collected bill and fine money to NOFA accounts at
all.  So, I don't need to define these groups.....right?

I would be curious to hear from any sites who do allocate b&f money to
NOFA accounts as to what advantages it provides them.

Now, there's another group which is defined as part of Locations in
LSYS....the BILL AND FINE PAYMENT GROUP.  The Impl Manual defines this
as "...groups of locations for which the system treats all fines and
charges together as a single account."   You create a group by giving
it a name and then listing locations which will belong to the group.
I can't seem to find any explanation of what the verb "treats" means.
Does it have to do with how money collected is listed on a report?  Is
it related to the above Groups?  If we're not allocating collected b&f
money to NOFA accounts, do I need to define Payment Groups?  What
exactly do Payment Groups do?

Instead of worrying about these groups, I'd much rather be defining a
group to go for a drink after work tonight!


Jim Cruse                          cn.jmc@stanford.bitnet
Assistant Chief                    cn.jmc@forsythe.stanford.edu
Access Services                    FAX:      (415) 725-6874
Stanford University Library        VOICE:    (415) 723-1491

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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:15:57 EST
From:         Jim Zarecor <JLZ@JHUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      U2495 from LB890

Grace:

     Have you solved the U2495 problem you got while running LB890?

Jim Zarecor     Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore   JLZ@JHUVM
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 09:24:00 CST
From:         STEFFERJ@VUCTRVAX.BITNET
Subject:      ISSN updates

We discovered last week that subfields "y" and "z" of the 022 field
(ISSN) were not being updated dynamically anymore (we're on 5.0.2).
Since this field is how our hook to holdings is working with MDAS,
I'm positive it was previously working.  NOTIS says it works fine
for them there.  Can someone else on 5.0.2 try to delete, add, or
change a subfield y or z on an OPAC record and see if the ns=
search finds the old, new, changed number, please.  Can anyone think
of a local change we may have made that would keep ours from being
dynamic?  We can't think of anything we've done that would change
this.  Thanks for your help.
_______________________________________________________________________________
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/ Vanderbilt University                /              Internet:               /
/ Library Systems                      /    stefferj@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu    /
/ 419 21st Avenue South                /       Phone: (615) 322-7125          /
/ Nashville, TN  37240                 /         Fax: (615) 343-0394          /
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:57:24 -0400
From:         "John K. Sleeman" <jks6n@POE.ACC.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject:      Fiscal Period Close
Comments: To: notis-l%tcsvm.BITNET@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU

We are testing FPC under 5.0.1.  We chose Option B (transfer to
new FY subrecord).  As the NOTIS documentation says, a new FY
subrecord was automatically created when we ran the programs.
However, when we call up the subrecord, it is "I"nactive instead
of "A"ctive.  Is there an option to have the new subrecord
automatically activated, or do we need to go in and do it
manually?  Thanks.

--

     John Sleeman, Director of Systems    TEL: (804) 924-7555
     Alderman Library      LIB1
     University of Virginia               BIT: jks6n@virginia
     Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498       FAX: (804) 924-1431
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:22:05 -0400
From:         lib_cogan@EMUNIX.EMICH.EDU
Subject:      3164 terminals and parallel printers

We are trying to get an IBM 3164 terminal to print to a
parallel printer through a serial/parallel converter. I cannot
get the pages to print completely. We have examined all the dip
switches; they do not seem to be at the root of our evils.

There is a sentence in the converter manual I don't understand:
"Make sure the RTS and DSR lines of the terminal device are
pulled high." What does "pulled high" mean?

I would appreciate any advice from anyone who has forced a 3164
to talk to a parallel printer. Thanks.

Sarah Cogan
Eastern Michigan University
LIB_COGAN@EMUNIX.EMICH.EDU
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:43:00 EDT
From:         Carol Thomas <LIBTHOMS@EKU.BITNET>
Subject:      Conversion and Call Nos.

We are preparing to convert 500,000 bibliographic records into NOTIS
format.  SOLINET is now deduping our records and using its 049
consolidate program to merge holdings data on titles held in multiple
locations.

For the same title held in mutiple locations, SOLINET'S deduped record
will contain a separate call number field for each
holding library.  This is ideal for our situation since we have
at times used an 099 field for a title in one holding library,
an 090 field for the same title in a different holding library,
and perhaps even a different 090 for the same title in a third
location.

NOTIS's conversion program would preserve all that call number
data in the converted bibliographic record.  The copy holdings record,
though, would contain only one call number in the case above--the
099 number.  Since all locations would be listed, this would imply that
all locations used this number.  They didn't.

Have any of you encountered this problem  before or after
your records were converted to NOTIS format?  How did you deal with it?
Did you try to customize the conversion program in advance or
did you clean things up afterward? All advice will be appreciated.

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Eastern Kentucky University -- Richmond, KY 40475-3121
Phone: 606-622-1782
BITNET:  LIBTHOMS@EKU.BITNET
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 11:48:00 EST
From:         "Stephen M. Hayes (219) 239-5268" <LTPYWS@IRISHMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      Request for assistance/information

WPC


The University Library at the University of Notre Dame, a NOTIS
library, is investigating the desirability and practicality of
displaying holding for various formats on one record.  That is
attaching holdings information for microfilm, fiche and paper on
one bibliographic record.  The purpose is to make access easier for
library OPAC users.

The Committee investigating this issue is interested in talking
with NOTIS sites which:

     1) Have configured their holding so as to display in one
place.

     2) If possible, are using the NOTIS serials check-in module.


A committee member would contact you by phone for a very BRIEF
interview.  If you would not mind talking with one of us, please
forward your name and phone number to the address below:


     Stephen M. Hayes
     e-mail address:  SHAYES@IRISHVMA.CC.ND.EDU


Thank you for your assistance.
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