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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:58:17 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.NoDak.edu>
Subject:      NEW LIST: PRO-CITE - Personal Bibliographic Software (fwd)

Forwarded message:

> From: "Mark T. Day" <DAYM@iubacs.bitnet>
> Subject:      NEW LIST: PRO-CITE - Personal Bibliographic Software
> To: Multiple recipients of list NEW-LIST <NEW-LIST@VM1.NoDak.EDU>
>
> PRO-CITE on LISTSERV@IUBVM.BITNET
>          or LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
>         "The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List"
>
>    GENERAL INFORMATION:
>    This list has been established as an international electronic forum
>    for anyone using or interested in using the bibliographic textbase
>    software program PRO-CITE and its companion BIBLIO-LINK programs
>    published by Personal Bibliographic Software.  These software
>    programs provide the means to automate a wide variety of scholarly
>    tasks related to the retrieval, organization, and use of
>    bibliographic data.  They operate on both MS-DOS and Macintosh
>    platforms.  With the much enhanced version 2.0 of Pro-Cite now
>    available for both systems, it seemed like a good time to establish a
>    Bitnet discussion group, whose existence could facilitate the rapid
>    sharing of concerns, interests, problems and solutions among members
>    at all levels of use.
>
>    The owner of this list is Mark T. Day, Associate Librarian in the
>    Indiana University Reference Department and Coordinator of its newly
>    created Library Electronic Text Resource Service.  I began using
>    Pro-Cite and Biblio-Links while working at the Indiana Cooperative
>    Library Services Authority from 1988-1990 as their Library
>    Microcomputer Specialist and have felt for some time that an
>    electronic discussion group, modelled after the several similar
>    groups that already exist for other library and scholarly oriented
>    software products, would be a very useful forum for advancing
>    communication among those of us who work heavily with bibliographic
>    data.
>
>    For the list to be successful in serving the needs of its members,
>    however, those members must be active contributors to the discussion.
>    Currently the list operates in a non-moderated mode, in which all
>    messages sent to the list automatically will be posted to all other
>    members.  Answers to questions sent out over the list will go to all
>    members IF YOU POST YOUR ANSWER TO THE LIST, but will only go to the
>    person who sent the original message if YOU REPLY TO THE ORIGINAL
>    MESSAGE (more on the details of how to send and receive messages,
>    obtain archived copies of previous correspondence, etc, below).  So
>    IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR INFORMATION about some aspect of a PBS
>    product, SUBSCRIBE NOW AND JOIN THE DISCUSSION.
>
>
>    HOW TO JOIN & SEND MESSAGES:
>    1) To join PRO-CITE, send the following one line e-mail message:
>       SUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE Last Name, First Name
>       in the BODY via BITNET to: LISTSERV@IUBVM
>       or via INTERNET to: LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
>
>    2) Once subscribed, send messages for posting on the PRO-CITE list:
>       via BITNET to: PRO-CITE@IUBVM
>       or via INTERNET to: PRO-CITE@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
>
>    3) To stop getting PRO-CITE mail temporarily (while on vacation, e.g.)
>       send the following one line e-mail message:
>       SET PRO-CITE NOMail
>       to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above).
>
>    4) If your current address changes or becomes invalid, or you wish to
>       stop subscribing to PRO-CITE, send the following one line message:
>       UNSUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE
>       to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above).
>
>    5) If you have questions about the list, or problems with its
>       operation, you should direct them to the list owner.
>
>    List Owner:  Mark Day   Bitnet: DAYM@IUBACS
>                            Internet: DAYM@UCS.INDIANA.EDU
>
>
>    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
>    Indiana University Computing Services provides the computer space and
>    software to support BITNET lists on its IUBVM node as a service to
>    the research oriented needs of IU faculty, staff, and graduate
>    students.  The Indiana University Libraries supports the
>    administration of electronic discussion lists as a professional
>    activity of its faculty.  However, neither of these organizations
>    verify the accuracy of submitted messages or endorse the opinions
>    expressed by authors of messages.  The list owner will attempt to
>    monitor this particular list and help keep it focused on problems
>    related to personal bibliographic software issues, but authors of
>    PRO-CITE messages are considered to be solely responsible for their
>    own comments.
>
>    Since this is a new list, with 88 subscribers as of July 26, 1992,
>    there is no way to tell how many messages you are likely to receive,
>    but similar lists for micro based software vary greatly from no
>    messages in some weeks to several per day at other times.  As
>    messages start to be received they will be automatically archived on
>    a monthly basis and can be retrieved as necessary with standard
>    listserv retrieval and search commands:
>
>    1) You will be able to obtain a list of available archive files
>       by sending an INDEX PRO-CITE command to LISTSERV@IUBVM.
>    2) Such files can be retrieved by issuing a GET PRO-CITE LOGYYMM command,
>       where "YY" stands for the year and "MM" stands for the month.
>    3) If you are curious about who your fellow subscribers to this list are,
>       send the message REVIEW PRO-CITE to LISTSERV@IUBVM.
>
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>      e         PRO-CITE List Owner:              e
>      f Mark T. Day, Assoc. Librarian, Reference  f
>      e  Indiana University Library, Room E159    e
>      R        Bloomington, IN  47405             R
>      e      Bitnet: DAYM@IUBACS.BITNET           e
>      f    Internet: DAYM@UCS.INDIANA.EDU         f
>      e   Phone: (812) 855-8028 or 855-0100       e
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