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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:10:04 CDT
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Subject:      Library Automation Questions

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1. Materials cataloging software
2. CD-Rom Self service
Please reply directly to the author, not Pacs-l.  Thanks.
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From: ejohnson@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Eric R. Johnson)
Subject: Materials cataloging software for UN*X

I am looking for cataloging software that will run under Ultrix or SunOS.
It will be used to track a relatively small set of manuals, periodicals,
technical references, etc. for approx. 50-100 users.  Check-in and check-out
are about the only requirements.  Does not have to use MARC format.  Our
budget is about $500 US.

Thanks.
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From: GENEST_HELENE%BIBL%ULAVAL@CAMPUS.ULAVAL.CA
Subject: cd-rom in self-service
Laval University is a french language university with an enrollment of
approximately 37,000 students. The Arts and Humanities Library has a
collection of over 20 cd-rom titles that were consulted by more than 5000
users last year.

We are thinking of installing a self-service, self-reservation system.
Presently, the service is controlled by the circulation desk. Under the new
system, the user would be responsible for scheduling a time period for
searching on his chosen database. At the scheduled time, he would retrieve the
appropriate disc or discs from a cabinet and use them on one of the
workstations. There would be no staff control over either the scheduling, the
loan of the cd-roms or the use of the workstations.

Before proceeding, we would like to know whether any other library has
installed a similar system and whether there has been any problems arising
such as: lost or damage of disc or workstation, conflicts between patrons or
any other problem.

Please respond to me directly.

Helene Genest, librarian
Division des sciences humaines et sociales
Bibliotheque
Universite Laval
Quebec, Canada
G1K 7P4

Tel:    418-656-7968
Fac:    418-656-7897
Internet:       HGENEST@CAMPUS.ULAVAL.CA
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:26:00 CDT
From:         Harald Lux <LUX@DMRHRZ11.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: directory of european catalogs.

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Hello,

European sites are also included in the hytelnet package:
ftp access.usask.ca
pub/hytelnet/pc/hyteln63.zip

Additionally I have a list (only hardcopy) of sites which are
connect to WIN (the german X.25 research net). Gateways to the
internet are also listed.

Responsible for additions and corrections to this list is:
Anne Cornillie-Braun
DFN-Verein
email: c-braun@dfn.dbp.de


This list was printed in:

Wir im Deutschen Forschungsnetz
Verzeichnis der Anwender des X.25-Wissenschaftsnetz und der
DFN-Dienste
Nr. 10, November 1992
ISS !? 0940-5712
Responsible:
Dr. Klaus-Eckert Maass
email: s=maass; p=dfn; a=dbp; c=de
(should be the same as: maass@dfn.dbp.de)


There is also an Infoserver of the DFN-Verein, maybe you get
the information there too:

telnet rigel.dfn.de (192.76.176.15)
login: infosys
password: <Return>

Hope it helps

Harald

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:42:05 CDT
From:         Hal Bloom <hal@UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Internet Access to Vatican Exhibit at LC (answer)

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Thanks to Marti Scheel of the US Postal Service Library for answering my
question regarding internet access to the text and images of the Vatican
Library exhibit at the Library of Congress.  For those of you who might
also be interested, here's how to do it and what I discovered:

FTP (anonymous) to seq1.loc.gov, do a cd to pub, and then to vatican.exhibit.
The directory and file names on this machine are fairly self-explanitory.
Get the README file first--that contains info helpful in navigating the
directory structure.

Each section of the exhibit (ie, subdirectory) contains both a text file
describing the exhibits and files of the images themselves.  The images are
stored in JPEG format, so the file type must be set to binary before
retrieving them.  There is a directory which contains various JPEG viewers
for the MS/DOS world.  I'm a Mac user, and there are also JPEG viewers for
the Mac (though not available on seq1 as far as I can tell).

While accessing these images is not a seamless process, and it takes a
while for my Mac IIci to uncompress the images for display, the ability to
access this exhibit from a networked Mac in Chicago gives a nice indication
of what life in an internetworked world will be as improvements are made in
hardware and software.  It's also interesting that the best network
navigation tool is still asking the "human network" -- I don't know how I
might have discovered the information through WAIS, Gopher or WWW.


Hal Bloom        Associate Director for Shared Systems and Network Services
                                  Academic and Public Computing
hal@uchicago.edu                      University of Chicago
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:41:48 CDT
From:         MacFarland Hale <MacFarland.Hale@heckle.mitre.org>
Subject:      ODA and SGML

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I've been watching this list for a couple weeks now and have seen no real
discussion of the ODA (Open Document Architecture) and SGML (Standard
Generalized Markup Language) standards.  I am not in the library business, but
my company has a need for sharing documents-in-progress among different editors
and hardware platforms; long-term storage of documents that have been created
with different editors/platforms; and search, retrieval and delivery of these
stored documents, again, to recipients using different editors/platforms.  We
strongly believe that using standards-based formats is to our advantage in the
long term, and are trying to avoid document management systems that store the
documents in proprietary formats.

Unlike many organizations, we don't have a single technical writing department.
The authors are our approximately 4000 technical staff, so it's not practical
to train them all to use SGML tagging.  At this point, I envision ODA used for
peer-to-peer communication of documents-in-progress, and then a translation of
these (when finished) into SGML for long-term storage, since I think SGML is
better suited to search operations (among other things).  There is a companion
standard to ODA, called ODL (Open Document Language), which provides for the
SGML representation of an ODA document.  The only catch is, to the best of my
knowledge, nobody has implemented the ODL standard yet (we may have to try this
ourselves, but I really don't want to - it takes a full-time effort to maintain
a product to standards specifications since, ironically, standards are rarely
static).

Any comments on my problem and/or my thought of using both ODA and SGML are
encouraged; alternative solutions are welcome too, though I'll say right now
getting all users on the same editor is not possible in our environment.  I'd
also appreciate any pointers to mailing lists and/or other _interactive_
resources more focused on ODA and SGML.  I have plenty of standards documents.
What I need now is discussion with people working in the area.

Mac

        MacFarland Hale                 machale@mitre.org
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:08:42 CDT
From:         Brian Nielsen <bnielsen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Subject:      Re: Other Internet Bibliographies
              SUNY Albany" at Jan 25, 93 1:33 pm

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
One good source for internet policy bibliography is De Stanton's, available at
infolib.murdoch.edu.au, in pub/bib as stanton.bib    It's a keeper.

Brian Nielsen
Instructional Technology Group
Academic Computing & Network Services
Northwestern University
phone: 708 491-2170      fax: 708 491-3824
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:09:25 CDT
From:         Paula Crawford <paula@koko.csustan.edu>
Subject:      Remote access

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I would like to hear from anyone who has had experience with blocking access to
online systems from unauthorized remote users.

Here are some questions :

1.  What  types of security are you using?  Passwords, tokens, other?
2.  What are typical costs?
3.  What technical expertise is required to install and maintain?
4.  How long did it take to be up and running?
5.  What would you do differently next time?
6.  What's your overall satifaction with your security system?
7.  Any questions I should  be asking that I'm not?

This is a new area for me.  I am open to any and all comments.

Thank you.

Paula J. Crawford
Online Coordinator/Reference Librarian
California State University, Stanislaus
e-mail address:  paula@koko.csustan.edu
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:08:10 CDT
From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      !!!New Clinton Posting

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Project Gutenberg has made eight corrections to yesterday's posting of
Clinton's Inaugural Address.

ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
login anonymous
password yourname@your.machine
cd etext/etext93
get clinton2.txt
quit
=====================================================

Thank you for your interest,

Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext
Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532
No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC
hart @uiucvmd.bitnet or hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:26:57 CDT
From:         Hank Harken <IADHRH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Subject:      Conference announcement

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
DORCHARD@ucs.indiana.edu says:

>ROBERT X. CRINGELY, one of the most influential journalists in the computer
industry, is coming to Indianapolis on February 1, 1993 to speak on "The
Future of the Software Industry" <

Wow, really ? I only wish I lived closer to Indianapolis to take advantage of
this. Some people don't think that Robert X. Cringely even exists but is the
joint writing of the InfoWorld staff. (for those who don't read InfoWorld, a
picture of Cringely accompanies the column but his face is never revealed).

I sure would appreciate a report to this listserv on the content of his talk
and any interesting tidbits that could be related. Oh yeah, and is Pammy going
to be there too ?

- Hank
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:44:41 CDT
From:         DORCHARD@ucs.indiana.edu
Subject:      Conference announcement

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
ROBERT X. CRINGELY, one of the most influential journalists in the computer
industry, is coming to Indianapolis on February 1, 1993 to speak on "The
Future of the Software Industry" at the 1993 ICDS Conference (4:00-9:00 pm),
which is being held at the University Place Conference Center, 850 W. Michigan
St., IUPUI.

Those attending will include MIS managers from buisiness and government
organizations, representatives from the software and computer related
industries, and consumers of computer and software products.

Cringely is the author of *Accidental Empires:  How the Boys of Silicon
Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't
Get a Date*.  It is a "fascinating story of the $65 billion personal-
computer industry and its legendary leaders, such as Bill Gates of
Microsoft, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs of Apple. . . . It effectively
sets the stage for the rough-and-tough era to come, offering invaluable
lessons for anyone trying to get a grip on the economy of the 21st
Century" (Book cover).  Cringely writes the "Notes from the Field"
column in Infoworld, which is a weekly business computer magazine read
by 500,000 people all around the world.  He holds a Ph.D. in physics
from Stanford and is a former foreign correspondent.

Anyone interested in attending the conference or reserving exhibit space
should contact Hallie Rose (812) 855-2490 or hrose@ucs.indiana.edu.
4:00-7:30 pm Exhibits
5:30-6:30 pmReception-Cash Bar/Hors D'oeuvres
6:30-8:00 pmBuffet Dinner
8:00-9:00 pmSpeaker--Robert X. Cringely

Admission:  $50.00
Exhibit:    $100.00
Students:   $20.00
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:23:40 CDT
From:         Brian Nielsen <bnielsen@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gophers in Libraries
              "EMCDERMOTT@CLARKU.BITNET" at Jan 26, 93 11:06 am

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Northwestern has responded to this issue by running two gophers, one "closed",
called NUInfo, the other "open", which is the gateway to the world's
gopherspace.  The NUInfo gopher will, we anticipate, point to other gopher
servers on campus which are similarly "closed", or at least limited.  The
concern about opac/gopher access has been strong here.  At present we have
separate terminals (not what I'd recommend), but that's partly a function of
having separate SNA and ethernet networks around here.  A library gopher
server still in development here points to the Michigan State gopher for
electronic journals.  What I think is a real interesting gopher to look at,
which has both library and computing center involvement, is INFOSlug at the
Univ. of Calif, Santa Cruz... very well organized.
Brian Nielsen
Instructional Technology Group
Academic Computing & Network Services
Northwestern University
phone: 708 491-2170      fax: 708 491-3824
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From:         David Sewell <dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject:      Re: Harvey Wheeler's work?

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
In <MAILQUEUE-101.930119155033.256@comsys.byu.edu> DARIN@comsys.byu.edu (Darin
 L. Stewart) writes:

>Is this monograph accessable to the public and if so how do I get a
>copy?

Wheeler holds the copyright to The Virtual Library and EDUCOM
distributed it, or at least it was distributed at EDUCOM '87.  I've
sent e-mail to pubs@educom.edu asking whether they have it available but
haven't received any response.  I'll try to summarize it & post the
summary here within the next few days, as someone requested earlier.
--
David Sewell, English Dept, U of Rochester  | "Where the earth is dry,
  dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu                | the soul is wisest and
  dsewell@.ccit.arizona.edu                 | best."
(On leave in Tucson, Arizona, '92-'93)      |          --Heraclitus
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:09:06 CDT
From:         BILL DREW <DREWWE@snymorva.bitnet>
Subject:      Re: AUTHORIZATION OF USERS RE: CD-ROM and NETWORKED RESOURCES

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>At San Francisco State we are about to try a new system for screening
>users of our electronic services

The above excerpt from an announcement here deeply disturbs me.  I thought San
Francisco State was a publicly funded institution paid for by the taxpayers of
California.  Some background information might be helpful as to why you see a
need to restrict services.

{FLAME ON}  What gives a public institution the right to restrict the use of
its services?  Do you prevent "outsiders" from using your reference sections?
You are only adding to the problem of the information havenots in this world.
{FLAME OFF}

If anyone out there is in the neighborhood of Morrisville College please feel
free to come in and use ANY of our resources be it electronic or paper.


 Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill")   Serials/Reference/Systems Librarian
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:42:34 CDT
From:         "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" <GRAHAM@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Sympathy and praise for EFF (part 2 of 2)

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

From:  Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries

Many of us wonder what will become of the services and friendly support
provided by Carl Kadie, especially with respect to the information and
archiving on policy issues and intellectual freedom issues.  Can we hear
about that from EFF?  Thank you

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:44:11 CDT
From:         Robin Wagner <r_wagner@FANDMLIB.BITNET>

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Reference and Bibliographic Instruction Librarian.  Search Re-opened.
Franklin & Marshall College is looking for an energetic and creative
librarian  to coordinate and revitalize the library's bibliographic
instruction program.  This is a full-time position, reporting to the
Associate Librarian for Reference and Instruction,  that presents a
challenging opportunity for someone interested in using technology to teach
information retrieval skills to highly motivated under-graduates.  In
addition to  coordinating the bibliographic instruction program, job
expectations include regularly scheduled assignments at the reference desk
(including one evening a week and some weekend duty), online database
searching, and oversight of the library's microcomputers.   Franklin &
Marshall is a Macintosh campus with an excellent computer staff available
to support library programs.

Qualifications include an ALA/MLS, bibliographic instruction experience in
an academic library, microcomputer applications, and good  interpersonal
and communication skills.    A strong background in the humanities and
knowledge of a foreign language are highly desirable.  The libraries of
Franklin & Marshall contain over 340,000 volumes, are a selective
depository for U.S. documents, and are automated using the DRA ATLAS
system.  Salary in the mid to high $20s, commensurate with education and
experience.

Candidates may submit letter of application, resume, and names, addresses,
and phone numbers of three professional references to: Personnel Services,
Franklin and Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003.
Consideration for the position will begin February 1 and will continue
until an appointment has been made.

An equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
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