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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:46:00 -0600
From:         Lee Harris <LEEHAR@LIBRARY.LIB.USU.EDU>
Subject:      Release 5.1

Has anyone installed release 5.1 using MVS/SP CICS 1.7?  If so please let me
know how your installation went.



Lee O. Harris
LIB1\TECH1
Utah State University
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:16:33 EST
From:         Tom Norman <normant@GVSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Notis - I/ A Interface
Comments: To: NOTIS discussion group list <NOTIS-L@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>

          Grand Valley State University currently runs all IA
          software.  I would be more than happy to disucss it with
          you.

          Tom Norman
          Systems Analyst
          Grand Valley State University

          Internet:      normant@gvsu.edu
          Voice:         (616) 895-2289
          FAX:           (616) 895-3889
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:43:33 EST
From:         Robert Wolven <wolven@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Blackwell/NOTIS Users' Group at ALA
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                ALA Blackwell/NOTIS Users' Group

The midwinter Blackwell/NOTIS Users' Group meeting will take place on
Tuesday, January 26, at 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Room A105 of the
Denver Convention Center.

As usual, there will be reports on the status of various developments
that are of interest to users of both NOTIS and Blackwell North
America.  The meeting is also an opportunity to ask questions, voice
concerns, make requests, and generally work toward greater
interconnection and cooperation between Blackwell and NOTIS.

The midwinter meeting will also include a discussion of Kent State
University's experience with Blackwell's TOC (Table of Contents) data
in their NOTIS OPAC.  The delivery mechanism, load procedures, and
search and retrieval issues will be discussed.  In addition, there will
be a live demonstration, via the Internet, of TOC data in the Kent
State OPAC.

Bob Wolven (substitute chair)
216M Butler Library
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Phone: 212-854-5585
e-mail: wolven@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:59:08 EST
From:         Anaclare Evans <AEVANS@WAYNEST1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Multi-tasking/GTO/bugs
              11 Jan 1993 21:55:31 GMT from <LB21ILS@MUSIC.TCS.TULANE.EDU>

We aren't using Windows, but have noticed a problem that after we transfer a
record using GTO, the OCLC record will reformat and display on our monitor
even when we are in NOTIS.  (And we connect to OCLC and NOTIS via separate
COM ports).  My very unsophisticated rationale is that the XPO function on
OCLC eventually reformats the OCLC record, if you change to NOTIS before that
happens, you run into trouble--when you wait everything is OK.  Have you tried
the dual connection running a tsr emulation program to connect to NOTIS--with
out Windows in the equation?  Does the same thing happen?  Are you using two
different com ports?  I'm just thinking of some of the problems we had at
first.  I suggest you try taking off the various functions and test each one
to see when you start to have problems.  By the way, we will be discussing
workstations at the SIG meeting at ALA in Denver later this month.
Anaclare Evans
Head, Database Mgt., Wayne State University Libraries, and Chair, NOTIS
Cataloging/Authorities SIG
aevans@waynest1.bitnet
aevans@cms.cc.wayne.edu
313-577-4006
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:10:28 EST
From:         Bradley Faust <LIBF17@BSUVM.UCS.BSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 5.1 general release
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              4 Jan 1993 09:23:00 CST from
              <MADEWELL%VUCTRVAX.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>

Ball State University went "live" with the general release of 5.1
20 December 1992.  We have experienced no major problems to date.

We don't do fines on NOTIS, but do run a heavily modified LB610
job to produce overdue notices on our custom forms.

We have MDAS 1.3 and GTO 3.1 up, and hope to have PACSearch 1.0
running soon.

LSC994 modified 46,330 of 48,162 MFHL records.


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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:18:22 EST
From:         Betsy Hine <LIBHINE@INDST.BITNET>
Subject:      NUGM93
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This notice is being cross-posted to NOTIS-L and AUTOCAT.

The Cataloging/Authorities SIG is now inviting volunteers for moderators
and presenters at the NOTIS Users Group Meeting in October, 1993.  The
preliminary schedule for that meeting will be worked on during midwinter,
so those wishing to present or moderate a session at NUGM93 should contact
me by January 15, 1993.  Remember, moderators and presenters get their
registration waived for this meeting.  Some ideas received at the last
NUGM were as follows:
Working from home
Basics of authority control
Basic GLOB/GLCH
Advanced GLOB/GLCH
Breaking the TS/PS barriers

You may volunteer to be a presenter or you may volunteer to be a moderator
of a session and gather together a group of 2 or 3 presenters.
If you have an interest in the above or any other topics that you think
might be a good NUGM session, please contact me directly, not through the
list. Feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues not on Bitnet/Internet

Betsy Hine, Head
Monographic Cataloging
Cunningham Memorial Library
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
(812) 237-2573 ; Fax (812) 237-2567
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:18:14 -0600
From:         MADEWELL@VUCTRVAX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: VITLS under 5.1

Vanderbilt successfully loaded Faxon tapes with the "general release"
version of 5.1.  We have run Harrassowitz, Blackwell, and Majors
tapes under earlier versions of 5.1.  The only tape we currently
have a problem with is one from Swet's.  We've never gotten a Swet's
tape to load.
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:49:44 EST
From:         TOM SCHNEITER <SCHNEITE@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Colorado amendment 2

This is being cross-posted to the lists on which I have seen comments
regarding Colorado amendment 2.  Apologies for duplication.

**************************************************************************

Like many of our colleagues, I have reservations about attending ALA Midwinter
in Denver, due to the passing of Amendment 2 in Colorado.  We all, I
believe, have become aware that this amendment outlaws any state or local
statutes that prohibit discrimination against gay/lesbian/bisexual
individuals.  I feel, however, that I have obligations that necessitate my
attending Midwinter, despite any hesitation I may have personally with
contributing to the Colorado economy.

I have come up with a way to assuage my conscience, in part, while meeting my
professional obligations at Midwinter.  Every dollar I spend in Denver and
every charge slip that carries my credit card imprint will carry the
following legend:

"Repeal amendment 2!"

I urge my colleagues of like opinion to do the same.  Please feel free to
pass this idea around.


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Tom Schneiter                                                            *
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:35:00 -0600
From:         Lee Harris <LEEHAR@LIBRARY.LIB.USU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: MVS/VSE NSI JCL Coding Standards.

It would be nice if Notis would quit using PROCS.

I have rewritten most of the Notis jobs, because I do not like the PROCS.
Now when ever Notis sends out a new release it is a pain to check to make
sure that they haven't changed one of the jobs.



Lee O. Harris
LIB1\TECH1
Utah State University
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:04:18 EST
From:         Peggy Yetter <YETTER@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: RE: Release 5.1 -- Print and Send commands
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> Loyola has LMS 5.1 and MDAS 1.3 in test and is planning to move them
> into production within a month.  I am wondering how people have set
> up their terminal control to account for networked PCs or remote
> access.
>
> I would like to give people the ability to print or download using
> the new NOTIS commands but often will have no idea what type of printer
> they will be using.  I have set up our dumb terminals with dedicated
> printers as "2 - ASCII" printers.  When I try the same for PCs with
> printers, the system responds with PROG755's since it senses an
> incompatibility with the physical equipment.
>
> Has anyone successfully implemented this?  The new functionality is
> something we have wanted for a long time and I would like to be able
> to offer it to our patrons.  Any advice gratefully received.
>
> Mary Alice Ball
> Head of Library Systems
> Loyola University of Chicago
I'm a little confused by some of your circumstances so forgive me if my
answer doesn't quite address your situation.  The print function as delivered
by NOTIS was designed to work with an IBM3164 terminal.  This works fine
for our library terminals but patrons dialing into the system are usually
emulating a VT100.  If we try to print from a PC on a remote connection
using the code as delivered by NOTIS, we get a continuous scroll of the
information that would normally go to the printer.  To get around this,
I have patched LPC260P & MPC260P, checking for the type of connection by
terminal id and sending X'1B5B3569' to VT100 dial-in terminals to start
the redirected printing (instead of X'1012') and sending X'1B5B3469' to
end the redirected printing (instead of X'1014').  If this helps you and
you need more information, please contact me.
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| Peggy Yetter                       : Van Pelt Dietrich Library Center |
| Systems Analyst                    : 3420 Walnut Street               |
| University of Pennsylvania         : Philadelphia, PA  19104-6206     |
| yetter@penndrls.upenn.edu          : (215)898-4824                    |
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:39:21 EST
From:         Gordon Schumacher <RGSX@CORNELLC.BITNET>
Subject:      MHIX sort fix???
Comments: To: notis-l@tcsvm.bitnet

Gary Strawn provided a lovely fix for the change in the sort order in
the 5.x OPAC display.   I have cursorily refitted it to 5.1 (in which
things have somewhat changed...) with no change that my OPAC people
see in our test system.

Has anyone else attempted to port this fix to 5.1? Would be interested in
seeing the code if so.

Also any of the other 5.0.x fixes which might apply to 5.1 . I am planning
on implementing 5.1 on 17 Jan 1993 and am hoping to provide as many of
these "enhancements" to my people as possible...

Thanks in advance for any help....

Gordon Schumacher
Asst. Director of Library Technologies
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:09:32 -0500
From:         AISTERWI@EKU.BITNET
Subject:      Printing ALA characters on PC printer using YTERM

I would be interested in hearing from anyone using
YTERM to access NOTIS OPAC and has successfully
printed a screen with ALA characters on a PC
printer.  Is anyone doing this? Thanks.



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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:36:01 -0500
From:         Jean Farrington <farrington@A1.RELAY.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      VITLS under 5.1
Comments: To: notis-l@tcsvm.bitnet

        I wondered if anyone has loaded a VITLS tape under Release 5.1.  We
are expecting to bring up 5.1 (MVS) on January 8th and will have a
Blackwell tape to load almost immediately.
        Thanks very much.

        Jean Farrington
        Head, Serials
        University of Pennsylvania
        (215) 898-7563
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:19:19 EST
From:         Anaclare Evans <AEVANS@WAYNEST1.BITNET>
Subject:      New Rewrite Task Force

The NOTIS Cataloging and Authorities SIG has been asked to form a Task Force to
 provide input to NOTIS Systems, Inc. on the features we would like if the soft
ware which supports the cataloging and authorities module is re-written.  The
Task Force is to be limited, at NOTIS's request,  to three members, however,
there will be a larger group which will be utilized to assist with data gather-
ing and analysis.  While NOTIS has asked the SIG to form such a Task Force,
they wish to make it very clear that an analyst has NOT been assigned to the
project and NO DATE has been set as a target date for the completion of this
task.

Since the SIG membership represents libraries located in diverse places,
persons volunteering to be involved in the process should expect to carry on
their business via phone, electronic mail, and at ALA and NUGM meetings.  Be-
cause an analyst has not been assigned and there is no target date, it is
anticipated that the Task Force may function over a several year period of time
.  Interested individuals should be reasonably certain that they will be avail-
able for several years and that they have the institutional support to assume
such an assignment.  Participation in the larger, and as yet unnamed group,
should expect to do much of their work via the telephone and electronic mail.

Those who submitted their names at the SIG meeting during the NUGM meeting last
October need not submit their names again.  Others wishing to volunteer should
contact the Cataloging/Authorities SIG Chair, Anaclare Evans, at

aevans@waynest1.bitnet,  or,
aevans@cms.cc.wayne.edu
313-577-4006 (voice)
no later than 13 January 1993.  Those selected by the Chair will be notified
during the following week.  Responses by email are preferred.  Should you have
any questions, please contact me at the above email addresses or phone number.

The final composition of the Task Force and the larger group will be announced
on NOTIS-L prior to ALA Midwinter and at the SIG meeting in Denver.

REMINDER:  Cataloging/Authorities SIG meeting will be on Sunday evening, 24
January 1993 in Denver.  Please check at the NOTIS booth or in the conference
program for meeting location and specific times.

Anaclare Evans, Chair
NOTIS Cataloging/Authorities SIG
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:38:48 -0600
From:         LEIGH WILLIAMS <F_WILLIAMS@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: DBMS Article
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That article was on page 63 of the December '92 DBMS.  John, send me
your fax number and I'll fax the article to you.

Leigh
F_WILLIAMS@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU
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From: LB21ILS <LB21ILS@MUSIC.TCS.TULANE.EDU>
Subject: Multi-tasking/GTO/bugs
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-12829]: music.tcs.tulane.edu
Organization: Your MUSIC System
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:55:31 GMT

Does anyone have suggestions regarding mutitasking using GTO and a
windows environment? I seem to be encountering bugs (frozen screens,
can't sign on to GTO or change setup, etc., all of which I could do
using the previous cataloging setup using two terminals).  I have read
the literature from Vanderbilt U.  I'm using a 5meg Leading Edge for
hardware. Hmmm.


Robert Peck
Curator
Amistad Research Center


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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:26:53 ECT
From:         Andy Perry <APERRY@BINGVMB.BITNET>
Subject:      strange 5.1 problems

We brought up 5.1 in production a few days ago. There have been
two strange problems we have encountered which I wondered if anyone
else has also noticed. The "lser" index displays (from receipt history
etc.) are garbled with screen formatting characters. All other index
displays are ok. Only "lser" is affected and only on our dedicated
7171's with ALA support. I'm sure this is a 7171 problem but wonder if
changing from even-7-1 parity to none-8-1 might be helpful?

The second problem is more serious. We have experienced abend 852J
when changing locations on copy/holdings records. Sometimes the system
permits one change (say from loc "main" to loc "sci") but then abends
if you try to change it back. The abend is always 852J (which
is a read or write error on the copy holdings record). I just can't
figure this one out. Anyone else out there have a hint?

Andy Perry
A.D. for Systems
Binghamton Univ. Library
Binghamton, NY 13902-6012
(607) 777-4331
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:49:00 EST
From:         Irene Pelak <pelak@PILOT.NJIN.NET>
Subject:      archives
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Did I miss something?  I wanted to search the archives and got as far as the
File selection screen.  I entered notis and it responded that such a file does
not exist.  It has been a while since I last searched the archives but I think
I followed the procedure that has always worked in the past.  Has something
 changed?
IRENE PELAK  TECH1  BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE  201-447-9236
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:54:18 EST
From:         Jeffrey Trimble <JTRIMBL@WVNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Authority Workforms

Anyone in NOTIS-land using the authority workforms that are produced
by, yet another, batch job????? If so, what purpose are you generating
them for and do you find them convenient?  If they are just a paper
producing job (read: junk) let me know that too.

Thanks in advance,

Jeffrey Trimble
Cataloging/Authorities Librarian
West Virginia University
JTRIMBL@WVNVM (Bitnet)
JTRIMBL@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (Internet)
(304)293-4060
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:30:16 PST
From:         "Catherine Tierney" <CN.NX5@STANFORD.BITNET>
Subject:      GTO and CJK
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We strip 880 fields, 066 field, and $6 subfields.  I'll send you the
code we handed out at NUGM session #17 this October.

Catherine Tierney, LIB1                415 725-7934
Stanford University                    cn.cmt@stanford.bitnet


>Can someone please tell me how GTO handles CJK vernacular fields (i.e. 880).
>Does it strip the field out or is there a way to modify the
>program(s) so it will?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Marlene Elster, TECH1
>University of California, Santa Barbara
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From: jlc5f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jean L. Cooper)
Subject: Re:      GTO and CJK
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:51:09 GMT

In our experience (on an MVS system, using LMS 5.0.2 and GTO
3.0), with no modifications to the GTO program, the CJK record
transferred into NOTIS via GTO has all the vernacular fields
stripped out.  (I.e., the fields are there, but there is nothing
in them.)

--
Jean L. Cooper    (BITNET: JLC5F@virginia.edu   CIS: 70253,1114)
University of Virginia, Alderman Library, Charlottesville, VA 22903
"The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." 
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:12:46 CST
From:         H.Coleman@UIC.EDU
Subject:      Re: oh no, here comes NUGM 93

so should i do one on the library menu?
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From:         LEIGH WILLIAMS <F_WILLIAMS@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Need Harry Samuels' address
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Yep, tried that one from the customers' guide already.  The postmaster
said that's an invalid host.  Thanks, though!

Leigh
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