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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:20:41 CDT
From:         RITCHIE@SNYCORVA.BITNET
Subject:      Position announcement

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                               SEARCH EXTENDED

                        STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
                             COLLEGE AT CORTLAND

                          ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
                          FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES

            Library                            Computer Center
            Telecommunications                 Learning Resource Center

Responsibilities:  The Associate Vice President for Information
Resources is a new position resulting from reorganization of
information services at SUNY Cortland.  The new AVP will have
responsibility for the information resources highlighted above.
These facilities represent a staff of over 65 personnel and have an
annual operating budget of approximately $4 million.  The Associate
Vice President for Information Resources will report directly to
the Provost.

Qualifications:  Significant experience which will enable the AVP
to work effectively with the library and computer center.  Some
experience with telecommunications and classroom technologies also
required.  Doctorate highly desirable; master's with commensurate
experience acceptable.  Successful administrative experience,
including management of personnel and budget, strong oral and
written communication skills, leadership in an academic
environment, and experience in long-range planning are required.
The new AVP must take seriously a leader's responsibility to
affirmative action and diversity.

The College at Cortland has approximately 6,000 students, 900
employees, and an annual budget of $29,000,000.

A detailed position description will be mailed to applicants.
Review of applications will commence in late September and on-
campus interviews will be conducted in October.   Applications will
be accepted until the position is filled.  Interested candidates
should submit a letter describing their interest in the position
and the relationship of their backgrounds to the position, a
resume, and the names and telephone numbers of five references.
References will not be contacted until the committee is working
with a short list.  Send application materials to:

                            Dr. Marilou B. Wright
                    Executive Assistant to the President
                               P. O. Box 2000
                          SUNY College at Cortland
                             Cortland, NY  13045

     The College at Cortland is committed to the theory and practice of
affirmative action.     ---8/12/92
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:32:57 CDT
From:         ple <LIBPLE@INDST.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Boolean, Bread and Nonsense

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Walt Crawford's message brings up two rough thoughts, related to user feelings
of control, and wanting to know why, when they took this action, they got
this result.
1) Supporting this is the disproportionate (sp?) upset that some people ex-
perience when they retrieve a record on an OPAC and can't easily see why they
got it. It cost them nothing but a moment's attention, but they are often
quite upset -- How in the world did I get this? Where are the words I put in?
2) I have long observed, and done some research which recognizes, that about
2/3 of library OPAC users would rather look at a long list of results, than
take some action to narrow it. I attribute this mostly to the difficulty of
learning and remembering appropriate actions to narrow a search, but there
does seem to be a strong element of wanting to maintain control over the whole
process. Yes, someone who enters "elementary school" when they want academic
achievement in elementary school, revolts at the thought of looking at tens
of thousands of records, but someone who manages to come up with "only"
several hundred records, will probably just start looking at them, and feels
like s/he is controlling the situation.
Just stray, and badly organized thoughts!

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PAT ENSOR (OCT 1: HEAD, INFORMATION SERVICES, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LIBS)
COORDINATOR, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICES (UNTIL SEPTEMBER 11)
Editor, Information Standards Quarterly
Indiana State University Libraries
Terre Haute, IN  47809
Voice:(812)237-2580; FAX:237-2567
Bitnet:libple@indst
Internet:libple@indst.indstate.edu

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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:18:10 CDT
From:         Steve Hardin <LIBHARD@INDST.BITNET>
Subject:      I-ASIS Meeting Sept. 3rd

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            The Indiana Chapter of the ASIS presents

           DATABASE ACCESS: CD-ROM LAN, OPAC OR BOTH?

            Dinner meeting, Thursday Sept. 3rd, 1992

What's the best way to provide library users with database
access?  Some libraries have set up CD-ROM networks; others
prefer to set up separate databases in combination with their
OPAC.  Is there a "best" way to provide the information?  What
are the strengths and weaknesses of each approach?

Indiana State University has used both approaches.  This meeting
will feature a panel discussion with several ISU representatives:

     Pat Ensor, Coordinator of Electronic Information
     Services, has authored numerous articles on online
     information and CD-ROMS.  She is also the author of CD-
     ROM Research Collections and CD-ROM Periodical Index.
     This will be Pat's final public appearance in Indiana
     before she assumes new duties at the University of
     Houston.

     Steve Hardin, Reference/Technical Services Librarian,
     has also written on CD-ROMs and database access.

     Paul Asay, Automation Research Associate, helps
     maintain ISU's MDAS databases on its mainframe
     computer.

Cost: ASIS Members $16.00, ASIS student members $8.00, non-
members $18.00.

Location:  The Airport Hilton Inn, right next to the Indianapolis
International Airport.  Take the airport exit from I-465 in the
southwest side of Indianapolis.

Schedule: Social Time (cash bar) 5:45 p.m.; Dinner and Program:
6:30 p.m.

Registration:  Please return the attached form, with a check
payable to "I-ASIS," by August 27th to Steve Hardin, Cunningham
Memorial Library, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
47809.

Questions?  Call Steve at 812/237-7685; Bitnet: LIBHARD@INDST,
Internet: LIBHARD@CML.INDSTATE.EDU

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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:08:39 CDT
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Subject:      Re: Boolean & Probabilistic

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From: ses@cmns-sun.think.com (Simon Edward Spero)
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Subject: Re: Boolean & Probabilistic
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:12:43
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In-reply-to: KINGH@SNYSYRV1.BITNET's message of Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:41:59 CDT

In article <PACS-L%92081309441914@UHUPVM1.BITNET> KINGH@SNYSYRV1.BITNET writes:

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   Who determines relevance?  The definition of relevance in ranked retrieval
   systems is the number of times the keyword occurs, right?  Is there a newer,
   more sophisticated, more valid and reliable method of assessing relevance?

There are a lot of other factors that go in to calculating the weight of a
document than just the number of times the keyword. For example, one very
common technique use the inverse of a terms frequency within the database
to calculate the relative weights of the search terms- rare words are more
important than common words. Also, the number of search terms that are matched
in a document can be used to filter out documents which match only  a few term
but match those terms very closely.

There are other techniques which show a lot of promise, such as using term
co-ocurence frequencies to built neural networks, but I don't know of any
production system that uses this yet.

Another technique which helps improve relevance calculations is called
relevance feedback; once the computer has run your search, you can mark
certain search items as being relevant toyour search; the query is then
modufied to try and find documents as similar as possible to the ones
you have selected.

Simon
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:58:19 CDT
From:         LBA002@PRIME-A.TEESSIDE.AC.UK
Subject:      Snapshots

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Thanks to all you lovely people again for responding to my question
about what software to use to get "snapshots" of screens.

I should have made it clear that I was interested in capturing CD-ROM
screens on an IBM and not OPAC screens or what to do when using a
Mac.

Anway here is what I have gleaned from the replies:

Shareware programs

Several people recommended programs that redirect printer output to
a file, so that when you press the PrintScreen key you create a file
of the screen contents. Most popular were PRINDIR, PRN2FILE and DMP.

Others recommended screen capture programs which operate as TSR's
and can be called up as and when required. Examples were GEMCAP,
SNIPPER (several votes for this one) and NABIT.

Disk #2247 from the Public Software Library in Houston apparently
has some useful screen capture programs on it.

Commercial Packages

Harvard Graphics was highly recommended. Hotshot Graphics got a vote. Using
Windows 3.1 and pressing Alt-PrintScreen captures the screen for import
to your word processor. SideKick can be used to capture screens. Word5 has a
program called Capture.Com which can do the same when you press Shift-
PrintScreen.

I won't bore you with the ftp sites for the shareware programs, there are
plenty of them and I am sure you can cope better over there than I can over
here. I have acquired PRINDIR, DMP and PRN2FILE. I seem to be having problems
with them under DOS5. Can anyone confirm that this is DOS5 rather than me?

Once again thanks for the response and I hope that this summary helps others
with the same problem?

Rgds,

Iain Noble
University of Teesside Library
Middlesbrough
Cleveland TS1 3BA
UK
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:17:21 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Dial Access Circulation

FROM: AXPBBGS --UICVMC
From: Bernie Sloan
Subject: Dial Access Circulation, FY 1992

 Beginning in fiscal year 1990, the 40 member libraries of the Illinois
 Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO) have offered public dial
 access to their holdings to 2,700 other Illinois libraries. Such access
 has been made possible by allowing libraries in Illinois to connect
 with ILLINET Online, an online catalog and circulation system shared
 by the 40 ILCSO libraries. Qualified Illinois libraries may search the
 system and initiate remote circulation transactions for desired items.

 Dial access circulation activity was at record levels during FY 1992.
 Nearly 500 Illinois libraries of all types initiated 56,397 circulation
 transactions against the holdings of the 40 ILCSO libraries, representing
 an increase of 26.9% over FY 1991. Public libraries led the way with
 58.3% of the dial access circulation activity, followed by academic
 libraries (21.1%), school libraries (12.2%), and special libraries (8.5%).

 Bernie Sloan, Director
 Illinois Library Computer Systems Office
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:17:07 CDT
From:         CHOUSE@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject:      printing full text from cd-rom

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I have seen some debate on whether to allow users to print CD-ROM
results vs. forcing them to download.

For those who are allowing users to print, what about full text
databases.  Printing a few pages of citations is not a big deal,
but what about 10 and 20 pages of articles?

Any info/input would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Carol House
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:10:46 CDT
From:         MICHAEL JIMENEZ <JIMENEZ@HULAW1.BITNET>
Subject:      Minitel......& ISTC through BLAISE

Please respond directly to the author, not PACS-L.  Thanks, Dana

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
re: Minitel.....can anyone send me information on accessing Minitel
from Cambridge, MA?

re: ISTC.......can anyone send me information on accessing the ISTC
through BLAISE from Cambridge, MA?

Thank you......I will summarize responses for the list.....

Michael Jimenez
Harvard Law School Library
Langdell Hall 161
Cambridge, MA  02138
(617) 496-2124 --voice
(617) 495-4449 --fax
jimenez@hulaw1.harvard.edu --internet
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:48:51 -0400
From:         "Gregg A. TeHennepe" <gateh@MVAX.CC.CONNCOLL.EDU>
Subject:      mailer problems
X-To:         urep-l%bnlvmxa.bitnet@bnlvmxa.bnl.gov

Hi again,

Thanks to some speedy help from Michael Hitch, I got UREP 3.5 to
compile under VAX Ultrix 4.2. I've installed it and gotten the vmnet
driver running; files began singing back and forth between the
nodes, however I noticed that mail bound for MAILER at this node
does not appear to be handed off to sendmail for delivery.  I've
doubled-checked conf.h to make sure that I have the local mailer
defined correctly, recompiled, and still no luck.  The mailer
installation manual has me pretty well confused, but I can't find
anything I missed.  Any thoughts?

Another thing I'm a little confused about concerns the vmnet driver.
As I understand it, it requires the MULT daemon to run as well, and
while this comes up and runs fine, the node at the other end (a
JNET node) says that they are getting errors that I'm trying to open
more than one connection.  Is there some way I'm supposed to config
MULT so as not to request multiple connections?

Again, please respond to my Internet address... and thanks much
in advance.

Cheers! - Gregg

Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing  | Internet: gateh@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu
SysAdm          | Connecticut College | BITNET/CREN: gateh@conncoll
From: jgabriel@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Gabriel Ruiz)
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Subject: UREP and GNU C
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:26:27 GMT


 I'm trying to compile UREP in a machine with the GNU C compiler,
but I'm getting some troubles about some don't existing functions
(for example, flock). Anybody have experience with this, should I
move some configurarion file? I'll apreciate eny help.

Thanks in advance.
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:07:59 EST
From:         BERRY@BNLVMXA.BITNET
Subject:      Important 3090 reminder

                      *** IMPORTANT NOTICE ***

As previously announced at the May 20th LUG meeting, the 3090 will be
unavailable for general computing after September 30, 1992.  DNE users
will have exclusive access to the 3090 through March 31, 1993.  Other
users will NOT be allowed on the 3090.  It is anticipated that most
applications currently running on the 3090 will migrate to individual
workstations and/or to other CSCF platforms.  If you have any questions
and or problems related to the migration off the 3090, then contact
Harold Berry at x4152 or contact the HelpDesk at x4159.
                     ------------------------------
The following topics relate to possible problems for users migrating off
the 3090:

MAIL: Users who get their mail on the 3090 will have to inform their
correspondents of their new email address.  The best approach to deal
with this is to use the Labmail facility.  When you register as a Labmail
user you obtain an email address by which you can reached from each of
Bitnet, Decnet and the Internet.  The form of the address is:

                username@bnl.gov - Internet
                username@bnl - Bitnet
                BNL::username - Decnet

The advantage of using Labmail is that you are able to change the machine
on which you process email without changing your mail address as far as
the external world is concerned.  Instructions for registering with
Labmail can be found on page xiii of the lab telephone directory.  A more
detailed description is available in the CSCF manual library.

If you choose not to use Labmail then you should advertise to your
correspondents the name of the machine on which you will receive mail.

In any event BNLVMXA should not be used as a mail address after Oct 1.
                     ------------------------------
DISK FILES: Disk files will not be retained on the 3090 after Oct 1.  If
you want to preserve these files for future use, then copy them to tape
(you can use the TAPEIT command to write the files to tape) or transfer
the files to your account on another machine by using the FTP command.
Contact the HelpDesk if you have any questions regarding the use of these
commands.  Please do NOT wait until the last minute to save your files.
To prevent loss of information it is strongly recommended that you save
your files as soon as possible.
                     ------------------------------
ARCHIVE FILES: Archive files will be unavailable after Oct 1 except for
DNE users.  If you have archived files you want to save, then do an
ARCHIVE retrieve and save them using one of the above methods.
                     ------------------------------
CARTRIDGE TAPES: Cartridge tapes cannot be read or written on any of our
machines except the 3090.  You will need to copy these tapes to another
medium (8mm is recommended) if you need to access the information on
another CCD machine.
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:53:45 PDT
From:         acanas@TRIVIA.COGINST.UWF.EDU
Subject:      urep on IBM PS/2 AIX?

Can anyone confirm if UREP runs on an IBM PS/2 with AIX? If so, what
adapter/board does it require/support?

Thanks,

Alberto J. Canas -- acanas@ai.uwf.edu
Div. of Computer Science, Univ. of West Florida
Pensacola, FL 32514
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:30:37 -0400
From:         "Gregg A. TeHennepe" <gateh@MVAX.CC.CONNCOLL.EDU>
Subject:      Compiling UREP 3.5 under VAX Ultrix 4.2
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Howdy,

Has anyone here had success compiling UREP 3.5 under *VAX* Ultrix
4.2?  I know I've seen reports of successful compiles under *RISC*
Ultrix 4.*, but I don't remember seeing any for the VAX version.
(We've been running UREP 3.4 under VAX Ultrix 3.1 for some time now,
but I _have_ to upgrade Ultrix at this point...)

The error I'm getting is during the linking for insync:

_bindup: ld:/lib/libc.a(getcommon.o): multiply defined

Anyone have any thoughts?  Please reply to me directly via my
Internet address, as I'm not receiving the list at the moment ;-).

Thanks *much* in advance... Cheers!  - Gregg

Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing  | Internet: gateh@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu
SysAdm          | Connecticut College | BITNET/CREN: gateh@conncoll
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:56:46 CST
From:         rwahlstr@HP.UWSUPER.EDU
Subject:      lurkers

I just wanted to point out that the "Lurker" issue has transformed more
lurkers into non-lurkers than any other topic I can recall.  Will they
return to lurkdom or become latter day Tharons, Irvs, Lilis, and Joels?


Ralph       rwahlstr@hp.uwsuper.edu
From: rwahlstr@HP.UWSUPER.EDU
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Date: 13 Aug 92 17:39:32 GMT
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First, I have to add my bit to the "lurker" issue.  I like the term, and I
like being able to lurk when an issue interests me peripherally. From time
to time, I jump in, but I just don't feel that I have to, and I don't feel
guilty about not.

Here's my real concern:  I make the assumption and the observation that
many writing teachers balk at computer aided instruction in the classroom
because they fail to understand the strengths and weaknesses of computers
and software. They've succumbed to the "miracle machine" myth about
computers and become frustrated by the mismatch of their expectations and
reality.  I suggest that knowing the capabilities and limitations of
computers and keeping a steady eye on instructional objectives in a writing
course can allow teachers to take advantage of what word processing can do
for their students.   My question is this:  Given that CAI is beneficial to
writing students, how do we reconcile the conflict between expectations and
reality?  What kinds of effective pedagogy can we bring to the computer
writing classroom (I'm especially interested in basic writing, but I
want to explore all levels)?  Specifically, what kinds of experience have
you had with this problem, and what research/writing has been done on
this?   Finally, how do we convert the unconverted?

I realize I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but that's because I'm in
the middle of a paper on this subject.  I'm convinced of the benefits.

Let me know what you think.


Ralph       rwahlstr@hp.uwsuper.edu
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