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From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Help : Looking for the Oddyssi
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:35:25 GMT

<LYBBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:



>         I am looking for an E-Text copy of the Oddyssie ( I know it might be s
>pelled wrong ). I have looked through Archie but have come up with nothing. I h
>ave also looked at the Gutenberg collection but could not locate it. If you cou
>ld help me find it or if you have a copy of it I would appreciate it. Thanks

>My E-Mail address is LYBBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>                                                          Felix

Try spelling it: odyssey

I believe that there is a CD-ROM that has copies of classical texts like
the Odyssey and the Iliad and that the texts are public domain, since they
were translated by folks like John Donne in the seventeenth century.  I am
not sure what the name of the CD-ROM is.  Sorry.

Sharon

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From: rbear@donald.uoregon.edu (Richard Bear)
Subject: Homer
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Keywords: CD-ROM
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: 15 Sep 1992 15:59 PDT  

The CD-ROM in question is probably the Library of the Future. Available from
DAK and other sources. It has over 400 titles on it, and although that's
misleading, as some of the titles are short stories, it is still a pretty
good deal.

rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu 

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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 10:26:33 CDT
From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      Interviews

As some of you are already aware, and others will find out in Newsletter2,
we are swamped with requests for media interviews.

We have pretty much talked to everyone for the past year, but now it is
time to get down to the nitty gritty of doubling our production, so our
policy has to be a little more protective of our time.

First:  is there any general policy already for encouraging interviewers
to make a donation to the project they are writing about?

Second:  does anyone know anything about Newsday, a daily NY newspaper?

Third:  general suggestions for how to handle media?  (Part of our price
has always been that we must receive two copies of anything for archives,
but half the time they don't send them. . .including the Chronicle of
Higher Education, most recently.  If anyone has any pull there. . . .)


=====================================================

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:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:33:55 CDT
From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      Thanks about Newsday

Thanks to those who provided me with info about Newsday. . .will do the
interview based on those recommendations, even though I have about been
interviewed to death.


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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:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:27:44 CDT
From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      Stereographic Lithography

We are researching Stereographic Lithography for an article.

Any information you can provide, or leads on sources for information,
will be greatly appreciated.

=====================================================

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
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:11:56 CDT
From:         MJENSEN@charlie.usd.edu
Subject:      !! Aristophanes coordinator needed

Forwarded via Project Gutenberg--Reply to Specific Addressee
MJENSEN@charlie.usd.edu Mary Brandt Jensen
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
We have very good leads now on the probable print edition that the
Desktop Library CD files for Aristophranes was based on.  Send out a
call for a volunteer to coordinate the proofreading.

Userid: MJENSEN
Node: CHARLIE.USD.EDU
Name: Mary Brandt Jensen
Phone: 1-605-677-6363
Address:
Director, Law Library
University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069-2390
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:46:59 CDT
From:         Denis Pelli <denis_pelli@isr.syr.edu>
Subject:      gigabyte of easy text avail

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Subject:gigabyte of easy text available?              6:20 PM        9/8/92
I would like to get hold of on the order of 1 gigabyte of text for a study of
reading. I want to measure statistics of the text and use samples of it in
experiments on human reading. Can anyone direct me to a source?

(I have downloaded the children's books from the Gutenberg etext offerings, but
they're a bit small for my purposes. The only source I know of for a larger
amount of text is Dialog's CD-ROMs that have newspaper full text--current sale
price of $800 for two years of any paper--but I'm concerned that a newspaper
will have too much emphasis on proper nouns and be too hard for young kids.
Ideally I would like text at the level of Reader's Digest, i.e. at a low
reading level.)

Denis Pelli
Professor of Neuroscience
Syracuse University
denis_pelli@isr.syr.edu
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Subject: Article on Declassifying Documents
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:18:32 GMT
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
From: Linda Johnson

There is an interesting editorial in the 9/16/92
page A56 issue of THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
on the declassifying of documents including the
FOREIGN RELATINS OF THE UNITED STATES issue.
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:09:35 CDT
From:         Robin Gruner <VB7R0018%SMUVM1@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject:      Offers

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I have an extra sect. 1 of the Florida General population characteristics
(C 3.223/6:990 CP-1-11/sec.1).  I need sect. 2.  Anyone want to trade?

I also have two microfiche titles sent by mistake:

TD 4.15/9:992/4    Index & User guide for type certificate data sheets
                   & specifications (Apr. 1992)

TD 4.15/10:992/4   Amended type certificate data sheets & specifications
                   (April, 1992)

Robin Gruner
Documents Dept.
Fondren Library
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX  75275
vb7r0018@smuvm1.bitnet
vb7r0018.vm.cis.smu.edu
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:25:53 CDT
From:         lopresti robert <lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Subject: Re: Statistical Abstract on CDROM

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
State Data Center usually gets info about their state before depos.
libraries do.  As for Stat Abs on CD-rom, its supposed to be
coming.  You don't think your patrons could have meant USA COUNTIES,
which is taken from STAT ABS, and has the logo on the cover?

Rob

MY OPINIONS ONLY                      "You're out of my mind.
Rob Lopresti                           Guess that makes two of us."
Western Wash U.                                -John Gorka
Bellingham, WA
98225-9103                              lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu
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From:         VICKY YORK <alivy%msu.dnet%mtsunix1.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject:      red book

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
We recently received "Red book update number one" I49.2:R24/7/update
one -- this looks to me like pages for the endangered species list
but I can find no record on silverplatter gpo, government publications
refernce file or our own checkin records that we ever received the
original "red book" that these update pages go into.  Can anyone
help with identifying the correct title and whether or not it
was received as  depository item.  Before I start making telephone
calls, I thought I should at least know what I am looking for.
thanks much
vicky york
msu libraries
bozeman, mt
alivy@mtsunix1.bitnet
406-994-6658
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:42:15 CDT
From:         "A.Allan" <LB1AJA@PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: GB median income

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
           FROM:
                       Alastair J. Allan
        (Main Library, University of Sheffield,  SHEFFIELD)
                     GREAT BRITAIN. S10 2TN

                 e-mail: LB1AJA@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA
    e-mail (outside UK): LB1AJA@PA.SHEF.AC.UK
                  phone: 0742-768555 (x4383)


     AVERAGE INCOMES -GREAT BRITAIN  (1942-1992)

           There are no easy answers to this one.  I can't find
     a single authoritative source.
           1.  New Earnings survey (HMSO. Annual) 1968- date
     Part A gives the median income and provides a 10 yr comparison.
     In the earlier volumes it just provides "average" incomes.

           2. The standard source for pre-1968 statistics is:
     British Labour statistics: historical abstract 1886-1968.
     This only provides "average" figures, for each particular
     industry.  Furthermore, these statistics do not include
     figures for professional people or self employed.

           3.  The monthly index of average earnings was first
     published in 1963 and appears in the Department of Employment
     Gazette (there have been at least 3 title changes in 20 yrs)

          4.  The survey of personal incomes was first published
     in 1949/50 and is a random sample of 1 million tax records.
     It eas published every 5 yrs up to 1969/70.  After that it's
     every 2 yrs.  Again published by HMSO.  The median income
     table was dropped after the 1979/80 set.

         5.  The best book on the topic is:
                    DEAN, Andrew
                     Wages and earnings
                    (Reviews of UK statistical sources)
                    Pergamon.  1980
                    0 08 024060 7

           Good luck,

                             Alastair Allan
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From: CN.WDR@forsythe.stanford.edu (W. David Rozkuszka)
Subject: EC fund transfers
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:40:18 GMT

In answer to my own posted question concerning where to find
European Communities net transfer of funds from members countries to
the EC, and transfer of EC funds to each member:
            Melinda (sorry, I missed the last name) of the
              Washington EC Office came up with the following
              answer (she's so good, she rattled it off
              as if it were common knowledge!):
       It's in the Annual Court of Auditors Report ('C'324
       section of the Official Journal) which is in 2 volumes.
       The latest is in the O.J. for 13 December 1991, pp.66-67
       of v.2 and covers transfers for 1986-1990.
                         ---David Rozkuszka
                            Jonsson Library of Government Documents
                            Stanford University
                            415-725-1028
                            davidr@forsythe.stanford.edu
From: ddavis@cass.ma02.bull.com (Dave Davis)
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Subject: Interested in 'Information Navigator' discussion group ?
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:11:40 GMT
Organization: Bull World Wide Information Systems Inc.


[I have cross-posted this somewhat, for a wide dispersion.
 Sorry if you see it more than once. ]

We are looking to start an informal e-mail conference 
for swapping ideas, etc. on the 'Information Navigator' 
database software (sold by IME Systems, Inc.), similar to the
listserv's for BRS (brs-l) or NOTIS, etc. 

[For those of you who don't know, 'The Information 
 Navigator' is a library catalog software product, avail. in
 DOS and UNIX versions,  with several hypertext-like features. 
 But, then, this message isn't specifically addressed to you :-) . ]
 
The group would exit as a forum for asking  (and perhaps
getting answered) 'how did you do this?' or 'has anybody 
else seen this bug?', etc. ?

For now, please write back to me (don't post, for heaven's
sake!) and let me know that you're interested; mention
what version of the product you are running, and in
what hardware configuration.

Thanks. Please feel free to repost or forward to appropriate
individuals or groups.

Dave Davis, ddavis@ma30.bull.com (Internet)
These are my opinions & activities alone

QOTD:

There are Russians in the front yard, there's Martians on the ceiling
There's a Cape buffalo on the patio and you ask me how I'm feeling
There's a sniper by the swingset, the highway has been mined
Then here you come with a great big smile singing, rise and shine.

Well, there's nothing you could say that will get me up today
Nothing you have ever said that can drive me from this bed
You can call me lazy, crazy, call me stupid, I don't care
I ain't gettin' up, cause its dangerous out there.
			Bill Morrissey
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From:         "AIMEE C. PISCITELLI" <AIMEECP%TAMVENUS@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject:      more survey hours

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
At Texas A&M University, the documents desk is open the same hours as the
main reference desk, although the building stays open until midnight.  These
hours are:

M-TH   8:00 am - 10:00 pm
FRI    8:00 am - 6:00  pm
SAT    9:00 am - 6:00  pm
SUN    1:00 apm - 10:00 pm

Our CD-ROM area closes 15 minutes before the desk.

Aimee Piscitelli
Texas A&M University
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:41:00 CDT
From:         Jo Anne Beezley <BEEZLEY%UKANVM@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject:      ipeds

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I am trying to locate the iped statistics.  So far I haven't had any
luck.  Does anyone know who publishes them and where.   Thanks for your
 help.  Please reply to me.

Jo Anne Beezley
Pittsburg State University  beezley@ukanvm
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:59:23 CDT
From:         Judith Rowe <JUDITH%PUCC@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FEES TO BE ABLE TO USE DEPOSITORY ITEMS
              4 Sep 1992 15:39:08 CDT from
              <LTPYWS%IRISHMVS.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I know this may seem pickey but Steve Hayes refers to converting a
document to machine-readable form. Converting is not the right word;
the process is usually not analogous to that of creating microform
from printed material. More commonly in today's world the document is
originally created in electronic format and the printed product is
created from this. It is true that the electronic product which is
ultimately released to the public is often an enhanced version of the
original product but it is seldom a newly created (in the sense of a
keyed or scanned) product. I am not necessarily suggesting that the
enhancement be the responsibility of GPO but this is worth
discussing.
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:05:58 CDT
From:         Jerry Frobom <jerryf@unllib.unl.edu>
Subject:      library hours

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

The documents depository which includes both administrative, reference and
processing staff is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mondays thru Fridays.

Most of our ready-reference is handled by the regular information/reference
desk staff.  Their hours are 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Mondays thru Thursdays,
8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturdays, and
1:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sundays.  If there are any questions that the Central
Reference Staff cannot handle, patrons are told to contact Documents during
our regular hours.  I have, on occassion, answered some questions from home,
 during the off hours.  I can't recall if I've ever come in to help someone who
mihgtmight be desparate .

We have open stacks, and documents are available during regular library hours:
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight, Monday thru Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, and 12:00 noon to 12:00 mid-
night Sunday.  Patrons are able to check out documents during all these
hours.  They are also able to check out our CD-ROMs which are on reserve
during these times.

However, access to our lone CD-ROM workstation is more limited.  The work
station is available from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday thru Thursday,
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, and 12:00
noon to 9:30 p.m. Sunday.  These times correlate to the times that our
Microforms Services unit (which I was responsible for until Sept 1) was
staffed, usually with workstudy students on evenings and weekends.  The
Microforms Services area is open during regular library hours, so that docs
microfiche is available during the same hours as our stacks.

Considering our level of staffing (1 professional, 1 paraprofessional, and
2.5 clericals with 65.5 hours student help) our hours are about all we
can cover without relying on the students to provide reference assistance.
I must admit, though, that GPO inspectors have not been particularly pleased
with the hours that the docs staff keeps.

Jerry Frobom
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
jerryf@unllib.unl.edu
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:16:59 CDT
From:         libehm%acvax@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Subject:      re: missing treaties

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

Subject: re: missing treaties


From: Internet: libehm@acvax.ac.edu or

      Bitnet: Elfriede H. McLean@USCN.UGA.EDU

# 11131 is:  Defense Personnel Exchange, Memorandum of Understanding
between the United States of America and Australia, Signed at
Washington, April 13, 1984.

#11123 is:  Narcotics, Interdiction of Trafficking, Agreement between
the United States of America and the Bahamas, Signed at Nassau,
March 6, 1985.

	Have a nice Labor Day!       EHM

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
The Aug 15 issue of Administrative Notes reports that 2 publications
of the Treaties and other International Acts series will not be sent to
depositories (page 32).

	They are # 11123 and 11131.

Does anyone know what the subject/title of these two publications are?

          THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE ARE SOLELY MY OWN, BUT YOU CAN
             BORROW THEM FOR TWO WEEKS...WATCH THE FINES, THOUGH
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Wilson Library                           someone won't use for a toy."
Western Washington University                             -Walt Frazier
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:06:27 CDT
From:         lib_beck@emunix.emich.edu
Subject:      GPO classification hotline

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
     This afternoon I called the classification hotline and
was surprised to be told that Ashok is not taking any queries
until after Sept. 28, due to an automation project.  I
suggested that we ought to have been given advance notice,
to save us wasted long-distance calls, and he agreed that
Sept. is a busy month for the hotline.  Oh well, at least
he didn't tell me that the notification will be in the
Sept. 15 Ad Notes.
     One of the problems I didn't get to tell him about is on
shipping list 92-0469-P.  Red Book Update, classed I 49.2:
R 24/7/update no. 1, appears to be changes to an untitled
publication classed I 49.2:En 2/21.  It appears that the
original was distributed without a cover or title page.  Since
GPO no longer maintains a library, the Acquisitions & Classifi-
cations staff can't go to the shelves and resolve these mysteries,
so they just stick a number on the update pages and leave it to
us to figure out.
       Clare Beck
       Eastern Michigan University Library
       lib_beck@emunix.emich.edu
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From: CN.WDR@forsythe.stanford.edu (W. David Rozkuszka)
Subject: british income
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:42:30 GMT

>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I am trying to find annual personal MEDIAN income of Great Britain for 50
>years.  I have read that it is in the Survey of Personal Incomes, which we do
>not seem to have.  Does anybody know of anything else before I send this
>student to inter-library loan.  I am hoping I am just missing something
>obvious.
>thanks,
>Paul Belloni
>plb4@midway.uchicago.edu
****************************
CSO's Guide to Official Statistics on p. 123 (1990 issue) lists the
Survey of Personal Incomes, Economic Trends (Nov. issue), New
EArnings Survey, Employment Gazette, among others. I checked the
Econ.Trends, Employment Gazette and Financial Statistics and they do
NOT list median. I did not check the Survey of P.I. since that's in
a distant stack. Perhaps you might check for a Bank of England
publication.        David Rozkuszka   davidr@forsythe.stanford
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