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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:50:35 CDT
From:         "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" <GRAHAM@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject:      fyi re ALA Midwinter Meeting schedules

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

I attach a portion of a message I just received from a section chair about
ALA Midwinter scheduling:

If you are attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, January 22-27,
you should be aware that there are many errors in the official program.
This is the result of a major computer failure at ALA Conference Services
and the necessity of reconstructing the conference schedule....

[specific meeting info was given]  The correct time and place is
listed in the program SUPPLEMENT. It's a good idea to check all meeting times
and locations in the SUPPLEMENT in case there is a change.

[end quote]

--pg
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:34:14 CDT
From:         CHERYL SCHOENHAAR <CSCHOENH@wpo.uwsuper.edu>
Subject:      email pals

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Thanks to everyone who responded to my email pals request-- it
was quite a success!  I've taken the over 150 responses and put
them into various folders (by discipline/interest) which I will
forward to colleagues or store for possible use in the future.
If anyone would like me to make an address folder available,
please write!  I will be contacting those persons I wish to
participate in this class within the next two weeks-- I have yet
to receive my class roster!  Thanks again.

Cheryl A. Schoenhaar
Assistant Professor
Info Lit Librarian
Jim Dan Hill Library
University of Wisconsin-Superior
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:10:37 CDT
From:         Michael Taranto <mtaranto@sura.net>
Subject:      Resource question...

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

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I am having trouble connection to this resource. I do not have any contact
information. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Libsearch - Automatic Connection to Library Databases, Terrence
Brannon and Janne Himanka
        Libsearch is an automatic service which allows users to connect to
library databases and translate from Libsearch's generic query language
to the syntax of the particular library database. It is recommended that
you first transfer the README.libsearch file for a better understanding of
the system and how it works.
                Access: telnet pl122a.eecs.lehigh.edu (128.180.5.52)
                Login: tb06
                Password: jia.fu
                Directory: cd /scratch/china.primitive/expect/test/thesis

Michael Taranto
NIC
SURAnet
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:56:05 CDT
From:         SALLY WINTHROP <SALWIN@GWUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Logicraft

Please reply to the author, not Pacs-l.  Thanks.

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Does anyone know if Logicraft is still in business. I tried two phone
numbers and they are both disconnected. If anyone has information on
this company, please respond to me directly.

Thank you.
Sally Winthrop
Himmelfarb Library, George Washington Univ. Med. Center
salwin@gwuvm  (202) 994-8478
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:22:17 CDT
From:         Denise Beaubien Bennett <DENISEB@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Midwinter discussion

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* Are you planning to design or modify a front end or gateway for your
  online system?

* Would you like to hear the pros and cons from people who have
  developed or modified local front ends?

* Would you like to share your adventures in designing local front
  ends?

If so, plant to attend a Discussion Forum sponsored by the RASD MARS
Local Systems and Services Committee, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting.

"How to Develop the Perfect Front End or Gateway"
Saturday, January 23
8:30-11 am
Colorado Convention Center, Room C109

****************
Denise Beaubien Bennett, Chair, MARS LSS Committee
deniseb@nervm.bitnet     deniseb@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu    904/392-2850
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:14:45 CDT
From:         Lezlie Shell <lshell@lobby.ti.com>
Subject:      Job Posting -- Systems Administrator

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


   Texas Instruments Incorporated has a SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR position
available immediately.  Applications received by Jan. 8 will receive
first priority.

   The Texas Instruments Information Network consists of 9 libraries and
the Corporate Technical Information Center (CTIC).  CTIC encompasses
technical processes for the libraries, as well as other corporate-wide
information services.  The Information Network has a union catalog of
23,000 titles and a union list of 1,800 serial titles.  TI is about to
purchase a new corporate-wide integrated online library system. The Systems
Administrator will play a key role in implementing the IOLS and will provide
ongoing support for librarians and CTIC staff.

0   DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 -- Plan and execute data conversion project.

 -- Install and maintain IOLS software.

 -- Work with TI Library and CTIC staff to write documentation, establish
    policies, and generate reports and metrics.

 -- Serve as primary interface with IOLS vendor and act as liaison from
    TI to vendors, other information units within TI, and TI Systems staff.

 -- Provide microcomputer, telecommunications and CD-ROM support services
    for the technical libraries and CTIC staff.

 -- Train librarians; consult on program for training endusers.

 -- Plan for new technologies.


 0  MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:  MS in Library or Information Science with
    3 years experience as a Systems Librarian.

 0  REQUIRED PROFICIENCIES: Experience with MARC record format,
    IOLS and CD/ROM applications.  Ability to coordinate automation
    activities and provide leadership.  Ability to communicate technical
    information to a broad range of audiences. Excellent interpersonal
    skills including teamwork, collaboration, compromise, and negotiation.
    Basic knowledge of client/server applications, telecommunications
    and networking technologies.  MS-DOS, OCLC.

 0  DESIRABLE:  OS/2, SQL, Excel, Windows, Word, Unix.

Texas Instruments Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity employer.

 0  Send resumes to:
    ITG Staffing Administrator
    Texas Instruments Incorporated
    P.O. Box 869305,  MS8431
    Plano, TX  75086

0   Questions: Call Linda Kyprios at (214) 575-3062
               lkyprios@lobby.ti.com
               (include your phone number)
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:55:42 CDT
From:         Steve Salmon <steve@carlyle.com>
Subject:      RE:Re: Libraries and RDA

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
In Message Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:20:24 CDT,
  Elisheva Schwartz <es63@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> writes:

>>
>> We are trying to discover the extent to which the library community is aware
>> of and intends to implement or otherwise support the Remote Database Access
>> protocols.  These are OSI standards (ISO 9579), which present a conceptual
>> framework for remote database access and a "specialization" for accessing
>> SQL databases.
>>
>> It is our understanding that NIST plans to make RDA a Federal Information
>> Processing Standard (FIPS) in the near future.  Given this, and also given
>> the work of the SQL Access Group in standardizing APIs for use with SQL
>> engines, is anyone in the library community currently planning to explore,
>> implement, require, etc., support for RDA in their bibliographic
>> environment?
>> Joe Zeeman
>> Software Kinetics Ltd.
>> Stittsville, Ont.
>>
>> zeeman@sofkin
>
>Just a plea--could we try to spell out acronyms?  I'm sure I'm not the
>only one who has subscribed in order to learn more about the field, and
>too many acronyms leave me lost.
>Many thanks to all
>Elisheva Schwartz
>Preservation Cataloging Supervisor
>Columbia University
>es63@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu

RDA stands for Re-Defined Acronym.  It's another one of those blasted TLAs*.
-----

     *Three-Letter Acronym
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Stephen R. Salmon                   E-mail: steve@carlyle.com
Carlyle Systems, Inc.               Phone:  415-345-2500
2000 Alameda de las Pulgas          Fax:    415-349-3874
San Mateo, CA 94403                 Call sign:  AA6LF
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:55:00 CDT
From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      Re: Novice vs. Expert vs. Compression
              8 Jan 1993 17:31:49 CDT from <mfriedma@us.oracle.com>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Quick reply, more available later.

99% of the time there is no need to get an entire string of subdirectories.
Forcing the rest of the world into a mode because it supports your ability
to get multiple subdirectories is a tyranny of a very small minority.

As for graphics. . .they are usually already compressed into GIF, JPEG and
other modes.  Zipping them would not be very effecting.

As usual, we have a VERY SMALL MINORITY forcing a VERY LARGE MAJORITY to a
standard advantageous only to the VERY SMALL MINORITY.

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

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:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:53:01 CDT
From:         GPO Mail <GPO@MARCIVE.MHS.CompuServe.COM>
Subject:      MARCIVE USER MEETING

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Want to learn the latest on MARCIVE services?  Come by our booth
at the MidWinter meeting of the American Library Association in
Denver this month.
           Booth 1336 in the Colorado Convention Center
We are also hosting a user's meeting and would love to see you
there.
                      MARCIVE USER'S MEETING
                DENVER MARRIOTT CITY CENTER HOTEL
                      1701 California Street
                     DENVER BALLROOM SUITE 3
                           SUNDAY NIGHT
                         JANUARY 24, 1993
                             8-10 PM
Agenda
Suite 3
     8 - 8:30 pm  Welcome
                  Review of 1992 at MARCIVE
                  Announcements
                  Topics of general interest to MARCIVE customers
                  Refreshments
Suite 3
     8:30 - 10 pm GPO Services
                  GPO CAT/PAC and GPO CAT/PAC Plus
                  MARCIVE Enhanced GPO Database Services
                  Shipping List Service (SLS)

                  Discussion will include:
                     New products & services
                    Enhancements to existing services
Suite 4
     8:30 - 9 pm  Bibliographic Services
                  Authorities Processing
                  Marcive/PAC
                  Retrospective Conversion
                  Other services: MARC records, cards & labels,
                  Cataloging Input System

                  Discussion will include:
                     New products & services
                     Enhancements to existing services

We look forward to seeing you there!

Bob Fleming, Jan Meldrum, Rose Marie McElfresh and Joan Chapa
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:34:48 CDT
From:         NECIA PARKER <NECIAP@UAFSYSB.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: USER MEETING -- CALL FOR TOPICS
              7 Jan 1993 08:22:45 CDT from <GPO@MARCIVE.MHS.CompuServe.COM>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
please note: beginning of message implies that Midwinter is in Dallas, rather t
han Denver! You might want to correct this. :-) Necia Parker
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:36:56 CDT
From:         Tricia Porth 202 358-0171 <PPORTH@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
Subject:      Request for Speakers

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I am posting this message for someone not currently connected to
the Internet.  Please respond directly to Susan at either of the
phone numbers listed below.  Thanks!

[ The D.C.-Special Libraries Association Information Technology
[ Group is seeking speakers for a peer panel of relatively new
[ INTERNET users in special libraries (NOT university or college)
[ for a meeting on Wednesday, February 17, 1993 at 12:00 noon at
[ the American Hotel-Motel Association Library.  A detailed outline
[ of program content/questions will be available shortly.  If you
[ are interested or would like more information, please contact
[ Susan Fournier at 202-457-0246 between 9AM and 2PM or in the
[ evening 202-547-8423.
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:17:52 CDT
From:         ERIK@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu
Subject:      re: Form over content

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

    In "**Form Versus Content.The Eternal Battle is Finally Ending**"
Michael Hart writes:

 > However, with electronic text there is no need for pages at all,
 > and using varied margins does not cost paper,  Just as there is no
 > need for pagination with scrolls or with the electronic
 > equivalent, so, too, there is no need for margination as the
 > number of characters is the same to contain articles with an
 > average of 65 characters whether the margins are all the same,
 > such as in this article, or whether half the lines are 75
 > characters and the other half are 55 characters, and none are
 > actually 65 characters.

    I was inspired by the way you discussed the end of the battle of
form over content.  The only point you seem to be missing is that the
battle hasn't ended.  It is just changing forms.  Clearly just
because a computer is processing the text for us, does not mean that
the form of the material presented can just be discarded.

    Some of your critics have already pointed out where form can be a
great advantage in electronic publication.  If I wish to discuss a
book with you, I can say "on page 7, you will see that the author
..."

    Since we've done away with pages (thus page-numbering), we will
need to find a new system for discussing electronic texts.  Bible
scholars have used a numbering system which has been in place across
most of the popular printed bibles, and that is the system with "John
3:16" notation.

    Of course, that notation doesn't work with e-texts, because
everyone is free to reformat them to fit their tastes.  As mentioned
earlier,  critics of Project Gutenburg pointed this out to you years
ago, and you weren't interested in hearing them.

    So, your claim:

 > Thus begins the end of the tyranny of FORM OVER CONTENT as it is
 > practiced today in the art of publishing.

    Is not really correct.  It would be better worded as:

 "Thus begins the battle for the redefinition of FORM as it will be
 practiced in the future art of electronic publishing. "

--
  Erik Seielstad              | Bitnet: erik@brock1p
  Systems Programmer/Analyst  | Internet: erik@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu
  SUNY College at Brockport
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:37:22 CDT
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Subject:      Library Automation--Comments & Questions

4 Messages, 67 Lines
1) Online Catalog Back-Up
2) Parsing Downloaded ILL Data
3) Lockers
4) TLC

Please respond directly to the authors, not PACS-L.  Thanks, Dana
*-----
From: LUIZA <luiza@mailer.nymc.edu>
Subject: Online Catalog BACK UP

What BACK UPS for the Online Catalog are being used if/when system is down?

Question applies to: 1. patrons' use
                     2. circulation check out/in

Do you HAVE an online catalog back up or any back up procedures?

Luiza B. Balthazar
Head Info. Processing             Phone: (914) 993-4330
Medical Sciences Library            Fax: (914) 993-4191
New York Medical College       Internet: LUIZA@NYMC.EDU
Valhalla, N.Y. 10595
*-----

From: "Bates,David" <bates#m#david@ccn.ge.com>
Subject: Parsing downloaded ILL data

We will be downloading data from DIalog (using the REVIEW command to view
Dialorder requests) and OCLC to a PC and then uploading the data to a VAX.
Could anyone suggest software to parse the Dialorder data and create tagged
fields (to simplify loading the records into the database on the VAX?)

(I am currently assuming that the tagged format of the OCLC data should make
loading the data into a database pretty straight-forward).

Dave Bates
GE Whitney Library
bates@crd.ge.com
  or
Bates#m#David@ccn.ge.com
(518) 388-7634
*-----

From:         "Marvin F. Bielawski" <MARVINB@PUCC>
Subject:      Lockers

Are any libraries out there providing small lockers for laptop users? If so,
  have any of you run across specialized lockers, or is all that is out there
  the athletic or wharehouse variety.


Please respond directly to me: marvinb@pucc.bitnet
*-----

From: loo%inel.gov@ucdavis.BITNET (Jackie Loop)
Subject: Query on automation product - TLC

We have just received some information on TLC (Total Library
Computerization), a library automation product sold by On Point,
Washington, D.C.  Is anyone using this product & if so, what
experiences, opinions, etc. could you share with someone
considering purchase.

Please reply to me at the address below.  Thanks.
Jackie Loop
loo@inel.gov
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:54:40 CDT
From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      NUSIRG manual to be removed

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
One week from tonight, on January 15th, the Project Gutenberg Etext of
the Northwestnet User Services Internet Resource Guide is scheduled to
be removed from Project Gutenberg fileservers.

If you have a copy of the Plain Vanilla ASCII file on a public server,
please remove it at that time and replace it with the .ps (PostScript)
edition.  We hope to have a new and approved Plain Vanilla ASCII etext
prepared shortly.

Our apologies both to our users for not having been able to prepare an
appropriate Plain Vanilla ASCII edition, and also to NUSIRG.




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

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, 11 Jan 1993 14:51:47 CDT
From:         LIB38@Jetson.UH.EDU
Subject:      LITA Automation Products Review

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
LITA (Library Information Technology Association) will be
presenting its seventh annual Automation Product Review at the ALA
Annual Conference in New Orleans, on the mornings of June 26 and
June 27, 1993.

The Automation Product Review is designed to communicate
information about new automation products and services to the
library community. The forum offers vendors a convenient vehicle
for announcing new products and major enhancements while offering
conference attendees convenient and compact information sessions in
a comfortable environment. Audiences ranging in size from 20 to 300
people have attended previous years' sessions. Vendors and
attendees alike have responded favorably to the format, which
schedules speakers describing similar products in the same time
slot.

Participating vendors must be ALA exhibitors. Computer
demonstrations are not allowed. To participate, a vendor must
reserve a slot in advance, and pay a $30 fee to defray expenses.

For more information, contact Pat Ensor, Head, Information
Services, University of Houston Libraries, Houston TX 77204-2091.
Voice: (713)743-9762; fax: 743-9748; LIB38@JETSON.UH.EDU
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:48:03 CDT
From:         Joe Zeeman <zeeman@crc.sofkin.ca>
Subject:      Libraries and RDA

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
This message is being cross-posted to the Z3950iw list.

We are trying to discover the extent to which the library community is aware
of and intends to implement or otherwise support the Remote Database Access
protocols.  These are OSI standards (ISO 9579), which present a conceptual
framework for remote database access and a "specialization" for accessing
SQL databases.

It is our understanding that NIST plans to make RDA a Federal Information
Processing Standard (FIPS) in the near future.  Given this, and also given
the work of the SQL Access Group in standardizing APIs for use with SQL
engines, is anyone in the library community currently planning to explore,
implement, require, etc., support for RDA in their bibliographic
environment?

Negative responses to this question are as enlightening as positive ones.


P.S. It should be noted that RDA is NOT the same as Z39.50.  They represent
different approaches to solving a similar problem, but are at present
mutually incompatible.


Joe Zeeman
Software Kinetics Ltd.
Stittsville, Ont.

zeeman@sofkin.ca
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