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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:15:03 MST
Comments:     Resent-From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU>
Comments:     Originally-From: RIKKI <RIKKI.DAVIS@mhs.unc.edu>
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: CD-ROM self booking sy

Another answer to the question about booking softwae.   dan
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Kerry Blinco asked about a booking system for public workstations. We are
using a reservations program that has most of the features described. We do
not require ID numbers, since our services are not restricted to any
particular population of users. It takes into account license restrictions
on numbers of users, the need for a local CD-player, whether or not a
station can accomodate a requested database/program, the size of floppy
disk drive needed, and so on. It holds three weeks of reservations and each
week can be set up to reflect holidays, reduced hours, etc., as needed.  It
is extremely simple to operate and a wonderful asset to our service. We've
had it in place since Sept. 1990 and it has only one bug--very
occasionally, and for reasons we cannot discover, it will book two people
at the same time for a single user application. Users like it and staff
love it. The bad news? It had to be programmed in-house. It is a
Clipper-compiled dBase application and is the handiwork principally of two
former graduate student programmers, Walter Stine and Mitch Rosen.
Anyone who is interested in more information should contact me directly.
    The usual disclaimers...
Rikki Mangrum
Microcomputer Services Librarian
Business Administration and Social Sciences
Davis Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
rikki.davis@mhs.unc.edu
    Those who eat sausages or use databases would
    probably prefer not to see either being made.
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:59:00 PDT
From:         SDPFRED@UCBCMSA.BITNET
Subject:      CD-ROM attached to IBM RS-6000

I have had an inquiry from a client who owns an IBM rs6000
unix workstation and wants to know if there is a cd-rom
drive (and driver software) available which can
connect to the scsi port so that he can have access
to the Census Bureau's TIGER cd-roms of geographic base
map boundaries.  Since we also have an IBM rs6000
(among other SUNs and DECstation 5000s), I am also
interested.   Fred Gey
Data Archivist
UC DATA
University of California, Berkeley.
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cdromlan
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Cabinets
Date: 5 Apr 92 03:20:03 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

llav@SEQ1.LOC.GOV (Lorraine M. Lavia) writes:

> I am helping set up a CD-ROM network at the Library of
> Congress and we are currently looking at our options for CD-ROM
> cabinets. Until now, we have been stacking groups of four CD
> ROMs, but want to move to a larger cabinet of 32 or more. We've
> looked at TODD cabinets so far. They don't seem to be very
> environmentally sound, i.e., there is no floor in it and seems to
> allow alot of dust and carpet debris to get inside. Can anyone
> suggest other cabinets that we might look at?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lorraine LaVia
> Congressional Research Service
> Library of Congress
> Washington, DC  20540
> 
I have seen advertisements for 'Gigarak', which is a rack system for
mounting cdroms. In one cabinet several racks can be accomodated and
looks to be a neat arrangement. Capacity for 42, 98, 154+ drives in less
than 5 sq ft of floor space.

Contact: Morton Management, Inc.
         12079 Tech Road
         Silver Spring, MD 20904
         (301) 622-5600

Caveat: I have only seen their ads. I have no personal knowledge of the
Gigarak product.

GeSS
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 08:49:42 EDT
From:         Howard Pasternack <BLIPS15@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      RE: What doesn't work with CD-Connection?
X-To:         cdromlan@idbsu.idbsu.edu

Last year when we did some beta testing, Science Citation Index wouldn't
work with CD Connection.  ISI promised to fix things.  We don't know
whether they did, since we refuse to pay ISI's ludicrous networking fees.


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Howard Pasternack                                E-mail:  BLIPS15@BROWNVM
Library Systems/Planning Officer                 Phone:    (401) 863-3346
Brown University Library                         Fax:      (401) 863-2753
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:55:00 LCL
From:         RIKKI <RIKKI.DAVIS@MHS.UNC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CD-ROM workstation boo
X-To:         DAVE <CDROMLAN@idbsu.idbsu.edu>

No, not agreed.
Reservations have nothing to do with networking. They have to do with the
demand our patrons make for databases and the need to allow them to reserve
access at times convenient to them, rathing than demanding that they wait
(how long?) in line. We have two dedicated stations (turnkey systems) and
deal regularly with complaints from people who've had to wait excessive
amounts of time and want to reserve.

Rikki Mangrum
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:22:40 -0900
From:         "Susan Elliott, AK State Library" <JYSAE@ALASKA.BITNET>
Subject:      //

Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD   *
Search CDNet and Lantastic in CDROMLAN
Index
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:06:18 -0700
From:         ADM0404@SAIPA00.BITNET

hello,
I'm planning to set-up a cd-rom lan that will utilize a cdnet tower
and will share network resources amoung 40 fourty workstations,
I'm planning to set-up a NOVELL OR a LANTASTIC network OS.
WILL SOME BODY HELP ME IN KNOWING THE DIFFRENCES BETWEEN THE TWO AND ,
WHICH NET WORK OS WILL DO THE JOB FOR ME BETTER.(where shall I put my $)

thank you in advance,
aziz
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:33:00 CDT
From:         FB23@VAXB.ACS.UNT.EDU
Subject:      Re: What doesn't work with CD-Connection?
X-To:         CDROMLAN@idbsu.idbsu.edu

Silver Platter?!?!  CBIS is the OEM for Silver Platter's CD-ROM networking
product.  If you can't get SP products to work on CBIS, it may be simply
a matter of not having the correct information in your DBPAR file.  While
the current versions (2.01 and 3.0) of SPIRS will perform a network
installation if you specify during SETUP, I have found that there are
certain settings that may be required by certain workstation configurations
(such as XTs) that, if missing, will cause the software to malfunction.  SP
does not place this info in their documentation but you can easily get the
settings if you call their tech support line.

Note for Silver Platter if you are out there listening:  You could help us
alot if you would describe the DBPAR and mention some of the variables and
settings in your documentation.
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:34:59 PDT
From:         edward tyrrill <cerebus@UCRMATH.UCR.EDU>
Subject:      Memory Managers
X-To:         cdromlan@idbsu.idbsu.edu

I am in need of a good expanded memory manager for 286 and 386 machines.
Does anyone have any preferences?  I've heard good things about Move'Em.
Has anyone been able to get EMSNET5.EXE to run using EMM386 as a
memory manager.  It just hangs on me when I tried it?

Also I posted earlier about dial in access to a Novell network.  I
only got a couple responses, but I've been researching elsewhere too.
Two products I'm looking at right now are Novell's Access Server, and
Cubix's Combridge.  Has anyone out there used either of these
products, or had success with something else?

Ed Tyrrill
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:54:13 MST
Comments:     Resent-From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU>
Comments:     Originally-From: Linda Heron <L.Heron@ins.gu.edu.au>
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.BITNET>
Subject:      CD-ROM self booking systems
X-To:         CDROM LAN List <CDROMLAN@IDBSU.BITNET>,
              Linda Heron <l.heron@ins.gu.edu.au>

This is a concept I have not run across before.  Any comments, suggestions,
or ideas?  If so, please reply to the list.   dan

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* Dan Lester                          Bitnet:   alileste@idbsu              *
* Associate University Librarian      Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu    *
* Boise State University                                                    *
* Boise, Idaho  83725                 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak  *
* 208-385-1234                        for them and they don't speak for me. *
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------

The Information Services Division at Griffith University (Brisbane,Qld) is
planning, as part of its move into a new Information Services Centre
building in July 1992 and in early 1993, to introduce a CD-ROM network.
An integral part of this network will be a self booking system which will
allow students to advance book both a workstation and a specific CD-ROM
product (or other software application). The booking system will need to
accommodate the different multi-user access agreements, ranging from single
user to unlimited user, which will apply to the individual products and
applications. The booking system will also need to link the booking of
a workstation and application so that students do not book a workstation
for a specific time and then find that the required application is not
available at that time, and vice versa.

Ideally the booking system will allow 30 minute time slots to be booked
up to two weeks in advance but the system will need to be sufficiently
flexible to allow changes in the duration of booking periods if user
demand necessitates.

The booking system has to be relatively simple to operate and requiring
the input of student ID numbers to secure a booking (this may require an
interface with our student record system for ID validation). Staff should
also have the ability to cancel, add bookings etc.

Thats the ideal - now all we have to do is find/create the system. Can you
please advise if your instution currently uses, plans to use or is
currently developing, any computer based booking systems which include
any of these features?

Kerry Blinco
Griffith University
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:56:41 EST
From:         "Barbara B. Fischler" <ITHV100@INDYCMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: SIGCAT 92 CONFERENCE

Donna should see this message.  It may be too late to attend this year.
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:22:00 CDT
From:         FB23@VAXB.ACS.UNT.EDU
Subject:      Network OS's for use with CD-ROM systems
X-To:         CDROMLAN@idbsu.idbsu.edu

For my money, I would go with Novell.  That product allows for greater future
expansion, provides a more robust set of utilities, better overall performance,
and would give you the flexibility to use your LAN for other purposes (general
office automation, etc.).  If you are in a setting which has multiple
departmental networks (say, a college campus), the possibilities for
internetworking those networks in the future to provide access to CD-ROMs
on a wider basis would be better with a system such as Novell.
From: tdowling@lib.washington.edu (Thomas Dowling)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cdromlan
Subject: Artisoft Central Station
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:39:55 GMT
Organization: University of Washington Libraries

Is anyone out there using Artisoft's Central Station to link a
LANtastic network to an external network (and if so, how are
you doing it)?

Thomas Dowling
University of Washington Engineering Library
tdowling@u.washington.edu / tdowling@milton.bitnet
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 09:33:23 EDT
From:         Ellen_Chu@NIHDCRT.BITNET
Subject:      Re: CD-ROM Cabinets

|Date: 4-7-92 8:34am
|From: Ellen Chu:dcrt:nih
|  To: $CDROMLAN@IDBSU:BITNET
|Subj: Re: CD-ROM Cabinets
|In-Reply-To: Message from $CDROMLAN@IDBSU:BITNET of 4-6-92
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llav@SEQ1.LOC.GOV (Lorraine M. Lavia) writes:

> I am helping set up a CD-ROM network at the Library of
> Congress and we are currently looking at our options for CD-ROM
> cabinets. Until now, we have been stacking groups of four CD
> ROMs, but want to move to a larger cabinet of 32 or more. We've
> looked at TODD cabinets so far. They don't seem to be very
> environmentally sound, i.e., there is no floor in it and seems to
> allow alot of dust and carpet debris to get inside. Can anyone
> suggest other cabinets that we might look at?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lorraine LaVia
> Congressional Research Service
> Library of Congress
> Washington, DC  20540

After seeing this at an SLA exhibit we bought a storage carousel in 1990 from
Russ Bassett
8189 Byron Rd
P.O. Box 249
Whittier, CA 90608
(213) 945-2445/FAX (213) 698-8972


The Model CD-48-S is the STACKING CAROUSEL STARTER with a swivel base and a
removable steel top ($150).  We also ordered one (of the 2 possible) ADDERs
Model CD-48-A ($100).  We removed the steel top to lock the adder on the base
unit and secured the top on the adder.  Each unit holds 48 CDs.  Our unit is on
top of a file cabinet so may not be suitable for a floor location.  We have
been very satisfied with the space saving swivel feature.
Note this is 1990 address & telephone number and model info.

Ellen Moy Chu
National Institutes of Health/Div of Computer Research & Technology Library
elc @nihdcrt.bitnet@cu.nih.gov
(301)496-1658
From: vaisanen@joyds2.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Vaisanen)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cdromlan
Subject: Digital Info-Server - how about Soft-PC
Date: 16 Apr 92 06:33:56 GMT
Reply-To: vaisanen@joyds2.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Vaisanen)
Organization: University of Joensuu, Computer Center


Hi!

Is it possible to get some kind of workstation access to CD/ROMs
on Digital Info-Server as well as PC access.  Could it be possible
to do this with Soft-PC on VAX or ULTRIX and then use databases
via X-Window.

Any experience - any other solutions?


Thanks
	JV

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University of Joensuu   JVAISANEN@FINUJO                (earn, bitnet)
Computer Center
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 09:39:35 EST
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From:         dave <TCHODGD@VCCSCENT.BITNET>
Subject:      CD-ROM workstation booking program?

I'm confused, if you are going to go to the trouble and expense of
networking your CD-ROM stations, why do you need a booking program.

We went to a CD-ROM network (Optinet) to eliminate this.  I understand
that certain products are very expensive to network (ABI Inform comes
to mind) so you might want to dedicate a single workstation for access
to this product, and here you would want to automate reserving the
station.  But even in this example, if you have high enough use to
justify reserving the title, you can justify networking licensing.

Agreed?

Dave Hodge                 <tchodgd@vccscent.bitnet>
Systems Librarian
Tidewater CC
VA Beach, VA
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:59:48 -0400
From:         "Graham W. Ward" <ward@MED-ITVAX1.BU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Digital Info-Server
X-To:         CDROMLAN@idbsu.idbsu.edu

Question for Margaret Sylvia and Novell/DEC -- what protocols does your
proposed gateway handle. Novell is using ipx/spx, but what about the VAX?
Is it running Decnet or TCP/IP?

How do you handle accounts on the Novell server for people accessing it
from the DEC platform -- or other platforms for that matter? Do you use
a guest login or named accounts?  What version of Novell are you running?

You may reply directly or to the list as you see fit.

Many thanks,
Graham W. Ward
Director, Office of Information Technology
Boston University School of Medicine
617-638-8854
ward@med-itvax1.bu.edu
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:45:00 CDT
From:         "Thomas C. Wilson" <LIB4@JETSON.UH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CD-ROM networking/Reservations
X-To:         CDROMLAN@idbsu.idbsu.edu

And then there is the issue of how much $$$ can you spend on access.  I
think the issue is really move one of resource management (i.e., trying
to figure out how to best meet the demands placed on you with the technical
and not-so-technical resources at your disposal).
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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:45:18 PDT
              <PSYCGRAD@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
From:         Stephanie Fishkin <fishkin@GIRTAB.USC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: romantic relationships
X-To:         PSYCGRAD%UOTTAWA.BITNET@VM.usc.edu
              "CCN6841%TAMSIGMA.BITNET@VM.usc.edu" at Apr 10, 92 4:33 pm

I beleive Nancy Collins (post-doc @ Univ CA, Los Angeles) does work in the
area of adult attachment. Try contacting her (US mail, since I don't know of
any e-mail) or doing a quick PsycLit (or Diss Absts) search.

Stephanie
fishkin@girtab.usc.edu
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:42:57 CST
              <PSYCGRAD@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
From:         "Tony Bottausci (306) 586-0160" <BOTTAUSC@MAX.CC.UREGINA.CA>
Subject:      RE: Legitimate therapies

  TO NANCY and MATTHEW:


    Its nice to see that we share similar opinions regarding therapy.

    'If it works...use it'



                             Ciao for now.
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Posted-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 11:35:23 EDT
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From:         Eric Zorrilla <zorrilla@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Another pearl of lay wisdom
X-To:         PSYCGRAD%UOTTAWA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu

> There are two types of folks in the world: the neurotics and the boring
> people.

I thought it was that there were two types of people in this world: those
that believe in dichotomies and those that don't.

Eric
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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 10:58:00 CDT
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From:         BBLININGTON@UAMS.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Regression therapy

The problem with Occam's razor as Darryl presented it in this
context is that it assume linear relations among the variables in
the system.  From this it follows that if some unimportant set
of variables is removed from a system, the remaining important
ones will still act in the same manner.  What we now know about
how many systems operate from a dynamical (chaos) perspective
challenges this notion.  Removing all the supposedly extraneous
variables may indeed change the way those important variables
work.  I am not suggesting we shouldn't strive for parsimony in
some cases, but I am suggesting that it may not be as straightforward
as we have been led to believe by conventional methodologies.
By the way, I seem to get the sense out there that people think
that humanism since it does not analyze data from a Fisherian
bent, is somehow capricious or soft-headed.  Is it really true that
folks out there believe that conventional methodology is somehow
stronger epistemologically than humanism?  Put differently, what
makes you think that non-statistical, non-empirical approaches
can't be as rigorous as conventional research techniques?
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:55:32 EDT
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From:         Tim Tumlin <UFTRT@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Legitimate therapies

Psychotherapy is not legally regulated? Of course it is. That's what the
licensing laws are about.  To take money for the diagnosis and/or treatment
of mental disorders is regulated by professional practice laws.
  As for bartenders etc. practicing psychotherapy, well, so do a lot of nice
pets and funny movies. The distinction between them and professional
psychotherapists is obvious.  Bartenders also offer opinions on people's
physical disorders but we don't usually say they are practicing medicine.
Tim - UF
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From:         Mona Oommen <oommen@PSYCH.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject: Re: [Professional Societies]

Steve, You're right about APS dues being $ 10. I got mixed up because
I sent them $ 20 by mistake, etc. etc.!!  Yeah, they're really prompt
and thorough --definitely not bureaucratic like one might expect.  THe
APS observer has all these announcements of meetings WITH the e-mail
addresses of people to contact, which is kind of nice.  They seem to be
very practical in their approach to things, and quite focused on helping
you get whatever it is you're wanting in the shortest and least painful
way!  In other words, it doesn't just "look good" on your resume --there
is much more!

Mona
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