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Approved-By:  Marty Hoag <NU021172@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.new-list
Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:36:15 CDT
Reply-To:     DAYM@IUBACS
From:         "Mark T. Day" <DAYM@IUBACS.BITNET>
Subject:      NEW LIST: PRO-CITE - Personal Bibliographic Software

PRO-CITE on LISTSERV@IUBVM.BITNET
         or LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
        "The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List"

   GENERAL INFORMATION:
   This list has been established as an international electronic forum
   for anyone using or interested in using the bibliographic textbase
   software program PRO-CITE and its companion BIBLIO-LINK programs
   published by Personal Bibliographic Software.  These software
   programs provide the means to automate a wide variety of scholarly
   tasks related to the retrieval, organization, and use of
   bibliographic data.  They operate on both MS-DOS and Macintosh
   platforms.  With the much enhanced version 2.0 of Pro-Cite now
   available for both systems, it seemed like a good time to establish a
   Bitnet discussion group, whose existence could facilitate the rapid
   sharing of concerns, interests, problems and solutions among members
   at all levels of use.

   The owner of this list is Mark T. Day, Associate Librarian in the
   Indiana University Reference Department and Coordinator of its newly
   created Library Electronic Text Resource Service.  I began using
   Pro-Cite and Biblio-Links while working at the Indiana Cooperative
   Library Services Authority from 1988-1990 as their Library
   Microcomputer Specialist and have felt for some time that an
   electronic discussion group, modelled after the several similar
   groups that already exist for other library and scholarly oriented
   software products, would be a very useful forum for advancing
   communication among those of us who work heavily with bibliographic
   data.

   For the list to be successful in serving the needs of its members,
   however, those members must be active contributors to the discussion.
   Currently the list operates in a non-moderated mode, in which all
   messages sent to the list automatically will be posted to all other
   members.  Answers to questions sent out over the list will go to all
   members IF YOU POST YOUR ANSWER TO THE LIST, but will only go to the
   person who sent the original message if YOU REPLY TO THE ORIGINAL
   MESSAGE (more on the details of how to send and receive messages,
   obtain archived copies of previous correspondence, etc, below).  So
   IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR INFORMATION about some aspect of a PBS
   product, SUBSCRIBE NOW AND JOIN THE DISCUSSION.


   HOW TO JOIN & SEND MESSAGES:
   1) To join PRO-CITE, send the following one line e-mail message:
      SUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE Last Name, First Name
      in the BODY via BITNET to: LISTSERV@IUBVM
      or via INTERNET to: LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

   2) Once subscribed, send messages for posting on the PRO-CITE list:
      via BITNET to: PRO-CITE@IUBVM
      or via INTERNET to: PRO-CITE@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

   3) To stop getting PRO-CITE mail temporarily (while on vacation, e.g.)
      send the following one line e-mail message:
      SET PRO-CITE NOMail
      to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above).

   4) If your current address changes or becomes invalid, or you wish to
      stop subscribing to PRO-CITE, send the following one line message:
      UNSUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE
      to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above).

   5) If you have questions about the list, or problems with its
      operation, you should direct them to the list owner.

   List Owner:  Mark Day   Bitnet: DAYM@IUBACS
                           Internet: DAYM@UCS.INDIANA.EDU


   ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
   Indiana University Computing Services provides the computer space and
   software to support BITNET lists on its IUBVM node as a service to
   the research oriented needs of IU faculty, staff, and graduate
   students.  The Indiana University Libraries supports the
   administration of electronic discussion lists as a professional
   activity of its faculty.  However, neither of these organizations
   verify the accuracy of submitted messages or endorse the opinions
   expressed by authors of messages.  The list owner will attempt to
   monitor this particular list and help keep it focused on problems
   related to personal bibliographic software issues, but authors of
   PRO-CITE messages are considered to be solely responsible for their
   own comments.

   Since this is a new list, with 88 subscribers as of July 26, 1992,
   there is no way to tell how many messages you are likely to receive,
   but similar lists for micro based software vary greatly from no
   messages in some weeks to several per day at other times.  As
   messages start to be received they will be automatically archived on
   a monthly basis and can be retrieved as necessary with standard
   listserv retrieval and search commands:

   1) You will be able to obtain a list of available archive files
      by sending an INDEX PRO-CITE command to LISTSERV@IUBVM.
   2) Such files can be retrieved by issuing a GET PRO-CITE LOGYYMM command,
      where "YY" stands for the year and "MM" stands for the month.
   3) If you are curious about who your fellow subscribers to this list are,
      send the message REVIEW PRO-CITE to LISTSERV@IUBVM.

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     e         PRO-CITE List Owner:              e
     f Mark T. Day, Assoc. Librarian, Reference  f
     e  Indiana University Library, Room E159    e
     R        Bloomington, IN  47405             R
     e      Bitnet: DAYM@IUBACS.BITNET           e
     f    Internet: DAYM@UCS.INDIANA.EDU         f
     e   Phone: (812) 855-8028 or 855-0100       e
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