[108] in Information Retrieval
News from RLG re: Z39.50
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Wed Oct 7 10:02:26 1992
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 10:02:16 EDT
From: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
[0504] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Porro) 10/06/92 12:36 (49 lines)
Subject: News from RLG
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:31:34 PDT
Reply-To: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu>
From: Jennifer Porro <BL.JMP%RLG.bitnet@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CWIS-L <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
(The following is an announcement from the Research Libraries Group.
It has been cross-posted to several library-related listservs.)
RLG DEVELOPS Z39.50 SERVER FOR INTERNET USE
October 6, 1992 -- The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has developed a
Z39.50 server for searching its RLIN and CitaDel databases, and 14
institutions nationwide have now successfully tested the server over
the Internet. The Z39.50 server, when fully implemented, will make it
easier for users of other online catalogs to search RLG's databases.
Z39.50 is a national standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.50) for computer-to-
computer information retrieval that enables users to search other
online library catalogs and information sources using the same
commands they use to search their local online catalog. As more and
more information providers implement this standard, the goal of global
information resource sharing will come closer to attainment.
The Z39.50 protocol translates commands back and forth between the
requesting system (called a "client") and the system with the database
being searched (called a "server"), even if the two systems run on
different hardware or use different commands and screen displays. As
long as both systems support Z39.50, users of one system can search on
the other as if it were their local system.
Institutions that have tested RLG's server include AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Data Research Associates, Innovative Interfaces, Library
of Congress, NOTIS, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford
University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of
California Division of Library Automation -- all are members
of a Z39.50 implementation group established by the Coalition for
Networked Information (CNI) and provide feedback to each other on
testing. Others who have tested the RLG server are Brown University,
Dartmouth College, Gaylord Brothers, OCLC, and University of Tennessee
at Knoxville. All testers have their own Z39.50 clients.
For more information about RLG's Z39.50 server, please contact:
Lennie Stovel, Research Libraries Group, 1200 Villa Street, Mountain
View, CA 94041-1100; phone 415/691-2259; FAX 415/964-0943; e-mail
BL.MDS@RLG.BITNET or BL.MDS@RLG.STANFORD.EDU (Internet).
To: CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET
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