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Catalog information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Nov 28 09:15:13 1991
From: ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
To: dlicc@MIT.EDU
Cc: ferrier@mitvma.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 91 09:14:10 EST
Thought people would be interested in this listing. Thanks to Tom Owens
for contributing the information on BARTON.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Greg
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Subject: Library Access (Summary)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 17:33:17 -0500
From: smiller@nic.near.net
Many thanks to all who provided information on accessing library catalogs
on the Internet. The following is a summary of the information. Any further
questions or discussions of this topic should be directed to the NEARnet
User Services folks (nearnet-us@nic.near.net) or the NEARnet Library mailing
list (nearnet-lib@nic.near.net). They are experts on this sort of stuff.
There appear to be two main compendiums of online Library information. The
first is from the University of North Texas, compiled by Billy Barron. The
second is from The University of Maryland and the Unversity of New Mexico,
compiled by Art St. George and Ron Larsen. I have included descriptions of
these catalogs. Of the notes that I received, the University of North Texas
list reportedly has a wider variety and less detail, the UMd/UNM list covers
fewer sites with more information on each.
Also included is a reference to the Internet Resource Guide, chapter two of
which deals with accessing Libraries.
Many thanks to those who responded to my note, including:
Mohamed Ellozy Louis Hatzis
Tenna Sakai Chris Johnson
George A. Planansky Jay Johnson
Bruce Littlefield Irelann Kerry Anderson
Joshua Simons Melanie Goldman
Alanna MacDonald Brewster Kahle
Helen F. Schmierer Howie McCausland
Corinne Carroll Mitchell N Charity
Rob Spellman Harry Hopcroft
Hampton Watkins Steve Cavrak
Paul Piacentini Tom Owens
Steve Miller
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"UNT's Accessing On-line Bibliographic Databases", compiled by
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Billy Barron Bitnet : BILLY@UNTVAX
VAX/Unix Systems Manager THENET : NTVAX::BILLY
University of North Texas Internet : billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
SPAN : UTSPAN::UTADNX::NTVAX::BILLY
The files are available on vaxb.acs.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) via anonymous FTP.
The files are:
LIBRARIES.TXT - ASCII version
LIBRARIES.PS - Postscript version
LIBRARIES.WP5 - WordPerfect 5.1 source (transfer in binary mode)
LIBRARIES.ADR - Numeric IP addresses of Internet libraries
LIBRARIES.CONTACTS - Contacts for some of the Internet libraries
NETWORKS.HLP - VMS help file source for a wide area networks help topic,
which includes a section on library systems.
BITNET only users should use the BITFTP service to acquire the files.
Information on BITFTP can be acquired by sending a mail message with the word
HELP in the body to BITFTP@PUCC. As an absolute last resort, the files may be
requested via email (note: some networks such as UUCP may file size limits that
may prohibit the transfer of these documents through electronic mail).
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Internet - Accessible Library Catalogs & Databases
Dr. Art St. George, University of New Mexico
Dr. Ron Larsen, University of Maryland
Edited by Carlos Robles, CERFnet
Copyright 1991 University of Maryland, University of New Mexico
INTRODUCTION
Internet-Accessible Library Catalogs and Databases is coauthored by Dr. Art St.
George of the University of New Mexico and Dr. Ron Larsen of the University of
Maryland. Dr. St. George says this document, "began as an effort to provide
additional service to the network community locally. However, it became
apparent that the library resources were of broader appeal than that."
It contains a listing of over 100 online library catalogs and databases
available within the United States and beyond. It contains listings of U.S. and
international library catalogs and databases, dial-up libraries, Campus-Wide
Online Information Systems, and bulletin board systems. Each listing gives a
brief description of the resource and instructions on how to access it, as well
as places to contact for more information. Listings include such material as
Columbia University's online library catalog (CLIO), Pennsylvania's State
University online card catalog system (PENpages), and the Colorado Alliance of
Research Libraries (CARL) and its 25 individual resource listings of libraries
and information databases, such as the Metro Denver Facts database.
This catalog is an ongoing project. If you have any suggestions,
comments, or additions, please send them to Dr. Art St. George by electronic
mail to stgeorge@unmb.bitnet or stgeorge@bootes.unm.edu.
This document is formatted and edited by Carlos Robles of the Californi$
Education and Research Federation Network (CERFnet) (carlos@cerf.net).
(1) Available through LISTSERV.
Send mail to: listserv@unmvm.bitnet
in the body of the mail, type: GET LIBRARY PACKAGE
(2) Available in PostScript and ASCII format via anonymous ftp at
nic.cerf.net, cd cerfnet/cerfnet_info, under the filename
internet-catalogs-(date)-(version).
(3) Also available via anonymous ftp at ariel.unm.edu, cd library, filenames:
library.ps (PostScript)
internet.library (ascii)
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The Internet Resource Guide
Available via anonymous FTP from nnsc.nsf.net, chapter 2 deals with online
libraries. Files reside in the directory "resource-guide".
(from the file resource-guide/README)
Material is divided up into chapter and section. Each chapter has
its own directory, and each section has its own files, one for
PostScript and one for plain text.
So, to retrieve section 1.1 of chapter 1, you should FTP the files
resource-guide/chapter.1/section1-1.ps (Postscript)
resource-guide/chapter.1/section1-1.txt (Text)
To simplify retrieval of entire chapters and chapter updates, or of
the entire resource guide, you can FTP compressed tar files. The tar
files for individual chapters include the recently updated sections; there
is a file for PostScript versions and another file for text versions.
resource-guide/chapter1-txt.tar.Z
resource-guide/chapter1-ps.tar.Z
The most recent changes to a chapter are in a file named
chapter#-changes.tar.Z. These include the Postscript and text versions,
only of the most recently updated sections.
resource-guide/chapter1-changes.tar.Z
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