[10824] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Library Automation: Contents & Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Mon Nov 18 20:16:42 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:37:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
3 Messages, 106 Lines
1) Everybody's Menu Builder
2) Automation System Selection
3) Subject Engine
Please respond directly to the authors of these messages, not to PACS-L.
Thanks,
Gretchen
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From: SEAMAND@baylor.edu
Subject: Everybody's Menu Builder
I have received some information about this software product and would like
to know if anyone is using it. It is a CARL product and advertises that
it provides an opening menu to all of your PC-based services, CDs, online
systems, the Internet, etc.
So, if any of you are using it, please let me know how you like it.
Thanks,
Denyse Seaman
Automation Services Librarian
Baylor University Libraries
PO Box 97143
Waco, TX 76798-7143
(817)755-2771
(817) 755-3116 fax
seamand@baylor.edu
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From: "Lynn Dennis" <ldennis@super-highway.net>
Subject: Automation system selection
Our library, mid-sized, suburban facility (86,000 items, 17,000 patrons) is
planning to migrate from our current automation system, Bibliofile, to a
new one in the next 6 -12 months.
We have narrowed our selection to three: Sirci, Gaylord, and Bibliofile's
Silver Lining (still in beta testing). I would appreciate any comments
from librarians currently using these systems that might help us with our
selection. Specifically, I am looking for the negative aspects that a
saleman would not be likely to tell us about.
Any help would be appreciated.
Lynn Dennis
ldennis@super-highway.net
http://www.super-highway.net/rosellelibrary
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From: NCEER - Information Service <nceeris@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Search engine for a web-based, 50meg database
NCEER Information Service
304 Capen Hall/SEL
State University of New York at
Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
14260
USA
We are interested in moving a bibliographic database that
currently resides on an OPAC-type database system to some sort of
database environment that is native to a WWW server. The
database is approximately 50 megabytes in size. We run the NCSA
httpd server, ver. 1.5.1 on a Sun Sparcstation 5.
We are looking for a search engine that would:
1. Allow for simple and advanced Boolean capabilities,
2. Support simple downloading of multiple record sets at a time,
3. Provide flexibility in creating user interfaces and help
screens.
4. Allow for easy integration into the WWW-HTML-CGI-Java-etc.
environment as these develop.
We'd like to use the same search engine both to make this
database a featured part of our overall web-site and to provide
searching over the remainder of the web site as well.
We have already looked at the "big guys" on the block, e.g.
OVID, BRS.
We would be interested in hearing from people who might also
be in the same situation.
Reply either directly to us--or to the list, if you think
your reply will be broadly useful.
Carol A. Kizis Michael Kukla
QUAKELINE Database Coordinator Coordinator, NCEER Home Page
Information Service
National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
304 Capen Hall/SEL
State Univeristy of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
14260
e-mail: nceeris@acsu.buffalo.edu
telephone: 716-645-3377
fax: 716-645-3379
World-Wide Web: http://nceer.eng.buffalo.edu
