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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Porro)
Wed Apr 29 15:27:12 1992
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 13:53:42 CDT
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From: Jennifer Porro <BL.JMP%RLG.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
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(The following is an announcement from the Research Libraries Group.)
NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON RLIN DATABASE AVAILABLE
April 29, 1992 -- The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has just
published DISCOVERING RLIN, a handsome, 52-page illustrated
booklet designed to introduce reference librarians and scholars to the
rich and varied contents of the Research Libraries Information Network
(RLIN) database.
The 52-million-record RLIN database has been created over the past
15 years by more than 100 members of the RLG consortium and others
who have contributed bibliographic records of their holdings. The
collections represented are among the world's foremost scholarly
resources held in academic, public, and museum libraries, archives,
and historical societies.
"With a database as broad in scope as RLIN has become," says RLG
president James Michalko, "it is impossible to do justice to the
full range and depth of the materials it represents. DISCOVERING
RLIN gives readers a map that I hope will encourage them to do
their own exploration."
The booklet includes sections on materials ranging from current
journal citations to incunables and rare books. It covers unique
archival materials cited in RLIN (such as letters and manuscripts),
photographs and other still images, film and videotape, sound
recordings, non-Roman script material, computer files, and realia.
DISCOVERING RLIN is available for $10 (plus local sales tax for
California residents), prepaid by check or money order made out to
The Research Libraries Group, Inc. Orders should be sent to
Distribution Services Center, The Research Libraries Group, Inc.,
1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041-1100.
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