+ Page 1 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News Volume 5, Number 5 (1994) ISSN 1050-6004 Editors: Linda Thompson (LIB1J@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU) and Ann Thornton (AThornton@UH.EDU). Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS University of Missouri Offers Networked Access to Journal Citations Through OCLC SiteSearch, 1 OCLC Awards Three Research Grants, 2 Smart Valley, Inc., Is Making Public Access a Reality in Silicon Valley, 3 OCLC Continues Retrospective Conversion of Titles from University of Oxford, 4 Strangelove Press Publishes How to Advertise on the Internet, 4 The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Receives NTIA Funds to Build Photographic Database as Part of Local Consortium, 5 Four Book Vendors Now Signed on to PromptCat Service, 6 OCLC Member Libraries Can Now Submit Corrections to Online Union Catalog Through Internet Electronic Mail, 6 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI OFFERS NETWORKED ACCESS TO JOURNAL CITATIONS THROUGH OCLC SITESEARCH The faculty, staff and 61,000 students of the four campuses of the University of Missouri now have networked access to journal citations through OCLC SiteSearch software. Four elements were key in the selection of OCLC SiteSearch for this project: OCLC SiteSearch complies with the Z39.50 protocol; it provides the level of control needed; OCLC's options for licensing OCLC SiteSearch offer maximum flexibility; and the Newton database engine provides the indexing and searching power required for these types of databases. Initially, the University of Missouri is mounting four databases: Expanded Academic Index, Legal Resources Index, Business Index from Information Access Corporation, and Current Contents from the Institute for Scientific Information. On the client side, the University of Missouri has licensed the FirstSearch interface, the Z39.50-compliant interface developed by OCLC for its FirstSearch service. Future plans will be based, in part, on user response, determined through surveys and focus groups. + Page 2 + The OCLC SiteSearch system provides retrieval software based on client/server architecture using the Z39.50 communications protocol--the same software used for OCLC's online products. With OCLC SiteSearch, libraries can offer one interface to local databases and the 44 databases available through FirstSearch. Libraries may choose to use the FirstSearch interface or any other Z39.50-compatible client interface. OCLC SiteSearch is available for the following UNIX platforms: IBM RS/6000, SunOS and Sun Solaris, DEC Ultrix, DEC Alpha. The software is licensed on a per-user site-license basis. For more information, contact: Taylor Surface, OCLC, (614) 761-5145, taylor_surface@oclc.org; or George Rickerson, UM, (314) 882-7233, rickers@ext.missouri.edu. OCLC AWARDS THREE RESEARCH GRANTS The OCLC Office of Research has awarded three Library and Information Science Research Grants (LISRG) to university researchers for 1994. The grant recipients and their projects are: o Alexandra Dimitroff, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Dietmar Wolfram, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School: "Hypertext Bibliographic Retrieval: A Comparison of Linkage Environments." This research will investigate the effectiveness of different types of hypertext linkages in two hypertext-based information retrieval systems for bibliographic records. o Karen M. Drabenstott, Ph.D., associate professor, and Amy J. Warner, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Michigan: "End-user Understanding of Subject Headings." The purpose of this project is to study end-user understanding of subject headings. o Lei Zeng, Ph.D., assistant professor, Kent State University: "Developing Control Mechanisms for Intellectual Access for Discipline-based Virtual Libraries--A Study of the Process." This study proposes to identify basic and important considerations as part of the process of developing such control mechanisms; to explore new approaches in knowledge organization; and to present a model which demonstrates one of the approaches for developing such mechanisms. + Page 3 + The OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant program awards grants of up to $10,000 to help foster quality research by faculty in schools of library and information science. Projects are generally completed within one year, and findings are published in the OCLC Research Report series and in the public domain. Application materials for 1995 are now available. For more information, contact: Keith Shafer, (614) 761-5049, keith_shafer@oclc.org; Nita Dean, (614) 761-5002, nita_dean@oclc.org. SMART VALLEY, INC., IS MAKING PUBLIC ACCESS A REALITY IN SILICON VALLEY In conjunction with the recent announcement by the Clinton Administration that it is making federal government and White House information publicly available over the Internet, Smart Valley, Inc., announced Smart County Public Access Network (SCPAN), a project chartered with developing and installing Internet public access sites throughout Santa Clara County. With the objective of realizing the concept of an "information superhighway" at a local level, SCPAN will provide public access to tools, information, and services available on the global Internet, in addition to a variety of local community services and information. SCPAN sites will be located in public libraries, city and county administrative centers, and retail outlets throughout Santa Clara County, and will provide users with high speed connections to the Internet and the ability to access information using applications such as Mosaic, MacWeb and Lynx. Smart Valley's collaborative partners in the SCPAN project include: Andersen Consulting, Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Enterprise Integration Technologies, Pacific Bell, Regis McKenna, the South Bay Cooperative Library System, SVPAL, and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). The City of Palo Alto's vision of local public access was realized in February 1994 when it became the first city in the nation to provide its citizens with full, two-way leading-edge Internet capabilities via Mosaic and using high-speed telecommunication lines. The City of Palo Alto WWW Server provides worldwide access to a myriad of local information, including a directory of city government, a map of downtown Palo Alto and its highlights, CalTrain schedules, Chamber of Commerce information, local news, and access to the Stanford University server. For more information, contact: Adam Dawes, Internadawes@svi.org, (415) 857-5815. + Page 4 + OCLC CONTINUES RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION OF TITLES FROM UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD The OCLC retrospective conversion of some 1.8 million titles from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, is running quite smoothly in its third month, according to Maureen Finn, director of OCLC's conversion and contract cataloging services division. The Oxford project involves the conversion of titles from the Bodleian Library's post-1920 collection. The collection includes a full range of subjects and Roman-alphabet languages. OCLC's highly trained operators will attempt to find a matching record for each of these titles in the OCLC Online Union Catalog, using its RETROCON service. Records for which no match is found will be created through OCLC's Conversion Keying service. The project began in July and is expected to take four years to complete. By 1998, the Oxford University catalog will be fully automated. For more information, contact: Nita Dean, (614) 761-5002, nita_dean@oclc.org. STRANGELOVE PRESS PUBLISHES HOW TO ADVERTISE ON THE INTERNET On Friday October 21, 1994, Strangelove Press delivered hundreds of copies of the long awaited book, How to Advertise on the Internet: An Introduction to Internet-Facilitated Marketing and Advertising, to the main postal station in Ottawa, Ontario. Over a year in writing and research went into the production of the book, which suffered a delay due to a wrist injury (carpal tunnel syndrome) in the right hand of the book's primary author, Michael Strangelove. How to Advertise on the Internet, the first book on the basics of Internet-facilitated advertising, is co-authored by Michael Strangelove, publisher of The Internet Business Journal, and the Journal's Editor-in-Chief, Aneurin Bosley. Designed to be both a how-to manual and an industry reference source, the book contains the following: o 27 resources and services for tracking Internet demographics o 7 key tactics for marketing through online conferences o 150 Internet resources for advertising and marketing o 17 Internet advertising tools explained o 144 visual images from the Internet o 138 Internet stores and products + Page 5 + This comprehensive guide features the largest directory of Internet advertising and marketing agencies available anywhere in print as well as a directory of 182 Internet trainers and consultants. Readers will learn how to profit from the Internet while also positively contributing to the development of cyberspace as a public resource. Review copies are available on request to mstrange@fonorola.net. Please provide full postal address and name of publication in which the review will appear. For a complete table of contents, Gopher to fonorola.net or send e-mail to mstrange@fonorola.net with the message FULL TOC in the subject line. To order: How to Advertise on the Internet ISSN 1201-0758 Michael Strangelove with Aneurin Bosley, October 1994, 211 pages + i-xi (8 1/2 x 11 format): $49.50 (US and CND). Overseas orders add $10 US for postage. Prepaid orders only -- cheques only-- payable to: Strangelove Press, 208 Somerset Street East, Suite A, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6V2 CANADA; Tel: 613-565-0982; Fax: 613-569-4433; EMail: Mstrange@fonorola.net. (S&H, taxes incl.) Call for discounts on orders of five or more copies. THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH RECEIVES NTIA FUNDS TO BUILD PHOTOGRAPHIC DATABASE AS PART OF LOCAL CONSORTIUM In collaboration with Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh (CK:P), The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will be participating in a project to create a database of photographic images from the Library's Pennsylvania Department which will be available via the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) on the Internet. CK:P is a joint project of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The group received $551,000 from the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to electronically link three Pittsburgh schools, the Hill House and The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and the Internet. The database will also be available to library patrons through the computer terminals located in The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh as well as local municipal libraries as they become connected to the Allegheny County Library Electronic Information Network. As part of the grant, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will receive Web server equipment, software, communications equipment, and a very high speed internet connection. An extensive collection of materials on the history of Pennsylvania is located in the Pennsylvania Department, Main Library, Oakland. The Department also houses the Pittsburgh Photographic Library, a collection of over 57,000 negatives and prints offering a visual history of Pittsburgh. Through this grant-funded project, a portion of these visual images will be scanned and made available on the Internet by mid-1995. + Page 6 + For more information, contact: Dan Iddings, Assistant Director, Automation and Technical Services, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Phone: 412/622-6502; Fax: 412/622-6278. FOUR BOOK VENDORS NOW SIGNED ON TO PROMPTCAT SERVICE Academic Book Center, Baker & Taylor, and Blackwell North America have agreed to collaborate with OCLC to offer PromptCat, a new OCLC service that will automatically provide cataloging copy to libraries for approval plan and firm orders. They join Yankee Book Peddler, the first vendor to agree to participate in OCLC's PromptCat service, which OCLC will introduce in spring 1995. With PromptCat, when items are sent to a library, the vendors will notify OCLC electronically. OCLC will automatically transfer cataloging records (via cards, tapes, electronic dataexchange, or the PromptCat file on PRISM) to the library and add the library's holding symbol to specified records in the Online Union Catalog. For more information, contact: Pam Kircher, (614) 764-6459, pam_kircher@oclc.org. OCLC MEMBER LIBRARIES CAN NOW SUBMIT CORRECTIONS TO ONLINE UNION CATALOG THROUGH INTERNET ELECTRONIC MAIL OCLC member libraries are now submitting corrections to the OCLC Online Union Catalog through Internet electronic mail. The new Electronic Error Reporting service is designed to complement existing error reporting mechanisms, allowing libraries to choose the option that best fits their own internal workflow. Using two different report forms--one to report nonbook duplicate records and one to report all other kinds of changes--member libraries can fill in the basic information, describe the recommended action and send the reports in a matter of minutes. OCLC online data quality control staff members monitor the account throughout the day and changes may be made the same day the library identifies the need. An instruction file and the two reporting forms are available through electronic mail from OCLC's listserv. To retrieve this information through Internet e-mail, address the message to:listproc@oclc.org. Then type the "get" command in the body of the e-mail message, followed by the file name. To get the Electronic Bibliographic Change Report, type the "bib.change.report" file name; type the "dup.report" file name to get the Electronic Duplicate Report; and type the "bib.instructions" file name to get Instructions for OCLC's Electronic Error/Duplicate Record Reporting. + Page 7 + An informal survey posted last spring on AUTOCAT, an Internet listserv, found the majority of respondents favored the idea of allowing errors to be reported by Internet electronic mail. OCLC tested the concept during the summer with volunteers from five libraries. For more information, contact: Linda Gabel, (614) 764-6374, linda_gabel@oclc.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News is an electronic newsletter that is distributed on Internet and other computer networks. There is no subscription fee. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P First Name Last Name. PACS-P subscribers also receive two other electronic serials: Current Cites and The Public-Access Computer Systems Review. Public-Access Computer Systems News is Copyright (C) 1994 by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights Reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by academic computer centers, computer conferences, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collection, in electronic or printed form, at no charge. 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