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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1031. Friday, 9 Feb 1990.


(1)   Date:     Fri,  9 Feb 90 08:13 EST                     (20 lines)
      From:     <PWILLETT@BINGVAXC>
      Subject:  RE: Telneting

(2)   Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 90 10:42:48 EST                     (17 lines)
      From:   nsabelli@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Nora Sabelli)
      Subject: HUMANIST nore re The Matrix

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Date:     Fri,  9 Feb 90 08:13 EST
From:     <PWILLETT@BINGVAXC>
Subject:  RE: Telneting


As to why telnet other university library catalogs instead of RLIN or
OCLC, there is a dirty library secret: some (many? all?) libraries
will correct records or holdings only on their local system, and
not on RLIN or OCLC. This means that the local systems are more
accurate than the national databases. It would be optimal to search
all of these local systems consecutively; I believe that there are
people in the library world looking at this possibility.

As to why some people use telnet to access other university catalogs
*at all* while others don't see any benefit: there are many paths
to the Tao.

Perry Willett
Main Library
SUNY-Binghamton
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Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 90 10:42:48 EST
From:   nsabelli@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Nora Sabelli)
Subject: HUMANIST nore re The Matrix

HUMANIST posted recently information about on-line accessiblity of The
Matrix.

Do you have an idea, even if preliminary, of the cost that will be
associated with its access?

Thank you.

Nora H. Sabelli
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
nsabelli@ncsa.uiuc.edu
10241@ncsavms (Bitnet)