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I've had a couple of messages asking about Illinet Online.  I'm sorry I didn't
explain it when I posted the message, but I afraid I goofed.  I read the
original posting in a newsgroup whose distribution is limited to the
University of Illinois, where everyone knows what Illinet Onlines is, and I
assumed that my reply would also go no further than that.  What I didn't 
realize is that my reply would be sent to all the groups in which the original
posting appeared.  Anyway, I apologize for the mistake and for the need to take
up additional space to explain all this. . .

Illinet Online is the online library catalog for the state of Illinois.  The
telnet address is garcon.cso.uiuc.edu 620.  Instructions are provided upon 
entry.  Unfortunately, the user-friendly interface in use in Illinois is not
yet available through telnet.

Illinet Online provides full cataloguing for about 6.3 million unique titles
(as of last June) in over 800 Illinois libraries, including the University of
Illinois (both Urbana and Chicago campuses).  The holdings for the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are complete for items catalogued since 1975
(except for maps, which have yet to receive full cataloguing), and we have
begun a retrospective conversion project for items catalogued previously.
By the end of next year we expect to have full records for all but 200,000
of our eleven million items (we already have shorter author-title records for
all items), plus the records from the other libraries.  The holdings vary
from library to library; I am not sure how many records for the other libraries
are available online.

For more information about library catalogs available through telnet, there are
two lists.  The official list is chapter 2 of the Internet Resources Guide,
available by anonymous ftp to nnsc.nsf.net in the directory 'resource-guide.'
An more up-to-date unofficial list can be found at umd5.umd.edu in the
directory 'info-lib.'

I hope this clears things up!

Joe Herl
School of Music
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
herl@uiuc.edu