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              Public-Access Computer Systems News 
  
Volume 3, Number 12 (1992)                         ISSN 1050-6004 
  
Editors: Dana Rooks (LIBL@UHUPVM1) and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 
(LIB3@UHUPVM1). 
  
Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, 
University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. 
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CONTENTS 
  
NEW SERVER ACCOMMODATES 14 CD-ROM DRIVES, 1 
ENGINEERING CITATIONS DATABASE ON CD-ROM, 2 
NEW NETWORK GUIDE AVAILABLE, 2 
UNC-CHARLOTTE AND VTLS ENTER PARTNERSHIP, 3 
GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES FROM DYNIX, 3 
CUADRA/GALE DIRECTORIES MERGE, 4 
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM COMPACT CAMBRIDGE, 4 
VTLS TEAMS WITH PBS, 4 
RLIN ADDS SCHOLARLY RESOURCES, 5 
A MATTER OF FACT AND DISCLOSURE ON OCLC, 5 
  
  
NEW SERVER ACCOMMODATES 14 CD-ROM DRIVES 
  
CBIS, Inc. has announced the CBIS CD Server 2000 Series that, 
dependent on model, can accommodate up to 14 CD-ROM drives in a 
single tower.  When configured as a two-unit server system, 
network users can access up to 28 CD-ROMs (more than 15,400 
megabytes of digital data).  Four different configurations are 
available in the 2000 series.  The servers can run on a variety 
of LANs including Novell NetWare, CBIS' Network-OS Plus, and most 
other NetBIOS compatible LANs. 
  
CBIS' new CD Server 2014 features 386 or 486 processors and high- 
speed Hitachi 3750 CD-ROM drives to significantly enhance access 
time.  Access time is further enhanced because of the server's 
usage of a 16-bit SCSI host adapter and disk caching. 
  
CBIS is located at 5875 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Bldg. 
100/170, Norcross, GA 30092, (404) 446-1332. 
  
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ENGINEERING CITATIONS DATABASE ON CD-ROM 
  
Dialog Information Services has announced the availability of 
DIALOG OnDisc Ei Page One, providing bibliographic citations to 
worldwide engineering and technology literature from over 4,000 
journals and conference proceedings.  All branches of engineering 
are covered, including aerospace, automotive, biological, 
chemical, civil, computer, electrical, electronic, energy, 
environmental, geologic, mechanical, metallurgical, mining, and 
robotics.  Each Ei Page One disc covers the most recent two 
years, and it is updated every two months.  Annual subscriptions 
are $995.  Full text of all citations included can be ordered 
directly from Article Express International, Inc., online through 
DIALOG SourceOne, or from Engineering Information Inc. 
  
For more information, contact Dialog Marketing, 3460 Hillview 
Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, 800-3-DIALOG. 
  
  
NEW NETWORK GUIDE AVAILABLE 
  
Crossing the Internet Threshold, available in late September, is 
a much revised edition of the workbook that supported June 1992 
workshops of the same name.  It is addressed to two categories of 
reader: (1) the person who has access to the Internet and wants 
to learn how to take advantage of its vast resources, and (2) the 
person who wants to teach Internet skills to others. 
  
Written by Roy Tennant, John Ober, and Anne G. Lipow, with a 
forward by Clifford A. Lynch, Crossing the Internet Threshold: An 
Instructional Handbook is published by Library Solutions Press of 
Berkeley, CA. 
  
Special features include a bibliography; an index; exercises in 
e-mail, telnet, and FTP (for beginners and advanced learners); 
glossary and "fact sheets" (single-page summaries of major 
network systems and services, from Archie to Z39.50); sample 
overheads (for trainers); and network maps. 
  
Pre-publication price (valid to November 1, 1992) is $40.00, plus 
shipping and handling (prepaid or charged to Visa/MasterCard). 
List price (after November 1) is $45.00, plus shipping and 
handling. 
  
For more information, contact Anne Lipow at 
alipow@library.berkeley.edu. 
  
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UNC-CHARLOTTE AND VTLS ENTER PARTNERSHIP 
  
The Library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and 
VTLS, Inc. have entered into a partnership agreement to co- 
develop new and enhanced features of the VTLS online public 
access catalog. 
  
The first project involves migrating from the VTLS InfoStation (a 
multimedia front-end system to the VTLS OPAC that runs on a NEXT 
computer) to Sun workstations and later to other vendors' 
workstations.  As a graphical user interface, the InfoStation 
allows access to synchronized sounds and images, animation, and 
full-motion video.  It allows users to create hypermedia links 
between any two multimedia objects in the digital database.  It 
also accepts natural language queries, and it can learn new 
vocabularies. 
  
The development of a digital image database is the goal of the 
second joint project.  The database will contain 35mm 
photographic color slides as well as black and white pages from 
manuscripts.  The project will explore cost effective ways of 
achieving high quality images.  The database will be accessible 
from the VTLS OPAC and other client-server software. 
  
For more information, contact Gail Gulbenkian, VTLS, Inc., 1800 
Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060, (703) 231-3605. 
  
  
GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES FROM DYNIX 
  
GeneSys, a new division of Dynix, will distribute, service, and 
support CD-ROM products from FamilySearch and Automated Archives 
Incorporated.  Available products include the Ancestral File, 
which represents 10 million linked individual records, pedigrees, 
family groups, and descendancy charts.  Other products include 
The Family History Library Catalog of the Family History Library 
in Salt Lake City, the International Genealogical Index, the 
Social Security Death Index, the Military Index, and others.  A 
complete product catalog may be requested by calling (800) 222- 
3766. 
  
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CUADRA/GALE DIRECTORIES MERGE 
  
The Directory of Online Databases, the Directory of Portable 
Databases, and Computer-Readable Databases will merge to form a 
new directory titled Gale Directory of Databases, to be published 
by Gale Research in the fall of 1992.  An advisory board of 
information industry, business, and library professionals is 
consulting on development of the directory. 
  
For more information, contact Beth Dempsey, Gale Research, 835 
Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, MI 48226, (313) 961-6041. 
  
  
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM COMPACT CAMBRIDGE 
  
Compact Cambridge has announced several new enhancements to its 
Version 4 CORE Software which make it faster, allow changes to be 
made more quickly and easily, and permit customers to create 
their own tailored user interfaces. 
  
New products include the MEDLINE Cumulative Index, which allows 
users to either search all 27 years of MEDLINE in four steps or 
to search all years in one step with a single search set; 
WasteInfo; and the Complete YEAR BOOK Collection-CD. 
  
Compact Cambridge has been selected by the Chemical Abstracts 
Service to produce its 12th Collective Index and its companion 
citations and abstracts on CD-ROM.  This product is expected in 
early 1993. 
  
Compact Cambridge may be contacted at 7200 Wisconsin Avenue, 
Bethesda, MD 20814, (800) 843-7751. 
  
  
VTLS TEAMS WITH PBS 
  
VTLS Inc., has announced it has developed an option for its VTLS 
Intelligent Workstation software that allows direct transfer of 
MARC bibliographic records from a VTLS database into records 
formatted for a Pro-Cite 2.0 database.  Pro-Cite software allows 
users to create and print different types of bibliographies and 
indexed lists for records in its database. 
  
Current users of the VTLS Intelligent Workstation will be able to 
upgrade to the Pro-Cite option at no cost.  New VTLS-IW customers 
may purchase the software with or without the Pro-Cite transfer 
facility. 
  
For more information, contact Gail Gulbenkian, VTLS, (703) 231- 
3605. 
  
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RLIN ADDS SCHOLARLY RESOURCES 
  
Two important scholarly resources have been added to the Research 
Libraries Information Network (RLIN): over 900,000 citations 
representing the Rigler and Deutsch Records Index (RDI) and over 
75,000 citations for art catalogs from the University of 
California at Santa Barbara Arts Library. 
  
RDI is a union catalog of pre-LP discs held as of 1981 by the 
Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and Stanford, 
Yale, and Syracuse Universities.  RDI cites approximately 90% of 
all pre-LP discs produced in the U.S. from the 1890s to the 1950s 
and a significant part of the global output for the same period. 
  
The UCSB Arts Library catalogs, broad and international in scope, 
cover art of all types and periods and come from museums, 
galleries, institutions, foundations, and individual private 
collections throughout the world.  The library has catalogs from 
as far back as the mid-18th century, but its collection is 
strongest in catalogs from the last 25 years. 
  
For more information, contact the RLIN Information Center, (800) 
537-RLIN, or e-mail: BL.RIC@RLG. 
  
  
A MATTER OF FACT AND DISCLOSURE ON OCLC 
  
Pierian Press and OCLC announce the availability of A Matter of 
Fact, Pierian's database of statistical data, on the FirstSearch 
Catalog and the EPIC Service, OCLC's online reference services. 
A Matter of Fact contains over 42,000 abstracts from more than 
300 periodicals and newspapers published from 1984 to 1991. 
Since the actual statistical data is included along with the 
bibliographic citation, the needed information is often available 
without consulting the entire article. 
  
Disclosure Corporate Snapshots, a database of business and 
financial information on thousands of publicly-owned American 
companies, is also now available on the FirstSearch Catalog. 
Disclosure contains company name and address; FORTUNE number; 
description of the business; SIC codes; a five-year summary with 
sales figures, net income, earnings per share; two years of key 
financial statements and ratios; subsidiaries; a listing of SEC 
filings; corporate officers; and selected stock prices, earnings, 
and dividends. 
  
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For more information, contact Tam Dalrymple, OCLC, (614) 761- 
5054. 
  
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