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- BUBL - The Bulletin Board for Libraries
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- Dennis Nicholson
- Systems Division
- Strathclyde University Library
- 101 St James' Road
- Glasgow
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
- G4 ONS
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- _E_m_a_i_l: cijs03@vaxa.strathclyde.ac.uk
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- _P_h_o_n_e: 041 552 3701 ext 4132
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- BUBL is the BUlletin Board for Libraries on JANET, the Joint
- Academic NETwork in the U.K. BUBL collects information of
- interest to network- using librarians and their users. A
- major aim is to provide librarians with information on ser-
- vices and resources on JANET and other networks (e.g., the
- European IXI network and the world-wide Internet). However,
- BUBL also covers items of general interest to librarians.
- Moreover, it is increasingly used by non-librarians - lec-
- turers, students, and others - for the guidance it provides
- on finding and using networked resources and services. Most
- BUBL users are from the U.K. However, there are known users
- in several other countries, including Sweden, the Nether-
- lands, Canada, Hong Kong, and the U.S.A.
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- BUBL is run by the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow
- on behalf of JUGL, the JANET User Group for Libraries. It is
- partially supported by the Information Systems Committee of
- the Universities Funding Council and by private sponsorship,
- but is run on a mainly voluntary basis by the two universi-
- ties. The user interface is provided by a software package
- called 'USERBUL'(copyright Leicester University and NISS).
- This allows information to be accessed through a series of
- menus and sub-menus. However, since the hierarchical
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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- structure is apparent rather than real, users need not
- "climb" or "descend" 'through menus in order to reach the
- files or menus they desire. It also allows users to search
- large files by keyword, to transfer information to their
- host machine via electronic mail using the POST command, to
- send a message to the editor, or to display various kinds of
- online help. Versions of this software are also used by the
- humanities bulletin board HUMBUL and by the NISS (National
- Information on Software and Services) bulletin board.
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- Sections of particular interest are:
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- B electronic reference works of various kinds, includ-
- ing manuals, guides, descriptions of networked ser-
- vices, bibliographies of networking
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- C recent LIS publications with abstracts(courtesy of
- Book Data and others)
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- D national and international e-text directories cover-
- ing opacs, information services, electronic mail
- addresses, scholarly discussion lists, and resources
- in general
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- E the most recent contents pages of over 70 LIS jour-
- nals.
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- H users information, including information from LIS
- organisations, news, items for sale, results of sur-
- veys
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- S electronic journals and texts, including sources of
- electronic text, a directory of electronic journals
- and newsletters, some electronic journals in the LIS
- field, and related items
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- V library systems and software items, including exam-
- ples of Operational Requirements for library comput-
- ing systems
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- Z Special user education team run by the Loughborough
- LIS Computers In Teaching team
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- Information on the bulletin board is updated on a daily
- basis, and update bulletins are sent out once or twice
- weekly to the 680 plus members of the LIS-link electronic
- mail discussion list on JANET.
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- The British Library Research and Development Division has
- recently funded a six-month study into the future of BUBL.
- The study aims to investigate how BUBL's role and, conse-
- quently, its coverage and facilities should be developed in
- the next few years, and to produce a coherent, co-ordinated
- and costed short to medium term development plan as a guide
- to future efforts.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- To access BUBL from the internet:
- telnet sun.nsf.ac.uk or 128.86.8.7
- login: janet
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- At the "hostname:" prompt, type uk.ac.glasgow.bubl
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- At the "terminal type" prompt, enter vt100
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- (a password is not required)
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _B_U_B_L
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- No restrictions. Aim is to serve library and information
- workers in particular, but also to serve the wider network-
- ing community by providing access to directories and other
- publications which facilitate resource access.
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s
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- Regular bulletins describing additions and updates to the
- service are sent to the members of the LIS-link email dis-
- cussion list. Note, however, that there is a restriction on
- non-UK membership of this list. UK residents may join the
- list by sending the message:
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- Join lis-link Firstname Lastname
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- to: mailbase@uk.ac.mailbase
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- Non-UK residents should contact cijs03@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
- before joining the list.
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