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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:01:35 EST
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- From: Annanaomi=Sams%LIBRARY%UMASS@BANYAN.UMMED.EDU
- Subject: re: Online Catalog BACK UP
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- We do not have a "good" backup for patron use when/if the online catalog is
- down. We share an online system with 40+ other libraries (academic and
- public) and are the only ones open on Sunday mornings. The system does not
- come up until noon on that day. Library use is low Sunday mornings, as you
- might expect, but we attempt to direct patrons to the call number range
- matchng their inquiry and let them browse. We also double check the Reserve
- collection if appropriate.
- When we have more library terminals tied into the Internet, we will be able to
- use this as a backup system to search our library holdings via CARL. Of
- course, our library holdings are not yet on the CARL menus, but we expect them
- to be there "soon." (minor software glitches)
-
- Circulation is no problem. Our online system includes an auxilliary circ
- system running from floppies. When the system comes up, we upload the
- captured data.
-
- Our consortium is C/W MARS. Our online system is CARL.
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- Annanaomi Sams University of Massachusetts Medical Center
- Deputy Library Director 55 Lake Avenue North
- Medical Library Worcester, MA 01655
- asams@umassmed.ummed.edu 508-856-2399
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