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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:50:56 EDT
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- From: Roy Miller <CCRMMUS@MCGILLM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re:Cwis's with access to local libraries
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- > As I've looked at the many CWIS menus that have been posted here recenly
- > (thanks to you all!) I've noticed that most offer information about th
- > libraries, and often provide the automatic telnet links to regional or
- > external libraries, but often do not provide actual links to their own
- > libraries. Can someone post some comments about why this is? If I'm n
-
- McGill University's CWIS CAN access the campus library system.
- The library system runs under NOTIS under CICS on a MVS system on
- an ES/9000. The CWIS uses the MUSIC/SP software running under VM
- on a separate processor. The connection to the library system is
- done via Telnet (TCP/IP). This type of connection could be made
- to most other library systems anywhere in the world. In fact, we
- showed this at the INFORMA conference for Librarians in May/92
- that focused on CWIS's.
-
- Now the really interesting stuff!
-
- I came away from the INFORMA conference with ideas that could
- explain your observations. The connection to the campus library
- system does get a site into potential turf wars. This is because
- most CWIS's are being run by computing centers. Now if access to
- the library system is a submenu to the CWIS it may look like the
- library is a subcomponent of the CWIS. Librarians would love to
- have their systems run the CWIS somehow. But the standard
- library software packages cannot easily handle the CWIS
- functions. Library software packages are typically considerably
- more complex than CWIS systems but because they do not support
- CWIS functions, they have to live with being accessible either
- independently or through a separate CWIS.
-
- In the future, I think is in inevitable that CWIS's, Library
- systems, campus stationary and book stores, Internet Newsreaders,
- etc will all be appear to be accessed through the same system.
- There is no technical reason why it cannot be done today. There
- are, however significant people problems that have to be overcome
- before this can be realized. What each campus needs is someone
- like a VP to sell the idea that all departments have to work
- together to provide access to the campus resources and that no
- department "owns" the data, they only administer the data. That
- is not a simple task.
-
- Regards,
-
- Roy Miller
- Manager
- McGill University
- Email: CCRMMUS@MUSICM.MCGILL.CA or CCRMMUS@MCGILLM
- Tel: (514) 398-4480
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