India office OPAC?

[anandi at emr.ca]

You can also telnet into MARVEL.LOC.GOV and get connected directly into the
Library of Congress. This is a lot more complete service than DRA.COM

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Atulesh Nandi
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> Earlier today I said,
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> > > I can sit in my office and consult LC,
> 
> and naturally I have been asked how:
> 
> > How do you do this? Or access other libraries? Is there any
> > documentation about accessing various libraries?
> 
> The short answer is that from any machine connected to the Internet,
> and having the program "telnet", you issue the command
> 
>      telnet dra.com
> 
> and you should then get access to the LC catalogue.
> 
> There are hundreds of other libraries, though, and the easiest way of
> consulting them is by using a program called Gopher.
> 
> The best way to find out more is to buy and read Ed Krol's superb book
> "The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog" (Sebasapol, CA:
> O'Reilly & Assoc., 1992).  ISBN 1-56592-025-2.  It explains
> *everything* and is very well written.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Dominik
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