India office OPAC?

[ucgadkw at ucl.ac.uk]

Earlier today I said,

> > 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
 


> From mehta at kc235-2.mgmt.purdue.edu 31 1993 Aug U 10:26:42
Date: 31 Aug 1993 10:26:42 U
From: "Mehta, Shailendra" <mehta at kc235-2.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Subject: RE: India office OPAC?

Dominik writes:

No.  Well, actually the British Library catalogue as a whole is available,
and the IO may be part of it by now.  The BL service is called "Blaise" and
costs MONEY.  I consider this to be an ongoing public scandal of serious
magnitude.  Almost a hundred British university libraries are available
over JANET free of charge 

____________________________________

Can someone tell me how to access the British library catalogues via INTERNET?
Actually, their availability comes as  a (pleasant) surprise, since ten years
ago, the Bodleian for example, did not even have a proper card catalogue. I
routinely dial into the various American library catalogues, of course.

Shailendra Raj Mehta
mehta at mgmt.purdue.edu
 

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  In addition to consulting the Data Research version of the LC catalog,
as Dominik suggests, it is also now possible to log in to the LC system
with the command:

   telnet locis.loc.gov

This gives access to a much wider array of resources at LC.
Jim
 

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Subject: Re: India office OPAC?

Dominik: I saw your posting on the BL.

> I can sit in my office and consult LC, but not the BL which is about two 
hundred

I would be very much interested if you could please let us know about this 
possibility on this net.

kind regards
Devendra Singh