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= Richard Lowe =
= H-CIVWAR co-moderator =
= Univ. of North Texas =
= fd78@jove.acs.unt.edu =
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 00:56:23 -0600
From: Richard Jensen, exec. dir. H-Net
Subject: H-Net Guide to Melvyl 1.2 September 13, 1994
MELVYL is one of the most powerful resources on the
Internet. It is the on-line catalog for the U of California
system (including Berkeley, UCLA, and many other libraries),
with some 12 million items. Best of all--and I think this
is unique for a major OPAC--they will email you a copy of
your search. (OPAC = Online Public Access Catalog.)
It is easy to show professors how to use MELVYL, and
the system so far has not crashed or slowed on me.
Richard Jensen for H-Net
H-Net Guide to Melvyl 1.2 September 13, 1994
MELYVL = U of California online library catalog
from your Internet connection (usually the $ prompt when you
are logged onto your mainframe, you need to TELNET.
Just type this:
TELNET MELVYL.UCOP.EDU <enter>
[you get:]
Please Enter Your Terminal Type Code or Type
? for a List of Codes. TERMINAL?
[you type vt100 <enter><enter><enter>
for the huge MELVYL Full Catalog -- books, videotapes, etc.
type CAT <enter>
first time? type E GUIDE <enter>
Use the FIND command to search for book and periodicals
records. The primary indexes for books include: PA
(personal author), CA (corporate author), TW (title
words), XT (exact title), SU (subject), and XS (exact
subject). The main indexes for periodicals are PE
(periodical title) and XPE (exact periodical title).
For example:
FIND CA CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FIND PA CAMPBELL, DANN
FI TW TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD
FI SU TENNESSEE HISTORY
FI XPE NEWSWEEK
Use the DISPLAY command to display the records that result
from your FIND command.
get a numbered list of books. <enter> for next page
1. To email the FIND search
type MAIL TO xxxxx@yyy.zzz..edu [xxxxx = your username]
and YES <enter>
[[be careful--there may be hundreds of items, or thousands!
they will appear in your mailbox in a couple minutes]]
2. EXIT exits Melvyl
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