Library Cataloging
This message was posted to AUTOCAT friday.It is time for AUTOCAT to find a new home and new management.During my recent visit to Buffalo I discussed the future of AUTOCAT with the Acting Vice-President for University Libraries and with an official in the computing center. The consensus was that we need to find a new site to host Autocat and new owner(s). If that is not possible AUTOCAT will go out of existence.AUTOCAT: Library cataloging and discussion group began in October 1990 at the University of Vermont under the ownership of founder Nancy Keane. On April 28, 1993 it moved to the University at Buffalo and I became listowner. At that time it had 1880 subscribers in 24 countries; today it has 4600 subscribers in 42 countries.AUTOCAT utilizes Eric Thomas' LISTSERV electronic discussion list software. Any host wishing to assume responsibility for AUTOCAT needs to have a Listserv application that will continue to support and maintain the list's database archival capabilities. The University at Buffalo currently runs Listserv version 14.5 but any version 1.8e or later (14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4 or 14.5) should be OK.Listserv is available on a wide range of computer operating systems. The hardware should be powerful enough to handle the volume of messages without getting bogged down. AUTOCAT averages around 25 posts per day with a distribution of 4600 subscribers, so we're looking at a daily traffic of about 115,000 messages.It is also desirable that the list's archive file (dating from January 2, 1991 and currently containing over 120,000 messages) be exported to the new host and mounted as a searchable resource. AUTOCAT also has a listfile of files on various frequently-discussed topics that subscribers can retrieve; these should also be moved to the new host.The requirements for the listowner(s) are that you should have some experience in running an electronic discussion list, have your supervisor's approval, and, of course, are interested in being a listowner. The amount of time required will vary from day to day but you should expect to spend about an hour a day on this job.Those interested in becoming the new AUTOCAT listowners should send me an offer that contains your name, job title, e-mail address, and a brief description of your experience with running a list. Also needed is a description of your hosting environment (operating system, Listserv version, etc.) and the name, title, and e-mail address of the person responsible for managing lists at your site. All offers will be reviewed by me and by Jim Serwinowski of the UB Computing Center.Please address your offers, questions, etc. to ulcjh@buffalo.edu. Copy all offers to cit-listserv@buffalo.edu.The deadline for receiving offers is October 27, 2006.
AUTOCAT
- Series Work E-list
An Announcement on AUTOCAT.We are in the process of starting up an electronic list, SERIES-L, dedicated to concerns about bibliographic control for library materials issued in series. Generally speaking, SERIES-L will do for bibliographic series what...
- Autocat
News from AUTOCATAUTOCAT is about to have a have a new home: Syracuse University (in Syracuse, NY). Syracuse has long experience in running LISTSERV lists and I know that they will be doing everything possible to make the transfer as easy and transparent...
- 040 Cataloging Source
Picked up some new, to me anyways, information on AUTOCAT about field 040, Cataloging Source. Subfield a is optional but subfield c is mandatory. Who would have guessed? LC practice is to copy subfield a to c if the latter is missing. There is a code...
- Marc Authority Records
Here is a poll. Make your opinion count.I am trying to simplify the saving (downloading) of records from LC Authorities and would like to ask LC to change the default format for saving such records from text format to MARC format. Currently, when we retrieve...
- Privacy
Due to a message on AUTOCAT and a listing in the Librarians Index to the Internet several more people have subscribed to recieve this 'blog on e-mail. Those who have subscribed to receive items from this 'blog by e-mail should be aware:Blog owners...
Library Cataloging
Changes at AUTOCAT
This message was posted to AUTOCAT friday.It is time for AUTOCAT to find a new home and new management.During my recent visit to Buffalo I discussed the future of AUTOCAT with the Acting Vice-President for University Libraries and with an official in the computing center. The consensus was that we need to find a new site to host Autocat and new owner(s). If that is not possible AUTOCAT will go out of existence.AUTOCAT: Library cataloging and discussion group began in October 1990 at the University of Vermont under the ownership of founder Nancy Keane. On April 28, 1993 it moved to the University at Buffalo and I became listowner. At that time it had 1880 subscribers in 24 countries; today it has 4600 subscribers in 42 countries.AUTOCAT utilizes Eric Thomas' LISTSERV electronic discussion list software. Any host wishing to assume responsibility for AUTOCAT needs to have a Listserv application that will continue to support and maintain the list's database archival capabilities. The University at Buffalo currently runs Listserv version 14.5 but any version 1.8e or later (14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4 or 14.5) should be OK.Listserv is available on a wide range of computer operating systems. The hardware should be powerful enough to handle the volume of messages without getting bogged down. AUTOCAT averages around 25 posts per day with a distribution of 4600 subscribers, so we're looking at a daily traffic of about 115,000 messages.It is also desirable that the list's archive file (dating from January 2, 1991 and currently containing over 120,000 messages) be exported to the new host and mounted as a searchable resource. AUTOCAT also has a listfile of files on various frequently-discussed topics that subscribers can retrieve; these should also be moved to the new host.The requirements for the listowner(s) are that you should have some experience in running an electronic discussion list, have your supervisor's approval, and, of course, are interested in being a listowner. The amount of time required will vary from day to day but you should expect to spend about an hour a day on this job.Those interested in becoming the new AUTOCAT listowners should send me an offer that contains your name, job title, e-mail address, and a brief description of your experience with running a list. Also needed is a description of your hosting environment (operating system, Listserv version, etc.) and the name, title, and e-mail address of the person responsible for managing lists at your site. All offers will be reviewed by me and by Jim Serwinowski of the UB Computing Center.Please address your offers, questions, etc. to ulcjh@buffalo.edu. Copy all offers to cit-listserv@buffalo.edu.The deadline for receiving offers is October 27, 2006.
AUTOCAT
- Series Work E-list
An Announcement on AUTOCAT.We are in the process of starting up an electronic list, SERIES-L, dedicated to concerns about bibliographic control for library materials issued in series. Generally speaking, SERIES-L will do for bibliographic series what...
- Autocat
News from AUTOCATAUTOCAT is about to have a have a new home: Syracuse University (in Syracuse, NY). Syracuse has long experience in running LISTSERV lists and I know that they will be doing everything possible to make the transfer as easy and transparent...
- 040 Cataloging Source
Picked up some new, to me anyways, information on AUTOCAT about field 040, Cataloging Source. Subfield a is optional but subfield c is mandatory. Who would have guessed? LC practice is to copy subfield a to c if the latter is missing. There is a code...
- Marc Authority Records
Here is a poll. Make your opinion count.I am trying to simplify the saving (downloading) of records from LC Authorities and would like to ask LC to change the default format for saving such records from text format to MARC format. Currently, when we retrieve...
- Privacy
Due to a message on AUTOCAT and a listing in the Librarians Index to the Internet several more people have subscribed to recieve this 'blog on e-mail. Those who have subscribed to receive items from this 'blog by e-mail should be aware:Blog owners...