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WILLOW RELEASE Version 2.3 September 6, 1994 This is the production release of Willow 2.3, all sites should should install it at their earliest convenience. Following are the highlights of the changes to this version. Changes to the Distribution =========================== o In order to cut down the size of the tar files for non-UW people, there is now a set of willow distribution files for each type of site -- UW, NorthWestNet, and everybody else. When you go to ftp.cac.washington.edu:willow, you will now go into a subdirectory -- distrib.uw, distrib.nwnet, or distrib.public -- to get your Willow tar file. The only difference between the versions of the Willow distribution is that all the non-applicable help files are removed, and the correct db.conf file is already there. Thus the installation steps where you used to remove the help files by hand, and copy one of the db.conf.* files into db.conf, are gone. Changes to the Willow Interface =============================== o The user now has the ability to pick which fields are included in the retrieved full-records. Note that this feature is currently only supported by databases accessed with the uwbrs driver (i.e. the University of Washington database collection), it is not yet supported by the Z39.50 driver. Fields are selected via an expanded dialog box under Options/Record Retrieval. Customized field preferences are saved into the user's .willowrc by with other user preferences when "Save" is selected from the Options menu. Also a new X resource -- Willow*customFields -- is available for pre-setting field customizations. See willow.X for details. Since the user needs to know the db_tag from the db.conf file in order to set Willow*customFields, it is now always displayed at the bottom of the "About this database" box. o Also in the Options menu "Record Retrieval" dialog is a new option -- "Include query description with saved/printed results". When this is selected, a textual representation of the Search screen that generated your hits is pre-pended to any summaries or full-records that you save or print. This setting is also saved in .willowrc, and can be pre-set with a new X resource Willow*includeQuery. o A new resource -- Willow*printDialog -- has been added to control whether you want the "Printing..." message to pop-up after you press the Print button. Suppressing this is useful if you have configured a graphical printer-choosing program to be Willow's print-command. o Several changes were made to Willow's list-browsing algorithm to help it cope better with slow browse-servers (i.e. browsing via Z39.50 SCAN). Changes to the Database Configuration ===================================== o For University of Washington sites only, there is a new database available -- the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. It describes articles in over 1.000 periodicals in Architecture and related disciplines, and is updated daily. Note that this is the first Z39.50/non-local database to go into the UW's production library environment. Since it is not loaded under BRS, the searching techniques are a bit different. See "Search Tips for this Database" under Help for details. o For all sites, the Library of Congress Authorities file has been added to the Databases menu, and the configuration for the Library of Congress Catalog has been substantially improved (by creating customized bibfull and bibbrief files for it). o For University of Washington sites, the hierarchy of the Databases menu has been re-organized. o Text fields can now be flagged to be searched as limits (which is really only applicable to BRS databases, not Z39.50), via a new "is_limit" marker in the db.conf file. In particular, this allows us to add the following new fields with corresponding browse lists to the UW configuration: Journal Subsets for Medline INSPEC Subfiles for INSPEC Age Groups for PyscINFO Graded Review for National Newspaper Index, Business Index, and Expanded Academic Index. Length (column inches) to National Newspaper Index. Changes to the Z39.50 Driver ============================ o The Z39.50 driver can now communicate with the same license manager used by the BRS driver. Thus you can set up pools of login tickets for your Z39.50 databases, to control how many simultaneous users you want to allow, and define your own user classes with different privileges, based on IP address. The license manager can also supply a copyright message for display to the user. The license manager itself is (and has been) available from the willow ftp directory, under "supplemental". A new env_val -- LicenseHost -- is supported by both drivers, to indicate the name of the license manager that should be contacted, per database. o The Z39.50 driver can now pass along a server's resource control query to the user. o SCAN index names are now as rich as regular attribute specs (it used to be that TITLE_WP but not TITLE/PHRASE worked. now both do). o SCAN is now case insensitive. Changes to the BRS Driver ========================= o As mentioned above, the Willow and the uwbrs driver now support user-selection of display fields for full-record retrievals. o Uwbrs now gets its copyright messages from the license server, rather than BRS itself, allowing them to be displayed to the user earlier in the connection process. Internal Changes ================ o The process of building the Willow source code has changed a bit, as follows: Building z3950 also triggers a build of willow/src/license. The z3950 source directory now contains links to the uwbrs malarm.c, and getclass.c files. The Config file has changed in that there is now a minor-minor version number, to differentiate between Motif 1.2.1 and Motif 1.2.2+. However I still strongly recommend building with Motif 1.1.x, because of serious bugs in all Motif 1.2 versions. o The Willow/driver protocol has changed slightly. This is really only relevant to you if you are working on your own custom driver program. See the protocol.h file for details. Basically the changes are: The info packet, sent by the driver to Willow, which previously just contained the copyright string, now can contain either that, or a list of fields available for full-records in the current database. The record_request packet, sent by Willow to the driver, when specifying a full-record, can now list the fields to be displayed in the data portion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW RELEASE PATCH Version 2.2, patch 1 July 11, 1994 There are a few minor problems with the Willow version 2.2 release. The problems effect all UW and NorthWestNet sites, as well as all users of the Solaris binary distribution. If you are not in any of those categories, you can ignore this patch. o The files "db.conf.uw" and "db.conf.nwnet" had a problem in the Medline configurations. o The help files for some of the UW-only databases were missing. o The willow executable for Solaris generates a bunch of warning messages because an MIT-specific path was accidently compiled in. You may either replace your entire willow distribution, per the standard instructions, or just replace the problematic files. If you prefer the latter, on ftp.cac.washington.edu, in pub/willow, you will find a new directory called "patch" which contains new versions of the db.conf files, a tar of the fixed help files, and a willow executable for Solaris (Do not forget to re-set its file permissions to executable after you ftp it!). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW SOURCE CODE RELEASE Version 2.2 June 28, 1994 This is the final release of Willow version 2.2, all Willow sites should install it. University of Washington and NorthWestNet sites *must* install it within two weeks (by July 12) -- after that your access to Medline will be broken. Source code and pre-compiled binaries are available in the usual place -- ftp.cac.washington.edu, in pub/willow. Changes to the Willow Interface =============================== o Text editing in Willow now uses emacs-style keyboard shortcuts by default. This makes it much easier to cut out words or whole lines, move the cursor around, etc. as you are composing your searches. For more details see willow/doc/willow.X in the section "Willow*textTranslations". If you do not like emacs bindings it is quite easy to change which keys are used for which functions. o Due to popular demand, pressing the "Clear" button on the Advanced Searching window no longer changes the field-labels back to their default positions. However if hold down shift or control when you click "Clear" it will do the field-label reset. o A number of control-key shortcuts have been added to Willow. Whenever possible the keys were chosen to match the equivalent function in Wilco, the character-only version of Willow. Ctrl-c in the search window does a Clear. Shift-ctrl-c or Alt-ctrl-c does a Clear with field label reset. ctrl-t in search window (Advanced mode) activates current browse list. ctrl-p/ctrl-n work like up/down arrow in summaries and browse list. ctrl-p/ctrl-n in record-retrieval does a Prev/Next match word. This works whether the prev/next buttons are there or not (currently we only show them in Grolier's). Highlighted match-words are not available at all with Z39.50 databases. <SPACE>/- work like page-down/page-up in summaries and record-retrieval. Ctrl-v activates Help on any of the main Willow windows. ctrl-3 or ctrl-m in Summaries does 30 More. ctrl-c in summary/record-retrieval/browse does a "Close". ctrl-s in summary and record-retrieval does a Save/Mail. ctrl-y in summary and record-retrieval does a Print. o The Databases menu now can be configured to have cascading sub-menus. See willow/doc/Customization, in the "Database Configuration" section for information on how to specify a menu layout. A helpful hint for navigating through Motif sub-menus is to click once quickly on the button that triggers the menu. The menu will then post, and you can move the mouse around to select your choice without having to hold down the button. Also once you post a menu this way you can use arrow keys to move through the choices. Due to the fact that Motif does not allow cascadable buttons to display a visible toggle indicator, the little red diamond next to the currently selected database is no longer there. o When saving search results via ftp there is now a toggle button to indicate whether you want to use append or overwrite mode. If you select Save from the Options menu this preference is stored in your .willowrc. There is also a new X-resource, "Willow*ftpAppend" which can have the value True or False. True is the default. Since ftp servers on PC's often do not support append mode, it can be helpful to switch to overwrite. Changes to the Database Configurations ====================================== o The University of Washington Libraries Catalog and Law Library Catalog now have a browse list available for call numbers. This in effect lets you browse the shelves of the library, except that the holdings from all branches appear, and it does not matter if they are checked out or not. To use, connect to our catalog, and do any search. Look through the summary list and find an item you interested in. Use the left mouse button to select its call number from the summary display (usually in the "Status" field). Then go back to the search window (making sure you are in Advanced Searching mode). Click the left mouse button in the "Call Number" search field, then press "Browse Call Number List" in the lower left corner (or just type ctrl-t). Press the middle mouse button in the type-in box in the list-browser. The list will jump to that item, and you can use the arrow keys to browse through all the items that sit near it on the virtual shelf. You can resize the browser to see more of the shelf. Special thanks to Bill Jordan for coming up with the (extremely complex) algorithm for sorting by call number, and to Leman Chung for implementing it on our browse-list server. o There is a new database available to UW sites called "Publishers Directory" which contains contact information for the US book industry. The database contains Books in Print publishers, association publishers, audiocassette publishers, software producers, microcomputer hardware and peripheral manufacturers, book and microcomputer distributors and wholesalers. Each record contains the publisher name and address and related information. Publishers Directory is a product of R.R. Bowker Company and is updated quarterly. o On our Books In Print database (available to UW sites only, sorry) there is a new check-button which limits your search results to titles currently available in Seattle's University Bookstore. o Medline, available to UW and NorthWestNet sites, has been reloaded with the 1994 tapes from the National Library of Medicine. o In all databases accessed with the uwbrs driver, * can now be used in place of $ to do wild-cards. o There are two new Z39.50 databases available in the default Willow configuration -- AT&T's version of the CIA World Fact Book, and a 10,000 record subset of OCLC's WorldCat. See below for information on those. Changes to the Z39.50 Driver ============================ o The documentation for the Z39.50 driver has been greatly expanded. In the willow/doc directory you will find a new file called "Z39.50_Supplement". o Up to now, only the USMARC record syntax was supported for record retrieval. Now a second one is supported: SUTR (Simple Unstructured Text Record). You can specify it in db.conf: env_name = preferred_syntax env_val = SUTR The newly available CIA World Factbook is currently the only example of a SUTR database in the default Willow configuration. o The Willow browse facility is now interfaced to the Z39.50 SCAN service. There are two caveats: 1. The Willow list browse protocol and Z39.50 scan are not perfectly matched. There are some heuristics used to deal with the differences. These heuristics are still under development. Please report any odd behavior. 2. When operating with Z39.50 servers that take a couple seconds to reply to requests, scrolling a browse list will queue up many unnecessary SCAN requests, and wait for them all to be fulfilled. The code to eliminate redundant SCAN requests was deemed too complex to implement in time for this release. Expect it in the next release. The newly available OCLC WorldCat subset is currently the only Z39.50 database which supports browse lists in the default Willow configuration. o Many new special rules for MARC formatting have been added. It is now possible to customize the bibbrief and bibfull MARC format control files on a per-database basis. See "Z39.50_Supplement" for more information. OCLC WorldCat is the only example of a Z39.50 database using customized display files. o The publication year is now printed in the summary line. This is possible through the work of the new MARC formatting rules. o Miscellaneous minor bugs have been fixed. Internal Changes ================ The rest of this release note covers changes to Willow internals, and to the way Willow and the database drivers interact. This is probably not of interest to the casual, non-technical Willow user. o There are several changes to the format of the db.conf file. There is a new field for each database entry -- db_tag. This field is needed to uniquely identify each database. We previously were using "db_int_name" for this purpose (i.e. LCAT, MEDL, etc.) but with databases from more than one provider this no longer works (i.e. we already have two Z39.50 databases with a db_int_name of "books"). Help is keyed off of this new field, so all of the UW-provided .txt files which are used to control the help display have been updated to reflect this. Indentation with whitespace is now allowed in db.conf files. The "=" sign is now optional for any fields that do not have a value. There is a new optional section at the start of the db.conf file used to describe the layout and hierarchy of the Database menu. If this section does not appear, a simple flat menu is created. See db.conf.uw for an example of the syntax, and willow/doc/Customization for more information. The "show_separator" tag is obsolete, and should no longer appear in the database entries. There is a "separator" tag used in the menu description section. Also, a separator is now always created by default immediately after the "Disconnect" entry. o The way in which Willow handles databases which require the user to manually enter a user-id and password has been overhauled. The "manual_login" directive in db.conf is no longer recognized, and in fact, Willow itself now knows nothing about user-ids and passwords. Instead, there is a general purpose mechanism for the driver to ask questions directly to the user. The driver passes the text of the question to Willow, and Willow displays it to the user in a dialog, then sends the response back to the driver. The question can require a response of yes/no, typed-in text, or masked text (where Willow displays asterisks instead of the characters the user enters). More information on this is available in willow/doc/Customization under "Manual Login Databases". o Drivers can now be launched remotely via sockets. This was done in order to facilitate the MS-Windows version of Willow -- now only the interface needs to be ported, the driver can remain on a unix host. o If you are building Willow from source code, there is a new option in the Config file that allows you to specify what telnet the uwbrs driver should execute. o Various things have changed in the Willow/driver protocol. You only need to know about them if you have written or customized your own drivers. Contact me if you need more information on this. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW SOURCE CODE RELEASE Version 2.1 April 12, 1994 This is the final release of the Willow version 2.1 source and pre-compiled binaries (there were two previous beta releases). All Willow sites should install this version. If you did not install the 2.1 beta releases (i.e. you are still running version 2.03), be sure to read the README file in the distribution very carefully, since several important things have changed since 2.03. As usual, the distribution can be found on ftp.cac.washington.edu, in the willow directory. Changes from 2.1 beta 2 are as follows: WWW/Mosaic ========== Willow is now compatible with WWW browsers such as Mosaic. Willow database configuration files can be downloaded by Mosaic, then it will start Willow as the "external viewer" for the file. See doc/Customization in the Willow distribution for more details. There is a new "Willow Information Center" Mosaic home page available. This is mostly a hypertext version of the Willow tech-report, with some live demos thrown in. To see it, point your WWW browser at the URL: http://www.cac.washington.edu/willow/home.html In order to implement Mosaic support, two slight changes were made to Willow. There is now a command line flag "-cf" which allows you to specify a db.conf file on the command line (see the Willow man page for more info), and now if there is only one database in the db.conf file, Willow automatically opens it at start-up. Z39.50 ====== MIT has made substantial revisions to the Z39.50 driver internals, which allow for much more successful interoperability with the various Z39.50 servers currently available on the internet. Some new databases are included in the default db.conf file, and are also available via the Willow Information Center, described above. Note that these Z39.50 databases are not included in the default db.conf for UW campus sites. However if you are a UW Willow administrator, and you want to include some or all of the Z39.50 databases, you can cut and paste the appropriate entries from the db.conf.public or db.conf.nwnet file. Bugs ==== Various bugs have been fixed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW SOURCE CODE RELEASE Version 2.1 beta 2 February 25, 1994 This is the second public release of the Willow source code. You may prefer to wait until the final 2.1 release before re-installing. As usual, source and pre-compiled binaries can be found on ftp.cac.washington.edu, in the willow directory. Changes from 2.1 beta 1 are as follows: Solaris Problems ================ The previously reported problems with Willow on Solaris have now hopefully all been resolved. * The "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/ucblib" is no longer necessary, because Willow is now compiled on Solaris with "-R /usr/ucblib". * You will now find a patched telnet for Solaris in the tools directory of the distribution. See the README there for more info. List Browsing ============= List-browsing is now handled by the database driver rather than Willow itself. This will soon allow us to offer list-browsing with Z39.50 databases, via the SCAN directive. Willow now waits 250 milliseconds after each keystroke before sending a list-browse request. If another keystroke comes in before that, the clock is reset. This saves wear and tear on the server, and actually makes the browser feel more responsive. Databases ========= Access to Melvyl -- the University of California library catalog system -- has been added, via Z39.50. Note that this is still quite experimental, and is currently very flaky. MIT and UC are working to resolve the remaining problems. Bugs ==== A variety of bugs have been fixed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW SOURCE CODE RELEASE Version 2.1 beta 1 January 31, 1994 This is the first public release of the Willow source code. It is known to successfully build on DEC/Ultrix, DEC/vax (BSD 4.3), IBM RS/6000, and Sun sparc/Solaris. I encourage you to try and build it on as many platforms as possible, and send us back any changes to the configuration and source files that you need to make. Please contact us if you have trouble getting it to build and/or run. Since it may take a couple releases before it is totally stable, we are considering this a beta release, so if you already have the Willow binaries installed on your system you should continue to run version 2.03 for the time being. Ultrix binaries for Willow 2.1 will be announced after the source distribution has stabilized. The source code can be downloaded via ftp from ftp.cac.washington.edu, in the directory pub/willow. The file INSTALLATION.source contains complete instructions (this is identical to the README file which is included within the distribution). The old INSTALLATION file has been renamed INSTALLATION.ultrix, and it explains how to download and install the Willow Ultrix binaries (version 2.03). Note that we have slightly changed our copyright statement. Willow is still freely available to anybody who wants to use it, but if you want to use it for commercial purposes (i.e. sell it yourself) you will now need specific written permission from the University of Washington. Details can be found in the file COPYRIGHT on the ftp server (also included within the distribution). -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW BINARIES NEW RELEASE Version 2.03 January 19, 1994 This release is for bug fixes and other minor changes, plus a hopefully significant performance increase. Note to Willow System Administrators: As usual, this release can be found on ftp.cac.washington.edu, in pub/willow/willow-uw.ultrix.tar.Z. Please install it as soon as possible -- for the performance increases included in this version to have maximum effect everybody must be using this version. Performance =========== The interface between Willow and UW's underlying BRS database engine has been substantially rewritten in order to minimize CPU usage. Once everybody is using this latest version of Willow, load should be significantly lightened on the host database machines. In addition, reporting of error messages from the underlying databases has been improved. Database Configuration ====================== Various references to 1993 have been updated to 1994. Browse lists for the language of publication field have been added for the Library Catalog, the Law Library Catalog, ERIC, Inspec, Medline, and PsychInfo. Bugs ==== Various minor bugs have been fixed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW BINARIES NEW RELEASE Version 2.02 December 15, 1993 This release is mainly to add an exciting new database to the Willow repertoire (for University of Washington users only). Also a few minor bugs have been fixed. Note to Willow System Administrators: As usual, this release can be found on ftp.cac.washington.edu, in pub/willow/willow.ultrix.tar.Z. New Databases ============= Books In Print: The Books In Print database is the most comprehensive source on the U.S. book publishing output. It includes books in print, out of print, and forthcoming in all subject areas. Books in Print is a product of R. R. Bowker Company and is updated monthly. Copyright Box ============= The Copyright information box is no longer displayed automatically when logging into the UW Libraries Catalog and the Law Library Catalog. The box can still be displayed manually by selecting "About this Database" from the "File" menu. Due to our licensing agreements with the data vendors, we must still display the copyright notices for every login to the other (commercial) databases. Bug Fixes ========= Several miscellaneous bugs have been fixed. If you find any more, be sure to let us know. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW NEW RELEASE Version 2.01 November 4, 1993 This release is mostly to fix bugs and add a few cool new databases, there are no major changes to the Willow interface. Note to Willow System Administrators: Due to some upcoming changes in the host-database login procedure, Willow version 2.0 will no longer be able to connect to our databases after November 15, so please install Willow 2.01 as soon as possible. The distribution for Dec/Ultrix can be found on ftp.cac.washington.edu, in pub/willow/willow.ultrix.tar.Z. The old wdist ftp account no longer exists. New Databases ============= Business Index 1989-93: The Business Index provides coverage to approximately 850 business, management, and trade journals, plus indexing to the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times of Canada. Expanded Academic Index 1989-93: The Expanded Academic Index provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. National Newspaper Index 1989-93: The National Newspaper Index provides indexing of articles from the following editions of 5 major newspapers: The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. New X-Resources =============== Two new X-resources have been added to Willow. If you put the line Willow*noBasicMode: True in your .Xdefaults file, Willow will never switch to Basic Searching by itself. "Goto Basic Searching" will still be available for databases which support basic searching (only the Library Catalog at this time). If you put the line Willow*reverseVideo: True in your .Xdefaults file, and you are running on a monochrome X display, Willow will come up with a white on black color scheme. This resource has no effect if you have a color screen. The willow.X file, which documents all the available resources has been updated. This file is available from ftp.cac.washington.edu, in pub/willow. Copyright Box ============= Due to overwhelming user reaction, we have made the new Copyright Information box less obtrusive. It now will pop-up in the lower right-hand corner of your screen, rather than directly over the Search window. Also, it now can be cleared by pressing any key. If you want to see the box again, after it is cleared, there is a new item in the File menu called "About this database" which will bring the box back up. The box is useful for finding out when the last load of a database was. After all sites have had a chance to install Willow 2.01 we will be changing the login procedure on the database host system so that the copyright information is generated as soon as the network connection is fully established, allowing you to see it earlier. Error Messages ============== The text of many of the common error messages have been clarified. Also, Willow will now warn you about truncation overflow when doing a wildcard search (i.e. appending a "$" to the end of your search term). Bug Fixes ========= Many miscellaneous bugs have been fixed. If you find any more, be sure to let us know. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLOW NEW RELEASE Version 2.0 September 30, 1993 Questions and Comments to mattf@cac.washington.edu This is a major revision of Willow. These release notes do not cover every single change, only the major highlights. For complete instructions on using any of the new features, refer to the on-line help. Incompatibilities with Willow 1.3 ================================= The only real incompatibility in usage, is that middle mouse-button X-Windows paste is no longer used to retrieve items from the browse lists. See the List Browsing section below for more information. The format of the .willowrc file has changed slightly, so when you start Willow you might see a message saying ".../.willowrc appears to be invalid or wrong version". If you see this message, either remove the file called .willowrc in your home directory, or simply select "Save" from the options menu to update it to the current format. Several X-resources have been changed. Since most users just use the default resources, these probably don't apply to you. For full information on the Willow resources, see the file willow.X, which is available in the willow directory of any willow server, or via ftp from ftphost.cac.washington.edu in pub/willow, or via e-mail request from me. * If you are using custom geometry, i.e. "Willow*size:custom", you must change several resources. See willow.X for more information. * There is a new resource "Willow*mailSubject:", which allows you to set the default subject line for any e-mail saves. * There is a new resource "Willow*abbreviatedFields" which allows you to indicate whether search results should be displayed with two-letter abbreviations for field names. See the "Search Window" section below for more information. * The "Willow*autoPop" resource has been dropped. * The "Willow*mailCommand" resource has been dropped. Appearance ========== The first thing you will probably notice when you start Willow is that the color scheme has been changed. We are now trying out a much simpler color layout. We are very open to suggestions, so I encourage you to experiment with the color resources as described in the willow.X file. If you come up with a color scheme you really like, let me know. Simple Mode =========== Willow has a new search mode for novice users. This mode is only available for the Library Catalog database. It is designed for simple searches where you want to find a specific book title or author or subject. It functions more or less like the old GEAC system. You can switch back to normal searching (which is now called "Advanced Searching") at any time. Search Window ============= The "Save Destination" item is gone from the File menu. Instead, you configure how you want to save at the time of the save. When saving via e-mail you can now edit the subject line of the message, allowing you to remind yourself how you got a particular set of results. Limiting searches by years of publication is now supported. Some future databases will allow limiting down to day of publication. You can now save and retrieve sets of search strategies via FTP. Thus if you run Willow off of the willow.u server, or on the library public terminals, you can now save your search strategies for use at a future date. You can now choose whether you want your search-results to come in with two-letter abbreviations, or fully expanded field names. Using two-letter abbreviations can be helpful for people creating their own databases of citations, using Reference Manager or similar programs. List Browsing ============= The list-browsing functionality has been much improved, and there are many more lists available. The "Browse" menu is gone. Instead, there is a single Browse button on the lower left-hand corner of the Search window. When you have the cursor in a particular search-field, if there is a browse list available for that field the Browse button will indicate it. Clicking the button brings up the the Browse window. The Browse window now supports various formats of browse-lists, i.e. some lists contain several pieces of information about each item in the list. Middle-button X-Paste is no longer used for moving items from the Browse window to the Search window. Instead, just click "Ok" on the Browse window, and the selected items are automatically pasted. Multiple selections are now supported on the Browse lists. I.e. you can use click-drag, shift-click, and control-click to select more than one item at a time from a list. Summary Window ============== Instead of just displaying the title in the summary list, we can now display several fields. Usually this is match number, author, title, and year. The status characters have been removed, because nobody seemed to understand them anyway. In the Summary box, we now now display full-field names, rather than just the two-letter abbreviations. For the library catalog, circulation information is now displayed in the Summary box as well as the full-record window. You can now retrieve multiple full-records at the same time. The "Prev" and "Next" buttons are gone from the Summary window. Just use the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard.