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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:58:10 CST
- Sender: Discussion of Government Document Issues <GOVDOC-L@PSUVM.BITNET>
- From: Margaret Mooney <MMOONEY%UCRVMS@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Electronic item and SuDocs file
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- The University of California at Riverside (UCR) Library has created and
- been maintaining an electronic item number and SuDoc class database since
- 1985. (See Readers Exchange article in Administrative Notes, Nov. 1986.)
-
- The database is created with dBASE software and presently contains 13,042
- records. Each record in the database represents a SuDoc class available for
- selection with its associated information such as item number, agency, title,
- survey number, and survey date. All SuDoc classes listed in the LIST OF
- CLASSES... is in the database regardless of UCR's selection decisions. Each
- record also contains other fields to indicate local selection, housing, or
- other processing related information or instructions.
-
- At UCR, the database is being used in an interactive mode for all U.S.
- depository processing activities through programs written in dBASE language.
- The database also serves as a key element in UCR's recently developed
- Automated Shipping List Processing and Shelflisting System which is described
- in the September 15, 1992 issue of the Administrative Notes, Readers Exchange
- Column.
-
- In response to requests, UCR has distributed over 200 copies of the database
- to depository libraries across the United States. The database is available
- in dBASE III, dBASE IV, or ASCII format.
-
- Margaret Mooney
- Head, Government Publications Dept.
- Rivera Library
- University of California, Riverside
-
- Phone: (909)787-3714
- E-mail: MMOONEY@UCRVMS.BITNET or MMOONEY@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU
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