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Press Loading Dock, Lindsey Building, Lewis Street (adjacent to the bonfire site) Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, December 9,1987 Library cataloging system ready for researchers’ use By Mary Kay Mulvaney Reporter Students caught up in the last- minute flurry of trying to collect re search in the Sterling C. Evans Li brary for a final paper now have the opportunity to work with a new cata loging system called TAMU/NOTIS. TAMU/NOTIS, meaning North western Online Total Integrated System, was developed at North western University and is being used by more than 70 libraries, including more than 40 academic research in- ■ stitutions, said Anne Highsmith, the library’s automation project coordi nator. NOTIS has established a strong reputation for system reliability and a special ability to meet the needs of academic library users. “It’s a big improvement,” she said. “Anyone who uses the library knows we’ve had some problems with the reliability of ALIS and the other li braries that have used NOTIS have found it to be very reliable.” ALIS — Automated Library In formation System — is the current circulation system and online catalog in the library. It contains catalog re cords for all materials. “By saying ‘materials,’ ” she ex plained, “I mean that government documents are not in ALIS. How ever, we are working on getting them as soon as possible.” “It’s a big improvement. Anyone who uses the li brary knows we’ve had some problems with the reliability of ALIS and the other libraries that have used NOTIS have found it to be very reliable. ” — Anne Highsmith, project coordinator She said there are several advan tages to installing TAMU/NOTIS in place of ALIS. TAMU/NOTIS will contain sub ject headings, one feature that ALIS does not have. Users will be able to search for works in the TAMU/NO TIS online catalog with Library of Congress subject headings as well as author, title and call number refer ences, she said. There also will be improved screen displays, making NOTIS much easier to understand than ALIS, she said. “It will be a lot easier to read than ALIS,” Highsmith said. “ALIS is de signed for the staff to use, but NO- TIS’s design offers easy reading for anyone.” Cross-references, similar to the ones found in the card catalog, will be available in the on-line catalog to guide the user, she said. In addition, a unique search term for each name will be represented in the catalog, she said. “The problem of having to search for an author under several differ ent forms of the name to obtain all the works by that author will be elim inated in the NOTIS catalog,” she said. TAMU/NOTIS will help students when looking for serial holdings, she said. It will provide location, call number and holdings information for serial titles in a single screen dis play. With ALIS, Highsmith said, li brary users had to find the call num ber for a serial on ALIS and then check the library’s serial holdings list to determine whether that particular volume is owned by the library. NOTIS will have search functions to help keep search capabilities more flexible, she said. The use of these functions will be familiar to patrons who have used the library bibliogra phic retrieval service, since the search techniques are the same. In February, only new catalogs will be installed in TAMU/NOTIS so students will have limited use, but they will be able to familiarize them selves with the system at the same time, Highsmith said. The expected implementation date for the whole database is August, just in time for the Fall 1988 semester, she said. Commission hearings may save town from construction of dam DALLAS (AP) — The West Texas community of Pal- uxy might be spared following a decision by the Texas Water Commission to reopen hearings into a dam con struction project that would flood the town. The hearings will determine the future of the town about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth and could have a severe impact on dinosaur tracks below the proposed dam which have been declared national landmarks. The town, which has about 50 full-time residents, was founded before the Civil War, said Janet Saltsgiver, whose ancestors founded the town. She said that if the dam is built, the grave of her great-great-grandfather will be under water. The water commission’s call Monday for new hear ings on the project was prompted by allegations by Pal- uxy landowners that improprieties occurred during ap proval of the project this summer. A lawsuit filed last month by Paluxy landowners charged that improper communications took place between one water commis sioner and the lawyer for supporters of the dam. “Nobody’s interest is served by constant fighting and name calling, or by the time and expense of unneces sary litigation,” said Buck Wynne, who recommended that the agency reopen the case. Wynne joined the commission, succeeding Ralph Roming, who was accused of discussing the project with Frank Booth, the attorney for dam backers. Booth and Roming have denied the allegations. Booth’s clients are Somervell County and the neighbor ing cities of Stephenville and Glen Rose, which argued the dam was needed to ensure adequate drinking sup plies. However, landowners say there are less expensive alternatives to building the Paluxy dam. Landowners whose property would be flooded by the project filed suit in Travis County district court. Papers filed in the suit allege the commission approved the dam on the Paluxy River near Glen Rose after Booth and Roming engaged in “ex parte” communications, a violation of legal ethics. A motion by Wynne to ask the court to return the case to the agency for further hearings was approved by the water commission. Texans talk with Soviets on radio show! SAN ANTONIO (AP) -As the heads of their countries m in Washington, four Texan talked with Soviet citizens aboit success and peace during a rai talk show Tuesday.. Four San Antonio reside* spoke with five people in Mosco* via telephone hook-up in them dios of WOAI-AM to mark tlx start of the U.S.-Soviet summitu Washington. The nine participants, alotj with radio co-hosts Pat Rodgen and Eliza Sonneland, discovered during their one and one-hali hour conversation that they had similar views about education,eii tertainment, peace and disarm) ment and the focus of thesummi between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet journalist Ludmila Enb tina told the Americans she had an apartment in the city, ahoux in the suburbs and also hadacar She said that Gorbachev's net decree of glasnost, or opennes has helped many Soviets. “I think glasnost has given is the opportunity not only to sped out our minds, but the possitfii to trv different ways to find on the best way to run our lift" Eniutina said. She said success in the Sovki Union is measured relatively i much the same way it is in lit United States. “Some people think about sot cess in their professional live,' she said. “Some people thiiil about success in their privalt lives.” “I don’t know a single girlwl» wouldn’t like to be married and have a husband and children aid at the same time, I don’t know) single girl who would not like# have a career.” She said, however, that notal Soviets have automobiles and many are restricted from travel ing around the country aid abroad if they have sensitive jobs Carla Cristadoro, 22, a recen graduate of Incarnate Word Col lege in San Antonio, told Natasli Alexandrova, a Soviet foreii) language student, that she thinli American youth are optimisit about the summit. “We’re very happy aboutitaid we’re very concerned about wba is going to happen between tl( Soviet people and the Ameria people,” Cristadoro said. Bring back the “Good old days’’ ...with GTE CLASSIC SERVICE. 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