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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.
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