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LLN Newsletter

June 1998 LOUISIANA LIBRARY NETWORK NEWSLETTER vol. 6 no. 2

http://www.lsu.edu/Iln

Inside This Issue

LLN UPDATE

GATES LIBRARY FOUNDATION

RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION

LAICU LIBRARIES JOIN LLN

,LN TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE UPDATI

BOSS GRAND O PENING

LOUIS LIBRARIES BETA TEST RSS

NEW INFO&ARE SERVER

NEW INSTITUTIONS

LLN CROSSWORD PUZZLE

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

COOPERATIVE COLLECTIONDEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

ELECTRONIC RESERVES

DIALOG@CARL

CICS STATISTICS UPDATE

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Editor: Marcy Stevens

LLN Updateby Ralph Boe’

The Louisiana Library network continues to expand! Louisiana was awarded a $3.5 milliongrant from the Gates Foundation to provide Internet access at al l of Louisiana’s 327 publiclibraries. Government documents records are being added to the collection electronicallyeach week, six sites will implement the Electronic Reserve system this summer and four siteshave started testing the Resource Sharing System. Bossier Parish Community College wasthe eighteenth library to be automated on the Louisiana Online University InformationSystem (LOUIS) and held their grand opening ceremony in April.

A new release of InfoShare was implemented on a larger machine which has stabilizedaccess to our locally mounted databases. Problems with the software and statistics havebeen identif ied and the staff is working with Ameritech Library Services and SilverPlatter toresolve them.

Mike DiCarlo, chair of the LLN Technology Committee, and I at tended the Consort ium ofConsort ia meeting in February, along with seventy other representat ives from about f i f tyconsortia. We met individuals who are managing consortia and discussed issues that allconsortia seem to be facing (ie. database pricing, statistics, collection development,interlibrary loan, etc.). We are planning to attend the next meeting which is scheduled forOctober. The Consortium of Consortia is now known as the International Coalition ofLibrary Consortia and their web si te can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia.

Dialog@CARL hasloaded the Times-Picyune and willhopeful ly load TheAdvocate soon .

Five private collegesnow have access to IACSearchBank and twelvelocal ly mounteddatabases.

The staff continues towork with the LLNTechnology, Databaseand LALINC Cooperative

Rep. B. L. “Buddy” Shaw (Caddo Parish), Rep. Billy

Collection DevelopmentMontgomery (Bossier Parish), Ralph Boe’ (LLN Director)

Commit tees .and Rep. Bob Barton (Bossier Parish) at Bossier ParishCommunity College’s Grand Opening

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Gates Library Foundation Awarded to Louisianaby Tom Juques, State Librurian of Louisiana

A $3.5 mil l ion grant awarded by the Gates Library Foundation wil l provide workstat ions in each of Louisiana’s public l ibrary buildings(327), ensuring that by the fall of 1998 every citizen will be within a short drive to a publicly accessible computer. The Gates LibraryFoundation, founded in 1997 by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, selected Louisiana as one of only six states to be partof a Statewide Library Partnership Grant which aims at partnerships with public libraries in bringing access to computers and digitalinformation to patrons in low-income communities in the United States and Canada.

Statewide partnerships are cooperative relationships between the Foundation, state library agencies, schools of library science, andlocal libraries within a state. Grant support includes broad funding for hardware, technical assistance, and training to libraries. The firstpartnership was awarded in October 1997 to the Alabama Public Library Service to work closely with the Foundation and to act as thepilot program for future statewide funding. To be considered for the current round of grants, states had to have a poverty rate of atleast 19 percent based on the 1990 U.S. Census. The other five states to receive grants were: Arkansas ($2 million), Kentucky ($2million), Mississippi ($2.5 million), New Mexico ($1.25 million) and WestVirginia ($2.5 million).

Louisiana’s $3.5 mill ion grant was announced February 25, 1998, jointly by Lt. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanc0 and the State Librarian.“We are very fortunate to be among the few states to receive funding for this state-of-the-art access, which will lay the foundation fornew ways of improving the l ives of many ci t izens throughout Louisiana,” said Lt. Gov. Blanco. “The ability to use computers andaccess electronic information is becoming increasingly important in order for people to succeed in their education and careers.”

Louisiana is already ahead of many states in providing public computer access, but these funds are essential to add multiple worksta-tions at all libraries to meet increasing demands, particularly by students and researchers. The State Library’s goal is to enable Louisi-ana citizens to have access to the Internet and databases at their local libraries. The Gates funds are a huge step in that direction, bybuilding on an exciting statewide network and adding numerous workstations in main libraries as well as smaller branch libraries.Within just a few months, our people will have easy access to the tools they need to achieve success and accomplish their personalgoals. Lt. Gov. Blanc0 had been instrumental in obtaining telecommunication discounts for educational institutions when she servedas Publ ic Service Commiss ion.

Libraries that initially applied for individual Urban Library Leadership Grants or Opportunity Grants were rolled into the larger GatesLibrary Foundation Statewide Library Partnerships funding. When fully implemented, the grant will mean that all 327 physical publiclibraries (main libraries and branches) will have at least one public access terminal which provides Internet and electronic databaseresources. It is anticipated that the proliferation of access points will vastly increase the usage of the Louisiana Library Networkmanaged databases.

The Gates Library Foundation plans to award individual grants to parish l ibraries in June (1998), which wil l pay for PCs, routers ,servers, internal wiring and training. The PCs will be purchased by libraries from state contract and will arrive at the facility pre-loadedwith numerous software applications. The equipment should be ordered in July and installed by teams through October. The StateLibrary is negotiating with the Office of Telecommunications Management and LaNet staff to underwrite the cost of frame relay, Tl and56KB connections to each main l ibrary and extending to the branches; e-mail wil l be central ized at the State Library.

Grant recipients will receive technical assistance and training from the Technology Resource Institute (TRI), a nonprofit organizationfunded by the Foundation to act as its on-site and over-the-phone technical support arm. Training will occur in numerous sites aroundthe state, including urban libraries. Additionally, five training centers will be established in the following parishes: Ascension,Ouachita, Webster, Terrebonne and Beauregard. In addition to extensive training, TRI will provide parish libraries with a 24-hour helpdesk.

When the Gates grants are fully implemented, Louisiana’s citizens, no matter who they are or where they are, needing only an inquisi-tive mind, can go to their local public library and have access to the holdings of thousands of libraries, vast Internet resources, andcomprehensive electronic full-text databases. For further information on the Gates Library Foundation Statewide Partnership Grant,contact: Tom Jaques, State Librarian, State Library of Louisiana, PO. Box 13 1, Baton Rouge, LA 7082 1, telephone: (504) 342-4923, fax:(504) 342-3547, e-mail: tjaques@pelican.state.lib.la.us.

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Retrospective Conversion Projectsby Maq Laird and ZeeZee Zamin

From resources provided by a $1 million U.S. Department ofEducation grant , several inst i tut ions have ini t iated retrospectiveconversion projects. Three institutions are doing in-house reconprojects (Northwestern State University, Southern Law, and LSU-Eunice). Four institutions (LSU-Shreveport, Delgado CommunityCollege, Nunez Community College, and University of NewOrleans) are contracting with vendors to provide retrospectiveconversion services.

RetroLink is being used to do the retrospective conversions forthree institutions. The LSU-Shreveport recon began in Januaryand the project is complete. 89,183 records (85,088 monographsand 4,095 serials) were loaded to production in May. DelgadoCommunity College also started their recon in January. Nearly2000 records (1,000 serials, 501 microfiche, and 300 state docu-ments) are included in the recon and the first sample of records

from RetroLink were received in April. The recon process forNunez Community College began in January. Over 10,000 recordswill be added to the system. These records comprise aninteresting combination of sources: 47 1 on a WordPro spread-sheet, 2,290 on an Excel spreadsheet, 7,889 on an flp file. T h epurchase order was just created in May. The recon process forthe University of New Orleans started in April. To quote PhoebeTimberlake and Marie Morgan, their specifications includeeverything “including the kitchen sink.” We are currentlyworking with UN0 to define “the kitchen sink.”

Delgado’s Chari ty School of Nursing loaded 3,606 records, mostof which are National Library of Medicine records and matchingauthority records. This was the first recon conducted entirelythrough ftp. And we love it , love it , love it.

LAICU Libraries Join LLNby Carolyn Coca

LAICU stands for the Louisiana Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and is composed of eight private colleges inLouisiana. Over the past few months, LAICU members have been meeting with LLN staff members to decide what to purchase with a$lOOK allocation from the Board of Regents for database access. Their collective decision is to have LLN purchase, on their behalf,access to 12 SilverPlatter databases plus access to IAC SearchBank databases for one year. Centenary College, Dillard University,Louisiana College, Loyola University, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, and Our Lady of the Lake College will have access to IACSearchBank and five of the six sites will have access to twelve locally mounted databases (PsycInfo, CINAHL, ERIC, Medline Express,MLA, Readers’ Guide, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Social Science Abstracts, Business Abstracts, Biological &Agricultural Index, and Education Abstracts). They will begin accessing this data beginning on June 1, 1998.

LLN Technology Committee Updateby Mike DiCarlo, Louisiana Tech

The Louisiana Library Network’s Technology Committee is actively working to keep our Network ready for whatever the future bringsin the way of automation for libraries. The goal of the committee is to ensure that the library automation software used by all LOUISinstitutions is economical, reliable, robust, flexible and able to be customized by each institution. The Committee has contacted thePresident of Ameritech Library Services to express our concerns about the current and future development of the NOTIS-LMS product.The result of that communication and the work of the LLN staff have generated positive feedback and an awareness of the importanceof this product to consort ia .

The Committee took advantage of the ALA-Midwinter meeting in New Orleans to schedule a coordinated visit to vendors. TheCommittee used prepared data sheets to visit with library automation vendors to discuss their products and how or if they might besuitable for LOUIS. As a result of these meetings the Committee in a late January meeting discussed impressions and data received andhas identified five vendors for more detailed discussions at ALA in Washington this summer. The Committee has also identified andwill t rack the experience of several inst i tut ions that have elected to migrate from NOTIS-LMS to another vendor’s product .

MnLINK (Minnesota Library Information Network) on April 22 announced that i t was accepting the recommendations of i ts VendorEvaluation Teams for creation of a MnLINK Gateway. The Gateway will create a common user interface for patrons that will l ink publiclibraries, academic libraries, school libraries and government libraries all over Minnesota so that they will appear to the user as a singleresource. The gateway will use the OCLC Site Search/WebZ product, and the new DRA TAOS product for their library automationsys tem. Of note, the recommendations were made even though the committees thought the current environment for change wasuncertain at best and that waiting might be desirable. The choice to proceed was driven by the current availability of money and thechance that in the future the money might not be available. For more information go to:http://www.heso.state.mn.us/www/mnlink/mnlink.htm.

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The BOSS’s Grand Openingby Ginger Bryan, Bossier Purish Community College

Amid a display of colorful bal loons, Mark Twain stepped to the speaker’s podium onApril 24, 1998. After a few comments on libraries and technology, Twain introducedBossier Parish Community College (BPCC) President Tom Carleton. Wait a minute:This is 1998, not 1898!

Yes, i t was Mark Twain. Well, sort of.Actor Henry Cumpton, from Rayvil le ,provided lively entertainment to anaudience of approximately 150 gathered atBPCC Library to celebrate the Grand

Ralph Boe’ and BPCC President Tom Carleton 0 pening of BOSS, Bossier Online ServiceSystem. As Mark Twain, Cumpton

provided an assortment of anecdotes describing the “new” technology of his t imes. Presi-dent Carleton then spoke of BPCC’s commitment to LOUIS, and Ralph Boe’ presented anoverview of LLN and the partnerships Louisiana academic libraries have forged, making thisconsort ium one of the s t rongest in the nat ion.

Representatives from Louisiana Tech, Northwestern State Universi ty, Northeast LouisianaUniversi ty, LSU-Shreveport , Southern-Shreveport and Nunez mingled with area legislators, ,B.L. Shaw, Billy Montgomery, and Bob Barton, and LLN staff members, Zehra Zamin andMary Laird. All guests, BPCC faculty, staff, and students enjoyed a reception catered by thecollege’s Culinary Arts department. Henry Cumpton as MarkTwain

Four LOUIS Libraries Beta Test RSSby Carolyn Coca

The beta testing of the Resource Sharing System (RSS) is underway! Four LOUIS libraries have agreed to participate in the beta testingfor Louisiana. Several other l ibraries across the U.S. are also beta test ing the product at the same t ime, including other universi ty,public, and special libraries. Phase I of the Louisiana test ing period is a t ime for learning the work f low and working out any problemswe may encounter with our system configuration, and is being conducted by Louisiana State University and Northeast LouisianaUniversity. Phase II will also include Louisiana Tech University and Southeastern Louisiana University. System administrators andinterlibrary loan staff at each university have been involved in testing the system since April and will continue to test it for at leastthree months .

RSS is a patron-ini t ia ted inter l ibrary loan system developed by Ameri tech Library Systems. It automates Interlibrary Loan (ILL) stafffunctions and patron request tracking via computer, alleviating extensive paper trails. RSS tracks an ILL transaction from the initialrequest through the fulfillment and finally to the return of the item to its original source.

It is considered a patron-friendly system because i t enables l ibrary patrons to ini t iate their own requests using the World Wide Webwithout staff assistance. Patrons can key in the bibliographic information for an item they want, or they can capture bibliographic datafrom a search of available 239.50 databases. There is also a patron authentication feature; patrons can be immediately authenticatedonline if the library sets up the required patron file. After a patron initiates a request, he or she can later track its status, using theWorld Wide Web from the home or office. The patrons receive automatic E-mail or FAX notifications, or in absence of these, notifica-tions will automatically print and be ready to be mailed to patrons by ILL staff members.

RSS also has several features useful to the ILL staff. ILL staff can define their own “lending sequence.” After these have been set up,the system can automatically forward requests to lending libraries via the lending sequence. Each LOUIS library will be able to set uptheir own unique lending sequence, if they desire.

The system can generate a range of statistical reports, including summaries of borrowing and lending activity, lending library perfor-mance, and copyright tracking. This will make information needed for purchasing or managerial decisions readily available. Reports canbe requested any time, previewed from the staff workstation, and printed or exported to many different formats. RSS is also compliant

See RSS on pg. 6

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The New InfoShare Serverby John Guillory and Shuolong Huang

On January 22 and 23, Dave Slocum ofAmeritech LibraryServices instal led InfoShare on the new RS/6000 Mode1 F50.LLN purchased the new hardware because the consortium hadconsumed all of the memory and CPU resources of the old RS/6000 Mode1 370. The Model 370 had one 66MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM. The Mode1 F50 has two 166MHz CPUs and about640 MB of RAM, a great increase in horsepower. I t also boasts100 GB of SCSI disks mounted direct ly on the machine.

The new InfoShare/ERL 2.1 server software has l ived up to thevendor’s promises on most counts . I t le ts adminis trators updatedatabases seamlessly, change databases licenses withoutreinstalling the entire database, and it is more stable and reliablethan its predecessor. It still falls short on providing statistics inwhich decision-makers can put confidence, and it falls short oneliminating runaway processes.

The IBM licensed product Performance Toolbox for AIX hasbeen implemented on the recently acquired IBM RS/6000 Mode1F50. The Performance Toolbox offers functions such as loadmonitoring, analysis, control, and capacity planning. The lackof such tools in the past prevented the LLN staff from

determining the usage and performance of the InfoShareiERLserver.

With the implementat ion of the Performance Toolbox, theInfoShare/ERL server performance can be closely monitored andactions can be taken when performance problems are identified.Various system performance statist ics can be collected andanalyzed. The client server structured Performance Toolbox is avaluable tool for troubleshooting performance problems relatedto accessing InfoSharelERL databases and for f ine tuning theserver. The statistics collected also provide the LLN staff with auseful means of server capacity planning.

Currently, monitors have been set up on the InfoShare/ERLserver to track the usage of CPUs, memory, disks, and networktraffic and have been evaluating the load on the server. Thelimited statistics which have been collected so far indicate thatthe server is presently operating at a reasonable level of itscapacity, with about 40% usage of i ts two CPUs during the day.The CPU monitor has helped to ident i fy and to e l iminaterunaway processes which consume CPU cycles, and steps arebeing taken to work with Ameritech Library Services andSilverPlatter to correct the runaway process problem.

New LOUIS Institutionsby Sara Zimmerman

This year promises to be excit ing as the LLN Office adds three public (Baton Rouge Community College, Grambling State Universi ty, andSouthern University) and two private institutions (Louisiana College and Our Lady of the Lake Nursing School) to LOUIS, bringing thetotal number of member inst i tut ions in LOUIS to twenty-three (23). With the automation of these catalogs, LOUIS wil l have over 6 mil l ionbibliographic records available for patron searching! While the implementat ion of each inst i tut ion varies , most wil l be onl ine by the end of1998!

Southern University plans to be in production for the start of the summer semester on June 10, Baton Rouge Community College plansto be implemented by July 19, Grambling State Universi ty’s implementat ion schedule is dependent on DRA conversion servicesschedule, and we plan to start working on the conversion for Louisiana College and Our Lady of the Lake College in the fall.

ACROSS

1. Chair of LLN Commission

6. Software used to allow viewing of

the SilverPlatter databases from

the navigator menu

7. Most recent automated academic

library (initials)

9. General periodical full-text

database available to all LLN sites

10. Full-text database of newspapers

14. A consortium of all academic

library directors in Louisiana

16. The Library Management

System that is used by LLN

17. The director of #13 down

LLN Crossword PuzzleDOWN

2. The vendor that supplies #16 across

3. The number of automated academic libraries

4. Where the LLN office is housed

5. Web-based Software used to access

locally mounted databases via the Internet

8. Full-text database geared toward

high school students

11. The system that links and

automates Louisiana academic libraries

12. A grant awarded to Louisiana to provide

Internet access to all (327) public libraries

13. Louisiana’s academic, public & school

library network

15. Louisiana’s wide area multi-protocol network

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Government Documentsby Mary Lair-d and ZeeZee Zamin

The gap tape (containing records from January 1997 throughJanuary 1998) from Marcive was received in February 1998. TheLLN staff began loading the eleven institutions into training andthen on February 18, 1998 loaded the records to production.Below is the number of records loaded for each inst i tut ion.

LSU-s 6,493 SLU 5,287McNeese 8,467 Nichol ls 10,262SUN0 3,879 T e c h 12,650Northeast 5,187 UN0 9,820Northwestern 4,982 LSU-Law 3,386Southern-Law 3,218

The shipping l is ts began arr iving via FTP on February 26, 1998and twelve institutions are participating in this service fromMarcive. A shipping list file is received once a week which isloaded on Monday nights . Approximately 400 records are on

each file and each institution gets a subset of this file dependingon the i tems selected by them. Below is the number of records forthe f i rs t few shipping l is ts :

02126198 409 03123198 23703103198 2 10 03130198 52803105198 703 04106198 24303/09/98 355 04113198 49103116198 935 04120198 733

The loading of the monthly enhanced records is the next part ofthe government documents project. This should have been inplace in January 1998, but Marcive informed us that GPO hasbeen delayed in delivering the records because they wereinstalling a new computer system. The February and Marchmonthly enhanced records (monthly overlay tape) have arrivedand are being loaded.

LALINC - Cooperative Collection DevelopmentCommittee (CCDC)by Mike DiCarlo, Louisiana Tech

At the fall 1997 meeting of LALINC held in Natchitoches theLALINC directors created a committee to look at collectiondevelopment as a consort ium act ivi ty. The Committee iscomposed of the fol lowing members: Mike DiCarlo- Chair, KayAdams, Steve Alleman, Jennifer Cargill, Mark Daganaar, JaneKleiner, Philip Leinbach, Rosemary Mokia, Anne ShepherdCharles Triche, and representatives from the LLN office. TheCommittee held i ts f i rs t meet ing on December 4, 1997.

The Committee is pursuing several l ines of s tudy. One area is thedevelopment in the electronic journal . As a part of i ts investiga-tion into the state of the market and its implications for eitherindividual or group col lect ions, the Committee has sponsored twodemonstration programs for vendors to present information on

electronic journal products, pricing, and use. The firstdemonstration was a three-day session in March held at LSU.Vendors invited to part icipate were: JStor, OCLCIECO,SilverPlatter, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, I .S.I . , AcademicPress, and Project Muse. An addit ional session in Apri l hadpresentations by Springer-Verlag and OVID.

The Committee has established a subcommittee to review presentConsort ium col lect ions for subject make up. This Subcommitteewil l be using the North American Ti t le Count protocols toprepare a computer analysis with assistance from the LLN staff.Collect ions already online via LOUIS wil l be analyzed against theNorth American Tit le Count .

A second subcommittee is preparing information on the use ofCollect ion Development Policies in member l ibraries . The Sub-committee is currently surveying members and compil ing a report .

RSS- Cont. from pg. 4

with ISOIILL standards.

Another important feature is broadcast searching, wherein staff workstations can search across several 239.50 library catalogs with onesearch to determine item availability. The search retrieves a list of the libraries which carry the item with full bibliographic, holdings, andcirculation information included if available. So, LOUIS l ibraries will have the abil i ty to perform a single broadcast search across al l 23+libraries to easily determine which l ibraries in Louisiana carry a certain t i t le.

For more information about RSS, view the product information at : http://www.als.ameritech.com/productJrssliudex.htmFor a demo ofthe patron side of RSS, see: http://n5202.als.ameritech.com/

Answers to the LLN Crossword Puzzle on nage 5

Across: 1 . Hargrave, 6. InfoShare, 7. BPCC, 9. SearchBank, 10. Dialog, 14. LALINC, 16. NOTIS, 17. Boe’Down: 2 . Ameritech, 3. Eighteen, 4. LSU, 5. WebSPIRS, 8. GaleNet, 11. LOUIS, 12. Gates, 13. LLN, 15. LaNet

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Six LOUIS Institutions to Implement Electronic Reserves this Summerby Marcy Stevens

Six LOUIS s i tes wil l implement the Electronic Reserve System thissummer. The si tes are LSU, LSU-Law, Louisiana Tech University,Northeast Louisiana Universi ty, Southeastern Louisiana Univer-si ty and McNeese State Universi ty.

All course reserve materials submitted by instructors wil l remainon reserve for checkout at the reserve desk. The purpose of theElectronic Reserves System is to provide mult iple access pointsto documents placed on reserve for course use.

Reserve objects will be scanned by library personnel, stored in aPDF format on a local server at the institution, and made available

to patrons through the web.

On March 10, 1998 staff from Louisiana Tech University, LSU-LawSchool, Northeast Louisiana Universi ty, Southeastern LouisianaUniversi ty and McNeese State Universi ty met at ComputingServices to discuss the implementation of Electronic Reserves attheir institutions this summer. Equipment has been ordered,received configured and shipped to each site. A hands-ontraining class was held on May 14, 1998 at the ComputingServices Classroom.

Dialog@CARL News Collection Now Availableby L isa S t iga l l

All LLN public, academic and K-12 libraries now have access to100+ ful l- text news sources through Dialog@CARL. Thiscollect ion includes wire services and foreign and domesticnewspapers including the New Orleans Times-Picqvune andhopefully in the near future, TheAdvocate. To search thiscollection, connect to the Dialog@CARL URL at :http://dialog.carl.org:3024

Each newspaper or wire service is updated daily and can besearched separately or you can choose to search up to sixsources simultaneously. Dialog@CARL only works with graphi-cal web browsers such as Netscape 2.0 and later versions orInternet Explorer 3.0 and later versions.

If you have any questions about this product, please contact LisaStigall at 504/388-3735 or beene@lsu.edu.

CICS Transaction Statistics Updateby Barry Hebert, Computing Services

The daily CICS transaction counts are dropping now that the spring semester is over. As of May 15, 1998 the year-to-date CICStransact ion total is 25,232,OOO. This represents a 4.5% increase over the same period last year.

The high-water mark for this semester was 383,728 transactions on April 14, 1998. This surpasses the previous all-time high of 382,504on October 28, 1997. The highest dai ly total last spring was 332,6 11 t ransact ions.

Assuming a 5% transaction increase for the year, we should process approximately 67 mill ion transactions during calendar year 1998.

Calendar of EventsJune6110 Southern Univers i ty OPAC in Product ion6126 A L AJulv7119 BRCC Opening Ceremony7130 Electronic Reserve Training for Phase II si tes7130-3 1 System Adminis t ra tors Meet ingOctober1011-3 ICOLC Meeting1018-9 N U G MNovember1 l/5-6 LaNUGM1 l/12-13 LALINC Meeting

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LOUIS MAILING ADDRESS AND STAFF LIST

NETWORKINFORMATION PROGRAMMER/ANALYSTSSPECIALISTS (LIBl): (TECHl):

Carolyn Coca Shaolong HuangPhone: (504) 388-3722 Phone : (504) 388-3767E-mail: coco@lsu.edu E-mail: huang@lsu.edu

John Guillory Mary LairdPhone: (504) 388-3758 Phone: (504) 388-3753E-mail: johng@lsu.edu E-mail: bron@lsu.edu

Lisa Stigall Cathy SicardPhone: (504) 388-3735 Phone: (504) 388-375 1E-mail: beene@lsu.edu E-mail: cathy@lsu.edu

Zehra Zamin Marcy StevensPhone: (504) 388-3747 Phone: (504) 388-3771E-mail: zehra@lsu.edu E-mail: marcy@lsu.edu

Sara ZimmermanPhone: (504) 388-3705E-mail: sara@lsu.edu

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LLN Commission Members:Dr. Carolyn Hargrave, LA Board of RegentsRon Hay, LSU Computing ServicesJennifer Cargill, LSU LibrariesCarol Coltharp, LA Board of RegentsTom Jaques, State Library of LouisianaAda Jarred, Northwestern State UniversityDon Smith, Northeast Louisiana UniversityLaurene Zaporozhetz, LSU in Shreveport

LLN Issues Committee:Ada Jarred, Northwestern State UniversityLaurene Zaporozhetz, LSU in ShreveportJennifer Cargill, Louisiana State Universi ty

LLN Database Committee:Smit t ie Bolner , Louis iana State Univers i tyBob Heriard, Universi ty ofNew OrleansTed Landry, Iberville Parish LibraryTheresa Thevenote, Avoyelles Parish Library

LLN Technology Committee:Mike DiCarlo, Louisiana TechNancy Colyar, Louisiana State Universi tyGlenn Manino, University of New OrleansJoe McNeill, McNeese State Universi tyKaren Leeseberg, Nunez Community CollegeJean Caswell, Southeastern Louisiana UniversitySara Taffae, State Library of Louisiana

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