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gils: Re: unaware of gils-aware (fwd)

gils: Re: unaware of gils-aware (fwd)

Re: unaware of gils-aware (fwd)

Eliot Christian (echristi@usgs.gov)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:22:12 -0500 

Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961210152212.00717244@130.118.4.2>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:22:12 -0500
To: Kathy Amen <acadamen@stmarytx.edu>
From: Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>
Subject: Re: unaware of gils-aware (fwd)

This note is in response to a message that was posted to the list GOVDOC-L
(copied below). The message concerns the requirement placed on the 1,380
Federal Depository Libraries to provide Internet access with "GILS-aware
software".

While the GILS Application Profile specifies what servers must do to be
GILS-compliant, the profile does not have compliance requirements for client
software. Quoting from the soon-to-be-published article on GILS in the
December D-Lib magazine:

Any client software capable of access to a server compliant with Z39.50
version 2 or 3 can access GILS-
compliant servers. Extra capability is provided by GILS-aware clients such
as the BookWhere 2000 <http://www.bookwhere.com/prodesc.htm#SCBW2000>
product from Sea Change Corporation, and products under development such as
SIRSI Vizion <http://www.sirsi.com/Products/vizz3950.html> and the new Java
client being developed by Blue Angel Technologies <http://www.bluangel.com>.

These and other relevant GILS software offerings are listed at
<http://www.usgs.gov/gils/software.html>

At 09:20 AM 12/10/96 -0500, you wrote:

>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:31:01 -0600
>From: Kathy Amen <acadamen@stmarytx.edu>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Government Document Issues <GOVDOC-L@PSUVM.BITNET>
>To: Multiple recipients of list GOVDOC-L <GOVDOC-L@PSUVM>
>Subject: unaware of gils-aware
>
>Help!
>
>In diligently trying to complete my gpo self-study in the allotted time,
>I've run into a snag.  Question V.11. refers to "GILS (which i know means
>Government Information Locator System)-aware software" and i cannot
>remember ever seeing exactly what this means.  The reference to the Admin
>Notes (v.17#7) just took me to another mention of the term (which I had
>marked with a "?"); the reference there to paragraph 7-8 of the
>Guidelines doesn't offer an explanation, either, as far as I can see.
>
>We have what we think is perfectly adequate internet access (except
>loading time is never as fast as you'd like and our video cards aren't
>too hot (but that *is* one way to discourage porno-viewing!)), so maybe
>our software is "GILS-aware" and we just don't know it.  But if it's not,
>I need to know how to *make it so* (apologies to Jean-Luc Picard; working
>on a self-study all day tends to make one a bit giddy).
>
>Anyway, if anyone can shed light on this, please let me know.  Or reply
>to the list if you think this isn't something that everyone but me knows
>about.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Kathy Amen
>acadamen@stmarytx.edu
>St. Mary's Univ. Academic Library
>San Antonio, Tx.

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