NLM ANNOUNCES: NLM to Unveil New Online Catalog, LOCATORplus 4/12/99

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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:30:29 -0400
From: Marcia Zorn <ZORNM at MAIL.NLM.NIH.GOV>
To: MEDLIB-L at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: NLM to Unveil New Online Catalog, LOCATORplus 4/12/99

National Library of Medicine to Unveil New Online Catalog, LOCATORplus, on
the Web on Monday, April 12

On Monday, April 12, the National Library of Medicine will unveil its new
web catalog, called LOCATORplus, which will allow anyone with Internet
access to find out what books, journals, audiovisuals, manuscripts, and
other items are contained in the world=s largest medical library.

There are many exciting new features which will be available via
LOCATORplus.  Customers using the catalog from the Web can search by
author, MeSH subject, title, conference name, keyword and many other
specific fields, then e-mail the results to themselves. Current receipts
of both serial and monograph material will be displayed along with
information about material which is on order or available electronically.  
Hotlinks to online journals will be available from many records. Direct
access to a variety of other resources will be available from LOCATORplus
including MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, Images of the History of Medicine, TOXNET,
HSTAT, and other U.S. medical library catalogs.

LOCATORplus is part of NLM=s new integrated library system (ILS) which was
installed for in-house use in November 1998.  The ILS is being used for
acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, collection management,
circulation and preservation.  LOCATORplus is the ILS=s online public
access catalog and serves as the retrieval engine for the Library=s
cataloging records, replacing existing online access methods, such as
Locator, CATLINE, AVLINE and SERLINE.  LOCATORplus brings together a
number of previously disparate databases, along with information formerly
available only to staff, using state-of-art information retrieval
technology.

Beginning April 12th, NLM=s LOCATORplus can be found at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/ The site is updated daily.

For a preview of the system a Quick Start Tutorial can be found at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/tutorials/quickstart/sld001.htm

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