ANNOUNCING: A new BITNET list:
   PRO-CITE@IUBVM ......"The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List"
                     Established April 14, 1992
 
GENERAL INFORMATION:
  This list has been established as an international electronic forum for
anyone using or interested in using the bibliographic textbase software
program PRO-CITE and its companion BIBLIO-LINK programs published by
Personal Bibliographic Software. These software programs provide the means
to automate a wide variety of scholarly tasks related to the retrieval,
organization, and use of bibliographic data. They operate on both MS-DOS and
Macintosh platforms. With the much enhanced version 2.0 of Pro-Cite now
available for both systems, it seemed like a good time to establish a Bitnet
discussion group, whose existence could facilitate the rapid sharing of
concerns, interests, problems and solutions among members at all levels of use.
 
  The owner of this list is Mark T. Day, Associate Librarian in the Indiana
University Reference Department and Coordinator of its newly created Library
Electronic Text Resource Service. I began using Pro-Cite and Biblio-Links
while working at the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority from 1988
-1990 as their Library Microcomputer Specialist and have felt for some time
that an electronic discussion group, modelled after the several similar groups
that already exist for other library and scholarly oriented software products,
would be a very useful forum for advancing communication among those of us who
work heavily with bibliographic data.
 
  For the list to be successful in serving the needs of its members, however,
those members must be active contributors to the discussion. Currently the
list operates in a non-moderated mode, in which all messages sent to the list
automatically will be posted to all other members. Answers to questions sent
out over the list will go to all members IF YOU POST YOUR ANSWER TO THE LIST,
but will only go to the person who sent the original message if YOU REPLY TO
THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE (more on the details of how to send and receive messages,
obtain archived copies of previous correspondence, etc, below).  So IF YOU
HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR INFORMATION about some aspect of a PBS product,
SUBSCRIBE NOW AND JOIN THE DISCUSSION.
 
 
HOW TO JOIN & SEND MESSAGES:
   1) To join PRO-CITE, send the following one line e-mail message:
SUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE Last Name, First Name
      via BITNET to: LISTSERV@IUBVM
      or via INTERNET to: [log in to unmask]
 
   2) Once subscribed, send messages for posting on the PRO-CITE list:
      via BITNET to: PRO-CITE@IUBVM
      or via INTERNET to: [log in to unmask]
 
   3) To stop getting PRO-CITE mail temporarily (while on vacation, e.g.)
      send the following one line e-mail message:
SET PRO-CITE NOMail
      to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above).
 
   4) If your current address changes or becomes invalid, or you wish to
      stop subscribing to PRO-CITE, send the following one line message:
UNSUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE
      to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above).
 
   5) If you have questions about the list, or problems with its
      operation, you should direct them to the list owner, Mark Day,
      rather than to the PRO-CITE list itself:
      via BITNET to: DAYM@IUBACS;
      or via INTERNET to: [log in to unmask]
 
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
  Indiana University Computing Services provides the computer space and
software to support BITNET lists on its IUBVM node as a service to the
research oriented needs of IU faculty, staff, and graduate students. The
Indiana University Libraries supports the administration of electronic
discussion lists as a professional activity of its faculty. However, neither
of these organizations verify the accuracy of submitted messages or endorse
the opinions expressed by authors of messages. The list owner will attempt to
monitor this particular list and help keep it focused on problems related to
personal bibliographic software issues, but authors of PRO-CITE messages are
considered to be solely responsible for their own comments.
 
  Since this is a new list, with 88 subscribers as of July 26, 1992, there
is no way to tell how many messages you are likely to receive, but similar
lists for micro based software vary greatly from no messages in some weeks
to several per day at other times. As messages start to be received they
will be automatically archived on a monthly basis and can be retrieved
as necessary with standard listserv retrieval and search commands:
  1) You will be able to obtain a list of available archive files
     by sending an INDEX PRO-CITE command to [log in to unmask]
  2) Such files can be retrieved by issuing a GET PRO-CITE LOGYYMM command,
     where "YY" stands for the year and "MM" stands for the month.
  3) If you are curious about who your fellow subscribers to this list are,
     send the message REVIEW PRO-CITE to [log in to unmask]
 
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     e         PRO-CITE List Owner:              e
     f Mark T. Day, Assoc. Librarian, Reference  f
     e  Indiana University Library, Room E159    e
     R        Bloomington, IN  47405             R
     e      Bitnet: [log in to unmask]           e
     f    Internet: [log in to unmask]         f
     e   Phone: (812) 855-8028 or 855-0100       e
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