Re: Gopher with Dewey Numbers

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@tenet.edu>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 1994, C Frank wrote:

> Am seeking a library Gopher that can provide me with Dewey Call Numbers
> rather than LC Call numbers..

You can get the Dewey number from any MARC screen in field # 082. I'm not
sure about other systems, but in the DRA (Data Resources Associates)
system once you get a record on your screen, press "m" (no quotes) and
you'll see the MARC record. There are quite a few DRA libraries on the
net, or you can access the DRA database directly.

In TENET you have 2 ways to get to the DRA database: (1) telnet dra.com
, or (2) via Gopher. To use the Gopher method do the following:

TENET Main Menu
 #3 - Internet
  #8 - Gopher
   #10 - Library Catalogs
    #2 - Catalogs Listed by Locations
     #1 - Americas
      #6 - United States
       #24 - Missouri
        #1 - DRA

Once you've gone through the steps and have the menu with "#1 - DRA" on
your screen, you can press "a" (again no quotes and lower case) to make a
'bookmark' for it in your system. Then the next time you want to get to
DRA, get into the gopher menu and press "v" to call up your bookmarks and
enter the bookmark number for DRA.

(I just discovered this bookmark feature. It's the best thing since
sliced bread for gophering to places that are buried in the menus!)

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