Dumpster Diving into the Past Using Melvyl.......
		      by Tom Lincoln

 Melvyl is the On-Line Catalog of the University of California. The
 Book Catalog (over 6 million volumes and growing!) is open to all.

 Other aspects of the system are open to those on the staff and to
 students only.... but the books offer a wide ranging excursion....

[Maybe a warning, that because the person can find it in MELVYL, doesn't
mean that ILL will borrow from them?  You could include that info on
UMI reprints... Although, as long as this has to be, that might be too
much...]


 To use Melvyl, you need telnet access from your machine
 through INTERNET or your mainframe. If you don't have it,
 ask your SYSOP; it MAY be available.

 Here *[with commentary]* is a simulated session (i.e., a real
 session rearranged for tutorial purposes)

      *[type "telnet melvyl.ucop.edu" on your prompt line]*


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 yourmachine% telnet melvyl.ucop.edu
 Trying 192.35.222.222 ...
 Connected to melvyl.ucop.edu.  *[I remember: ucop = Univ. Co-op]*
 Escape character is '^]'.      *[might be true... might not... ]*

 DLA LINE 694 (TELNET) 11:38:00 02/23/93   (MELVYL.UCOP.EDU)

 Please Enter Your Terminal Type Code or Type ? for a List of Codes.

 TERMINAL? vt100


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 Press RETURN for the MELVYL System ->



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		   Welcome to the University of California's

			    MELVYL* LIBRARY SYSTEM

 (c)1984. *Registered trademark of The Regents of the U Cal.
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 OPTIONS:  Choose an option, or type any command to enter the CATALOG
 database.

   HELP        - For help in getting started.

   [return]    - Press RETURN to choose a database for searching.

   START <db>  - Type START <database name>to begin searching in a database
 -> f su heron family                 *[basic commands are:
				       f su   = find subject
				       f tw   = find text with
				       f au  = find author]*


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This file is the first part of the file GENEALOG MELVYL.  For more
information, please get that file.  It has a transcript of an actual
session and instructions on how to navigate the system.