Bibliotheque Nationale: Katalog im Internet

[Ulrich Korwitz <Ulrich.Korwitz _at__ Uni-Koeln.DE>]

Aus CADUCEUS-L:



> Subject: FYI France: EXTRA -- BNdeFrance catalogue via W3 and telnet
> 
> 
> 
> Per some email just received and a quick test, telnet to
> 193.50.133.201  or to  opale02.bnf.fr, login  opale (or clicking in
> through  http://www.bnf.fr, if you have a telnet client), now reaches:
> 
>     Bonjour,
>                 Bienvenue sur le catalogue BN-OPALE
>                 de la Bibliotheque nationale de France.
> 
> and then you get,
> 
>     Bienvenue sur le catalogue informatise de la Bibliotheque Nationale
>                          Base BN-OPALE
> 
>     Le catalogue est ouvert  du lundi au vendredi de 09h00 a 19h30
>                                      et le samedi de 09h00 a 17h30.
> 
> (Note: the catalogue appears to function even outside these hours -- I
> am using it now at 9pm on a Sunday, Paris time.)
> 
>     Il contenait au 1er Juillet 1995 plus de 1 900 000 notices, comprenant :
>         - tous les livres francais et etrangers depuis 1970,
>         - tous les periodiques francais apparus depuis 1974,
>         - tous les periodiques etrangers depuis 1965,
>         - les microformes etablies par le Centre de Sable.
> 
>     Il s'accroit d'environ 6 000 notices par mois.
> 
> I did a search -- found a book -- it works.
> 
> I have had some difficulties, myself, in getting in: hung sessions,
> mostly, waiting for the "transaction en cours" sign to go away. Idle
> speculation suggests that this will be a very popular service, and that
> they may have quite a few "port" and other capacity problems during its
> initial stages, which perhaps accounted for my hung sessions. But this
> weekend I have been able to log in with enough regularity to be able to
> recommend the service now to others.
> 
> The Bibliothe`que Nationale de France W3 homepage -- http://www.bnf.fr
> -- also looks very promising and well worth a visit, even if you don't
> have the telnet client necessary for using it to get to BN-OPALE.
> 
> BN-OPALE used in situ at the BN is an excellent service. Allowing for
> a few quirks in the mapping of BN terminal keys to foreign personal
> computers -- one help message directs you to "the red key" to execute a
> particular command -- the telnet version of BN-OPALE also promises to
> be an excellent service, a great resource to the international research
> community. Fe'licitations to all involved at the Rue Richelieu and
> elsewhere.
> 



Ulrich Korwitz
ZBMed Koeln