January 15, 1994 FYIFrance: French Libraries Online -- January, 1994 update by: Jack Kessler kessler@well.sf.ca.us French Libraries Online (Thanks to many friends -- many of them French -- for much help in what follows, although any inaccuracies are my fault or that of the networks' incredible rate of change. Suggested additions, deletions, and corrections will be gratefully received. The term "opac" used here means "Online Public Access Catalog": the library catalog and, increasingly -- as with those on the Internet -- more. Standard networking caveat: trying to keep track of Internet resources with a list is like fitting round pegs into square holes -- navigating tools keep multiplying, as do the resources, and combinations and permutations of alternative search strategies begin to make a flat - file list resemble a standard hypertext plate of spaghetti. French network use is growing, rapidly. The list which appears below becomes, increasingly, only an indicator -- of extent and of possible points of entry -- for someone new to networking or new to French online resources. It is a "selected" list: only items of general interest are shown -- no computer specialist files, of which France has many -- and nearly everything has been tested, recently, to make sure that it "works".) As of end - January, 1994, "at least" the following French library resources may be found online, accessible via the following online techniques: a) Minitel "kiosk" Libraries. These now may be reached from nearly anywhere via Minitel. Minitel is generally available in Europe. In the UK, Minitel is expanding, and is rumored to be acquiring the Prestel service. Free MAC or DOS diskettes for Minitel -- some downloading capacity now is available -- may be obtained in the US and Canada from voice telephones 800-MINITEL or 212-399-0080, or fax 212-399-0129. (They will fax you a form.) Access policies do change from time to time. Access to all this is very IN-expensive: 3614 BMLYON Bibliothe`que Municipale de Lyon (info.+ opac) 3614 BMDIJON Bibliothe`que Municipale de Dijon (info.+ opac) 3614 BIB Bibliothe`que Municipale de Grenoble (info.+ opac) 3614 MADOC Bibliothe`que Professionelle de France Te'le'com (opac) 3614 MEDVIL Me'diathe`que, Cite' des Sciences et de l'Industrie (info.+ opac) 3614 NANCY Bibliothe`que Municipale de Nancy (info.+ opac) 3614 VDP14 Vide'othe`que de Paris (info.+ opac) 3615 ABCDOC Archives, Bibliothe`ques, Centres de Documentation (directory) 3615 BIBNAT Bibliothe`que Nationale (info. -- no opac, yet) 3615 BPI Bibliothe`que Publique d'Information (Centre Pompidou, Paris) (info.+ opac) 3615 BRISE Bibliothe`ques de St. Etienne (opacs) 3615 DASTUM Photote`que Dastum, Breton culture (info.+ opac) 3615 MIRADOC Bibliothe`que Universite' de Metz (info.+ opac) 3615 VDP15 Vide'othe`que de Paris (info.+ opac) 3617 BIUP Bibliothe`que Inter-Universitaire de Pharmacie (opac) 3617 CCN Catalogue Collectif National des Publications en Se'rie (national union catalog project, serials) 3617 PANCA Pancatalogue (national union catalog project, books) b) Minitel "V23" Direct-Dial Libraries. The following French library services may be reached by a telephone call, either from a Minitel which can do so (European terminals can, but US Minitel service distributed per the above cannot), or using a V23 modem, available in European computer stores: 22.97.11.11 Amiens, Bibliothe`que d' (info.+ opac) 90.49.38.88 Arles, Bibliothe`que Municipale d'(info.+ opac) 31.86.14.14 Caen, Bibliothe`que Municipale de (info.+ opac) 50.53.28.70 Chamonix, Bibliothe`que Municipale de (opac) 16.1.64.48.60.07 Chilly-Mazarin, Bibliothe`que de (info.+ opac) 16.1.42.77.19.16 IRCAM, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Centre Pompidou, Paris (opac) 49.73.23.30 Niort, Bibliothe`que de (info.+ opac) 50.58.57.85 Sallanches, Bibliothe`que Municipale de (opac) 20.25.43.50 Tourcoing, Me'diathe`que de (info.+ opac) c) telnet (ie. from the Internet) caen1.unicaen.fr Bibliothe`que Universitaire de Caen; username : Bibliotheque or Library FRMOP22.CNUSC.FR Centre National Universitaire Sud de Calcul, Montpellier -- provides access to PANCATALOGUE and SIBIL and numerous other French services -- account required (fax -- in French -- to 67-52-37-63, at Montpellier) -- also available via Minitel (see above) or French Transpac #134022271494 (account required) IFBIBLI.GRENET.FR Institut Fourier -- Saint Martin d'Hye`res (opac) LIMVX4.UNILIM.FR Universite de LIMOGES, user id: GRACE STROPH.UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR Universite' de St. Etienne; Username: brise; At %PAD- I-COM, enter CRISV2.UNIV-PAU.FR Universite' de Pau; login: grace BPU.UNINE.CH Bibliothe`que Publique et Universitaire de Neucha^tel, Switzerland SIBIL.SWITCH.CH Swiss-French Network Catalogue, Switzerland 132.207.4.15 Ecole Polytechnique (Montre'al); At "classe de service" enter biblio96 ARIANE.ULAVAL.CA Laval University, Canada; Username: ARIANE 139.103.2.2 Universite' de Moncton - Bibliothe`que Champlain, Canada; At the SERVICE? prompt, enter champ d) WAIS Generally, search the directory of servers under "bibliotheque" or "France": bib-dmi-ens-fr.src Ecole Normale Supe'rieure, Paris, Dept. de Mathe'matiques et Informatique bib-ens-lyon.src Ecole Normale Supe'rieure de LYON bib-math-orsay-fr.src Universite' Paris-Sud bibs-zenon-inria-fr.src INRIA / Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, Sophia Antipolis (Documentation Center / Library) cirm-books-fr.src CIRM / Centre International de Rencontres Mathe'matiques, Marseille (library) directory-zenon-inria-fr.src INRIA / Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, national imag.ouvrages.src IMAG / Institut d'Informatique et de Mathe'matiques Applique'es de Grenoble (me'diathe`que) e) electronic conferences BALZAC-L "French literature and culture"; subscribe to balzac-1- request@cc.umontreal.ca; in French and English; 250 subscribers. BIBLIO-FR "Bibliothe'caires Franc,ais"; subscribe to biblio-fr- request@univ-rennes1.fr; in French; 400 subscribers. FRANCEHS "List for French history scholars"; subscribe, saying (only, without the quotes), "subscribe francehs ", to francehs-request@uwavm.bitnet or listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu; in French and English; 275 subscribers. f) anonymous ftp sites ftp.inria.fr INRIA/Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique zenon.inria.fr INRIA in Sophia Antipolis ftp.cicb.fr Univ. Rennes1 ("gopher" in French!?) ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/ota/french// contains Molie`re's _Don Juan_ fulltext (OTA version) and Queneau's _Exercices du style_ fulltext (OTA version) epas.utoronto.ca /pub/cch/french// contains Molie`re's _Don Juan_ fulltext (Oxford Text Archive version) and a French wordlist in ascii ftp.cnam.fr "Association des Bibliophiles Universels" files, including fulltext (sgml marked - up?) of texts by St. Augustine, Plutarch, Jules Verne, Th. Moreux, and E. Dubreucq, and other things relevant to fulltext. ftp.ircam.fr IRCAM / Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Centre Pompidou, Paris g) gophers -- (there are others, but the following have more than just hi - tech and scientific content, ie. the humanities) IMAG..itut d'Informatique et de Mathe'matiques Applique'es de Grenoble/ INRIA..titut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique/ Ministe`re de la culture et de la francophonie (St Quentin en Yveli../ Universite' de Lausanne (Suisse)/ Universite' de Lyon I/ Universite' de Montre'al (Que'bec, Canada)/ GOPHER LITTERATURES (Note: GOPHER LITTERATURES is a relatively recent effort to establish a truly comprehensive gopher devoted to online humanities resources in French. It has an ambitious structure, not yet filled, but at the least is a very promising effort to follow for anyone interested in the humanities online.) Universite' de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour/ Universite' Jean Monnet (St-Etienne)/ USHS (Universite' des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg)/ and, in particular, one very good, very French, French gopher: gopher.grenet.fr -- (Grenoble - net), which gives you a software package entitled "G.R.A.C.E (Gestion du Reseau Automatise' de Catalogues En-ligne )", and a "help" feature wonderfully - entitled, for a "help" feature, "B.I.P.E.D. (BULLETIN d'INFORMATION pour ETUDIANTS En DETRESSE)". The "grenet" gopher contains, among many other things: in path -- 8. Catalogues de Bibliothe`ques (OPAC) et Autres Serveurs Documentaire../ 1. Catalogues des Bibliothe`ques de la Region Grenobloise/ 2. Catalogue Collectif SIBIL (SICD Grenob. 1 et 2 et IEP Grenob. 4. CICG (ouvrages) 5. Bibliothe`que Centrale du CNRS 6. CRISS (Informatique en Sciences Sociales) Catalogue General 7. ENS Hydraulique et Me'canique (ouvrages) 8. ENS Hydraulique et Me'canique (the`ses) 9. IREPD (UFR DGES Univ Pierre Mendes France) (ouvrages) 10. Institut Fourier (ouvrages) 11. Me'diatheque IMAG (ouvrages) 12. Me'diatheque IMAG (periodiques) 13. Me'diatheque IMAG (rapports de recherche) 14. Me'diatheque IMAG (vide'os) 15. Publications "Online" de l'IMAG/ in path -- 8. Catalogues de Bibliothe`ques (OPAC) et Autres Serveurs Documentaire../2. Catalogues des Bibliothe`ques Franc,aises/ 1. Bibliothe`que Interuniversitaire Jussieu (Section Maths) 2. CIRM (Marseille) (Collections) 3. CIRM (Marseille) (ouvrages) 4. Caen (Sciences, Etudes Anciennes, Normandes, Muse'e) 5. Catalogue SIBIL (Plusieurs BU dont les SICD Grenoble 1 et 2) 7. ENS DMI Paris Publications Scientifiques 8. ENS Lyon (ouvrages) 9. ENS Paris Dept Math et Info (ouvrages) 10. Equipe de The'orie des Groupes (Paris 7) 11. INRIA (Rocqencourt) (ouvrages) 12. INRIA (Sophia Antipolis) (ouvrages) 13. INSA LYON (ouvrages et the`ses) 14. IRISA (Rennes) (ouvrages) 15. IRMAR (Univ Rennes 1) (ouvrages) 16. Institut de Me'canique des Fluides de Marseille (ouvrages) 17. LIMOGES (Catalogue Collectif des Ouvrages) 18. Laboratoire de Biome'trie (Publications Scientifiques) 19. Laboratoire de Biome'trie Genetique Lyon (Ouvrages et The`ses) 20. Laboratoire de Me'canique et Acoustique Marseille (ouvrages) 21. Mathe'matiques-Informatique Universite' de Provence (ouvrages) 22. Maths Orsay (ouvrages) 23. Olfaction (Labo de Physiologie Neurosensorielle Lyon) 24. PAU (Catalogue Collectif des B U) (par WAIS) 25. PAU (Catalogue Collectif) (par OPAC) 26. ST ETIENNE (Catalogue Collectif, BU et BM) and, (still in path -- 8. Catalogues de Bibliotheques (OPAC) et Autres Serveurs Documentaire../, 3. Serveurs Documentaires Divers (NAG, ACM, ...)/ 4. Archives de la Liste de Discussion "Biblio-Fr"/ 5. Recherche de mail dans biblio-fr.archive 6. Autres Catalogues de Bibliothe`ques/ 7. Serveurs Commerciaux (RESERVE AUX ABONNES)/ As with BITNET and particularly the Internet, it is nearly impossible to keep up with the phenomenal growth of French online resources. The Minitel's own "Guide de Services" lists only 15,000 services, while published accounts claim more than 17,000 currently in operation; and these numbers don't begin to account for the many online services which rely on the omnipresent Minitel "boxes" found throughout France -- and Minitel "V23" norm emulation software now found throughout France and increasingly elsewhere -- to act as simple terminals for their connections. Many new library services (see the list at item b), above), use this latter function: un-tabulated and un-indexed, so that until libraries go into the marketing business no one really knows how many online French library services there are. ISSN 1071 - 5916 >From kessler Tue Jan 18 08:32:35 1994 Subject: FYI FRANCE: a correction -- Minitel's fone number To anyone interested in getting those free Minitel diskettes, to try out the French online services, please note the error in my January 15 posting: Minitel USA's correct voice telephone number is: (212) 399 - 0080. Jack Kessler kessler@well.sf.ca.us end .