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From: macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis)
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Subject: Technical Reports Lists
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 12:57:19 EDT
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I would like to get in touch with librarians and technical report
issuers in order to discuss the possibility of making technical report
ordering, notification, distribution, and cataloguing easier for
everyone.  If you are such a person, please drop me a line.  If there
is such a person in your organization who probably doesn't read net
news, please ask hrm to get in touch with me, or mail hrs address to
me.

The idea would be that originating organizations would post their
lists in some standard format; reports could be ordered (if money is
involved, of course, some mechanism is needed for that); logged in at
the receiving end; and an appropriate bibliographic record made.

Right now, many organizations retype all this sort of information.  It
would be nice if reports could come with keywords and Computing
Reviews classifications, too, but that would be a refinement.

	-s