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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:18:23 -0600
From: J Emery <emery@LIBRARY.UTA.EDU>
Subject: (Fwd) ALCTS CSSS Announcement

The ALCTS Committee to Study Serial Standards is
pleased to announce the free availability of
standards and technical reports from the National
Information Standards Organization.

Starting in November 2000, NISO began and has
continued to provide standards and technical
reports as PDF downloads from their website.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.niso.org/PR-free.html

We are encouraged by this open sharing of
standards information. Among the standards
available are:

Z39.50 (Information Retrieval:Application Service
Definition & Protocol Specification)
 Z39.71(Holdings Statements or Bibliographic
Items)

We hope that your organization will take
advantage of this opportunity.

Thank you!

Jill Emery
Committee to Study Serials Standards-Intern

Jill Emery
Collections & Acquisitions Specialist
UTA Libraries
702 College St.
PO BOX 19497
Arlington, TX 76019-0497

(817)272-7156
(817)272-5804 (fax)
emery@library.uta.edu