[Please excuse for cross-posting]
Since I am no big fan of, and only vaguely acquainted with, the place where
I have to live, it has taken me a certain time to realize that the
Staatsbibliothek Berlin together with several other local university
libraries (Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg) offers a collective online
catalogue which can be reached via telnet at the following address:
telnet://dbi.x29-gw.dfn.de
The login and research procedures attest a state of technology rather
uncommon in our actual decennium, because the user is required to memorize,
for instance, a string like
o imonx29t,msg=c'zt01'
(typical Berlin patois for "would you please connect me with the BVBB online
catalogue"). There are some instructions in German to be found at:
http://www.dbi-berlin.de/de/ibas/bvbb/bvbb_00.htm
^^
number "zero", not letter "O"
But even the native speaker will need the exegetical support of the
telephone hotline in order to find these instructions instructive. Having
gone myself through the process, and having finally succeeded -- with the
help of two hotline girls -- to log in, I thought it might be useful to
eternalize the sum of my experiences in an English (well, more or less
English) _Short guide to the BVBB online catalogue_, which now can be found
at the following address:
http://members.aol.com/lieberk1/i_bvbb.html
^
number "one", not letter "L"
All the links are also on my "Homepage for Dante studies", in the section
"General"-"libraries"-"Germany".
Otfried Lieberknecht
Schoeneberger Str. 11
D-12163 Berlin
Tel.: 030-8516675 (fax on demand)
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Homepage for Dante studies: http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html
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