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USBE (United States Book Exchange) TITLE CATALOG JOINS BACKSERV PROJECT

The title shelflist of USBE can now be accessed on the Internet as part
of the Backserv project on both the Readmore gopher and webserver.  The
USBE section of the Backserv collection includes information about the
organization and its membership privileges, browsing and searching of the
USBE titles, an online membership form and a text copy of the membership
form that can be downloaded and printed out.  Issues in the USBE catalog
are available for purchase only by members of the organization.

USBE joins the catalogs of Jerry Alper, Inc., and G. H. Arrow on Backserv
(BACK Issues and Duplicate Exchange SERVice).  An important component of
this service is the Backserv Internet list, which is offered to the
library community as a means for the exchange of duplicate and wanted
materials - both back issues of periodicals and books.  The last 8 weeks
of the Backserv list archives are also available on the Backserv portion
of the Readmore gopher and webserver and may be searched by WAIS keyword
indexing.  These archives, in conjunction with the catalogs of USBE and
back issue dealers, provide one comprehensive location on the Internet to
search for back issues and out of print materials.  Additional catalogs
and resources are made available on a regular basis.

To access the Readmore gopher, point your gopher client to:
gopher.readmore.com
The URL for the Readmore webserver is:  http://www.readmore.com
To subscribe to the Backserv list, send a message to:
listserv@sun.readmore.com  which reads  subscribe backserv firstname
lastname. To add postings to Backserv, send to:  backserv@sun.readmore.com

For information about Backserv, contact Marilyn Geller, Internet Product
Specialist, Readmore at (617) 484-7379 or (800) 221-3306, x383;
mgeller@readmore.com. To learn more about USBE, contact John Zubal, USBE,
at (216) 241-6960;  USBE4U@AOL.COM