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that title, written by Reginald Creighton and Richard King, and available in 
very limited supply from the senior author at the Information Systems Division, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 20560. It describes the current 
status of the program in the Smithsonian toward permitting catalogue data to be 
"captured, indexed, and stored with a view toward high speed access." 
"COMPUTERIZED MUSEUM NETWORK" 
A four page mimeographed leaflet with this title is available from Dr. 
Hubert F. Schiffer, Computing Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 
73069. It is based primarily on the retrieval system GIPSY (see note above), 
but is of general interest to all MUDPIE readers. 
AN APPROACH TO THE GEOGRAPHY PROBLEM IN MUSEUMS 
A mimeographed summary with the title above is available from the authors, 
D. Piacesi or R. A. Creighton, both of the Information Systems Division, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560. They have designed a system 
that will accept data for geographic points in many dissimilar forms, and then 
permit its retrieval even though asked for in a different form. Thus, one should 
be able to put in a locality as 38° 52' N latitude, 77° 00' W longitude (the 
coordinates of Washington, D. C.) or as "Atlanta, Georgia", and then be able to 
retrieve both when information on the "Eastern United States" is called for. This 
can be done under their system, which was developed as part of SIIRS (Smithsonian 
Institution's Information Retrieval System). 
EXISTING INSTALLATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 
Previous lists of existing installations have been given in MUDPIES 1, 2, 
and 4. These have been listed to make possible the exchange of information 
between institutions through the use both of the teletypes and the time-shared 
computers. The following have not been listed before: 
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California. Area Code 213, 
746-0655 [TELETYPE number]. 
American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Contact Dr. Richard van 
Gelder, Department of Mammalogy. 
Insofar as we know, the following are no longer functional: 
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. 
University of Minnesota, St. Paul. 
