MELVYL SYSTEM TELNET STATISTICS                          
                 Time period: 08/01/99 through 08/31/99                         
                                                                                
1.0  GENERAL STATISTICS (includes all databases)                                
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1.1  System load                                                                
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1.1.1  Total sessions:                                                          
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Location               Library             Remote              Total            
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Berkeley              13,575              39,255              52,830            
Davis                 27,283               4,736              32,019            
Irvine                16,983                   0              16,983            
Los Angeles            8,106              20,468              28,574            
Riverside              5,885               3,586               9,471            
San Diego              5,715              10,566              16,281            
San Francisco         19,841                 462              20,303            
Santa Barbara          6,176               6,158              12,334            
Santa Cruz             4,614               5,821              10,435            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                       0                   0                   0            
LBL                        0               2,624               2,624            
LLL                        0               2,797               2,797            
Los Alamos                 0                 403                 403            
Other - UC               863               2,719               3,582            
CSL                        0               1,020               1,020            
CSU                      n/a               1,689               1,689            
Stanford                 n/a               4,724               4,724            
Other - Non UC           n/a              47,736              47,736            
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                     109,041             154,764             263,805            
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.1.2  Active users                                                             
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Average number of active users in a 2 minute interval:                          
  12-2 a.m.          15                  12-2 p.m.         115                  
  2-4 a.m.           11                  2-4 p.m.          136                  
  4-6 a.m.            9                  4-6 p.m.           91                  
  6-8 a.m.           14                  6-8 p.m.           34                  
  8-10 a.m.          65                  8-10 p.m.          21                  
  10-12 a.m.        117                  10-12 p.m.         18                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
Total connect hours for MELVYL MEDLINE:                                         
  For UC users (hrs:mins)                                6239.37                
  For Non-UC users (hrs:mins)                             423.37                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.1.3  FIND commands                                                            
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Number of FIND commands issued by location:                                     
                                                                                
Location               Library             Remote              Total            
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Berkeley              43,311             114,997             158,308            
Davis                 85,432              17,768             103,200            
Irvine                49,616                   0              49,616            
Los Angeles           29,328              56,590              85,918            
Riverside             20,563               9,884              30,447            
San Diego             17,954              28,653              46,607            
San Francisco         58,456               1,314              59,770            
Santa Barbara         20,006              18,406              38,412            
Santa Cruz            13,494              18,594              32,088            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                       0                   0                   0            
LBL                        0               6,997               6,997            
LLL                        0              12,164              12,164            
Los Alamos                 0                 811                 811            
Other - UC             1,137               9,265              10,402            
CSL                        0               3,905               3,905            
CSU                      n/a               6,103               6,103            
Stanford                 n/a              13,378              13,378            
Other - Non UC           n/a             167,409             167,409            
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                     339,297             486,238             825,535            
                                                                                
Average number of FIND commands per hour:                                       
     12-2 a.m.         180                  12-2 p.m.      1,182                
     2-4 a.m.           94                  2-4 p.m.       1,447                
     4-6 a.m.           69                  4-6 p.m.         943                
     6-8 a.m.          149                  6-8 p.m.         341                
     8-10 a.m.         693                  8-10 p.m.        218                
     10-12 a.m.      1,255                  10-12 p.m.       204                
                                                                                
                                                                                
Total number of FIND commands                                825,535            
Peak hourly load of  2,197 FIND commands occurred on 08/30/99 at 2 pm           
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.1.4  Records Displayed                                                        
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Number of Records Displayed by location:                                        
                                                                                
Location               Library             Remote              Total            
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Berkeley             371,442           1,265,894           1,637,336            
Davis                761,790             101,978             863,768            
Irvine               484,294                   0             484,294            
Los Angeles          249,387             639,269             888,656            
Riverside            162,412             112,687             275,099            
San Diego             99,754             253,994             353,748            
San Francisco        581,772              15,482             597,254            
Santa Barbara        179,224             184,417             363,641            
Santa Cruz           107,661             171,491             279,152            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                       0                   0                   0            
LBL                        0              76,575              76,575            
LLL                        0             122,138             122,138            
Los Alamos                 0               4,282               4,282            
Other - UC            11,358              87,460              98,818            
CSL                        0              13,993              13,993            
CSU                      n/a              67,144              67,144            
Stanford                 n/a             152,119             152,119            
Other - Non UC           n/a           1,452,622           1,452,622            
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                   3,009,094           4,721,545           7,730,639            
                                                                                
Average number of records displayed  per hour:                                  
     12-2 a.m.       2,670                  12-2 p.m.     23,186                
     2-4 a.m.        2,337                  2-4 p.m.      27,663                
     4-6 a.m.        1,401                  4-6 p.m.      18,676                
     6-8 a.m.        3,039                  6-8 p.m.       7,515                
     8-10 a.m.      13,336                  8-10 p.m.      4,399                
     10-12 a.m.     23,400                  10-12 p.m.     3,771                
                                                                                
Total number of Records Displayed                          7,730,639            
Peak hourly load of   56,030 records displayed occurred on 08/02/99 at 10 am    
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.2  Relative Use of Databases                                                  
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             Number of      Number of           % of System    % of System      
Database     FIND Commands  Records Displayed   Sessions       Searches         
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CAT                341,891          2,610,412      40.7%           41.4%        
TEN                      0                  0       0.0%            0.0%        
PE                  19,344            158,644       2.6%            2.3%        
ABI                  8,040             15,845       0.9%            1.0%        
BIOSIS              30,657             39,481       3.5%            3.7%        
CC databases        82,907            921,832       9.9%           10.0%        
  CC                81,266            856,776       9.5%            9.8%        
  CCT                1,641             65,056       0.4%            0.2%        
IAC databases       44,625            508,365       5.4%            5.4%        
  MAGS              39,324            460,147       4.6%            4.8%        
  NEWS               3,463             30,009       0.5%            0.4%        
  COMP               1,838             18,209       0.3%            0.2%        
INS databases       31,769            251,926       5.3%            3.8%        
  INS               21,890            186,966       3.3%            2.7%        
  INS90              3,714             25,769       0.7%            0.4%        
  INS85              2,356             14,988       0.5%            0.3%        
  INS80              1,884             10,209       0.4%            0.2%        
  INS69              1,925             13,994       0.3%            0.2%        
MED databases      183,223          1,970,177      23.1%           22.2%        
  MED              142,765          1,686,397      16.3%           17.3%        
  MED90             19,233            135,644       3.1%            2.3%        
  MED85              9,350             56,173       1.7%            1.1%        
  MED80              5,677             37,951       1.0%            0.7%        
  MED75              3,267             23,861       0.6%            0.4%        
  MED66              2,931             30,151       0.4%            0.4%        
PSYC                34,124             53,079       3.1%            4.1%        
OCLC                32,873             39,408       4.0%            4.0%        
RLG                 13,358             22,830       1.1%            1.6%        
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.3  USE command                                                                
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Number of USE commands issued by system (numbers are attempts to connect):      
                                                                                
                                           Library       Remote        Total    
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  Licensed Systems:                                                             
    Congressional Quarterly                     0            0            0     
    ERIC (Stanford)                           384          254          638     
    GEOREF (Stanford)                         417          958        1,375     
    Hispanic American Periodicals Index         0            0            0     
    OCLC FirstSearch                        1,160        1,360        2,520     
    RLG Eureka                                605          635        1,240     
                                                                                
  Arizona State University                      7           18           25     
  Boston University                             3            6            9     
  California State Library                     13           31           44     
  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo                     0            0            0     
  Cal State Long Beach                          2            5            7     
  Cal State Univ., Hayward                     36          399          435     
  Cambridge University, England                 9           19           28     
  CARL                                          1           23           24     
  CARL Uncover                                 29          116          145     
  Chicano/Latino Net Gopher                     0            0            0     
  Claremont College                             2            3            5     
  Cleveland Free-Net                            8           70           78     
  Dartmouth College                             3           25           28     
  DIALOG                                       20           95          115     
  DRA LC                                       23           11           34     
  Earthquake Engineering Abstracts              0            0            0     
  FS INFO                                      15           46           61     
  Harvard                                      50          109          159     
  Library of Congress (LOCIS)                  88          396          484     
  Los Angeles Public Library                  105           33          138     
  National Agricultural Library                23           26           49     
  NLM AIDSDBS                                  12           13           25     
  NLM Databases (Medlars)                      93           78          171     
  Northern Regional Lib Facility              465          183          648     
  New York Public Library                       4           66           70     
  OCEAN Information Center                      0            0            0     
  OCLC Catalog                                 22          220          242     
  OCLC EPIC                                     1            2            3     
  Oxford University, England                    4           33           37     
  Princeton                                     0           14           14     
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute              0            5            5     
  RLIN                                        271          429          700     
  San Francisco State University                1            7            8     
  San Jose State University                     3           16           19     
  Santa Clara University (OSCAR)                3            9           12     
  Stanford University                         104          449          553     
  SUNY Buffalo (BISON)                         43           18           61     
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.3  USE command (continued)                                                    
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Number of USE commands issued by system:                                        
                                           Library       Remote        Total    
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  UCB GLADIS                                  608          959        1,567     
  UCB INFOCAL                                   0            0            0     
  UCD Gopher                                    0            0            0     
  UCI ANTPAC                                   91           41          132     
  UCLA ORION                                  458          259          717     
  UCSC CRUZCAT                                 50           88          138     
  UCSC INFOSLUG                                 0            0            0     
  UCSD ROGER                                   97          102          199     
  UCSF Catalog                                 60           24           84     
  Univ. of Hawaii                               3            6            9     
  Univ. of Tennessee                            1            4            5     
  Univ. of Michigan                             8           23           31     
  Univ. of New Mexico - Gen. Lib                0            0            0     
  Univ. of New Mexico                           0            0            0     
  Univ. of Texas, Austin                        9           22           31     
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute                0            3            3     
  Weather                                      48           24           72     
  WRLC                                          1            8            9     
  Yale                                         41           21           62     
  Other                                        22           11           33     
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Total number of USE commands                5,526        7,775       13,282     
                                                                                
1.4  Response time                                                              
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Search response time from receipt of command at                                 
DLA until transmission of response:                                             
  Average in seconds                                         1.0                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              4.4                
                                                                                
Display response time from receipt of command at                                
DLA until transmission of a complete screen:                                    
  Average in seconds                                         0.2                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              1.1                
                                                                                
1.5  Online Publications                                                        
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Current Cites                                                  0                
DLA Bulletin                                                   7                
Mynd of MELVYL                                                 0                
                                                                                
1.6  Search SET commands                                                        
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FIND SET                                                   1,981                
SAVE SET                                                   2,512                
RECALL SET                                                    40                
DELETE/CLEAR SET                                              67                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.7 Special Commands                                                            
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1.7.1 MAIL Commands                                                             
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Number of MAIL Commands                                   17,615                
                                                                                
1.7.2 REQUEST Commands                                                          
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Number of REQUEST Commands                                 2,004                
                                                                                
1.7.3 UPDATE Commands                                                           
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Number of UPDATE commands issued by location:                                   
                                                                                
Location               Library             Remote              Total            
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Berkeley                   3                   5                   8            
Davis                     11                   0                  11            
Irvine                     3                   0                   3            
Los Angeles               21                   0                  21            
Riverside                  0                   0                   0            
San Diego                  0                  10                  10            
San Francisco              9                   1                  10            
Santa Barbara              0                   2                   2            
Santa Cruz                 0                   1                   1            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                       0                   0                   0            
LBL                        0                   0                   0            
LLL                        0                   5                   5            
Los Alamos                 0                   0                   0            
Other - UC                 0                   0                   0            
CSL                        0                   0                   0            
CSU                      n/a                   0                   0            
Stanford                 n/a                   0                   0            
Other - Non UC           n/a                   3                   3            
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                          47                  27                  74            
                                                                                
1.7.4 Number of UPDATE commands by Database                                     
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CAT                                                               13            
PE                                                                 1            
TEN                                                                0            
CC databases                                                      18            
  CC                                                              16            
  CCT                                                              2            
IAC databases                                                      1            
  MAGS                                                             1            
  NEWS                                                             0            
  COMP                                                             0            
MED                                                               32            
INS                                                                2            
PSYC                                                               2            
ABI                                                                2            
BIOSIS                                                             3            
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.7.5 Other UPDATE Commands                                                     
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Number of RENEW UPDATE commands                                  277            
Number of DELETE UPDATE commands                                   0            
Number of SET UPDATE commands                                     14            
Number of REDO UPDATE commands                                     1            
                                                                                
                                                                                
Total number of UPDATEs on  08/31/99                           8,017