MELVYL SYSTEM TELNET STATISTICS                          
                 Time period: 09/01/99 through 09/30/99                         
                                                                                
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              19,481              43,450              62,931            
Davis                 26,650               4,038              30,688            
Irvine                16,002                   0              16,002            
Los Angeles            7,157              18,918              26,075            
Riverside              5,255               3,465               8,720            
San Diego              6,735               9,865              16,600            
San Francisco         19,188                 491              19,679            
Santa Barbara          5,824               6,702              12,526            
Santa Cruz             4,412               6,396              10,808            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                       4                   0                   4            
LBL                        0               2,584               2,584            
LLL                        0               2,618               2,618            
Los Alamos                 0                  60                  60            
Other - UC               951               3,936               4,887            
CSL                        0                 917                 917            
CSU                      n/a               2,223               2,223            
Stanford                 n/a               4,568               4,568            
Other - Non UC           n/a              47,840              47,840            
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                     111,659             158,071             269,730            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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.         120                  
  2-4 a.m.           11                  2-4 p.m.          143                  
  4-6 a.m.            8                  4-6 p.m.           94                  
  6-8 a.m.           14                  6-8 p.m.           36                  
  8-10 a.m.          66                  8-10 p.m.          24                  
  10-12 a.m.        121                  10-12 p.m.         20                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
Total connect hours for MELVYL MEDLINE:                                         
  For UC users (hrs:mins)                                6369.83                
  For Non-UC users (hrs:mins)                             428.47                
                                                                                
                                                                                
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              62,707             129,551             192,258            
Davis                 85,041              14,938              99,979            
Irvine                47,153                   0              47,153            
Los Angeles           23,509              54,272              77,781            
Riverside             16,246               9,224              25,470            
San Diego             18,380              25,795              44,175            
San Francisco         56,391               1,589              57,980            
Santa Barbara         20,405              18,946              39,351            
Santa Cruz            12,685              22,554              35,239            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                       2                   0                   2            
LBL                        0               6,280               6,280            
LLL                        0               8,753               8,753            
Los Alamos                 0                 138                 138            
Other - UC             1,402              11,940              13,342            
CSL                        0               2,914               2,914            
CSU                      n/a               9,453               9,453            
Stanford                 n/a              13,689              13,689            
Other - Non UC           n/a             175,528             175,528            
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                     343,921             505,564             849,485            
                                                                                
Average number of FIND commands per hour:                                       
     12-2 a.m.         163                  12-2 p.m.      1,286                
     2-4 a.m.          132                  2-4 p.m.       1,528                
     4-6 a.m.           92                  4-6 p.m.         977                
     6-8 a.m.          199                  6-8 p.m.         374                
     8-10 a.m.         724                  8-10 p.m.        240                
     10-12 a.m.      1,302                  10-12 p.m.       219                
                                                                                
                                                                                
Total number of FIND commands                                849,485            
Peak hourly load of  2,401 FIND commands occurred on 09/03/99 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             580,229           1,453,359           2,033,588            
Davis                687,926              86,760             774,686            
Irvine               449,261                   0             449,261            
Los Angeles          218,537             574,138             792,675            
Riverside            135,864              88,278             224,142            
San Diego            113,559             245,470             359,029            
San Francisco        619,691              16,616             636,307            
Santa Barbara        166,328             190,045             356,373            
Santa Cruz           100,905             154,650             255,555            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                      21                   0                  21            
LBL                        0              71,303              71,303            
LLL                        0              88,623              88,623            
Los Alamos                 0                 810                 810            
Other - UC            19,105             131,249             150,354            
CSL                        0              13,759              13,759            
CSU                      n/a             101,005             101,005            
Stanford                 n/a             159,420             159,420            
Other - Non UC           n/a           1,350,376           1,350,376            
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                   3,091,426           4,725,861           7,817,287            
                                                                                
Average number of records displayed  per hour:                                  
     12-2 a.m.       2,522                  12-2 p.m.     24,424                
     2-4 a.m.        2,622                  2-4 p.m.      28,744                
     4-6 a.m.        1,567                  4-6 p.m.      18,702                
     6-8 a.m.        3,214                  6-8 p.m.       7,710                
     8-10 a.m.      13,031                  8-10 p.m.      5,384                
     10-12 a.m.     24,181                  10-12 p.m.     4,240                
                                                                                
Total number of Records Displayed                          7,817,287            
Peak hourly load of   41,854 records displayed occurred on 09/28/99 at 11 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                354,008          2,659,532      40.2%           41.7%        
TEN                      0                  0       0.0%            0.0%        
PE                  24,942            213,247       2.8%            2.9%        
ABI                  7,048             11,926       0.8%            0.8%        
BIOSIS              34,067             45,464       3.9%            4.0%        
CC databases        81,443            839,057       9.8%            9.6%        
  CC                79,929            780,248       9.4%            9.4%        
  CCT                1,514             58,809       0.5%            0.2%        
IAC databases       47,226            556,809       5.7%            5.6%        
  MAGS              41,578            504,485       4.9%            4.9%        
  NEWS               4,165             34,873       0.6%            0.5%        
  COMP               1,483             17,451       0.2%            0.2%        
INS databases       30,177            223,474       5.1%            3.6%        
  INS               20,354            162,224       3.2%            2.4%        
  INS90              3,696             19,773       0.7%            0.4%        
  INS85              2,525             15,313       0.5%            0.3%        
  INS80              1,884             10,930       0.4%            0.2%        
  INS69              1,718             15,234       0.3%            0.2%        
MED databases      181,765          2,020,742      22.3%           21.4%        
  MED              142,529          1,690,885      15.9%           16.8%        
  MED90             18,997            163,197       3.0%            2.2%        
  MED85              8,932             80,074       1.5%            1.1%        
  MED80              5,569             41,488       1.0%            0.7%        
  MED75              3,143             23,181       0.5%            0.4%        
  MED66              2,595             21,917       0.4%            0.3%        
PSYC                33,879             52,699       3.1%            4.0%        
OCLC                39,162             44,561       4.5%            4.6%        
RLG                 12,905             15,430       1.4%            1.5%        
                                                                                
                                                                                
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)                           465          252          717     
    GEOREF (Stanford)                         373          937        1,310     
    Hispanic American Periodicals Index         0            0            0     
    OCLC FirstSearch                            0            0            0     
    RLG Eureka                                638          568        1,206     
                                                                                
  Arizona State University                      2           18           20     
  Boston University                             2            4            6     
  California State Library                      0           16           16     
  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo                     0            0            0     
  Cal State Long Beach                          0            6            6     
  Cal State Univ., Hayward                     38          206          244     
  Cambridge University, England                 4           11           15     
  CARL                                          7           21           28     
  CARL Uncover                                 35          109          144     
  Chicano/Latino Net Gopher                     0            0            0     
  Claremont College                             4            3            7     
  Cleveland Free-Net                            7          122          129     
  Dartmouth College                             2            9           11     
  DIALOG                                        4          146          150     
  DRA LC                                       28            7           35     
  Earthquake Engineering Abstracts              0            0            0     
  FS INFO                                       2           31           33     
  Harvard                                      62          106          168     
  Library of Congress (LOCIS)                  57          303          360     
  Los Angeles Public Library                  132           29          161     
  National Agricultural Library                28           18           46     
  NLM AIDSDBS                                  10           18           28     
  NLM Databases (Medlars)                      86           78          164     
  Northern Regional Lib Facility              459          154          613     
  New York Public Library                       1           31           32     
  OCEAN Information Center                      0            0            0     
  OCLC Catalog                                  8          307          315     
  OCLC EPIC                                     0            3            3     
  Oxford University, England                    4           22           26     
  Princeton                                     1            9           10     
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute              0            2            2     
  RLIN                                        268          375          643     
  San Francisco State University                4            2            6     
  San Jose State University                     9            7           16     
  Santa Clara University (OSCAR)                0            7            7     
  Stanford University                          82          497          579     
  SUNY Buffalo (BISON)                         41           23           64     
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                  739        1,025        1,764     
  UCB INFOCAL                                   0            0            0     
  UCD Gopher                                    0            0            0     
  UCI ANTPAC                                   73           42          115     
  UCLA ORION                                  379          196          575     
  UCSC CRUZCAT                                 41           84          125     
  UCSC INFOSLUG                                 0            0            0     
  UCSD ROGER                                   71           95          166     
  UCSF Catalog                                 59           16           75     
  Univ. of Hawaii                               6            8           14     
  Univ. of Tennessee                            0            0            0     
  Univ. of Michigan                             9           13           22     
  Univ. of New Mexico - Gen. Lib                0            0            0     
  Univ. of New Mexico                           0            0            0     
  Univ. of Texas, Austin                        3           14           17     
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute                0            1            1     
  Weather                                      64           16           80     
  WRLC                                          0            0            0     
  Yale                                         51           18           69     
  Other                                        24           13           37     
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Total number of USE commands                4,382        5,998       10,364     
                                                                                
1.4  Response time                                                              
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Search response time from receipt of command at                                 
DLA until transmission of response:                                             
  Average in seconds                                         1.1                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              5.4                
                                                                                
Display response time from receipt of command at                                
DLA until transmission of a complete screen:                                    
  Average in seconds                                         0.3                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.9                
                                                                                
1.5  Online Publications                                                        
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Current Cites                                                  1                
DLA Bulletin                                                   4                
Mynd of MELVYL                                                 0                
                                                                                
1.6  Search SET commands                                                        
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FIND SET                                                   2,079                
SAVE SET                                                   2,509                
RECALL SET                                                    43                
DELETE/CLEAR SET                                             147                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.7 Special Commands                                                            
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1.7.1 MAIL Commands                                                             
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Number of MAIL Commands                                   16,926                
                                                                                
1.7.2 REQUEST Commands                                                          
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Number of REQUEST Commands                                 2,091                
                                                                                
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                   4                  10                  14            
Davis                     12                   1                  13            
Irvine                     3                   0                   3            
Los Angeles                2                   4                   6            
Riverside                  0                   5                   5            
San Diego                  1                  10                  11            
San Francisco             20                   1                  21            
Santa Barbara              0                   2                   2            
Santa Cruz                 1                   3                   4            
NRLF                       0                   0                   0            
SRLF                       0                   0                   0            
LBL                        0                   0                   0            
LLL                        0                   3                   3            
Los Alamos                 0                   3                   3            
Other - UC                 0                   1                   1            
CSL                        0                   0                   0            
CSU                      n/a                   0                   0            
Stanford                 n/a                   3                   3            
Other - Non UC           n/a                  11                  11            
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                          43                  57                 100            
                                                                                
1.7.4 Number of UPDATE commands by Database                                     
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CAT                                                               21            
PE                                                                 0            
TEN                                                                0            
CC databases                                                      21            
  CC                                                              19            
  CCT                                                              2            
IAC databases                                                      6            
  MAGS                                                             4            
  NEWS                                                             1            
  COMP                                                             1            
MED                                                               33            
INS                                                                5            
PSYC                                                               1            
ABI                                                                0            
BIOSIS                                                            12            
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.7.5 Other UPDATE Commands                                                     
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Number of RENEW UPDATE commands                                  286            
Number of DELETE UPDATE commands                                   0            
Number of SET UPDATE commands                                     13            
Number of REDO UPDATE commands                                     0            
                                                                                
                                                                                
Total number of UPDATEs on  09/30/99                           8,112