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Famulus: A Personal Information System User's Manual (For Ibm System Users), Robert L. Bolin

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

This manual explains how to use the FAMULUS program package in a computing environment where most text is input through terminals and most files are stored on disks. I adapted it from a manual prepared in 1969, and I have gotten some ideas and examples from three other manuals. The main change I made was to recommend using an interactive editor program to prepare and perfect the FAMULUS records.

The original manual described this mode of operation:

1. Preparing records on punched cards.

2. Creating a master file on tape by using the FAMULUS program called EDIT.

3. Editing records …

A Famulus Index To Georgia State College Of Agriculture Bulletins And Circulars, Robert L. Bolin

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

This is an index to the: Bulletins and Circulars issued by the Georgia State College of Agriculture between 1912 and 1933. The issues indexed include academic catalogs and announcements, research reports, and extension publications. The index contains chronological listings and listings sorted by title and by sponsoring department . The FAMULUS Personal Information System computer program package, developed by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, was used to prepare the index.

Daniel Denton (C.1626–1703), Paul Royster

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Daniel Denton wrote and published A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF NEW-YORK: FORMERLY CALLED NEW-NETHERLANDS in London in 1670. The work was a promotional tract designed to encourage English settlement of territories lately seized from the Dutch. It is one of the earliest English accounts of the geography, climate, economy, and native inhabitants of the region that includes present-day New York City, Long Island, Staten Island, and New Jersey. The tract is perhaps most famous for its early statement of Manifest Destiny: how “a Divine Hand makes way for them [the English settlers] by removing or cutting off the Indians, either by …

Joshua Scottow (C.1618–1698), Paul Royster

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Joshua Scottow was a colonial American merchant and the author of two histories of early New England: OLD MEN’S TEARS FOR THEIR OWN DECLENSIONS (1691) and A NARRATIVE OF THE PLANTING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONY ANNO 1628 (1694). This article contains a brief biography, a critical appraisal, and bibliography of references. Scottow settled in Boston where he was a member of the Old (South) Church. He traded with Acadia (Quebec), developed frontier settlements near Scarborough (Maine), and served as a captain in King Philip’s War. Scottow was a devout supporter of the orthodox New England theocracy. His two histories are …