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Network Bulletin No. 97-56 Date: October 24, 1997 Subject: CMLS Index term: Frequently asked questions from network libraries Network libraries should be aware of two matters concerning CMLS: 1. NLS representatives distributed a document concerning CMLS at the 1997 regional conferences, _Comprehensive Mailing List System--Frequently Asked Questions from Network Libraries_. This document provides guidance to network libraries in their daily tasks of maintaining the CMLS magazine database and responding to patrons' requests. In order to ensure that all network libraries have a copy of this document, we are distributing it again with this network bulletin. 2. In response to concerns expressed at the 1997 regional conferences, existing procedures will be modified by the CMLS contractor in regard to correspondence (a letter or a note written on an order form or survey) that indicates a patron is deceased. Starting this month, the CMLS data entry staff will suspend service to deceased patrons who are still in an active or presuspended status on CMLS. The correspondence will be returned to the patron's library, attached to a form indicating that action has been taken. If service to the patron has already been suspended, the correspondence will be stamped "Patron already suspended on CMLS" and returned to the library. If this procedure creates problems for your library, please let us know. [Enclosure: This report contained an enclosure that was mailed to the network on October 24, 1997.] For further information contact: Barbara Peterman CMLS Coordinator