Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 10 Issue 3
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Now This/Editorial: Open (White) House
Milo NelsonThe White House Communications Office is distributing press releases on an experimental system developed during the Clinton campaign at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at…
This Just In/News
New Cambridge Databases on Magnetic Tape. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts has introduced a new line of magnetic tape databases for users of local area networks. The databases offer…
Washington Inside Out
GPO Access Bill Passes the Senate. The Government Printing Office Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993 was passed by the Senate on March 22. A discussion between…
American Diary: Floppy Notes for Standing Tall
The changing way information is delivered to a campus is sometimes no more innovative, but nevertheless useful, than a new way of packaging information in a format less…
The Kiosks are Coming! They're Going to Change Campus Life
Milo NelsonDiscusses the increased use and planning of self‐serviceinteractive kiosks that provide public information services. Looks atinteractive multimedia kiosks in USAir′s new terminal…
Access to Global Contacts: Online Community Information Services
Gord NickersonExamines developments in online community information services,especially now that many homes have computers with modems and manypeople are familiar with the concept and use of…
Going to Class, But Not Going to School: Learning from a Distance in Oklahoma
Dwight SheppartDiscusses various experiments in higher education distancelearning. Examines an attempt made by three Oklahoma companies to offertheir employees a chance to go to college without…
CYFERNET: A Virtual Library for Sharing Information
John Kane, Sharon WrightShows how new project directions within the US Department ofAgriculture Extension Service and the virtual revolution incommunications technologies have allowed the Youth…
Integrated Library Systems
Denis LynchZ39.50 Extended Services. Most production information services provide a suite of services that are not strictly information retrieval, but support real‐world information…
The Internet and Beyond
Ann FeeneyHighlights various useful online sites, BBSs, and other sources ofinformation accessible by computer, emphasizing sites available throughthe Internet, but sites of special…
TOPIC Streamlines Access to Scientific Journals
With hundreds of thousands of documents to be stored, cataloged, and made readily available to students, faculty, and researchers, a university library is a natural environment…
Trends in Information Services: The Deloitte & Touche Survey
Deloitte & Touche, an information technology consulting service, has released its annual survey of chief information officers in industries ranging from publishing to…