Academic and Library Computing: Volume 9 Issue 8

News Briefs

Nancy Melin Nelson

GTE's Smart CampusSM. Today's college‐bound students are growing up in a quickly evolving world of electronic information access. From the telephone, radio, cable TV, and personal…

Integrated Library Systems: A Primer on Z39.50: Part Seven

Mark Hinnebusch

I promised that this month I would demonstrate a Z39.50 connection by emulating the two systems, showing the messages the protocol data units (PDUs) generated by each system…

Instructional Computing: Integrating Network‐Based Information Services into Instructional Settings

Christinger Tomer

In the first installment of this series, the discussion focused mainly on the technologies that support participation in computermediated conferences. This installment looks…

The Library in Academic Computing: Information Development—Collection Issues and Campus‐Wide Systems

D. Scott Brandt

Campus‐wide information systems have grown over the last ten years from barely interactive, text‐oriented mainframe applications to highly interactive decentralized systems that…