Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 10 Issue 5
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Now This/Editorial: Remodeling the Classroom at Loyola
Milo NelsonLoyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, and Bell Atlantic Network Integration have completed the first phase of Loyola's extensive computer and telecommunications network which is…
This Just In/News
Stanford Receives Donation to Overseas Center. Stanford University's Overseas Center in Kyoto, Japan, has received an inter‐network router from Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco donated…
Washington Inside Out
Government Must Save Computer Messages. A three‐judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has rejected arguments by the Clinton Administration…
American Diary: Georgia On My Line
Six Georgia universities have teamed up to launch a new computer bulletin board system that will provide a one‐stop source of news and information about research at the…
Sailing Through Cyberspace: Counting the Stars in Passing
Robert JacobsonThe global network that links the universe of computers is really many networks, each evolved in its own idiosyncratic fashion, whipped together like the frayed strands of cotton…
Multimedia and Learning: The Partnership Is Here and Here To Stay
William GatesLast June, when the U.S. Census Bureau released dismal statistics on the dropout rate in our high schools, then Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch responded…
Consumer Health Information: How It's Done In Danbury
Michael SchottGood ideas have simple beginnings, as I found out when I accepted a part‐time position as reference librarian at the Danbury (Connecticut) Public Library. At a time when health…
A CWIS In Time: It Should Be User Irresistible
Howard Jay StraussSome time ago I was invited to be a judge at an elementary school science fair. Before the judging took place, the other judges and I had a chance to meet with the budding…
OPAC Subject Access: Pet Peeves
Mary MiccoThis is the second in a series of columns featuring pet peeves about Online Public Access Catalogs. We encourage readers to join our columnist by sending in their own…
The Internet and Beyond
Ann FeeneyThe Library of Congress information systems are now open to public use via telnet, and this opens a great wealth of other information sources, as well as the famed Library of…
Global Access Information Network Receives Support
Apple Computer has named NYSERNet, Inc. as one of four 1993 “Apple Libraries of Tomorrow” and has given an equipment grant in support of Project GAIN, the Global Access…
Back to School With Apple: The Campaign for the College Market
Apple USA's Higher Education Division launched an aggressive fall campaign on the MTV Network to reach eighteen‐ to twenty‐five‐year‐old college students at leading universities…
AST Research Donates Computers to Vital Link
As students returned to school this year, AST Research, Inc. announced the donation of 400 computers to a national educational program, Vital Link, which prepares high‐school…