Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 10 Issue 3

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Now This/Editorial: Open (White) House

Milo Nelson

The 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 Nelson

Discusses 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 Nickerson

Examines 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 Sheppart

Discusses 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 Wright

Shows 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 Lynch

Z39.50 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 Feeney

Highlights 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…

ISSN:

1065-0741

Online date, start – end:

1993 – 2014

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited