Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 10 Issue 4

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Now This/Editorial

Milo Nelson

Leaving the Campus, Getting Smart The truth, so important to ancient Greek philosophers, was meant to be teased out of students by a barrage of questions and follow‐up questions…

This Just In/News

DEC Announces Digital Channel. Digital Equipment Corporation has announced the Digital Channel, a combination of new products and services that enable cable TV operators to…

Washington Inside Out

Federal Government Has Proactive Role in Telecommunications. A new, private industry report sponsored by Telephone Engineer & Management and publisher Advanstar Communications…

American Diary

Like all truly good and lasting ideas, the idea behind the founding of Futurekids, Inc. was the product of a single committed and dedicated individual — Peter Markovitz.

E‐Mail Is The Campus‐Wide Information System!

John Mayer

In the fall of 1993, the law school will be going into its fifth year of being networked, and the application that has had the most impact on the culture of the institution is…

Call Me Elijah: Microcomputer Circulation at Southern Illinois

Paul Anthony

In July of 1989, the Circulation Department of Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville began to employ a microcomputer‐based circulation system for…

IBM's LANkit: Simplifying Network Management

Kenneth Marks

Reviews the potential of the IBM Academic LANkit, a packageoriginally used to create networked classrooms and laboratories, and nowseen as being useful for libraries. Shows how…

The Joy of CWIS: Establishing the Human Scale

Howard Jay Strauss

Looks at the prospects of implementing CWIS networks. Considers theissues of cost savings, staff reductions, improved scholarship, timesavings, computer resource reductions, data…

OPAC Subject Access: Pet Peeves

Mary Micco

This is the first 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 Feeney

One useful feature on the net is the University of Michigan Weather Underground. It provides weather forecasts for most parts of the United States and Canada, conveniently…

ISSN:

1065-0741

Online date, start – end:

1993 – 2014

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited