Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 11 Issue 1

Now This/Editorial

Les Lloyd

During the past few months at Lafayette College, we've discussed the issues and process behind our decision to move e‐mail off our IBM minicomputer. Newsletter articles have…

News Bytes

Internet Security Problems. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), responsible for monitoring security attacks on the Internet, recently issued a warning that internet…

Data Day: CWIS Miss

Howard Jay Strauss

It's No Use. For the last six years, since I first got involved with CWISs, I've written dozens of CWIS articles, taught CWIS seminars in every imaginable place, and generally…

Melvyl® System Revised Search Sheet

Marcia Henry, Linda Keenan, Michael Reagan

The following Melvyl system search sheet updates the 1991 search sheet published in the first edition of Search Sheets for OPACs on the Internet. Although the first edition's…

The Planning, Development, and Maintenance of CWISs: Experience Under the Southern Cross

Roger Debreceny

Traditional patterns of communications between universities and students are multifaceted, relying on a range of printed handbooks, guides, and publications, many of which are…

Lafayette College's Network Project Description

Jim Klein

In the fall of 1988, the vision of Lafayette College President David Ellis began to be realized when the Board of Trustees committed to create a leading‐edge campus‐wide computer…

The Rutgers University Campus‐Wide Information System

William Dailey

Times are changing. There was a day when you would walk to the corner store for the morning newspaper, to catch up on the events of the previous day. Maybe all you had was do is…

UTLife: University of Toronto Library's Information for Everyone CWIS

Marshall Clinton, Chantal Payette, Sophia Kaszuba, Sian Meikle

UTLife is the CWIS Gopher of the University of Toronto Library (UTL). Recently installed, it encountered many of the classic problems of Gopher development, including menu design…

Tech Talk: Networked CD‐ROM Drives in a NetWare Environment

Mark Weber

Lafayette College currently provides access to thirty‐two shared CD‐ROM data‐bases of various types ranging from the complete works of Shakespeare to the ProPhone national…

Building a Campus‐Wide Information System

Richard Wiggins

Universities revolve around knowledge — its discovery, dissemination, and preservation. In order to achieve its knowledge mission, a university also must disseminate information…