Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 11 Issue 1
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Now This/Editorial
Les LloydDuring 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 StraussIt'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 ReaganThe 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 DebrecenyTraditional 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 KleinIn 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 DaileyTimes 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 MeikleUTLife 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 WeberLafayette 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 WigginsUniversities revolve around knowledge — its discovery, dissemination, and preservation. In order to achieve its knowledge mission, a university also must disseminate information…