Academic and Library Computing: Volume 9 Issue 10

Publisher's Note

Alan Meckler

When you next receive this newsletter it will be called Campus‐Wide Information Systems. The new name also brings with it a new design and format. Campus‐Wide Information Systems…

News Briefs

Nancy Melin Nelson

VTLS to Create Online Catalog for Virginia. The Virginia State Library and Archives in Richmond, which has used the VTLS integrated online library system software since 1983, has…

Instructional Computing: Anonymous FTP Resources

Christinger Tomer

In the last installment of this series on network resources, we took a look at some of the services available across the Internet via remote log‐on. In this article, we will…

Integrated Library Systems: The Z39.50 EXPLAIN Service

Mark Hinnebusch

Now that we have a fully defined protocol with a nice set of services and well defined PDUs, can we build useful Z39.50 origin and target systems? The answer is a resounding…

Data Day: CWIS: What's In A Name?

Howard Jay Strauss

What is this Thing Called CWIS? Once you're sure you need a CWIS, you might like to know just what it is you've decided you must have. In October 1989, I presented the paper…

Campus‐Wide Computing: Accessing Electronic Journals

D. Scott Brandt

Electronic journals, or e‐journals, can come in many forms, and are of interest for many reasons. In the growing environment of information retrieval under a client/server model…