Academic and Library Computing: Volume 9 Issue 4

News Briefs

Nancy Melin Nelson

PROTEX™ Keyboarding System Fights Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) currently costs U.S. employers in excess of $27 billion annually in absenteeism and worker's…

Integrated Library Systems: A Primer on Z39.50: Part Three

Mark Hinnebusch

Continues with the third part of an article on the topic of theNISO Z39.50 protocol for remote search and retrieval of information.Describes the various Protocol Data Units (PDUs…

The Library in Academic Computing: UNIX Revisited

D. Scoff Brandt

Presents an in‐depth view of some aspects of UNIX, especially thoserelating to communicating on the Internet. Details some of UNIX′shistory, from its invention onwards and…

Online Public Access Catalogs: Linking OPACs: Policy Issues and Considerations

Bernie Sloan

Continues on from an article in the previous issue with an overviewof policy issues and considerations, focusing on some strategicrecommendations made by the May 1987 task force…