Number 10, September 1994
Over the summer the Library added eight new titles to its CD-ROM network. The new titles include three broad, interdisciplinary indexes, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Humanities Index,and Social Sciences Index; and the more subject-specific PAIS International and Religion Index. Also added were three U.S. government sources: GPO CAT/PAC: Index to Government Publications; NESE: National Economic, Social & Environmental Data Bank; and NTDB: National Trade Data Bank.
With the addition of these titles there are now seventeen CD-ROM indexes on the network, which can be searched from any of eight workstations in the Main and Science Libraries. Plans call for making the CD-ROM network available over the campus fiber-optic network in late September or October. Access over the campus network will mean that these sources will be searchable from the Art and Conservatory Libraries, as well as from networked computers in private offices and dorms across campus.
The Library also makes available a number of non-networked CD-ROM titles (i.e. sources which must be searched from a single in-library workstation). The newest addition to this category will be a title now on order for the Science Library, NIST: Critical Stability Constants of Metal Complexes. The CD-ROM version of this important chemistry source will provide data previously available only in a cumbersome, out-of-date print format.
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