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Shalvoy, Mary Lee – Electronic Learning, 1987
This description of workstations, i.e., multipurpose computers expected to become one of the dominant forms of computing in higher education, focuses on computer vendors and market considerations. Highlights include hardware requirements, cost factors, the relationship of vendors and educators, software development problems, and possible future…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Corporate Support, Costs
Peer reviewedMoran, Barbara B.; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1987
Describes the Scholar's Workstation project, a campuswide computerization project at Brown University, and assesses its effects on the role and operation of the institution's libraries. Suggestions are provided for other libraries whose institutions are exploring the possibility of a similar venture. (CLB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedWeiskel, Timothy C. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
New technologies for generating, storing, and transmitting information will radically change information flow on college campuses and in society at large. University librarians will need to design environments for storing and retrieving these new types of information that will continue to nurture the life of the mind and support scholarship.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Networks, Costs
