The service involves using both print and electronic resources to help answer questions. In 1997, the Reference Staffs in the system answered more than 131,735 queries. There are two Infotrac services available. One is the General Periodical Index which retrieves bibliographic citations from news and popular magazines. It indexes topics that are current as well as several years old.
Abstracts are available for some magazine citations.
The other index is the Health Infotrac which is a health and medical database. It retrieves full text articles from magazines, newsletters and professional journals. The full-text articles cover December 1996 to present. College Source College Source is a collection of catalogs from colleges and universities in the United States. It contains such pertinent information as admission criteria and tuition rate.