Dissertation Abstracts from 1861 to present and NewsBank have moved from CD-ROM to the Web. America History and Life , Historical Abstracts , and Philosopher's Index will be moving to networked Web versions in the future. Hardware and software implications. Faster computers speed the processing and display of incoming Web pages. Public computer equipment in the libraries has been substantially upgraded to accommodate the changes.
Help is available.
As always, we welcome your questions at the reference and information desks as you navigate the networked resources available through the Library Gateway. We added new high-end equipment in our Reference areas, shifted faster computers to the Olin stacks, and replaced all of our older public use Apple LCIIs in order to provide enhanced access to the Library Gateway's Networked Resources and to better position ourselves for the advent of the Digital Library. With this move all of our library kiosk workstations are Web accessible. The first thing you will notice is that there are now Windows-based PCs mixed in with our familiar Apple Power Mac machines. We have added 22 Compaq Deskpro 2000 computers as our public workstations in Olin Reference, replaced Power Macs in each of the stack levels of Olin and Kroch libraries, and provided a selection of both PCs and Power Macs in the Uris and Kroch Asia reference rooms.