E-mail is the most commonly offered type of access. The most likely types of access available are WWW and gopher. Internet access is even more likely to be available to campus faculty, students, and staff outside the library. Access to the Internet is offered to the public at almost half of academic institutions and is more likely at doctorate-granting institutions. WWW access is most common and e-mail is least common.
Many academic libraries are information providers on the Internet.
Microcomputers not devoted to library functions are provided in over half of academic libraries. They are most likely to be provided for student use. Text scanning equipment is available in a few academic libraries, primarily in doctorate-granting institutions for faculty use. Text only CD-ROMs are available in almost all academic libraries but are much more likely to be available for use in the libraries than for loan. Multimedia CD-ROMs are available for use in most academic libraries but are not often available for loan.