The user interface was designed in partnership with the talented librarians and computer-center staff at USC, under the direction of John Waiblinger. We are so pleased with this partnership that we have extended it for another year. In that year we plan to continue adding news and opinion articles, and to supplement them with features such as our New Scholarly Books list, our Calendar of Events, and Fact Files such as enrollment by race. USC students and faculty members can walk up to any public terminal and search, read, and download Chronicle articles, or gain access to USCInfo from their desks through their free accounts. We have seen use of The OnLine Chronicle bloom, running more than 200 hours in a typical month.
People browse on line.
They read through headlines to find stories that appeal to them, then call up the stories themselves. I'm sorry to say we are not yet ready for Hypertext, as Kirkland said Bonk and Sievers reported, but we haven't ruled it out, either. We hope that we will soon be able to make an electronic Chronicle widely available. Pergamon pricing policy that recently came to light here at Claremont, partly as a result of a serials review project that focuses on publishers as well as high-priced journals. I regret having to take this action, but this is necessary in fairness to the many libraries who support this journal, thereby making its continued publication possible.