As you prepare for spring semester, remember that the library staff would be pleased to help plan a class that will introduce your students to the resources and literature search skills needed for their course work. These classes are usually held in the library where the facilities for demonstrating the online catalog, CD indexes, and internet resources are set up in advance. The hardware and software for the system were provided to us by the North Country 3 R's Council. They provided the system to SUNY Potsdam, SUNY Oswego, Clarkson and St. Lawrence Universities. Documents are scanned at the holding library's site, transmitted over the Internet and printed atthe receiving libraries site.
Material is scanned directly from the original print source.
Copy is superior to faxed material, especially for technical data. This amounts to a considerable saving on mailing and telephone costs. Thousands of libraries in North America have the capability of sending and receiving via Ariel. We now send out and receive dozens of documents each day on the system. The College Libraries, in the summer of 1995, began the task of listing all periodical holdings on Bearcat, our online catalog.