All are examples of technology that can now be accessed at the L.A. Beeghly Library on the Juniata College campus. The use of technology is increasing in all areas of education, including the library. Visitors in the Beeghly Library utilize technology to a much greater extent today than ever before. To accommodate the increasing use of computers, the library now has an electronic card catalogue as well as computer plug-in ports stationed in two recently installed study rooms and approximately 20 study carrels.
Students can carry their laptops to the library and hookup to the campus network.
The Internet provides another source of modern library technology. Lexis-Nexis and First Search are two research databases available to students on Juniata's L.A. Beeghly Library Internet home page. The Lexis portion deals with legal matters, such as legal issues, the legal profession, and law journals. The Nexis side of it is basically full-text news wires from around the world. First Search, on the other hand, is a collection of 60 databases that basically serve as an electronic periodical index much like the Readers' Guide To Periodical Literature in print form.