The University of California System announced last week that it would create a new library whose collection is entirely on line. The library will coordinate electronic-archiving projects on the system's nine campuses and will create a central data base of electronic materials that researchers can use from their own computers. Campus Computing Survey . The law is unclear, and the stakes are rising with the creation of online course materials. The directory contains more than 65,000 web sites chosen by EB editors for their quality, depth, and reliability.
Survey reveals impacts of e-mail usage .
Champaign recently completed an extensive research project that studied the impact of e-mail on human relationships and communication patterns. According to Alaina Kanfer, director the NCSA project, the initial findings show that e-mail users may need to rethink the way they use that technology. Our relationships are becoming more and more spread out, and as a result, communications could start to become more superficial. The preliminary results of the project show that e-mail users had significantly more communications with strangers and people outside their community, but those new, distant communications came at the expense of relationships with people closer to home. Having an online copy is great.