First library computer was an IBM PC with dual floppy drives purchased in 1982. Before that, the Reference department used printing terminals.
Participated in the initial American Memory Project of the Library of Congress 1990 - 1994. Set up workstations with CDROM drives and videodisc players.
Batch File June 1994 - to launch Mosaic
:mosaic.bat
@echo off
rem send "I am running Mosaic from 128.59.%IP%!" to mgreen > NUL
call g:\library\pub\apps\winsock\win.bat g:\library\pub\apps\mosaic\mosaic.exe
Hydrology Homework assignment about the web Jan 1998
In case you failed this test, please take the WWW/CLIO intro session at the BC library and have somebody from their staff (most likely Mary Ellen Tucker) sign this sheet below. We will work with the library to schedule appointments for all students. Please hand the sheet back to us after you took the intro.
Early Library web page
Barnard College Library
Barnard Library Resources:Barnard News and Information:Last update: August 31, 1994
Promoted online research through a series of faculty lectures about
"The Scholar and the Web"
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Jan 1984:
CLIO (Columbia Library Information Online) debuts as a text-based inquiry system accessible via Rolm dataphone and Telnet.
1993:
The era of the search engine begins. First there was Archie, then Hypertelnet, then Gopher, then the Web. In 1993, ColumbiaNet is hot, a million accesses per year (a figure soon to be dwarfed by the Web, see Web statistics table). ColumbiaNet is a text-based menu-driven service (remember text?). Here's the main menu, preserved for posterity:
Main Menu:
1: Directory Information (WWW)
2: AcIS--Academic Computing (WWW)
3: CLIO Plus--Library Catalogs, Indexes, Encyclopedia
4: Calendar, Events, & Schedules
5: Classes, Finals, Grades, Holds, Bulletins
6: Student Activities & Services
7: Faculty & Research
8: Job Opportunities
9: Connections to Computers & the Internet
10: University Administrative Services
11: Handbooks, Reports
12: Organization & Governance; The Record
13: Misc Info--News, Weather, Quotations, Books
14: Community Interest
15: ColumbiaNet News: New News: AP, Reuters Available
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