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            The Public-Access Computer Systems Review

Volume 4, Number 1 (1993)                          ISSN 1048-6542
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                            CONTENTS

COMMUNICATIONS

The University of Pennsylvania's PennInfo Campus-Wide Information
System

     By Alfred C. D'Souza (pp. 5-12)

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While there has been an interest in campus-wide information
systems and videotext applications at the University of
Pennsylvania for quite some time, it was in the Summer of 1991
that the University's Department of Data Communications and
Computing Services (DCCS) led a formal campus-wide effort to
determine the best approach for implementing a campus-wide
information system (CWIS) for Penn.  After evaluating three
systems as well as local development, MIT's TechInfo CWIS was
chosen.  TechInfo was customized for the Penn environment to
create PennInfo, which runs on a dedicated 24 MIP DECstation
5000/200 with two (RZ57) 1.3 gigabyte disk drives under Ultrix
v4.2.  A critically important feature of the system design is its
client/server architecture.  This client/server architecture
enables Penn to distribute the responsibility for posting
information on the system, and it reduces the potential for
performance bottlenecks by utilizing the computing power of
end-users' desktop workstations.

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COLUMNS

Casting the Net

     USMARC Format Integration, Part II: Implications for Local
     Systems

     By Priscilla Caplan (pp. 13-17)

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Recursive Reviews

     The Challenge of Multimedia Networking

     By Martin Halbert (pp. 18-23)

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REVIEWS

The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking,
by Tracy LaQuey (with Jeanne C. Ryer).

     Reviewed by David F. W. Robison (pp. 24-28)

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Editor-in-Chief

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
University Libraries
University of Houston
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Associate Editors

Columns: Leslie Pearse, OCLC
Communications: Dana Rooks, University of Houston
Reviews: Roy Tennant, University of California, Berkeley

Editorial Board

Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin
George H. Brett II, Clearinghouse for Networked Information
     Discovery and Retrieval
Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc.
Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath
Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
Charles Hildreth, University of Washington
Ronald Larsen, University of Maryland
Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation,
     University of California
David R. McDonald, Tufts University
R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego
Paul Evan Peters, Coalition for Networked Information
Mike Ridley, University of Waterloo
Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College
Peter Stone, University of Sussex
John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University


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University of Houston.  Technical support is provided by the
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