Crosstalk meeting on October 28, 1998

Library Services - Transformations Through Information Technology

• Electronic Reserves

  E-Reserves will provide access 24 hours a day to course reserve materials, including journal articles, conference papers, selections from books, lecture notes, and visual images.

• Databases

  The MIT libraries provide access to a wide array of full-text and citation databases. Interesting examples include Lexis/Nexis Universe and ProQuest Direct.

• Table of Contents Service

  Uncover Reveal provides members of the MIT Community with an e-mail notification service for tables of contents of journals and some recently published books.

• Electronic Theses

  E-Theses consists of two projects whose goal is to make the content of MIT theses available over the Web. The first, operating now, is a digital library of retrospectively-scanned theses. The second is a developing plan to collect theses submitted directly by students in electronic form, and add them to the same digital library.

Announcements

• Public Access Net Drops. Plug your laptop into the MIT network while doing research in the Libraries.

• WebBarton. The electronic catalog of the MIT libraries' collections is now available on the web.

• Data Center. The Libraries has begun to plan a service aimed at providing access to raw datasets. Contact Virginia Steel with questions or comments.