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Newsletter 10, October 1995

World-Wide Web

To provide improved access to the Internet, Learning Support Services is setting up PCs suitable for use as World-Wide Web stations in the Libraries at Calverley Street, Beckett Park and Brunswick Terrace.

In each Library there will be three stations which will be available to users on a bookable basis. These stations will be installed for the beginning of the Autumn Term.

In addition, at each of Calverley Street and Beckett Park there will be a room containing 10 Web stations which will be bookable for class use. When not being used for classes, the workstations will also be individually bookable. These rooms will be commissioned during November 1995.

Web stations will be equipped with high-quality screens and sound equipment in order to provide the best environment to access information sources available over the Internet. Index pages are being written to help users find those information sources which are most relevant to the courses being studied.

Each Faculty is being asked to nominate two existing networked PCs as open-access Web stations for use by Faculty members.

We recognize that this is only a small beginning, and we hope to expand these facilities as upgrading of the data network takes place. The most significant of these upgrades are the installation of SuperJANET and improvements to the Calverley Street/Beckett Park link.