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January 2001 Volume 3 Number 1 Page 6 |
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![[Photo of folded newspapers and reading glasses]](../images/news.gif) From the Press |
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Cover Story Features |
"SUNY is smart to begin [sic] to use the
Internet to tie campus libraries together. ... The plan is to connect each of the 64
campuses by 2004, at a cost of $19.4 million. The governor and the Legislature as they
look each year for budget items to pare, shouldn't pick on this one. It is a decidedly
good move for the SUNY System." Editorial Rochester Democrat & Chronicle November 29, 2000 "We're really delighted to be
participating in SUNYConnect. This has been a long time coming for statewide SUNY
services. ...This [SUNY-wide purchase of LMS] is great for us." "SUNY is not the first state university system to begin such a project [as SUNYConnect].
Ohio...California, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Virginia have similarly
ambitious library projects...'If SUNY wants to stay...there...attracting students, we
really need to do something like [SUNYConnect],' Ms [Julie] Wash says." "'You remove the overhead that's generated when multiple campuses negotiate with a
single vendor,' [Director of Binghamton Libraries, Eleanor] Heishman said. 'The whole idea
is that it will leverage the collective strength of all the SUNY libraries.'" "'ALEPH 500 will allow students to directly access, request and borrow materials
from any SUNY library around the clock,' said Andrew Perry, assistant director of
libraries. 'The SUNY online union catalog will be of great use to our research faculty.
They'll be able to access much more material, much quicker.'" Plattsburgh's Dean of Library and Information Services "Oberman said that the
installation of the [Aleph] system will involve a massive amount of work including
reconfiguring the current [Plattsburgh] library database so it can be loaded onto the new
system...'Trying to standardize the system across SUNY is a huge, huge undertaking.' she
said. [SUNYConnect will eventually] 'link all 64 campuses giving [library] access
very easily and seamlessly to faculty, staff and students.'"
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