Equipment
- 400 workstations in 6 library buildings in 4 cities (~200 are for staff, 200 for public); 85% XP and 15% Mac; 30 laptops for two hour checkout at Daley
- 19 servers (5 Sun, 6 linux, 7 Mac, 1 Windows 2003)
- Video teleconferencing network
- 2 InfoTech Arcades (8 machines plus various peripherals)
- 3 classrooms (36 workstations)
- >50 printers
- >20 document scanners
- plus miscellaneous peripherals (barcode scanners, slide scanners, portable hard drives)
Software
- Endeavor Voyager for library catalog, cataloging, circulation, acquisitions and serials control; member of CARLI
consortia.
- Desktop clients and desktop software (from email/web to word processing/spreadsheets)
- Calendaring (Oracle) software
- Webfeat interface software (qUICsearch and qUICsearchVEL)
- Database support
- E-journal interface software and link resolver (Serials Solutions)
- RefWorks Web-based bibliography and database manager
- Digital library software (Hyperion and Luna)
Content
- >2,000,000 catalog records
- Access to >150 databases
- Access to >14,000 full-text journals
- Library web pages (>3000 files)
- Electronic course reserve
- Library Web pages
Links
- Remote links to external service agencies (e.g. OCLC for cataloging, EBSCO for serials, Yankee for books)
- Links to UIC information providers (e.g., Core apps)
- Ask A Librarian (Question Point)
- Interlibrary loan (Ariel/Clio and Clioweb ("MyILL")
- Serials Solutions
- Electronic Reserves (Docutek)
- Database support
Grant Support
- Endangered Plants
- VPlants
- City2000
Special Services
- Disability
- Wireless network
- E-text Center (CD-ROM, GIS)
- Database serving
- Scanning
External Clients
Web sites
- First Monday
- Illinois Violence Prevention Authority
- Cook County Hospital Library
- Field Museum Image Collection
- Bowen Country Club
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