Task Group on Non-Traditional Media

Final Report

July 1994

Appendix B

Survey Tool
Findings
1. Academic Departments
  1. Non-traditional Media Currently Used
  2. Non-traditional Media Desired
2. Non-Academic Departments
  1. Non-traditional Media Currently Used
  2. Non-traditional Media Desired
Summary Tables - only available in the paper version

1. Survey Tool

Information is now available in a variety of formats from many different sources. A Task Group on Nontraditional Media has been struck to examine the information needs of the community for non-traditional media (nonprint material). Members of the Task Group include: 7 faculty members - Gary Griffin (Chair), Elliott Avedon, Alan Macnaughton, Bill Wilson, Doug Dudycha, Winston Cherry, and Reg Friesen; 1 student - Andrea Lawrence; 2 staff members from non-academic departments - Ron Russell and John Cullen; one representative from the Colleges - Gary Draper; and 6 library staff members - Bruce MacNeil (Secretary), Richard Pinnell, Susan Bellingham, Doug Morton, Michele Sawchuk and Yulerette Gordon.

The Task Group is interested in compiling an inventory of information sources used by faculty and staff members and students. Please help us in our task by responding to the following questions:

What information resources do you use to meet your information/research needs, e.g., other libraries, private collection (personal, departmental, etc), data files, CD-ROM, slides, etc? Please describe them.
name of resource:
description of contents:
publisher:
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name of resource:
description of contents:
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name of resource:
description of contents:
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Who is the owner/custodian of the resource?
Are there sources of information on or off campus that you would like access to?
name of resource:
description of contents:
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2. Findings

I. Academic Departments

Non-traditional Media Currently Used
1. Internet Resources
  1. Fine Arts Department
    Faculty members use the Internet to locate and import a large number of digitized images.
  2. Gerontology
    Faculty members use readnews such as comp.humanfactors.
  3. Health Studies Department
    Faculty members use the Internet resources.
  4. Recreation Department
    Faculty members use Internet newsgroups.
  5. Engineering Faculty
    Graduate students in engineering obtain information through the Internet.
  6. Systems Design Engineering Department
    Faculty members regularly search the Internet for holdings in other university libraries or use gopher to find information sources. One professor has put up and maintains a World Wide Web server.
  7. Management Science Department
    Faculty members in this department regularly use the Internet.
  8. Chemical Engineering Department
    Faculty members use the 'gopher' to:
    1. locate e-mail addresses of colleagues around the world and to contact students.
    2. access other University catalogues through UWinfo.
    3. use "Catalysis Pipeline" supplies titles and advance notice of papers by e-mail.
    4. use the WWW (Mosaic) for experiments with forms capability and advertising for research fellows, graduate students, etc.
  9. Mechanical Engineering Department
    Faculty members use Internet resources for e-mail.
  10. Civil Engineering Department
    Faculty members use Internet resources for e-mail. Resources are also used to acquire freeware from the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
  11. Faculty of Environmental Studies
    Faculty members use time sensitive research material (e.g., gophers, webs, newsgroups - the gray information resource)
  12. Faculty of Mathematics
    Faculty members use the resources of the Internet to gain access to non-traditional media. There is an ICR library and a Library in the Computer Graphics Lab.
    
    Graduate Students use on line data bases through the Internet/Mosaic.
  13. Computer Science
    Faculty members use the Internet to telnet to resources including the catalogues of libraries across North America (LC catalog in particular).
  14. Physics Department
    Faculty members use Internet resources for e-mail, electronic bulletin boards (e.g., GR-QC on gravitation and cosmology, HEP-TH on theoretical work in high energy physics, and HEP-PH on particle physics), newsgroups (e.g., sci.physics.research), ftp for software and data (e.g., astronomical data), gopher searches for information (e.g., about cold fusion), online OPACs (e.g., UW, WLU, Ryerson, UWO).
  15. Biology Department
    Faculty members use the Internet for access to Library catalogues, subject related databases and communication with students.
  16. Chemistry Department
    Faculty members use the Internet for access to UWinfo and bulletin boards and for communication.
  17. School of Optometry
    Faculty members have used the Internet to search Medline but found the response time is very slow.
  18. Earth Science Department
    Faculty members:
    1. use the campus network for remote access to Watcat and for communicating with colleagues.
    2. are experimenting with making digitized images available using Mosaic on the campus backbone.
      They are also experimenting with multimedia applications.
    3. use the Internet to gain access to databases such as the Carbonate Research Newsletter.
  19. Audio Visual Centre
    Staff members access:
    1. listservs through the Internet.
    2. catalogues of the Film Libraries of the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota.
    3. e-mail for film bookings.
2. CD-ROM Monographs
  1. Faculty of Arts Language Laboratory
    Staff members of the Laboratory provide users with access to:
    1. Compro Multimedia Bookshelf. This contains:
      Hammond Atlas; American Heritage Dictionary; Concise Columbia Encyclopedia; Bartlett's Quotations; World Almanac 1992; Concise Dictionary of Quotations; and Roget's Thesaurus.
    2. Key Fontspro for Windows and Mac. This contains 303 specialized fonts.
    3. CICA (Centre for Innovative Computer Architecture) Microsoft Windows CD-ROM. 2 CDs. This is a collection of shareware for Windows and for Windows NT which has been published by Walnut Creek Software. One of the shareware items is the complete text of the King James Bible together with search software. The shareware on this CD-ROM is also available on the Internet from the University of Indiana.
    4. Kodak Photo CD Access Software and Photo Sampler.
      This is a collection of photo images of scenery, artwork, etc.
  2. Recreation Department
    Faculty members have a large collection of CD-ROMs on a variety of topics. These CDs are individual books, music, graphics and computer software and include:
    
    Introduction to Classical Music
    Introduction to Jazz
    Introduction to The Opera
    Multimedia Mozart
    Multimedia Beethoven
    Multimedia Stravinsky
    Microsoft Cinemania
    Mega Movie Guide
    Encyclopedia of Sound
  3. Management Science Department
    Faculty members maintain CD-ROM collections which include bibliographic CDs from Societies.
  4. Faculty of Environmental Studies
    Faculty members use:
    1. design/presentation imagery (e.g., Slide Library, commercial CDs)
    2. story Line/Walk through simulations (e.g., CD-ROM on Great Lakes water resources)
  5. Physics Department
    The Department has CD-ROMs: Map of the Whole Sky to the 21st level and has ordered the CD-ROM The Planets: planetary simulation
  6. Biology Department
    One faculty member has a CD-ROM containing U.S. telephone numbers and also a set of CDs of maps.
3. CD-ROM Databases (personal)
  1. Fine Arts Department
    Faculty members are very interested in digitizing slides so that they can be viewed on any computer on campus equipped with a colour monitor. Approximately 300 images have been digitized so far, and about 140 of these have been transferred to CD-ROMs with the assistance of the Language Lab. In addition, a collection of digitized images of medieval Vatican art has been obtained over the Internet from the University of Virginia.
  2. Chemical Engineering Department
    One faculty member has a personal collection CDs from a consulting firm in Toronto that provides Biochemical Engineering Data.
  3. Civil Engineering Department
    One faculty member maintains personal CD-ROM databases on HY-DATA and Stream Flow Records.
  4. Biology Department
    Faculty members use CD-ROMs from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
  5. Chemistry Department
    The Department maintains the Aldrich Catalogue of Chemical Stores on CD-ROM.
  6. Earth Science Department
    Several faculty members have acquired geoscience databases containing software and images.
  7. Audio Visual Centre Staff members use:
    1. Canadian Catalog of Media Resources, a resource of film and videos published on CD-ROM by TV-Ontario.
    2. Film/Video Canadiana, a CD-ROM publication of the National Film Board and the National Library.
4. CD-ROM Databases (Library)
  1. Classical Studies Department
    Students and faculty members use two CD-ROMs which are part of the library's collection but which are signed out to Sheila Ager and kept in the Language Laboratory. The two CD-ROMs are: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, which contains Greek texts; and PHI(Packard Humanities Institute), which contains Latin texts and Greek papyri writings.
  2. Germanic and Slavic Languages
    Graduate students in the Department use the CD-ROMs.
  3. Health Studies Department
    Faculty members use Library CD-ROM subscriptions, MEDLINE and PsycLit in particular.
  4. Kinesiology Department
    Faculty members use Library CD-ROM subscriptions, MEDLINE and PsycLit in particular.
  5. Engineering Faculty
    Graduate students in engineering use the Library CD ROMSs
  6. Systems Design Engineering Department
    Faculty members use library owned CD's.
  7. Management Science Department
    Faculty members in this department use library CD's.
  8. Chemical Engineering Department
    Faculty members use bibliographic databases on CD-ROM.
  9. Mechanical Engineering Department
    Faculty members and students use CD-ROMs held by the Library to perform bibliographic searches.
  10. Faculty of Mathematics
    Graduate students in the Math faculty use the Library CD ROMs.
  11. Physics Department
    Faculty members and students use Library CD-ROMs for bibliographic searching.
  12. Biology Department
    Faculty members use Library CD-ROMs for bibliographic searching.
  13. Chemistry Department
    Faculty members use the Library CD-ROMs for research purposes and one faculty member uses the Guelph University subscription to Current Contents for research purposes.
  14. Earth Science Department
    Students use the Library's collection of CD-ROM databases for research.
5. On-line Databases (personal)
  1. School of Accountancy
    The following databases used by the School of Accountancy are all available on the Watstar network:
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          Tape Number    Description



          8621           Compustat Canadian Annual (1992)

          8622           Compustat PST Industrial Annual (1992)

          8623           Compustat PST Industrial Quarterly

                         (1992)

          8624           Compustat Full Coverage Annual (1992)

          8625           Compustat Full Coverage Quarterly (1992)

          8626           Compustat Industrial Research (1992)

          8627           Compustat Aggregate Annual (1992)

          8628           Compustat Aggregate Quarterly (1992)

          8629           Compustat Business Information (1992)



          8600           CRSP Daily Price / Return (Dec 1992)

          8601           CRSP Monthly Price / Return (Dec 1992)



          on disk        TSE/Western Daily Prices & Returns (Dec

                         1992)

          on disk        TSE/Western Monthly Prices & Returns

                         (Dec. 1992)

          on disk        TSE/Western Dividends and Outstanding

                         Shares (Dec 1992)
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    The Compustat tapes contain annual financial statement information for approximately 500 Canadian companies, annual and quarterly data for 7,000 American companies, annual data for 4,900 American companies that have stopped trading, annual data on industry segments for 7,000 American companies, and aggregate annual and quarterly data on 275 industry groupings. All of this information is also available on the Compustat PC Plus CD-ROM in the Porter Library, and it is recommended that students seeking information on less than 50 companies use PC Plus rather than the tapes. The tapes are difficult to use for the novice but are very efficient for large research projects such as those conducted by faculty members and Ph.D. students. PC Plus also contains some information which is not on the tapes--monthly data on stock prices, dividends, and earnings for 7,000 American companies.
    
    The CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices) tapes provide price, return, and dividend information on 5,300 companies trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges.
    
    The TSE / Western database provides price, return, and dividend information on 4,400 companies trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
  2. Civil Engineering Department
    One faculty member maintains a Landsat image database on exabyte tape.
  3. Faculty of Environmental Studies
    Faculty members use electronic repositories (e.g., OBMs, StatsCan, International Research Lists)
  4. Computer Science
    Some faculty members have access to:
    1. Compuserve Knowledge Index which provides on-line access to DIALOG which is a comprehensive database covering many subject areas.
    2. an on-line list of 40,000 computer science papers developed by a faculty member in the US and FTPed to the University of Waterloo.
  5. Biology Department
    Several faculty members share a subscription to Current Contents on Disc.
  6. Chemistry Department
    Some faculty members have on-line access to Chemical Abstracts and Science Citation Index on-line.
  7. Audio Visual Centre
    Staff members produce Watmedia, the University of Waterloo on-line catalog of films and videos.
6. On-line Databases (Library)
  1. Mechanical Engineering Department
    Students use WATMARS searches bibliographic searches.
  2. Faculty of Mathematics
    Graduate students in the Math faculty use on line data bases through the Internet/Mosaic.
  3. Physics Department
    Students and faculty members use the WATMARS service for bibliographic searching.
  4. School of Optometry
    Faculty members and students use Ocular Resources Computerscan on diskette. It is a monthly current awareness service that provides searching of tables of contents of vision science journals.
7. Databases (personal)
  1. History Department
    The Department maintains a full-text database containing selected published and unpublished writings of the philosopher Charles S. Peirce. It is currently on CMS, but it will be migrating elsewhere soon. In addition, Prof. Roberts has 85,000 photocopied pages of Pierce's writings. Only a portion of those are in the computer database.
  2. Centre for Cultural Management
    Centre staff members are creating a database which is to contain financial data from the Council for Business and the Arts.
  3. Kinesiology Department
    Faculty members use Research Info Services, a competitor of Current Contents on Disc (CCOD). It contains the current contents of 150 titles that are downloaded weekly and monthly (includes abstracts). The tool has an easy searching format and the citations can be exported to a software package called Ref erence Manager.
    
    They also use Reference Update, a life science database available on-line though ISI. Some faculty members have personal subcriptions to the service. Reference Manager is a bibliographic software package that is used in conjunction with Reference Update to import citations from a number of databases such as Compact Cambridge, Silverplatter CD-ROMs and online services like Dialog and BRS.
  4. Recreation Department
    One faculty member has a personal collection of datafiles from the University of Oregon.
  5. Chemistry Department
    Many faculty members have:
    1. personal subscriptions to Chemical Abstracts after Dark (on-line charges are substantially reduced if the service is used outside peak hours).
    2. access to the Cambridge Crystallographic database. One faculty member has the database mounted on the hard drive of his PC.
8. Databases (University)
  1. Economics Department
    Many department members use Statistics Canada information from the Data Resource Centre of the Department of Computer Services, particularly the CANSIM data.
  2. English Department
    Faculty members use:
    1. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (general editors), William Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Electronic Edition for the IBM PC (Oxford University Press).
    2. The Oxford English Dictionary which is available on Watarts (a Unix machine).
  3. Religious Studies Department
    Faculty members and students use two databases, both of which are part of the library collection even though they are not at present mounted on any library machines: The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an (Porter Controlled Access BP 109 A1 1991), which contains the text of the Koran on 3 disks; and Al-Hadith Database (Porter Controlled Access BP 135 A1 1991), which is a database of Islamic traditions on 5 disks. The plan is to have these programs running on the Arts Watstar network.
  4. Sociology Department
    Faculty members in the Sociology Department use electronic data sets. These are available in the Data Resource Centre of DCS.
  5. Recreation Department
    The department maintains:
    1. a large collection of databases available in the LSDB (Leisure Studies Data Bank) collection.
    2. a collection of Angus Reid Survey datafiles.
  6. Chemistry Department
    The Department has:
    1. a subscription to Current Contents on disc that is mounted on WATSTAR.
    2. access to the Brookhaven on-line Protein Data Bank of slides.
    Some faculty members use the University subscription to Best North America published by Longmans which is a listing of faculty members and research in progress in all of the G10 countries. Barry Scott is the contact person for this resource.
  7. Earth Science Department
    One faculty member makes use of the 'acid mine drainage' database available at Laurentian University.
9. Video Tapes / Films / Discs
  1. Classical Studies Department
    Faculty members use the video collection of the Audio Visual Centre.
  2. Drama and Speech Communication Department
    The Department has a collection of over 125 video films that are used by students and faculty members. The Task Group received a list of these videos.
  3. French Department
    The Department has a collection of video films.
  4. Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature Department
    The Department has a collection of videos that are included in the catalogue of the Audio Visual Centre. There is no catalogue of these materials at present, but the department would like to have one. Many of the videos are in German, but some have English subtitles.
    
    Graduate students use international film guides and the German films.
  5. History Department
    The Department has a collection of audio visual material. There is no central list, other than a set of purchase orders in the History Department Office.
  6. Health Studies Department
    Faculty members use video films ordered through the A/V department.
  7. Kinesiology Department
    Faculty members use video films on anatomy (arthroscopic studies) obtained through the A/V department.
  8. Recreation Department
    Faculty members order videos ordered through the Audio Visual Centre.
  9. Management Science Department
    One faculty member has a video collection of material not commercially available.
  10. Chemical Engineering Department
    Faculty members use films on fluid mechanics, heat transfer and catalysis research obtained through the Audio Visual Centre.
  11. Mechanical Engineering Department
    Faculty members order video films and other films from the Audio Visual Centre. They also use videos created by the faculty: subjects include dynamics of welding process, manufacturing processes (taped at local companies), metallurgical experiments, computer graphics output.
  12. Physics Department
    Faculty members use video films ordered from the Audio Visual Centre (e.g., particle physics).
  13. Biology Department
    Using slidemaker, a faculty member produces animation videos.
  14. School of Optometry
    Faculty members make extensive use of videos especially in the teaching of clinical procedures and technique, anatomy, etc.
  15. Earth Science Department
    Faculty members use educational video films ordered through the Audio Visual Centre.
10. Filmstrips
  1. English Department
    The Department has a small collection of old filmstrips.
  2. French Department
    Filmstrips
  3. Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature Department
    The Department has a collection of filmstrips that are not part of the catalogue of the Audio Visual Centre. There is no catalogue of these materials at present, but the department would like to have one. Many filmstrips are in German, but some have English subtitles.
  4. Chemical Engineering Department
    Faculty members use filmstrips on Physical Chemistry obtained from the Audio Visual Centre.
11. Slides
  1. Anthropology Department
    The following slide sets are the property of the Anthropology Department (each set below has between 20-60 or more slides):
    Pictures of Record Series
    Agita Frogers
    Catal Huyuk
    Easter Island Statues
    Fraser River Sculpture
    Gulf of Georgia
    Human Evolution Survey
    Inca Royal Architecture of the Cuzco Region
    Kalinga
    Koster (Archaeological site)
    Mississippian Cultures
    Ohio Mounds
    Ozette (Archaeological site)
    Paleolithic of Mt. Carmel
    Using Stone Tools of the Paleolithic
    Canada's Visual History (3 binders each with 6 slide sets and small manual)
    Museum of Man Slide Series (1 large binder)
    Physical Anthropology -- Primate-Human Evolution (1 large binder)
    Archaeological Materials of North America (1 binder)
    Human Evolution Slides and a few pathology (1 binder)
    Primate Slides (50 assorted)
    primate slides slides from Papua New Guinea slides of archaeological sites (including some of cave paintings)
  2. Classical Studies Department
    The Department maintains a slide collection containing slides of both sites and antiquities.
  3. Drama and Speech Communication Department
    Profs. William Chadwick and Maarten van Dijk have a collection of slides on the history of theatre.
  4. Fine Arts Department
    The Department maintains a collection of approximately 50,000 slides, mostly of Western European art from medieval times to the present. There is also a smattering of slides of photographic art. People interested in obtaining slides of works of art are invited to contact the Audio Visual Dept. of the Art Gallery of Ontario at (416) 977-0414, ext. 258. The AGO has only a small charge for borrowing its slides and will send items out by mail.
  5. Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature Department
    The Department maintains a slide collection. Also, collections of slides are held by many individual faculty members. Most of the slides are of Ger many.
  6. History Department
    The Department maintains a collection of slides.
  7. Psychology Department
    The Department has a few histology slides of monkey cerebellum tissue.
  8. Religious Studies Department
    There is a small departmental slide collection on two themes: "Muslims' Pilgrimage to Mecca" and "Early Christian and Byzantine Art".
  9. Faculty of Arts Language Laboratory
    The Language Lab is also in the process of creating a set of CDs for the Fine Arts Department containing images to use in teaching. Kodak charges $80 to have a set of 100 images put on a CD. The images are typically slides of artwork.
  10. Health Studies Department
    Several faculty members have personal collections of slides and photographs.
  11. Kinesiology Department
    Some faculty members have personal collections of slides in physiology.
  12. Recreation Department
    Faculty members have personal collections of slides and overheads.
  13. Systems Design Engineering Department
    Two professors (Hahn and Jernigan) have personal slide collections, one being particularly large. Both faculty members would be willing to have their collections known throughout the university - as long as they knew what other people had as well.
  14. Management Science Department
    Several faculty members have personal collections of slides.
  15. Chemical Engineering Department
    One faculty member has a slide package called Carolina Biologicals that contains biochemical and cell structure slides.
  16. Mechanical Engineering Department
    Faculty members use slides that they have created.
  17. Faculty of Mathematics
    Graduate students in the faculty use the personal collections of faculty members.
  18. Physics Department
    The Department maintains a collection of Astronomy slides for use in the classroom.
  19. Biology Department
    Several faculty members have personal collections of slides that are used in their teaching.
  20. Chemistry Department
    The Department has access to the Brookhaven on-line Protein Data Bank of slides.
  21. School of Optometry
    Slides are an indispensable media in the training of Optometrists. Most faculty members develop their own collections and some purchase commercially available sets. Those with purchased sets will let others use tha material.
  22. Earth Science Department
    Faculty members have personal collections of slides and the department has a slide collection.
12. Photographs
  1. Health Studies Department
    Several faculty members have personal collections of slides and photographs.
13. Overheads
  1. Gerontology Department
    Faculty members use overhead libraries that they have created themselves.
  2. Recreation Department
    Faculty members maintain personal collections of slides and overheads.
  3. Management Science Department
    Faculty members maintain personal collections of overheads that are used extensively.
  4. Biology Department
    Faculty members maintain personal collections of overheads that are used for teaching purposes.
14. Audio
  1. English Department
    The English Department has a collection of about 50 LP records.
  2. French Department
    The French Department has a collection of LPs and audio tapes.
  3. Faculty of Arts Language Laboratory
    Most of their material is audio tapes of music and language instruction. There are also many music CDs and several CD-ROMs.
  4. School of Optometry
    Faculty members and students use audiotapes that come with videos extensively but audiotapes that come alone are seldom used.
15. Maps and Cartographic Images
  1. History Department
    The Department has a collection of maps. There is no central list, other than a collection of purchase orders in the History office (contact Irene Major). These purchase orders do not cover the older maps, which are in a box in the History Mail Room and in faculty members' offices.
  2. Political Science Department
    The Department's only holdings of non-traditional media are the holdings of the Centre for Election Studies, which is directed by Profs. John Wilson and Peter Woolstencroft. The non-traditional media component of its holdings are maps showing boundaries of electoral districts in Canada.
  3. Religious Studies Department
    The Department has a small collection of maps. There are about 10 maps of the Middle East, India, and Europe that are mostly historical, but some are current.
  4. Faculty of Environmental Studies
    Faculty members use:
    1. satellite imagery (e.g., Landsat, Spot, SAR)
    2. design/presentation imagery (e.g., Slide Library, commercial CDs)
    3. time sensitive research material (e.g., gophers, webs, newsgroups - the gray information resource)
    4. story Line/Walk through simulations (e.g., CD-ROM on Great Lakes water resources)
    5. smart maps (GIS, Visualization)
    6. electronic repositories (e.g., OBMs, StatsCan, International Research Lists)
  5. Physics Department
    The Department has a collection of sky maps that are used to identify areas for research.
  6. Earth Sciences Department
    The department has a collection of geological maps and air photographs and makes use of GIS systems.
16. Other
  1. Anthropology Department
    There are approximately 40 casts of famous anthropological finds. These are largely skeletal artifacts. There are a number of casts of tools. Some human skeletal and some mammalian skeletal materials are also available.
    
    There also is an Anthropology Reading Room with several shelves of old text books, classic books in the field, National History Museum Monographs, and back issues of magazines.
    
    Small collection of chimp and gorilla finger paintings
    
    African pot shards
  2. Fine Arts Department
    There is a collection of small pamphlets advertising exhibitions of the work of particular artists. The pamphlets contain useful biographical information and small reproductions of their work.
  3. Psychology Department
    The Psychology Department has a test library of available psychological test materials. These are professional materials such as IQ tests, personality inventories, etc.
    
    The Department also has the R. H. Walters library with theses and some books and there are some journals available in various places in the Department.
  4. Kinesiology Department
    The Department uses cadavres in its research.
  5. Chemical Engineering Department
    Faculty members:
    1. are on a mailing list for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Canadian and Ontario equivalent organizations.
    2. use the campus Satellite video link.
    3. have packaged computer programs for teaching graphics and for reactor simulators.
  6. Mechanical Engineering Department
    Mechanical models belonging to Dr. Andrews; illustrate suspension systems, braking systems, etc.
  7. Faculty of Mathematics
    Faculty members use the resources of the Internet to gain access to non-traditional media. There is an ICR library and a Library in the Computer Graphics Lab.
  8. Physics Department
    Faculty members use maple software.
  9. Biology Department
    One faculty member has a subscription to Current Contents in print form and another has a copy of the Freshwater Biological Association membership lists.
  10. Optometry Learning Resource Centre
    The Centre has equipment available on reserve that includes microscopes, skulls, boxes of microscope slides of tissue, vision testing charts, diagnostic lenses, model eyes, retinoscopes, and stereoscopic viewers.
  11. Earth Science Department
    The Department maintains a Museum. One faculty member has a personal subscription to Current Contents on Disc and another faculty member has a personal collection of government prepared hydrogeology consulting reports that have not been published.

Non-Traditional Media Desired
1. Internet Resources
  1. Physics Department
    Some faculty members indicated a need for faster network links (ie., Internet bandwidth). Another suggested a network connection to the Kitchener Public Library ("not just modem access").
  2. Biology Department
    One faculty member would like access to resources on the use of forestry for fuel production and to be able to interact with researchers working in the same area.
  3. Chemistry Department
    One faculty member would like a listing of 'research in progress' in Canada and the United States for assistance in grant preparation.
  4. Graduate Students
    Graduate Students would like e-mail accounts for all grads. Currently only a portion of the grads have the opportunity to get e-mail accounts. They would also like access to other library catalogs (like UW info).
2. CD-ROM Publications
  1. Health Studies Department
    One faculty member would like to see a subscription to Scientific American Medicine which is a CD-ROM journal published by the publishers of Scientific American.
  2. Chemical Engineering Department
    A faculty member suggested that CDs on Biochemical Engineering topics be acquired by the Library.
  3. Mechanical Engineering Department
    CD-ROMS providing information about machine design would be useful, but the faculty member is not aware that such CD-ROMs are even available.
  4. Chemistry Department
    One faculty member would like Data Sheets for chemicals and WHMIS data sheets on CD-ROM.
  5. Graduate Students
    Graduates stdents would like access to CD ROMs that contain graphics that could be incorporated into THE LATEST, the GSA newsletter.
3. CD-ROM Databases
  1. Gerontology Department
    Faculty members would like access to CD-ROM databases such as Medline and PsycLit on the campus backbone.
  2. Health Studies Department
    Several faculty members would like on-line access or access across the campus backbone to the Library's CD- ROM Medline subscription.
  3. Kinesiology Department
    One faculty member would like access to Greatful Med, a front-end to Medline produced by the National Library of Medecine that is available through Electronic Products and Services, MEDLARS, CISTI. The Greatful Med program allows a researcher to formulate a search, it then dials the service and runs the search.
  4. Systems Design Engineering Department
    Faculty members would like:
    1. access to Statistics Canada data.
    2. access to CD's located in the Hamilton/Burlington area.
    3. CD's relating to water quality.
  5. Management Science Department
    Faculty members would like access to ABI Inform on campus and to Index Medicus on the campus backbone.
  6. Physics Department
    Faculty members would like on-line access from the department to Science Citation Index.
  7. Biology Department
    Faculty members would like access to:
    1. Dialogue products on CD.
    2. the Library's CDs on the campus backbone.
    3. Current Contents on the campus backbone.
    4. the FAO database on CD-ROM from Cambridge Scientific.
  8. Chemistry Department
    Faculty members would like access:
    1. to the Library's CD-ROMs including Current Contents and Science Citation Index on the campus backbone.
    2. Chemical Abstract Selects on CD-ROM produced by the American Chemical Society. One faculty member would like topics on organometallic chemistry.
  9. School of Optometry
    Campus wide access to the Library's bibliographic CD- ROM across the campus backbone is desired. Failing this, more CD-ROM stations in the library would help students and faculty. A telephone CD reserve system would be of use to clients who need to travel distances to get to the Library.
  10. Graduate Students
    Graduate students would like access to CD-ROMs from anywhere on campus.
4. On-Line Databases
  1. Computer Science
    Faculty members would like to see access to:
    1. the Knowledge Index for the broader university community.
    2. theservices and products of the RLIN consortium.
    3. CLARINET a network of news sources.
  2. Systems Design Engineering Department
    A faculty member would like access to Occupational Health databases.
  3. Biology Department
    Faculty members ould like on-line access to Current Contents on tape across the campus backbone.
  4. Chemistry Department
    One faculty member would like access to MAACS REACTS databases and another would like a list of databases that could be used for end-user searching particularly those produced by the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society.
5. Datafiles
  1. Recreation Department
    One faculty member suggested the purchase of Print Measurement Bureau datafiles. (The Library is currently acquiring some of the datafiles).
  2. Faculty of Environmental Studies
    Faculty members would like to have:
    1. the resources of the Data Resource Centre available electronically.
    2. the resources of the Leisure Studies Data Bank available on the backbone.
6. Video Tapes / Films / Discs
  1. Health Studies Department
    One faculty member would like the ability to project by video display cell images seen through the microscope.
  2. Kinesiology Department
    One faculty member would like access to interactive video programs for anatomy - if they exist and would like to program experiences that would lend themselves to electronic interactive programming.
  3. Recreation Department
    One faculty member would like access to a Library with a collection of classical, historical and cultural movies (not popular).
  4. Management Science Department
    Faculty members would like full length videos from Business Solutions Telcast and DevCast (Microsoft business re-engineering, database, office etc solutions).
  5. Chemical Engineering Department
    Faculty members would like:
    1. Fluid Mechanics videos for classroom use.
    2. Teaching videos on CD from CACHE (Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers).
  6. Physics Department
    One faculty member would like commercially published laser discs for classroom demos (e.g., effect of inhaling helium as opposed to acetylene) as advertized in Physics Today.
  7. Graduate Students
    Graduate students would like film adaptations of literary works.
7. Maps and Cartographic Images
  1. Earth Science Department
    One member of the department would like to have access to digitized air photos and a comprehensive collection of geological maps.
8. Other
  1. Kinesiology Department
    One faculty member identified texts and graphic information from West Publishing for purchase.
  2. Chemical Engineering Department
    Faculty members would like:
    1. problem solving software in fluid mechanics.
    2. faster and cheaper access to U.S. and British patent literature.
  3. Civil Engineering Department
    Faculty members would like access to an archive of image tapes and files, a national atlas and drainage basin map in GIS.
  4. Faculty of Environmental Studies
    Faculty members would like to have access to:
    1. USDA Forestry station reports.
    2. Environment Canada SER series.
  5. Computer Science
    Faculty members would like access to the services and products of the RLIN consortium.
  6. Physics Department
    One faculty member would like ready access to data show equipment for classroom presentations.
  7. Biology Department
    Faculty members would like:
    1. an extension of the ILL services and would prefer them to be at no charge if possible.
    2. electronic reserves.
  8. School of Optometry
    Some faculty members and staff would like to see the library become experts with bibliographic software such as AskSam, Library Master, Reference Manager, FolioViews etc.
  9. Graduate Students
    Graduate students would like access to electronic copies of technical reports and printouts and electronic access to Material Safety Data Sheets.

II. Non-Academic Departments

Non-Traditional Media Currently Used
1. Internet Resources
  1. Treasurer
    Use e-mail for on-campus communication.
  2. Housing and Residences
    Uses e-mail infrequently for communication.
  3. Budgets
    Use UWinfo for general information.
  4. Theatre Centre
    Theatre staff members use:
    1. UWinfo for general information and to see what's taking place on campus and at WLU especially when there is a performance at the Theatre.
    2. newsgroups pertaining to theatre. Most including arts.rec.theatre, FASS and Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT) Call Board deal with technical information about the theatre, e.g., lighting, staging, and safety, etc.
  5. General Services, Associate Provost
    Use UWinfo for information and e-mail to communicate with individuals in the UW Staff Association and the Committee of Senior Administrative Officers of the Universities of Ontario, a sub-committee of the Council of Ontario Uni versities.
  6. Department of Computing Services
    The Department maintains:
    1. a software distribution service. Software is acquired on diskettes, tapes, CD-ROM, FTP, etc.
    2. mirrors of some FTP sites such as CICA, SIMTEL, or INFOMAC.
  7. Computer Store
    The computer store receives some price lists via e-mail, diskette or FTP. The information is not available for general access.
  8. Registrar's Office
    Staff members use UWinfo.
  9. Teaching Resources and Continuing Education Office(TRACE)
    The TRACE Library has an electronic database of nearly 9000 books, reports, and articles on the subject of teaching/learning in post-secondary education. The database is accessible through UWinfo. The service is not a document delivery service.
  10. Distance Education
    Staff members use:
    1. the CAUCE Listserv that is managed by the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education and is available through the Internet.
    2. the CADE Listserv
  11. Information Services
    Staff members use the Internet for e-mail, readnews and UWinfo.
2. CD-ROM Publications
  1. Food Services
    Use one CD-ROM called "prep-art" for graphics used in preparing various types of advertising.
  2. Department of Computing Services
    The Department maintains:
    1. a software distribution service. Software is acquired on diskettes, tapes, CD-ROM, FTP, etc. The Department is getting a tower to make the CD's available to authorized users.
    2. a collection of "Help books", supplementing manufacturers manuals, on CD-ROM so that staff do not have to call supplier help desks all the time and wait in phone lines for answers to standard questions.
3. CD-ROM Databases
  1. Operations Analysis
    Staff members currently use some of the CD-ROMs in the Library for literature searches.
4. On-Line Databases
  1. Central Stores
    The Department has a copy of the International fax and telex directory on-line.
  2. Department of Computing Services
    The Department maintains the UWDIR facility.
  3. Data Processing Department
    The Department maintains on-line documentation for systems developed by the Department and for systems that they use. They also create software for use by other departments but are not responsible for the data.
  4. Telephone Services
    Telephone Services maintains its own database of campus telephone numbers with an extensive cross referencing system (e.g., maiden names, people on contracts). Information comes primarily from the Payroll Department. It is not available for general use but some information can be obtained by phoning an operator.
  5. Registrar's Office
    Staff members use the Electronic Data Interchange available from the Application Centre in Guelph.
  6. Operations Analysis
    Staff members use online data bases from Canadian government sources and diskettes from US govt sources and services, i.e., Western Interstate Higher Education Service for enrollment data. The above can be requested as specific files on request.
5. Datafiles
  1. Central Stores
    The Department maintains the:
    1. Genasys list.
    2. CS mail (for University employees).
    3. a Purchasing system.
  2. Department of Computing Services
    The Department maintains the Data Resource Centre.
6. Video Tapes / Films / Discs
  1. Plant Operations
    The Department:
    1. maintains a small videocassette collection produced by Plant Operations and used by Rudy Molinary's group for training purposes; for example, one of these shows how to mop a floor.
    2. borrows videofilms from Health and Safety for safety training in the department.
  2. Department of Computing Services
    The Department maintains a small, growing, library of videotapes on how to use MacIntosh applications. Tapes can be borrowed.
  3. Cooperative Education and Career Services
    The Resource Centre has selection of Videos on Teachers Colleges/ Career/ Employers that they are willing to share.
  4. Conrad Grebel College
    Conrad Grebel College has the Mennonite Archives which contains the written records, etc. relating to Mennonite History. The archives are found in print, audio tape, photograph, slide, and videotape formats.
  5. St. Jerome's College
    St. Jerome's College Library has a collection of archives that contain the written records relating to the records of the College. The archives are found in print, photograph, slide and videotape formats.
7. Slides
  1. Housing and Residences
    The Department has purchased a series of videos used in training and education of residence dons.
  2. Plant Operations
    The Department maintains a collection of slides and photographs showing the progress of construction jobs on campus.
  3. Graphic Services - Central Photographic Studio
    The Department maintains a large collection of slides and negatives.
  4. Conrad Grebel College
    Conrad Grebel College has the Mennonite Archives which contains the written records etc relating to Mennonite History. The archives are found in print, audio tape, photograph, slide, and videotape formats.
  5. St. Jerome's College
    St. Jerome's College Library has a collection of archives that contain the written records relating to the records of the College. The archives are found in print, photograph, slide and videotape formats.
8. Photographs
  1. Graphic Services - Central Photographic Studio
    The Department maintains a large collection of negatives and slides.
  2. Conrad Grebel College
    Conrad Grebel College has the Mennonite Archives which contains the written records etc relating to Mennonite History. The archives are found in print, audio tape, photograph, slide, and videotape formats.
  3. St. Jerome's College
    St. Jerome's College Library has a collection of archives that contain the written records relating to the records of the College. The archives are found in print, photograph, slide and videotape formats.
9. Audio Discs and Tapes
  1. Conrad Grebel College
    Conrad Grebel College has the Mennonite Archives which contain the written records etc relating to Mennonite History. The archives are found in print, audio tape, photograph, slide, and videotape formats.
10. Maps and Cartographic Images
  1. Central Stores
    The Department has a collection of maps received from courier companies (given as gifts) that are used only for time zone information.
  2. Plant Operations
    The Department has collections of:
    1. approximately 22,000 maps and drawings; the vast majority are paper products but approximately 200 of them were produced using CAD. Most are project-related drawings but others include campus maps and as-built building plans. Copies of these graphics are also available on microfilm or aperture cards.
    2. 1990 aerial photographs of the campus, flown by Northway Map Inc. These images were converted to digital maps by Vector Mapping to conform to OBM specifications. These OBM-style maps are the base for Plant Operations's topographic campus map.
11. Other
  1. Budgets
    The Department uses:
    1. FIRSIN (financial reporting system) for the accounts of all departments of the university.
    2. WATFILE software for mailing lists and various sorting tasks.
    3. telephone calls to the Department of Revenue (Ottawa or locally) for clarification and interpretation of legislation, e.g., GST.
  2. Financial Services
    The Department uses microfiche for UW created/stored historical data.
  3. Food Services
    The Department has a debit card system used by clients.
  4. Theatre Centre
    The Department:
    1. uses Artsoft Network Box Office Module, computerized ticketting system produced in-house, not linked to Ticketmaster. It is used in selling tickets for Humanities Theatre, Theatre of the Arts, and Shaw Festival. Publisher: Hill Arts and Entertainment Systems.
    2. maintains telephone contacts with clients and local providers of such things as sound and lighting equipment.
    3. has a collection of lighting plots, blueprints of how the lights should be hung or placed in the Theatre for each show. They are usually provided by the performing groups and most often the work is done by the groups' own crew. The Theatre Centre makes a lighting plot about twice per year.
  5. University Club
    The membership list contains names and addresses of all active members compiled locally by the Club. It is maintained in a computer file not linked to mainf rame.
  6. General Services, Associate Provost
    The Associate Provosts Office uses information:
    1. which WATGREEN may have researched using non-print materials.
    2. obtained by Personnel using non-traditional media for the activities of the Staff Compensation Committee.
  7. Central Stores
    The Department uses Canada Post Rules and regulations. Contact is made by phone, not only locally but also to Ottawa for clarification of rules and lobbying for rule changes.
  8. Human Resources
    The Department maintains:
    1. an on-line information system about systems that support personnel functions.
    2. contact with Queens Park and Ottawa by telephone for interpretation of Bills and Legislation.
    3. a personnel payroll staff list database from which shorter lists are made by request.
    4. a staff file of confidential information database that is fully controlled by Personnel. It lists names of persons who have applied for jobs.
  9. Plant Operations
    The Department:
    1. obtains WHMIS data sheets (published by IAPA) from Health and Safety Department.
    2. uses the Library's IBIS service to research the history of individual contractors. If necessary the department will ask Purchasing to contact Dun and Bradstreet for financial information about contractors.
  10. Purchasing
    The Department telephones Dun and Bradstreet in order to obtain financial information on vendors (for Purchasing) and on contractors (for Plant Ops).
  11. Coop Education and Career Services
    The Career Resource Centre has selection of publications on Teachers Colleges/ Career/ Employers.
  12. Conrad Grebel College
    Conrad Grebel College has the Mennonite Archives which contain the written records etc relating to Mennonite History. The archives are found in print, audio tape, photograph, slide, and videotape formats.
  13. St. Jerome's College
    St. Jerome's College Library also has a collection of archives that contain the written records relating to the records of the College. The archives are found in print, photograph, slide and videotape formats.

Non-Traditional Media Desired
1. Internet Resources
  1. Human Resources
    The Department would like to be able to access other institutions' personnel policies, i.e., how they apply pieces of legislation. This is now done by phone or letter which is actually preferred because of the opportunities for discussion.
  2. Computing, Associate Provost
    The Associate Provost would like to see a central FTP (file transfer protocol) site for technical reports, etc., perhaps maintained by the Library.
  3. Distance Education
    The Department would like on-line access to Books In Print database published by Bowker. The database could be made available locally by providing campus wide access to the CD-ROM or through the purchase of tapes from the publisher.
2. CD-ROM Publications
  1. Purchasing
    The Department would like to have access to electronic copies of several publications including:
    1. trade directories: Thomas', Fraser's, and Canadian Trade Index.
    2. Made in Ontario, published by the Ontario Ministry of Trade, Industry, Telecommunications.
    3. selected Bell telephone directories for Ontario.
    4. Canada postal code directory.
    5. UW Policy and Procedures Manual.
  2. Cooperative Education and Career Services
    The Department would like to have access to Horizons is a CD-ROM publication of the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
  3. Distance Education
    The Department would like to have on-line access to Books In Print database published by Bowker. The database could be made available locally by providing campus wide accessto the CD-ROM or through the purchaseof tapes from the publisher.
3. CD-ROM Databases
  1. Cooperative Education and Career Services
    The Department would like to have:
    1. a CD-ROM of up to date Corporate information, type of business, SIC Code, # and type of employees.
    2. all student resumes on CD-ROM and 31/2 disk.
  2. Distance Education
    The Department would like access to the International Association for Distance Education full text database.
  3. Operations Analysis
    The Department would like to see UW produced non-print informational data bases (i.e., UWinfo on an expanded scale, e.g., student records) on CD-ROMs etc.
4. On-Line Databases
  1. Human Resources
    The Department would like to be able to get access to pending or passed legislation on-line, e.g., Labour Relations Act.
  2. Plant Operations
    The Department would like access to:
    1. an electronic version of trade directories particularly Fraser's and Sweet's.
    2. information about other networked services on campus: for example, DCS's ethernet cabling and the distribution of helium supply through various campus tunnels. This information is most useful to Plant Ops if in electronic form. In return, Plant Ops can supply other departments with electronic information about Plant Ops services such as heating, electrical, and water supply.
  3. Cooperative Education and Career Services Members of the Department would like access to:
    1. the Alumni affairs database.
    2. the Globe & Mail's "Info-Globe On-line" which has many useful publications and information services.
    3. one definitive on-line source of all government funding available to Canadian employers to hire graduate and co-op students.
  4. Registrar's Office
    The Department would like access to any database that provided rating of post secondary institutions throughout the world.
  5. Information Services
    The Department would like access to Infoglobe.
5. Video Tapes / Films / Discs
  1. Cooperative Education and Career Services
    The Department would like a copy of the University of Waterloo video for co-ordinator presentations to groups of employers.
6. Slides
  1. Graphic Services - Central Photographic Studio
    The Central Photographic Unit is interested in Kodak photo-CD technology for digitizing their collection of slides and negatives.
7. Maps and Cartographic Images
  1. Plant Operations
    The Department would like to have access to:
    1. detailed physical and environmental information about the campus. Of particular interest is information about the geology, soils, hydrography (ground water), and other subterranean data. This is graphical information which could be presented in map form, either paper or electronic.
    2. an electrostatic plotter for generating oversize prints of drawings and maps; currently they have to go off-campus for this service.
8. Other
  1. Plant Operations
    The Department would like to have a GIS package that works with AutoCad. Archibus is an example of a system that would meet their needs. They need the functionality of a GIS so they can link graphical information (i.e., building drawings) to a database containing construction detail (i.e., paint colour scheme, rug specs).
  2. Cooperative Education and Career Services
    The Department would like to see the Library maintain a "Clipping Service" for the top 20% of the employers recruiting at Waterloo.

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