Multimedia Workstations / WebPACs

[Gerry Mckiernan]

            Multimedia Workstations /  WebPACs_

    I am in the process of completing a newsletter contribution on the Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in e-Journals and am greatly interested learning of any developments relating to Multimedia Workstations / Multimedia WebPAC since I submitted the post noted below.

/GMcK
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   I am greatly interested in learning about the current state-of-installation of Multimedia Workstations / Multimedia OPACs in academic and research libraries that allow users to fully utilize
the adjunct auditory, visual, and interactive components that are now commonplace on many Web sites and which are quickly becoming part of electronic publications.

   It is my uninformed belief [:-)] that most academic and research libraries [still] have yet to **integrate**Multimedia Workstations / Multimedia WebPACs within their general Reference arenas and/or online catalog sites but instead locate these in dedicated Media spaces, or at best, in special application rooms. 

   I am aware of a few exceptions from  ERIC and Library Literature  search and am interested not only in current installations but those that may be on the Drawing Board.

[NB: I am aware of the InfoStation at the University of California - San Diego 
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/facts/infostations.html ]


  As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, questions, critiques, etc. etc. are Most Welcome.

  Regards,

/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

   "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Stream It!"
                      With apologies to Alan Kay