Geneseo Computing News Newsletter Article Card Catalogs Online 1991

1991 – Library Card Catalogs “Online” Via NETLIB and NYSERNet

From Geneseo Academic Computing Computing News Newsletter, Fall 1991: 

“If you need to do research and want a listing of books and articles available at other colleges, there’s a new utility called NETLIB for easy access to internet libraries.
To run this program, type NETLIB. You will see a listing of some of the electronic card catalogs on NYSERNet. It shows catalogs in places like Colorado, California, New York,
and Hawaii. We think you’ll like NETLIB: it guides you step-by-step through the procedure to use catalogs over NYSERNet.”

  • The College joins NYSERNet giving the college Internet access to thousands of computers worldwide.
  • The College also upgraded their connection to the Internet from 9.6Kbps to 19.2Kbps. (!!)

History of NYSERNet: https://www.nysernet.org/about-us/

History of NETLIB:  https://www.netlib.org/misc/faq.html