Digital Equipment Awards Grants To Support Linking University Library Databases.

This article reports on grants awarded by Digital Equipment Corporation to the University of California and to Pennsylvania State University in the U.S. The project will enable users of the Pennsylvania State and University of California bibliographic library systems to search the holdings of either system while using the familiar commands of their own systems. To accomplish this, researchers will use a new application-layer protocol for computer-to-computer information retrieval, National Information Standards Organization Z39.50. The protocol permits the separation of the user interfaces from the information servers.