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Some of us in the library may not be aware that a larger world of computers and networks exits right here on campus. The overall campus network is called UANet, and is shown in the schematic below:
This campus Wide-Area Network (or WAN) is overseen by the Center for Computing and Information Technology, also known as CCIT.
We are all familiar with our library e-mail server, BIRD. Many of us keep the library's web homepage as our initial page when we start up Netscape, and that comes to us from DIZZY, the library's web and gopher server. However, not all of these servers are located within the library proper. It turns out that SABIO, our on-line public access catalog, is actually located over at the CCIT building on Speedway Boulevard.
One little-known secret to those of us in the library who may be deficient in hardware at home is that there are five computer labs and five other terminal sites scattered all about campus. These sites are available to all University staff and students, although the students are generally given top priority. Most of the library on-line services we are accustomed to finding at work are also available from these labs. Click on the map below if you desire more information.
So, do you have a generic computer question and you're tired of not reaching anyone from LIST to talk to? Is LIST getting tired of dealing with you all the time? (That never happens, of course!) It turns out that, once again, the library is not the only game on campus. CCIT runs a very fine Help Desk with able people who can assist you as time permits--and they are quite busy, usually. If you would like "HELP" from them, pick up the phone and dial 621-HELP.
To get an e-mail account at the library, all of us must go through LIST. But there are other non-library computers on campus we may wish to have accounts on for reasons I'll cover soon. CCIT has established the ACCOUNT program to allow one to automatically apply for an account on many of these machines, and one can reach this service by telnetting to account.ccit.arizona.edu. After going through the steps you will be prompted for, your account should be ready in about a day. Instructions for using ACCOUNT are found at http://ocean.ccit.arizona.edu/account.html.
One of the most popular systems on campus is u.arizona.edu, the student e-mail server. In addition to e-mail, students may also access a customizable Lynx text-based web browser, two different types of news readers, and the ability to create and publish personal web pages. There are two separate addresses to telnet into the u.arizona.edu cluster: the first address offers a very easy menu interface at menu.u.arizona.edu, and the second offers the more traditional and flexible command-line (shell) interface at shell.u.arizona.edu.
If you were here in ages past, you'll recall that our e-mail server wasn't always in-house. In fact, it was over at CCIT, and we had to telnet to ccit.arizona.edu in order to get into it. Unknown to many of us, though, was that the VAX also allowed access to some pretty sophisticated math and statistical programs, as well as to several programming language compilers.
Many of these reasons have already been alluded to above, such as access to:
But I think the strongest reason has to do with remotely accessing one's own e-mail. We in the library take it for granted that we can always get to our e-mail on BIRD. But at the present time, BIRD can only be connected to from other on-campus machines. That means that as soon as one leaves the Tucson area, one cannot get to BIRD without incurring some long-distance charges. Having an account on another on-campus machine allows one to telnet to that machine remotely for "free" (assuming telnet capability exists at the remote location), from which one may then connect to BIRD for e-mail access.
is the new web-based
conferencing system used here at the University. Although the
library never took advantage of the old conferencing system
(CoSy), it really ought to look into the new system. It offers
all the advantages we currently enjoy with our listserves without
all the disadvantages we must suffer, such as e-mail glut. Point
your Netscape browser at http://caucus.arizona.edu
and read all about it. One must use the ACCOUNT
program to get an account on Caucus.
There are a number of web servers that are publically
accessible without the need for a separate account. Perhaps the
most important of these (outside that of the library!) is:
.
Point your browser at http://www.arizona.edu
, or simply click on that option from the library's homepage.
If you need to look up departmental, faculty or student phone numbers around campus, there is another publicly-accessible web server at http://ns.arizona.edu, or one could simply select the phone directory off of UAInfo.
This training module only an introduction to what's out there on campus. For example, there's the Hardware And Computing Knowledge Society (HACKS), a student organization that sells accounts for $10 per semester, which will allow one to do all the things the University forbids (such as playing multi-user games or Internet Relay Chat), and much more.
The important thing is to...