The following vendors offer varying types of support services geared to augmenting a library's core resources. Keeping in mind a particular type/size of library, provide a brief summary of the potential usefulness of the services below within your work environment. Provide illustrative examples, if possible, of how one or more of these services might be employed in your library. E-mail your comments to me at lis_fwh@shsu.edu.

Ameritech Library Services. Dynix. www.amlibs.com

Long a cutting edge integrated services vendor, Dynix now bundles together three types of access to library resources: (1) PAC for Windows, combining the library catalog with PC applications offered within the library--a Windows 95 menu intergrates catalog searching with access to the Web, Kid's Catalog, CD-ROMs, and other electronic resources; (2) the Java-based WebPAC optimizes browsing library catalogs from the Internet or the library's Intranet; and (3) terminals using character-based access to the catalog which run alongside PC workstations, assisting your library's move to graphical workstations.

Baker and Taylor's Title Source II. www.baker-taylor.com

Featuring almost 2 million book titles on the Internet, the service offers validated title name, ISBN, publisher, list price, annotation, Table of Contents, review citations, full text reviews, etc. Look under "Product & Services" on the B&T homepage.

Britannica Online. www.eb.com

The source enables the user to access the full scope of Encyclopedia Britannica's knowledge as well as branch out into related areas of the Internet through hypertext links for text articles, graphics, audio, and video resources.

UMI's ProQuest Direct. www.umi.com

UMI's resources include millions of documents from thousands of sources, in formats ranging from citation to full image The ProQuest databases--Gold Full Text and Silver services are geared specifically to the educational institutions--bring indexes and abstracts for nearly 5,000 periodicals, citations for 1.4 million dissertations, the full text to hundreds of newspapers, nearly 2,000 periodicals in full image, and hundreds of regional newspapers and other materials from DataTimes. At UMI's website, click on the "Support Center" icon (in the red bar near the top), then choose "Title Lists" for ProQuest Direct. After exploring the content available, go back to the homepage and click on the "ProQuest Direct" icon. The ProQuest Dirct Web Tour indicates how easy it is to conduct searches and deliver documents.