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Information Concourse
Electronic Research Resources Available in the Ozuna LRC
The Information Concourse(IC) constitutes the eastern half of the second floor and contains a variety of electronic resources, including World Wide Web access.  Just ask for help at the Reference Desk in using the electronic and microform  resources.  Especially students, but also staff, faculty, and administrators of Palo Alto College as well as members of the community are welcome to use them. There is no time limit unless someone is waiting; then it is fifteen minutes.  If something is printed out from any computer on the concourse, the copies come out at the Print Desk at the west end of the concourse nearest the stairs. The first 25 pages of printed material are free. After 25 pages, printed pages cost ten cents per page.

Come to the Information  Concourse:

  • To conduct research on the Information Highway  Access to the World Wide Web is available at many workstations.  No password or I.D.s are required to browse for information on the Internet.
  • To do homework assignments  Most software is available to complete homework assignments. Very specialized software is on the second row of computers. If in doubt, see the technician in charge.
  • To use periodical indexes on computers with printers  The UMI Proquest family of databases includes Periodical Abstracts, Business Dateline, and National Newspaper Abstracts as well as Social Sciences Index. Newsbank databases include CD Newsbank, Newsbank Reference Plus, Statbank, Texas Newsfile and Texas Statbank.
  • To check out the U.S.Government Information Center  CD-ROM products include Statistical Abstract of the United States, Census information, agricultural statistics, Government Periodical Index and Marcive GPO Catalog.

For more information on Internet access, please see the following:

Internet Acceptable Use Guidelines

Please send comments to: Colby Glass, MLIS