CWIS: CAMPUS-WIDE-INFORMATION SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Michele Shoebridge · Serials The Journal for the Serials Community · 1994
An overview of the CISBy the early 1990s, and following the general trend within universities, Birmingham recognised the need for some kind of campus-wide information service to draw together existing electronic services and printed documents produced by the University.In addition it was widely recognised that the development of such a service would stimulate use of the recently installed FDDI network.Birmingham's Campus Information Service (CIS) is provided using software developed jointly by BLCMP and the University.Development has been overseen by a small management group