UMBC Campus-Wide Information System

         
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Welcome to the UMBC World-Wide-Web (WWW)!

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Fall 1995 Schedule of Classes
Summer 1995 Schedule of Classes
Running Mosaic at home via TIA

Below is a quick index of topics available.

General Information on UMBC.

Help for WWW, Email, FTP, Unix, etc..

What's new on the WWW and the WWW site of the day.

What's Happening! UMBC Calendar of Events

Student Information Resources.

Faculty Information Resources.

Academic Computing // Administrative Computing // Library, and Academic Department WWW or Gopher Resources.

UMBC Digital Publications, including INsights, the campus newsletter.

Internet starting points

WWW Reference Desk and WWW Subject Catalogs including Yahoo and Lycos.

Weather Forecasts for BWI and other Cities.

General index and Alphabetic index of URL's

This system uses the World-Wide Web (WWW) system to organize information. The WWW system uses a hypertext based mechanism to allow you to find information. Hypertext links are highlighted and can be followed when desired. To follow a hypertext link when using the program lynx use the right and left arrow keys to move forward or backward among the links. Use the up and down arrow keys to select the link on a page. From Mosaic, move the mouse pointer over the link and click the left mouse button.

Help Getting Started: This provides basic information and help in using internet services such as email, gopher, and the World-Wide-Web. Where applicable, we have provided information that pertains specifically to UMBC.
What's new!: This provides a chronology of new features and resources available to the UMBC community through the WWW. Important Academic Computing System Announcements can be read here. Here is the ACS Newsletter.
Internet starting points: Finding where to look for information on the internet can be difficult and/or time-consuming. The following locations have been found to be good starting points for locating information. A few of the sites mentioned in the starting points document are organized by subject which can be useful when time-pressed. Other sites such as NCSA or CERN are focal points for Internet information.
INsights: Much is happening at UMBC. The bi-weekly publication INsights provides a good way to find out general information about UMBC. INsights also provides a Calendar of Events that is useful for finding out what is planned on campus.
umbc.campus-events: A local usenet newsgroup, umbc.campus-events is dedicated to announcing events. To have an event listed on the newsgroup send a mail message to the address umbc.campus-events@newsgate.umbc.edu.
General Information: For general information on UMBC, such as the executive officers or directions to the campus.
UMBC Phone and Department Information.: Hopefully this will become an index into information offered by every academic and administrative department. Presently, this contains every department name and phone number. In addition, if the department maintains online information there is a link from the department name to that information. If you are interested in maintaining information online please send email to www@umbc.edu, we will be glad to help.
Student Information Resources.: This contains the current schedule of classes, internet services of interest to students, courses providing online information, policies and documents of interest to students, and anything else students would like to see.
Faculty Information Resources: This contains information of interest to faculty. Presently it has computer pricing information but more will follow.
Local Campus Resources: This contains a comprehensive guide to UMBC campus groups, local businesses, local points of interest, and sports and entertainment information
Weather Forecasts.: Local BWI Weather Forecast.
The above provides a connection to the Univ of Michighan weather underground, a Internet service for providing National Weather Service forecasts. For general access to that service to get the weather for any location, click here.

We hope you find this information helpful and we would like your feedback on what other information you would like to see added. If you are affiliated with a UMBC department or organization and would like to add information to this please send email to WWW@umbc.edu.

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