Tech Talk: Networked CD‐ROM Drives in a NetWare Environment Available to Purchase

Lafayette College currently provides access to thirty‐two shared CD‐ROM data‐bases of various types ranging from the complete works of Shakespeare to the ProPhone national telephone directory on CD‐ROM. The task of providing users access to the many different vendors' front ends for searching these databases can be daunting, not to mention the technical issues involved with sharing CD‐ROMs in the networked environment. This article describes the equipment used at Lafayette College and how it is configured and connected.