a newsletter
from the Office of
nformation technology
Vol 1 Number 1
July 1993
What Is OIT?
Early in 1992 the department
of Computing Resources
became the Office of Information Technology. What's in a
name? In this case, we
wanted to indicate to everyone on campus that we felt
that our mission and function
had expanded beyond the
traditional view of computing
to encompass new technologies and new information
management responsibilities.
\ year later, under the
leadership of Dr. Burl
Henderson, Associate Vice-
President for Information
Technology, we find ourselves
involved in numerous facets of
the emerging and exciting
worid of transmitting and
processing information in the
Nineties. With the cooperation and advice of the
University's Information
Technology Committee which
has representatives from many
segments of UTSA, we are
planning for the next generation of student computing, of
campus-wide information
systems and similar new
OUR MISSION AND FUNCTION
HAVE EXPANDED BEYOND THE
TRADITIONAL VIEW
OF COMPUTING...
global scale, accessing data
and other resources from a
staggering range of archives
and libraries, etc. But
studying and preparing for
the future implementation
and management of these
resources is only the
background for what we
hope to achieve in OIT.
Our mission is to support all
of the strategic goals and
initiatives of the University
and to make available to all
members of the community
the best possible technological environment to support
their work. We would like
to provide access to facilities
that are flexible
and that can be
tailored to the
needs of each
class, each
student, each
faculty member,
cvelopments in the use of
computing. We are also
planning for teleconferencing,
distance learning, electronic
classrooms, networking on a
each department, each staff
member, and to the public
who need information
about UTSA. We aim to
provide on-going training
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From Burl's Desk
Campus
Wide
Network
Provides
UTSA's Link to the
World
The last year has been a very
special time for us in the
Office of Information
Technology!   The project
that we have all worked
toward so diligently is on its
way to becoming a reality.
You've known from the
workmen who have shifted
your desk and bookshelves
around and disrupted your
telephone service for a
(hopefully) short time, and
installed a strange plug in
your wall, that something
was happening. That wall
plug will connect your
personal computer to the
campus-wide fiber-optic
network. And during the
summer, if you are going to
be around, an Information
Technology employee will
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In This Issue...
FACCT Center Enters
Phase II,
Page 6
Student Computing
Facility Continues to
Grow,
Page 3
library Online System
Features,
Page 7
An Intro to the Internet,
Page 4
My Thesis and the
Internet,
Page 8
Sending E-mail to Other
Networks,
Page 9
OIT Offers Free Lonestar
Accounts,
Page 10
Major UTSA Computers,
Page 15
RUNNER Comes Online,
Page 11
Where to Get Help,
Page 14