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University of Rochester (NY) has come up with an exciting beginning of merging traditional information resources and Internet technology for research. "U. OF ROCHESTER INCLUDES WEB SITES IN LIBRARY CARD CATALOGUE The University of Rochester has developed a next-generation information catalogue, which includes not only the volumes housed in the university's library, but also journal citations, information from full-text databases, and links to Web sites. The Voyager system, which runs on PCs wired to the Internet, also includes the table of contents for about 30,000 books -- useful for tracking down a specific poem, for instance. "We wanted to remove barriers to access to information so that someone doesn't have to worry about, 'Is this a book or is this a database?'," says the library's acting head of reference. (Chronicle of Higher Education 28 Mar 97)" Their Database section mostly references databases which are either library use only or available via "first search", but there are some links to Web resources for some great database information sources, such as: US patent applications or "Compendex Plus Ei Village (Indexes and abstracts engineering and technology literature worldwide.) The URL for the catalog is: http://groucho.lib.rochester.edu/ It links up to electronic journals and web sites bothTitle: Univ. of Rochester Libraries - Voyager System