Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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MSU Libraries puts a tremendous amount of information at the disposal of the students. The experienced staff at Renne Library provides reference assistance and computerized literature searching is available Also provided are a photocopy service and a Kurzweil Reading Machine for the visually impaired. The library also subscribes to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, journals, periodicals, and government reports. The Renne Library is a member of the Washington Library Network and the Center for Research Libraries. The MSU Computing Services operates in direct support of MSU and. to a lesser extent, state and local governments, other state inslrtu tions. auxiliary enterprise and commercial interests. The facility consists of a central Honeywell Level-66 mainframe supporting the Control Program 6 operating system, a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX tt 780 running VMS. and two Digital PDP 11 44 minicomputers used for entry level instruction in BASIC. PASCAL, and FORTRAN-77 languages. Software offerings include the ISSCO graphics package and an extensive statistical library including SAS. SAS Graph. SPSSC. IMSL. and BMDP. A variety of general purpose software is also available. Each student, upon registering at MSU. receives a password to their own computer account. There are also two micro-computer labs on campus to serve the needs of the student.