ELAN: A LOCAL AREA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS

ELAN (Educational Local Area Network) is the local area network of IBM PC's installed in the Department of Information Science; Strathclyde Business School. Essentially; it has a dual role (a) as part of the administration and management of the Department and (b) as a working example of electronic information handling and transfer which can be demonstrated to; and used by; students on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Much student work is now prepared electronically; and there are signs that; in the future; much of it will also be submitted electronically!