All areas of the health sciences center are linked via high speed/high bandwidth ethernet connected to the campus backbone and from there to the Internet. The network communications standard protocol is TCP/IP. Most faculty have workstations including PCs, Macs, or UNIX machines connected to their departmental LANS as well as to the campus backbone. Dedicated, stand-alone terminals have disappeared and have been replaced by x-terminals capable of running multiple simultaneous communications sessions. The over-all approach to computing in the Libraries, University and Hospital has shifted to a client- server model with UNIX, the preferred choice. Record sharing between applications has improved substantially. Moving from one system to another (e.g., from the Libraries Online Catalog to MEDLINE to the Administrative Data system to the laboratory system) can be done from a single workstation or terminal, although not yet from a single interface. A number of bibliographic and other informational databases are now available at no charge to faculty, staff and students using one of two locally developed user-friendly interfaces. The hospital computing focus has shifted to a Decision Support focus with x-terminals and workstations being deployed throughout the hospitals and clinics. Most faculty have access to workstations in their office. Electronic mail use is commonplace among faculty, staff and students, primarily as a result of a locally-developed, very user-friendly but powerful UNIX mail system (PINE). A Teaching/Learning Center has been created in HSLIC and includes not only multi-media instructional materials but also two large networked microcomputer classrooms. The Health Sciences Center has awarded funds for development of innovative instructional programs to a number of faculty, and the resulting programs are now being used in programs throughout the Health Sciences Center. The Health Sciences Center for Educational Resources has created a number of award-winning multimedia programs which are in use at Health Sciences Centers nationally. Funding for informatics-related research (including Unified Medical Language System, Digital Anatomist Project, Internet Pilot Connections Project for Community Hospitals) has been received by a number of units in the Health Sciences Center. Discussions are underway with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science to create a health sciences librarianship program.