That in 1999 Penn State's computer systems routinely handled over 2 million e-mails per day.
An average of 85,000 dial-in connections took place each day.
There were a total of 104,775 Internet access accounts University-wide.
1.9 million hours were logged by students in Penn State's computer labs.
48 percent (4,934) of all those who enrolled in computer instruction classes at Penn State were faculty members and teaching assistants.
Student use of residence hall Internet services reached an all time high during the fall 1999 semester with over 11,400 active connections (8,710 UP connections and 2,701 Non-UP connections).
In January 2000, 40,010 students, 1,856 faculty members, and 635 advisers used the Comprehensive Academic Advising and Information System (CAAIS) to perform over 350,000 transactions.
LIAS on the Web provided student, faculty and staff with access to more than 200 databases and resources, forty of which were added in the last six months.
Penn State has the largest deployment of PictureTel Videoconferencing Room Systems of any University in the world, with close to 50 Videoconferencing room system sites available for use by University personnel one at each of Penn State's 24 campuses.
More than 10,000 Admissions applications have been received via the Web.
Libraries from Hong Kong and Turkey regularly search the Libraries' on-line catalog, the CAT, using the LIAS Z39.50 server, which permits different computer platforms and software to talk to each other.
In a recent C&IS project which involved the rewiring of Old Main, 47 miles of new enhanced performance standard cable was installed and approximately 4 tons of old cable was removed from the building.
In the last three months of 1999, New Self-Charge Workstations installed in the Libraries at University Park made it possible for patrons to check-out over 12,000 books without waiting in line at a circulation desk.
The COLD (Computer Output to Laser Disk) server currently maintains 9,324 different reports which helped reduce printing by more than 632,000 pages in the first six months of this fiscal year.
89% of all book renewals were performed electronically using LIAS on the Web, in the last six months of 1999.