advice re: CD's on hard drives

[Bill Latham <blatham@EDU.UWO.CA>]

We are a high school in the southern part of the Canadian province of
Ontario.  We offer grades 9 to 13 to about 600 pupils.  We are quite
involved as a school and as a library with technology.  We are
undertaking a new planning process re: Technology and at a recent meeting
the suggestion was made to seek some advice and experiences from net
members on topics that we have under discussion.  First a little
background.  The school is networked using Novell 2.15.  The library has
a Follett Circ/Cat system and a 7 drive CD ROM Tower running on the
school network.  This is quite slow and heavily used.  Would you share
with us your wisdom etc. on three issues.

        1. Employing large hard drives on which CD's are loaded and which
           run on a network.

        2. Experiences and in particular costs involved in wiring a
           school with fibre optic cable.

        3. Satisfaction and problems including hardware considerations
           connected with networking multimedia CD's via a tower.

We would welcome all information, technnical and otherwise.  Please
communicate directly with us at Lord Dorchester.

Bill Latham                                  Blatham@genesis.edu.uwo.ca
Lord Dorchester Secondary School             Voice: 519-268-7351
Dorchester, Ontario, Canada                  Fax:   519-268-3772
N0L 1G0