Steady technological improvements continued to augment the library-a CD-ROM reference center in 1990 thanks to the Gladys Brooks Foundation; a CD-ROM LAN in 1991 thanks to grants from the E.L. Cord Foundation and the George I. Alden Trust; an online public access catalog in 1993; and a computer lab with 25 workstations in 1997.
The eGranary's interface includes a word search powered by Lucene and Solr, an online public access catalog powered by VuFind which contains over 60,000 records, and dozens of portals cooperatively developed with experts from around the world.
The university's Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is its Bibliographic database which users may use to search for materials such as books, periodicals, video recordings, and CD-ROMs in English, Azeri, Russian and other languages.
For example, if a library had 10 copies of Crime and Punishment but each copy was in a different language, an online library catalogue can display all of the copies of the book together under the chosen uniform title.