Sometimes PhD students talk about their "before times" and the work they were doing (especially in those bouts of existential wonder of why they even chose to pursue a PhD in the first place). For Evan Marsolek, a PhD student at Loyola University Chicago, that means talking about Minitex.
In the early '90s, when Barbara Fister needed resources to complete a book about women writers from the non-Western world, Minitex services made her "small undergraduate library a portal to the library collections of the world."