Howdy, folks--
Hope you all are doing well.
The semester is coming to an end... Seems to pass by so fast!
We here in the Labs & Classrooms division have been working hard to put things together for the upcoming season change.
A couple of things you might find different for the upcoming weeks:
- WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH
- We are adding a new Color Laser printer in the Doble InfoCommons
Our printing records indicate that the INFO COMMONS received the highest volume of printing in the last year (~90,000 pages/1900 jobs). To help balance the load, we are putting an HP Laserjet cp3525x printer which will allow students to print 300dpi on 8.5x11" color prints
- We have added 4 new boom-microphone stands to the equipment check-out list.
- WITHIN THE NEXT 3 MONTHS
- We are moving one of the HP Laserjet P4015's out of the MollyeLichter 24-hour computer lab and putting it into University Hall Training Room (3rd Floor Lab--- UNIV-3-084)
There are currently two Black and White printers in the 24-hour lab and only one in the training room. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but Statistically speaking---
the Mollye Lichter 24-hour lab's combined printing for the last year is approximately- - 30,000 pages/7000 jobs. The Reading Room (~160,000 pages/31000 jobs) and UHALL Training Room (~120,000 pages/22000 jobs) represent a significantly larger print load which can be divided a little more evenly.
- We are building a new image set for the labs & classrooms computers which will include a Dual-Boot Schematic featuring MacOSX 10.6.x and Windows7 Professional NEW!.
The list of proposed software will include:
- MS Office 2007/2008
- MS Office 2010/2011 --NEW!
- ArcGIS 9.3 (windows only)
- Kurzweil 3000 (windows only)
- Inspiration 8; InspireData
- Open Source Graphics Package which includes: GIMP Graphics Editor, InkScape Vector Graphics, Blender 3D, Kompozer NEW!
- Cloud Storage Packages: Dropbox, Flickr Uploader, Picasa NEW!
- Google Packages: Earth 3D, Sketchup
- Multimedia: Real Player, QuickTime, iTunes, VLC Media Player, Audacity, Windows Media Player
- Web Plugins: Flash 10.x, Silverlight
- Internet Apps: Digsby, Pidgin, Skype, FileZilla
- Web Browsers: Firefox 4.0 NEW!, Internet Explorer 9 NEW!, Safari 5
Our goal was to merely.... KEEP IT SIMPLE-- SLIM, SEXY, EFFICIENT.
- We are also updating PaperCut PrintCharging to 11.x soon. This will give us a whole range of new interface tweaks and usage upgrades. Your charge accounts will still exist as they do, but the WebUI will have more features and a fresh look!
- WITHIN THE NEXT 6 MONTHS
- We may be looking to acquire additional components for check-out... including, but not limited to: document cameras, microphones/microphone stands.
Thanks everyone for keeping up with the happenings in the labs & classrooms.
For more information on our operations, please visit our website:
Take care!
--- Richard Phung
Labs & Classrooms Coordinator
Lesley University