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Office
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August 26, 2002 |
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UT Tyler's Muntz Library has been awarded a grant to make laptop computers available to students, faculty and staff. The library received a grant from the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund, which provides funding for telecommunications initiatives and distance learning projects in schools, libraries and hospitals throughout Texas. Additional funding was provided by the UT Tyler Office of Academic Affairs. Ten laptop computers equipped with wireless network cards can be checked out for use within the library, for three-hour increments. The laptops provide access to the library's catalog and electronic resources as well as the Internet. They are configured with Windows 2000 and equipped with MicroSoft Office Suite. Laptop users will have mobility to access online services while utilizing other resources throughout the building. "Students can check out a laptop, take it to the third or fourth floor and search library resources online or type a paper while working with books off the shelf,'' said Jeanne Pyle, library director. "A group of students can check out laptops, take them to the group study room and work together on a project.'' The laptops are networked to a printer at the circulation desk. Work can be saved to a disk. If a document is too large to be saved to a disk, the UT Tyler Academic Computer Center has computers equipped with a CD burner where an e-mailed document may be retrieved and burned to a CD. The laptops are available for checkout at the circulation desk on the second floor of the library. Current student or faculty/staff ID is required. Regular library hours are 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. For more information
contact Jan Harp at 565-5541 or Joanne Buendtner at 566-7174.
Contact
person: Emily Battle,
(903) 565-5604
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