Library adding new computers
Amy Columbo
Oejjivt rWy
A new computer center locat
ed in the knight Library will l*t
home lo 20 new computers by the
end of the month, thanks to the
$50 let hoology fee that students
pay every term
The 15 new Dell IBM-Comp
tatible computers and five Pow
er Macintoshes will be In addi
tion to the 20 Mat s already on the
set ond floor of the Information
Technology Center
By June library officials hope
to expand the number of com
puters to fiO and by July t‘»9fi
they want to fill the spac e with
approximately 90 terminals.
The machines cart be used for
word processing and as a full
Internet connet lion. The com
puter lah is open during all hours
of library operation and is staffed
by reference librarians and stu
dent employees to assist com
puter users.
“It's a greet facility and its been
packed almost since day one,
since tb« word has gotten out to
students.” said Paul Frantz, coor
dinator of the iiitiimi.itinii 'I i-i li
nology Center.
The new technology resourt e
fee is charged to all full-time stu
dents. University officials have
said a total of 5-t "> million will
be invested during the next five
years to help bring the campus
into the information Age Money
will lie collected from students,
grant funds and University
resouri es
Many students have criticized
tile fee as costly since it was
added to tuition bills in the fall.
Some students also maintain they
don't us*! the computer resources
and shouldn't have to pay the fee.
Amy Burt breaks from studying to check for messages on her e-mail
But the University administra
tion has not changed its policies.
For tin* information thev'rc
getting, i really think its a liar
gain." Frantz said in rebuttal
Since fall term, computer labs
have been battling crowds of peo
ple to access computers, laser
printing, Internet connections
and e-mail at counts at no addt
tionai charge. Manv labs have
established waiting lists during
the busiest tune of the day
"When you consider how
many thousands of students there
are on campus, there is a short
age of facilities available," Frantz
said "We have a long wav to go."
The computing center's tali in
the KMU reieived Jfi additional
Power Macs and 1-t !HM*com
palihle Pentium computers. The
science library now has eight new
X terminals and a student assis
tant to staff the computer area for
most of the day. The Sot nil Sci
ence Instructional Lab has in
new Pentium computers and six
4Hti computers
The Knight Library computer
(.enter is a new facility Originally
the library had planned to open
a computer center on the fourth
floor with 16 t nmputers
“We were always planning to
have publicly accessible com
puters tit the facility. but we
didn't have the resources until
the fee came along.” said Debo
rah Carver, assistant librarian of
public services and collections.
After University officials heard
about the technology fee they
redrew the plans to tnt lude a
larger computer facility in the
bar k corner of the set ond floor
During winter term the tab
moved to the new location
“We're really looking forward
to expanding the collection of
electronic resources, like CD
K( )Sls. ( arver said
Carver said the library will pur
chase more CD-ROMs and mill
timedia programs including full
text books and articles complete
with images, motion ond sound
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