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Knight Library lends computers
with new Laptop Loan Service
Students borrowed laptops
through the new program
nearly 600 times in its first
several months of operation
By A. Sho Ikeda
Senior News Reporter
A laptop computer is a great tool
for any college student seeking mobil
ity and convenience. Now, University
students can borrow laptops from the
Knight Library, thanks to the student
technology fee.
The current pool includes seven
Windows-based and two Macintosh
laptops. The laptops are available
for checkout for four hours a day
at Media Services in the Knight
Library, and may be booked in
advance online. Otherwise, laptops
are available on a first-come, first
serve basis. Laptops may also
be checked out overnight or for
the weekend.
The Laptop Loan Sendee, which
began operating near the end of
spring term, has loaned out laptops
595 times between May 16 and Au
gust 15, Library Systems Director
Sara Brownmiller said. Brownmiller
said she suggested the service to li
brary officials because she wanted
laptop technology to be more acces
sible to students. Funding for the
laptops is provided through the stu
dent technology fee.
"I had heard and seen that other
universities were offering this kind
of service," Brownmiller said. "I
think sometimes students don't
have access to current technology,
and this lets technology become
more available to people."
Knight Library ITC Coordinator
Kathy Heerema said this is not the
first time the library has offered lap
tops to students. She said the Infor
mation Technology Center had two
laptops available to students, but
could not let the computers be taken
out of the library.
"We didn't have the resources to al
low them to be taken out," I leerema
said. She added that the pool of lap
tops may grow in the future because
of the high demand.
The seven available Windows
laptops are Dell Latitude D600s,
which have 14.1 -inch displays and
1 3-gigahertz Pentium M processors.
The two Macintosh laptops are Mac
intosh iBooks with 14.1-inch displays
and 800-megahertz processors.
Both the Windows and Macin
tosh laptops include Ethernet ports,
wireless network cards for wireless
Internet access and DVD/CD
Rewriteable drives. Both types also
come with pre-installed software,
including Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power
Point and Internet Explorer. Exter
nal floppy-disk and Zip drives are
also available for checkout.
Additionally, the laptops are con
figured to work with other equip
ment that students can check out
from Media Services, including digi
tal cameras.
But borrowing expensive equip
ment such as laptops carries a lot of
responsibility.
"The overdue fines are quite con
siderable," Media Services technician
Susan DeHart said.
Jessica Waters Photo Editor
Knight Library employee Marina Wrensch
displays one of the seven Dell and two
Macintosh laptop computers that Media
Services now lends out to students.
Students with overdue laptops
will be fined $20 for every hour past
the check-in time. Students are hilly
responsible for the laptop, and any
loss or damage will have to be paid
by the student who checked it out.
Also, students who return laptops
past the due time and date may not
be allowed to check out laptops in
the future.
Contact the city/state politics reporter
at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com.
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