Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Ode to Technology

From Poop U's plans for the Library...

What’s going to be in the basement of Bostock once Technical Services moves to the Smith Bldg.?

The lower floor one of Perkins and Bostock will include assignable class space, study rooms, and a technology service point. OIT, Arts and Sciences technology services, and Library technology services will develop the technology service point as a full-service desk. There will be some assignable class space; however, the bursar will not reserve space for a class for an entire semester, but for portions of the term when the array of technologies in the classrooms will be put to good use. Open seating areas of the concourse will have a variety of technologies for student use; we’re still developing recommendations for the technology, although we anticipate including multi-media capabilities. Although we do not expect to develop a central control room to provide support (as seen at the Friday Center), we are trying to figure a way to allow communication with a service point if someone, particularly a class, has technology problems.

So there'll be some technology, right?