The latest tech news in the Walker Management Library, for the fourth week of September 2004.

1)  If you haven't noticed, there has been an infestation of mice!  But have no fear, it's the good kind.  All the public workstations have happy new optical mice.  Optical mice don't need to be cleaned and don't need a mouse pad since they don't need to grip onto something.  They will not work properly, however, if they are used on highly reflective surfaces, but I don't think that will be a problem for us.  I'm sure our users will appreciate the new mice.

2) Danny has been very busy this week helping us out in the library:

• Deborah, Leslie, and Deb's laptops have been reimaged.     
• Marie's computer has been reimaged.     
• The 2 computers in the student workroom are both re-imaged and fully functional.  They have the latest version of Microsoft Office on  them as well as Sirsi.    
• The computer that will be going upstairs needs a new hard drive.  It has been ordered.  Then it will be ready to go upstairs.  No decision has been made on where to put it.  
• New wireless/optical mice have been installed on all the Information Services Staff laptops     
• And most importantly, ALL THE PUBLIC WORKSTATIONS ARE WORKING!  :-)    

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to Danny. 

3)  The 4th CD of Simmons Choices 3 arrived last week, so NOW Simmons is up and working correctly.  Simmons is on the CD Rom Database Server (Public Workstation #9.)  Thank you goes to Mills in LITS.

4) Ariel (a Document Delivery System) that Deb ordered has arrived!  Laura will primarily be working with this, so I will work with the BIS team and we'll will experiment and learn together how to use this new system.

5) The scanner that was in the student workroom area has been moved to Laura's office to be used with Ariel.

6) Kilimanjaro and Matterhorn have been acting funky as of late.  If the printer says it's ready, but things aren't printing, and there are errors in the print queue, then try deleting everything in the print queue and turning off the printer for about 30 seconds, then turn it back on.  This should work, but if not, call Rachel or Danny if she's not around. 

7) EbscoHost's Business Source Premiere is now available campus-wide (thanks to a lot of work from Deb).

Have a good weekend, everyone! Thanks for your attention and time!