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Faculty Technology Lab
The Faculty Technology Lab is located in Room 108 of the Library, behind the Reference Desk on the main floor. It is intended to support the academic endeavors of the faculty by providing access to specialized equipment and software. In addition, the Faculty Technology Lab has a resident Student Assistant, who can assist faculty with scanning, optical character recognition, DVD & CD burning and more.
If you have any questions, or would like to make an appointment, please call the Reference Desk at 630-617-3173.
Available Software and Equipment
The Faculty Technology Lab is equipped with the following software and equipment:
Software
- Adobe Acrobat 5.0 ~ great for creating your own PDF files
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0 ~ a powerful tool for manipulating digital images
- Adobe Reader
- Internet Explorer
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 ~ the librarians' favorite software for creating web pages
- Macromedia Flash 5 ~ a dynamic multimedia program
- Microsoft Office ~ PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Publisher, Access, and other Microsoft tools
- Mozilla Firefox
- Netscape
- NVU ~ a freely downloadable web-authoring tool that's fairly easy to use
- Pinnacle Studio ~ a video editing program that works with Studio MovieBox Deluxe (which connects to an external video source)
- Presto! Page Manager ~ useful for creating electronic copies of documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Putty ~ for creating user_html directories on the web server
- WS_FTP ~ for uploading web pages
Equipment
- Halryon 1.8 GHz IBM-Compatible PC
- MPC 2.8 GHz IBM-Compatible PC ~ CD/DVD-RW
- Epson Expression 1640Xl Scanner, capable of 42-bit color and 1600x3200 dpi
- Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 990 CXI Professional Series color printer
- Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 500ps ~ otherwise known as "the Plotter"