[LIBRARYDIR] Questions about technology for students

[Fuhrman, Tim]

  1.  Do you still have open computer labs on campus? If so, are students using them?
We have 70 in the library commons. 6 or so folks use them each day so we’re looking at reallocating those funds to eventually replace the checkout laptops that are super popular that were bought with COVID $s.  We have two computer labs here in the library and they are booked pretty regularly by instructors for their classes.

  2.  Is your library still providing Chromebooks and/or laptops for checkout to students? If so, how are they purchased and maintained?
Yep, nearly 1,000 laptops.

Some depts are funding purchases for laptops for us to check out to their students, we are getting some grant supported $ toward laptop replacements, and looking at reallocating funds previous used to purchase PCs. Interestingly, we are checking out more laptops NOW than we did during COVID.  I’m guessing it is because the school districts all supplied they with Chromebooks when they were in school the last few years.

We do basic updating and imaging.  Repairs are done by our IT department but many are covered under warranties and we just send them to Dell.

  3.  Does your institution have a requirement that students provide their own computing device? If so, how is that funded (i.e. a student success fund, or attached to class materials so it can be covered with financial aid money)?
No.


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Big Bend Community College
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Hi all,

Interesting questions!

1. Besides the computer lab in the library (about 150 desktops), there is one open lab in another building, and I'm told they get three students max a day. We have been getting 15 tops.

2. Our library continues to provide Chromebooks and a few hotspots to students. They were paid for by CARES act funding, and now IT has been funding some from another budget. English Language Acquisition just received grant funding for 65 more for refugees. (I don't remember where the grant came for, but I can ask if you want to know). IT is clear that they can no longer fund new Chromebooks. When a Chromebook is returned, IT folks clean off the profile and the fingerprints and determine if they need any further upkeep. We do not have a replacement plan, but we are exploring requesting funding from the student technology fees.
3. As far as I know, there is no such requirement for a device.

Claire Murata, MLIS
Associate Dean, Library and Learning Resources
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 1:03 PM Keevy, Lindsay via LIBRARYDIR <librarydir at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir at lists.ctc.edu>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

At LCC we’re discussing the future of technology available to students, so I’ve been tasked with gathering information about what you all are doing at your colleges. My questions:


  1.  Do you still have open computer labs on campus? If so, are students using them?
  2.  Is your library still providing Chromebooks and/or laptops for checkout to students? If so, how are they purchased and maintained?
  3.  Does your institution have a requirement that students provide their own computing device? If so, how is that funded (i.e. a student success fund, or attached to class materials so it can be covered with financial aid money)?

Thanks very much in advance for any information you can share!

Lindsay Keevy
Library Director | Faculty Librarian
Library & Learning Commons<https://lowercolumbia.edu/library/>
Lower Columbia College
(360) 442-2667 | lkeevy at lowercolumbia.edu<mailto:lkeevy at lowercolumbia.edu>
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