[LIBRARYDIR] Questions about technology for students

[Bruce Hattendorf]

Our computer lab is in our library. We're small. We have 24 computers in the main library space for student use, plus a cart of 12 laptops that students can check out for use in the library study rooms. We often get 20 to 30 students per day using them.

So far our laptop loaning has been happening through different departments who have different pots of money. There's a form that student services created where students can put in a laptop request and the college determines if the student qualifies for any of the laptops that are available through the different funding streams. That system has not been particularly student friendly or equitable. We're in discussions with IT and the different departments that have laptops about how to make them all available through the library so that there's a central hub for the loans and we have a supply of loaner laptops that are available to all students, regardless of the program. We're still working on the details, as some areas want to maintain control of their own laptops and there doesn't appear to be a budget yet for general loaners. It's been a big discussion this quarter.

Happy Friday and happy holidays!
Bruce

Bruce J. Hattendorf, PhD (he/him/his)
Dean, Center for Equity, Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Peninsula College
(360) 417-6238
bhattendorf at pencol.edu

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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
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Lower Columbia College
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