Library and Computing at Bucknell

Library and Information Technology congratulates our Bucknell graduates and wishes them success and happiness in all their endeavors!

Special Collections/University Archives, located in Bertrand Library, announces the creation of a new email address for contacting the department. Effective immediately, all inquiries should be directed to scua@bucknell.edu. Please use this new address to schedule user education sessions, to make inquiries and/or appointments for viewing or researching archival collections and Special Collections materials; in short, for all inquiries related to the department (http://www.bucknell.edu/x18881.xml)

The phone number for contacting Special Collections/University Archives will remain the same, 570-577-3101. We welcome your questions/requests/messages at our new email address, scua@bucknell.edu.

As a send-off to the year, we want to remind you how important it is to make back up plans for your computer over the summer. We recommend that you buy an external hard drive and back up your documents, photos, music, etc. The tech desk will not be backing up your files if we need to work on your computer, beginning in the summer of 2008. For details, see http://www.bucknell.edu/backitup

You might want to check out Dean Midkiff translating this message for a student in this YouTube clip.

Enjoy your summer - if you're in the market for a new laptop, the Fall 2008 Bison Laptops are now on sale at http://www.bucknell.edu/bisonlaptop. Seniors can still take advantage of this great deal, and the warranty is with Dell, not Bucknell, so you can get service where ever you are.

Bud Hiller
Tech support

These instructions are for anyone using Bucknell's PAC number (Personal Access Code) to place long distance calls.

• Log into myBucknell
• Select Banner Web
• Select Telephone Office
• Personal Telephone Charges
• View Telephone Account
• Select Current Account Status
• At the bottom left hand side of the 'Current Account Status' page, select 'Display Current Calls'.

This will show you all the calls you made since the last billing statement, up until 4am the day you are viewing the calls.

Lost something in the library? If you still haven't "found" those items that have been misplaced in or around the Bertrand Library, you may want to stop by our Lost and Found area. We are located on the main level of the library at the ASK/Reference Desk. You may also call us at 570-577-1462 from off campus or 7-1462 on campus.

Ready for a new laptop? Want to get a great deal on a machine that is proven at Bucknell?

Buy a Bison Laptop! We have updated the image for Fall 2008 incoming students and we've gotten our best pricing ever from Dell. Any Bucknell student or staff person can buy one of these laptops at this standout pricing. Check this out:

• Dell Latitude D630: $992
• Dell Latitude D830: $1128
• 120 gb hard drive
• 2 gb RAM, single DIMM
• 2.2 ghz Intel Core Duo processor
• Intel 4965 wireless card
• 128 mb nVidia Quadro NVS 135M
• WXGA+ and WSXGA+ high resolution displays
• DVD-RW
• 3 years of Complete Care/Accidental Damage warranty

Read all the details on our Bison Laptop web pages: www.bucknell.edu/bisonlaptop

Faculty and staff: Please note that all Equipment Services Loaner Equipment will be recalled for annual inventory and maintenance beginning Monday, May 19th .

No equipment items will circulate from 8am May 19th to 8am May 23rd.

Equipment loans will resume on Friday, May 23rd.

Please call x77733 if you have any questions regarding equipment loans and/or due dates.

Each year, the Library & Information Technology department recognizes the valuable contributions made by our graduating student assistants by dedicating a book to the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library in their name. The book is of the student's choosing and contains a uniquely designed bookplate with their name and class year. In addition, the permanent catalog record of that book includes the student assistant's name as the person honored by the dedication. Through the Bertrand Library online catalog, you can enter the student's name as a keyword search and access the record of the book dedicated to him or her. We celebrated the book dedication at a ceremony in the Library's Traditional Reading room on April 18. You can view the program created for the ceremony. Stop by the Library lobby to see the exhibit cases containing all of the books dedicated this year. We will keep these exhibits up through Commencement weekend so that our graduates can bring their families in to see the book dedicated in their honor.

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Students:

As finals period approaches, and the library becomes increasingly busy, please take time to secure your laptop and other belongings. Don't walk away and leave your personal items unguarded, as they could be stolen! Every year, a few students are unfortunately the victims of laptop theft, which can been easily prevented.

To help you secure your laptop, the library offers laptop security devices on select study carrels on Lower Level One.

These carrels are fitted with a hook to which you can attach a laptop lock and chain to secure your computer.

Also, twenty locking mechanisms available at the Equipment Desk that will work with most laptops. In addition, you may purchase locks at the Bookstore.

Finals period is a particularly bad time to have your laptop stolen, so take a minute to secure it, or if you have to go away for even a few minutes, take it with you.

Good luck with finals!

Students: In preparation for summer school, all voice mailboxes will be deleted Tuesday, May 20th. Please be sure to retrieve all voice mail messages before that day, or all messages will be lost. Summer voice mailboxes will be established on Wednesday, May 28th.

Thank you and have a great summer!