Washington and Lee University
During the first half of 2008-09, our Main Floor will be unavailable due to construction work.
A computing lab is located on Lower Level 1, with 14 PC systems with WIN XP Pro and Office XP Pro and two laser printers, giving students and faculty access to GroupWise e-mail, the World Wide Web, Microsoft Word, Excel, and other applications.
Additional public-access computers will be available on this level during library renovation.
Information Technology Services' Help Desk and related services will be on this floor during the renovation.
An additional computing lab, with similar hardware and applications, is located on Lower Level 3 in Room 301. This lab is open only from 4:30 PM to 2:00 AM, Sunday through Thursday, while classes are in session.
The library has laptop computers that can be borrowed for a few hours at a time.
All locked study rooms on Lower Levels 2, 3, and 4 are wired for access to the campus network, and other study rooms on those floors are similarly wired.
A brief description of other computing labs on campus is available here.
Wireless access is available throughout library buildings, although some areas have better access than others.
Additional information on campus wireless access is available here.
Machines which require a campus user-name/password, such as the eight PC's on the Main Floor, share access to a networked laser printer. Student printing accounts are managed under guidelines outlined here.
Most Annie terminals are directly attached to an ink-jet printer. There is no charge for printing from these machines.
The two "guest" PC's can send print jobs to a networked laser printer at the Circulation Desk and the charge is $0.10 per sheet, payable to the Circulation Desk attendant.
Annie, the online catalog for W&L libraries, is accessible from the Annie link on most library Web pages.
The catalog is also accessible in a text-only form at dedicated terminals in various locations in Leyburn Library. There are two of these machines in the Reference area on the Main Floor, and each of the lower floors includes at least one Annie terminal in the stacks area.
There are individual and small-group study rooms on Lower Levels 2, 3, and 4, including the popular "fishbowl" rooms, where there is wireless network access. In addition, rhere are 31 individual locked study rooms in Leyburn Library that are assigned on a term-by-term basis to students writing honors theses and faculty members who require a dedicated research space in the library. Application for use of these rooms should be made in the University Librarian's office. See this page for more information.
There is no fax machine in the library for student use or other public use.
However, there is a fax machine for student use on the top level in the University Commons in the Student Organization
space, available 24 hours/day while classes are in session. Access to this machine
requires that a student have a "personal account code," which is available from Dana Camper (x4000).
(A "student
account code" is a number assigned to each student on the University phone system for making long distance calls, which
can be made from the room phone or any other phone in the campus system. The account can be continued or restarted after students move off campus.)
Problems with networked PC's and and networked printers should be reported to Information Technology Services' Help Desk.