Information Commons at the Engineering Library

The Engineering Information Commons is a joint venture between the Office of College Computing and the Engineering Library. It is located at the north end of Baldwin 8th floor, and is a 24-hour card access area featuring an open computer work area and two computer classrooms, 860B and 860D, plus a consultant area. The open area was designed to offer engineering students a comfortable work area with a great westward view over the Quadrangle to the distant hills.
It has windows on the inner wall so that Library circulation staff can also enjoy the view. Consultants from the Office of College Computing and the Engineering Library are available to answer library and computing questions, offering one-stop help for engineering students. The open area of the Commons has 16 wireless PC workstations. Twelve stations have Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and web access. Four stations on the table furthest from the entrance access library information resources only; they do not have Microsoft Office or Visual Studio. All workstations are on the library domain and do not access P: drive accounts.
They print to the system printer at the northwest corner of the rooat the northwest corner of the room. There are also 10 open spaces for use of wireless laptops. A scanner is also available.

Infocommons has been upgraded to keep up with the latest technology.

> The Hardware at the Infocommons is:
• Client Pro MPC Pentium 4
• Intel 2.8 GHz Processor
• 256 MB RAM
• 37 GB Hard Drive
• SoundMax Audio
• LinkSYS Wireless Card
• DVD ROM/ CD R/W

> The Software available is:
• Windows 2000 with SP4
• Browser: IE6
• Acrobat Reader 6
• McAffee Enterprise 7
• Real ONE, Windows Media 9, Quicktime, and Win DVD 4
• Spybot D&S 1.3
• Winzip v. 9
• Microsoft Office 2000
• Visual Studio .NET with Library
• J2SE Software Development Kit (SDK) includes NetBeans IDE
• Nero Express with INCD Burner
• Start Check