Wirless Printing and Virtual IC
1) Wireless Printing!!! Folks will be able to print from laptops (including apple). They need to download a client for each printer they want to use (if they print at Science black and white and ULIB black white they need two clients). Once this is downloaded they select print and are prompted for their netid and a document name. This is how they will identify the job in the print queue on the uniprint. If they do not assign a name the document will be called “document 1.” Documents stay in the queue for 2 hours (the same as the IC pcs) and costs 10cents per page to print. Win will take care of getting the software loaded on library laptops. The service is live now and you can tell patrons about it. But it will not be formally promoted until after the break. ITS consultants are prepared to assist with the service.
More information is here http://www.albany.edu/its/wp.htm
2) Virtual IC. The information commons page and ITS image will now be available virtually. They are referring to this as a virtual room with 15 seats available (15 simultaneous users basically). Using broadband (dial up does not work) users will launch a webpage window that will contain the ITS image. This page will have a secondary start button at the bottom and clicking that will open the IC programs. Users CANNOT access their own drives thru this page. If they started a paper in Word and saved it onto a flashdrive or their C: drive they CANNOT open that information in the virtual IC image. They must use the S: drive to save and access documents. Documents may be printed to local printers. They will be converted to .pdf format. Documents may be emailed.
Documents saved in mydocuments on the virtual IC page will be wiped out when the page is logged off. If you do not actually log off (e.g. users who get dropped from the wireless) information is retained for 15 minutes to give you time to log back on and retrieve it. Your seat in the Virtual IC is also retained for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes your documents are lost and your seat is open.
The service is live now and you can tell patrons about it. But it will not be formally promoted until after the break. ITS consultants are prepared to assist with the service.
More information on the Virtual IC is available here http://www.albany.edu/its/virtic.htm