Computer
lab makes students’ lives easy
By Miguel Lopez
On-line Forty-Niner
The
North Campus Center offers much more than
a computer lab. The center boasts one of
the bigger computer labs in the Cal State
University system with over 200 computers.
E-mail accounts, Web site information for
either building or maintaining a Web site
can be obtained here as well.
The New Media Center contains 40 Apple Power
Mac, 47 Mac G3 and 177 Windows NT 4.0 computers.
Pentium IV PCs are now available in the
Open Access Lab. Scanners are now also located
at the Open Lab on both PCs and Macs rather
then just at the Development Lab.
Document printing is available at 30 cents
per page for black and white copies. Color
printing dropped from the previous price
of $5 to the new price of $1.50.
The Development Lab offers much to students
that the Open Lab does not, Information
Counter Assistant Modarith Ly said. The
Development Lab is located inside of the
North Campus Center and gives students the
chance to work with state of the art editing,
photo and movie software.
Flatbed and slide scanners and video digitizers
are also available for student use at the
Development Lab, which contains over 25
Macs and PCs. CD-ROM recording and
film recording are other features open to
students.
Now, Mac G3s contain Firewire video editing
software at the Open Lab. Previously, the
software was only available in the Development
Lab.
The Open Access Lab on the third floor of
LA5 has a small Academic Computing Services
lab that not many students know about, but
is beneficial to them because of its location.
The LA5 lab is in between Lower and Upper
Campus. Thirty-one Pentiums and six Macs
are available in the Open Access Lab. The
newly remodeled LA5 lab also has laptop
and video connections.
“The LA5 lab is good because usually it’s
empty when the larger computer labs are
full,” Ly said.
The software available at the NCC - Microsoft
Office, Illustrator, PageMaker, Photoshop
- are helpful for classes, designing graphics
and Internet and web design.
Workshops are offered throughout the semester
to teach students on the different computer
areas. ACS offers workshops for students.
Each workshop explains both Course Info
and Web e-mail. The workshops are free and
will be offered throughout the fall semester
twice a week on Mondays and Tuesdays from
4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
HOURS
OF OPERATION
ACS
Office North Campus Center
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. to noon, 1 to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday
Closed
Open
Access Computer Lab at North Campus Center
Monday - Thursday
8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m. to
5 p.m.
Open
Access Computer Lab at LA5, 3rd Floor
Monday - Thursday
8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday
Closed
ACS
Development Lab at North Campus Center
Monday - Thursday
8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m. to
5 p.m.
Walk-in
Service Center at North Campus Center
Monday - Thursday
8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. |
