Technologies, Equipment, and Facilities

The Kelvin Smith Library incorporates current technologies throughout all phases of its operations, and provides administrative systems, Internet services, and instructional support services. The university provides further administrative systems such as human resource management and accounting support, as well as system-wide support for instructional programs (Blackboard, for instance), file sharing, and email. Examples of technologies available within the Kelvin Smith Library include a fiber optic network, a wireless network, an online system (Innovative Interfaces Millennium) for managing patron records, newly acquired materials, and circulation and billing functions. In addition, the Kelvin Smith Library offers numerous examples of current computer technology in its choice of computer systems, electronic classrooms, and other programmatic centers.

The Freedman Center is a 2700 square feet glass-enclosed facility on the Main Level of the Kelvin Smith Library. The Freedman Center is a million dollar, newly constructed center utilizing space in the Kelvin Smith Library that was set aside ten years ago specifically for this purpose. The facility is unique in KSL by virtue of its full enclosure in glass and its highly stylized new design. The Freedman Center contains a main space for multimedia and language work, a sound room, and two offices. The Center boasts forty workstations: language learning, group learning, adaptive technology, scanning, multimedia, consultative, and staff usage. Additionally, there are laptop machines that are lent from the Freedman Center. Major equipment includes four full stacks of hardware used in conjunction with the multimedia machines, including small monitors for video editing, multiformat DVDs and VCRs, video distribution amplifiers, digital video decks for importing digital and analog video, a laserdisc player, turntables, cassette players, CD players, microphones and a mixer, a plasma display, 8.5 x 14 scanners, medium format 12 x 18 scanners, photo scanners, slide scanners, and access to a planetary scanner for large format works. Multiregion and multiformat DVDs and VCRs are attached to language learning machines, which also have cameras for use in video teleconferencing.

For more detailed information regarding the available equipment and software in the Freedman Center, please see our pages dedicated to providing this information.