Additional PCs in St Teresa's Library

We have deployed an additional 36 desktop PCs to the St Teresa’s Library. This represents a 44% increase in the number of available PCs in this Library.

We realise that this has been the number one request from students for some time and have been working with IT Services to ensure that we could increase the provision of desktops to you.

The devices are spread through the three main parts of the building, including 6 more in the silent study area upstairs, and eight along the North wall of the main part of the Library.

Open Access PCs in the Library - Fremantle Campus

A number of students have recently brought to our attention the difficulties they are having getting access to a PC in one of the Fremantle Campus Libraries.

The complaints have often centered on the use of these PCs for activities which are not study related such as playing online games, watching YouTube and using Facebook.  

The PCs in the Library are provided for study and research purposes and we ask that you use them in this way.  Out of respect for your fellow students we would ask that you keep your interactions via Facebook to a minimum and that you refrain from playing online games and browsing sites like YouTube.

Some students have suggested that we block sites that are related to study and research.  This is technically possible but is not our preferred option.  The Library has developed a series of recommendations and is working with IT Services to see how access to network services from the Library can be improved.

In the meantime we would point out two issues:

Those of you with a laptop can take advantage of the wireless network in each of the libraries.  The staff at the IT Service Desk in the St Teresa's library can assist you to connect to the network (The Library has made recommendations to IT Services about ways in which the network can be improved, most obviously by enabling printing over the wireless network).

The St Teresa's Library has a 'quick print' terminal next to the printers.  This can be used to print from a memory stick or thumb drive (the Library has suggested deploying these in each library and adding some quick access terminals)

We will keep you informed of developments in terms of desktop PCs and network services.

New Desktop PCs in the Fremantle Campus Libraries

From the 26 March through 8 April Information Technology & Services (IT&S) will be deploying new desktop PCs in the Fremantle Campus libraries.

These new desktop PCs will replace existing desktop PCs which have reached the end of thier lifespan and fill gaps where workstations have been been removed due to faults.

The replacement cycle will take place from 5pm on the days in question and in the hours before we open for business the next day. All of the desktop PCs will be ready for you to use from 8am the day after the replacement occurs.

The schedule for the deployment of new computers will be completed by the morning of the following dates

25 March - 30 workstations - Galvin Library (ND35)
26 March - 40 workstations - St Teresa Library (ND17)
26 March - 10 workstations - Medicine PBL rooms (ND35)
8 April - 24 workstations - Craven Law Library (ND13)

In addition to these new PCs we will be addressing the dminished performance which has been noticed in the library's desktop PCs, since Office 2007 was deployed on campus.

During the mid-semester break, IT&S will be performing a memory upgrade on all workstations not replaced by the new workstations. The memory upgrade will raise the performance of the older equipment.