From Milne Library News & Events, August 2014:
“Expanded Tech Help services
Milne Library is partnering with CIT to expand our Tech Help services in the library. Our Tech Help students will now be CIT-trained and managed, allowing them to provide additional services in the Library, such as:
- Setting up your mobile device on Geneseo’s network
- Academic software installation
- Connecting to Geneseo services
- VPN setup
- Virtual Lab setup
Kindle Textbooks on Reserve
We are piloting a new way of providing affordable access to textbooks. Starting this semester, we will be circulating selected textbooks on Kindle Fire HD tablets. The Kindles can be checked out for 4 hours and include the following textbooks:
- Organic Chemistry (McMurry, 8th ed.)
- Organic Chemistry (Solomons, 11th ed.)
- Multivariable Calculus (Stewart, 7th ed.)
- Molecular Biology of the Cell (Alberts, 5th ed.)
New netbooks & more graphing calculators available
We are now circulating 10 new netbooks. These are much faster Windows 8 devices with touchscreen navigation. In addition, we’ve added 6 more TI-89 Titanium graphing calculators to our inventory, giving us 10 available for checkout at the Service Desk.”