Four new chairs in engineering

The departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, BioEngineering and Electrical Engineering each have a new departmental chair. For full story: http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?visitsource=uwkmail&articleID=36831

engcirc blog

Steve and Laura maintain this blog for the circ students and staff but we should check it periodically too for shelving updates, other info.: http://stevesdesk.blogspot.com There is a link to it on the right sidebar of this page too.

Research Workstation - info and notes

Sending email from the pcs: Since we have now reconfigured all our 'public pcs' to the more restricted browser settings, commercial email sites will not be accessible. However emailing citations, articles, etc. is still possible using the file --> send function of the browser. This will open the Microsoft email form that can be used to send the item. Please mention to anyone using this that if they filter their email the message could end up in their junk mail folder. If they can't find the message they should look in the junk folder. Answering the inevitable questions about why we've changed our pcs: Those machines have been reconfigured to a somewhat more restrictive setting in order to better serve the needs of our primary user population. If there is a particular _research-related_ resource that you wish to use that you cannot connect to from those machines, please let us know the name or URL of that resource and we will explore making it accessible. If someone comes to one of you with such a request, take down the name or URL of the resource, the name and contact info (an e-mail address) of the person placing the request, and forward it to Julie C. and we WILL try to make the resource accessible if it is a request for something engineering-related (defined reasonably broadly) that we feel should justifiably be added to the Digital Registry. Who determines what's reasonable/justifiable? Julie, and if she's unsure about something, me. (Mel)

battery recycling

I just learned that we can recycle batteries, cell phones, pagers, ink catridges, CD's and DVD's at the Engineering Library! They go in the E-Media bin that's next to the table with the stapler on the first floor. Sorry if this is old news-- I almost sent someone away because I didn't know we could do this. http://www.washington.edu/admin/recycling/emedia.html

Machines to add funds have been installed, copier software updated...

The new Husky & Dawg-Prints Cards add-value station is now installed and operational in the Allen lobby, adjacent to the two print stations. This devise allows users to add value in any dollar denomination (bills only) to their Husky and Dawg-Prints Cards. It will also dispense Dawg-Prints Cards in any dollar denomination. The other 2 Dawg-Prints Cards dispensers in the building (the one in the Allen lobby and the one on Allen north 3rd floor, will be removed in the near future and reinstalled in branches that currently do not have dispensers. I will be updating both Info Index and public Web pages regarding this later this morning. Be aware that after the end of this month, OUGL Copy Center will no longer be able to add-value to Husky Cards. I will go ahead and remove OUGL Copy Center from the above-mentioned Web pages, though they will be able to continue adding value through the month of August. Since I last emailed you all, there have been great strides made in correcting many of the problems we had been seeing with the Pharos networking software. There have been 5 new versions of the software since August 17th, each one of which has demonstrably improved the performance. There are still some issues with the copiers that are connected to the network via wireless routers. There will be a solution of the wireless problems before the beginning of Fall term. Pharos is still working on creating a 100% functional software, and they still have until August 30 to get close enough to the goal as to be seamless to the largest percentage of our users. At this point, we no longer anticipate the need to roll out 'plan B' articulated in my last email. Some of the unresolved issues are: 1) Occasional need to 'restart' when there is no green light on the swipe. (This was reported to Pharos last week.) 2) Copy-ratio still only seems to offer a fixed number of reduction/enlargement options. It is, in fact, possible for users to key in any reduction or enlargement ratio they desire; it just is not evident that this is possible. 3) 2-sided copying is still not working off the glass (it does work on copiers with document feeders). 4) The 3 color copiers do not have many of the 'special features' available. All the above are currently being worked on by Pharos. I suspect numbers 1 & 2 to be fixed very soon. Numbers 3 & 4 will likely take longer. We hope to have them in place by the beginning of Fall term, but they are more complicated and require Pharos acquiring more proprietary code from Canon to do so. This will happen, but takes more negotiating between the 2 vendors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Adam C. Hall Manager of Operations Reference & Research Services Room 140 Suzzallo Library 206.685.2799

Copy Card updates

If anyone wants a refund on money left on their old print/copy cards, they can fill out a form that is located in the Reference Desk drawer. The form comes with an envelope addressed to Copy Services which can be dropped in any campus mail box. There are also forms/envelopes at the Circ Desk. Circ can also accept the completed forms for mailing. Funds can be transferred to the person's Husky card account (it takes about 10 days), or they can get a Dawg Prints card mailed to them with the amount of the refund on it. Those are the only options. Encourage people to transfer the funds to their Husky card account- Dawg Prints cards are primarily for off-campus visitors.