User Services

Beginning Fall 2009, Luther faculty, staff, and students can obtain the latest full version Adobe software at 80% off commercial retail pricing. Visit Adobe Student Licensing to view the prices and purchase software. At the time of purchase, you will be asked to verify you are a currently enrolled student or an active faculty/staff employee.

Jay, Vern, and Jason stopped over to the library this morning to discuss plans for the renovation of the southeast area of the library. Below are a few notes from the conversation.

Present: Matt H, Bob E, Rebecca, Bob P, Larry, Matt H, Diane

• Atomic Learning – We will be upgrading to a newer version in the near future and all links to content will need to be changed. For more on the service which delivers a library of short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorial movies, 24×7, on over 100 software titles, see http://lis.luther.edu/learn.
• Presenter – Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended, which includes Presenter, has been ordered and received. Presenter, per Adobe’s website, is “software to liven up your Microsoft PowerPoint slides.

Students may now request increases in their GoPrint allowance by filling out the Allowance Increase Request form at http://lis.luther.edu/goprint/increase.

Any student is eligible for the increase provided they have a valid reason (i.e. – research paper, senior project, etc) and have already spent $18.00 or more out of their existing allowance.

For more information on GoPrint, please visit http://lis.luther.edu/goprint.

In lieu of a meeting today, the following information is being shared:

• Windows 7 – At 11:00 this morning, there is a webinar titled, 7 Steps to Windows 7 Migration Success – A Tutorial Source: KACE.

Wish you could retrieve your voice mail messages from your e-mail or the web? With Desktop Messaging, now you can! Faculty and staff may request the service or learn more about it by going to http://lis.luther.edu/learn/desktopmessaging.

There will also be a demonstration in Borlaug on Monday, Nov. 9, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Reserve a spot at http://lis.luther.edu/learn/schedule or just drop in.

Luther’s sustainability coordinator is developing a page for departmental initiatives in which LIS is the first to be listed. Additional departments will be added as content is developed. See https://reason.luther.edu/sustainability/deptinitiatives/.

The ten Windows PCs outside the SASC office have had their monitors upgraded from 17” CRTs to 19” Widescreen LCDs.

In the upcoming weeks, LIS will be deploying the GoPrint Print Management Client to all faculty/staff Windows based workstations across campus via the KACE KBOX. This process is done remotely and runs in the background. A user will not notice an interruption and no interaction is required on their part. Once deployed to a user’s machine, the GoPrint icon will appear in their system tray. The application will lay dormant until LIS enables GoPrint on their department’s respective printers. LIS will contact all departments before enabling GoPrint.

Information regarding sustainability, from LIS’ perspective and including LIS recommendations, has been pulled together into one document located at http://lis.luther.edu/sustainability.