Everybody won at this year's Information and Technology Open House, held on November 1 in Meyer and Green Libraries. There were free tchotchkes, tours, raffles, hands-on demos, wizards with information to share, and, as always, live people to answer your questions about information and technology services.
Sponsored collaboratively by IT Services, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources, and Campus Wide Agreements, this annual event features "everyone in one place." It's the perfect opportunity to walk around at your own pace and find friendly, accessible people ready to answer questions you may not have even known you had! Whether you came in to ask questions of humans or gawk at a robot or a virtual globe, you came away a winner. A deserving grad student won the grand raffle prize, an Apple MacBook.
More than 500 attendees and 100 exhibitors, including key commercial vendors, contributed to a variety of exhibits, products, services, and demos. If you're new to Stanford - and even if you've been here for a long time - the IT Open House is a great opportunity to learn about new products and technology.
See also Academic Technology Specialists Present Collaborative Projects with Faculty in this issue. This year's IT Open House presented the opportunity to showcase some of the ATS projects produced or currently underway.
If you missed the IT Open House, you can visit the Web site to gather information about the services and products that were represented:
http://itopenhouse.stanford.edu/
The links on the Web site lead you to the friendly people who were at the fair. Feel free to contact them.
SULAIR, IT Services, and CWA would like to thank all who participated and attended, and we look forward to seeing you again next year.
