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October 2, 2007
Issue No. 75

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Come to SULAIR's Open House on October 17

Come to the SULAIR Open House to find out about the amazing resources offered by campus Libraries and Academic Computing... Read more

How to Find Software on Campus

IT Services' Software Licensing, the Stanford Bookstore, and Stanford Procurement are three campus software outlets on campus. Their common goal is to get needed software into people's hands at the best possible price... Read more

Using Google Book Search As a Research Tool

As more major academic libraries join the Google Book Search project, Google Book Search certainly has the potential of becoming an increasingly valuable research tool. The Google Book Search collection currently includes over 1 million items, with thousands of titles are added daily... Read more

HDIS Offers New Online Images and Text

The Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS) creates and provides access to searchable online collections of image and full-text resources for the Stanford humanities community... Read more

IT Open House Welcomes You to "Technology Today and Tomorrow"

Whether you find technology scary or fun, you'll enjoy exploring all there is to see and learn at the 2007 Information Technology Open House this Halloween, Wednesday, October 31, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center... Read more

The New CourseWork Is Ready for Fall 2007

CourseWork v5 is Stanford's next-generation course management system built upon the open source software project called Sakai. While CourseWork v5 provides virtually all of the capabilities in the previous system (CourseWork v3), it also adds a host of new features... Read more

iPass - Connecting to the 'Net Away from Stanford

Have you ever needed an Internet connection while traveling? Sure, they're available at your hotel for ten or twelve dollars a day, or at the Starbucks down the street for $29.99 per day (with a T-mobile subscription), but all those charges add up quickly, and there are places where that isn't even an option. iPass is the solution to all of these problems... Read more

ITS Campus Wireless Network Gets Upgrades

As part of FY07 wireless initiatives, IT Services has begun converting older, autonomous wireless access points to newer, lightweight protocols. This will allow easier management and monitoring of the more than 1,800 access points around campus... Read more

Editor: Eleanor Brown

Graphics and Layout: Eleanor Brown, Kelly Fields, Casey Chen (photographs)

Contributors: Debbi Barley, Nancy Baumann, Kenneth Chan, Chris Bourg, Marc Brierley, Kenneth Chan, Allen Chen, Casey Chen, Alvin Chew, Marcelo Clerici-Arias, Robin Cohen, Michelle Collette, Jason Cowart, Claudia Engel, Tom French, Dan Gilbert, Trinka Gillis, Kim Hayworth, Heidi Heilemann, Amy Hill, Shirley Hodges, Shelley Hughes, Nuriya Janss, Glen Jones, Wendy Jones, Helen Josephine, Chris Lundin, Jane Marcus, Judy Marsh, Minh Nguyen, Jon Pilat, Dave Ream, Lea Roberts, Jeremy Sabol, Malgorzata Schaefer, Kimberley Schwartz, Leni Silberman, Dan Stillmaker, Scott Stocker, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Deni Wicklund, Glen Worthey, Paul Zarins