LAPTOP INITIATIVE

The library provides Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptops to currently enrolled students for use within the facility. To borrow a laptop, the user needs a valid Bryant University ID card and must be in good standing with the library. Laptops:

• are available at the Circulation Desk
• may not be reserved in advance
• may be borrowed for 3 hours
• may be renewed for 3 hours
  

Users will be asked, upon check-out and check-in procedures, to examine the laptop with a library staff member or student employee and be provided with a checklist to be certain that all parts are operational. Users will sign an agreement form acknowledging replacement costs and restrictions:

• Laptops are not to leave the library
• Do not duplicate any software from the laptop
• Save everything to a USB flash drive. All non-standard program files will be removed.
• Notify staff if the laptop is damaged as soon as the damage is found.
• Return laptops 30 minutes before closing
• Return laptops to the Circulation Desk; do not leave in the book drop

We also have a laptop available for student use here in the laptop reserve collection that is equipped with a speech recognition software called Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 10.0);  The Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) uses this software and they have arranged, through Info Tech, for us to have it installed on a student laptop here.