JULY 2005 FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the OIRT Faculty Liaisons Newsletter for July 2005! Please be sure to share these events and announcements with your colleagues. An archive of these newsletters can be found at http://oirt.rutgers.edu/cmn/fl-archives.html We are very interested in gaining your feedback on any technology issue. Feel free to respond to oirt@rutgers.edu or call us at 732-445-1438.
- OIRT departmental presentation available
- OIRT web site revision progresses; feedback welcome
- "Software Collection Development" brings new site licenses
- Internet2 Fall Meeting in Philadelphia (Sept. 19-22)
- Internet2 Videoconferencing Event streamed live (Aug 5th)
- Video Services at Rutgers meeting now archived Question of the Month
- Bibliographic software review for possible site licensing Faculty Liaison Forum
- Priority for OIRT service efforts for 05/06 Feedback or General Q&AM
OIRT is in the process of revising its web site http://oirt.rutgers.edu. It will be a single place where you can find information about key technologies for instruction and research at Rutgers. It will cover services from OIRT, as well as with other units at Rutgers and elsewhere on the Internet. The site organization is based upon feedback gathered from faculty interviews and meetings conducted during the Spring semester. Further feedback on content, ease-in-use or missing information would be appreciated.
The "Software Collection Development" process brings Maple and ChemDraw site licenses to the Rutgers Community. Please visit the MSSG Software Portal https://software.rutgers.edu for free download and further information. Special acknowledgement goes to the following departments for sharing in the community effort to make these site licenses possible:
- Maple (university-owned systems; available now)
- From Camden - FAS Comp Sci and FAS Math
- From Newark - Rutgers Business School and FAS Math
- From New Brunswick - School of Engineering, FAS Math, FAS Physics, NHETC, and FAS Statistics
- ChemDraw (free for any user with a NetID; available by July 20)
- From Camden - FAS Chemistry
- From Newark - FAS Chemistry
- From New Brunswick - FAS Chemistry & ChemBio, Cook College, School of Pharmacy, and FAS MSLC
Internet2's Fall member meeting is being held September 19-22 in nearby Philadelphia, PA. Internet2 members are conducting a wide variety of research and development in disciplines such as the arts, humanities, health services and other sciences. Internet2 project topics include cutting-edge videoconferencing, collaboration, and K-12 outreach. Check out http://events.internet2.edu/2005/fall-mm/ for more information. Note that Rutgers is a member of Internet2 and therefore faculty and staff would pay member fees.
The Gigaconference Videoconferencing Event is being planned by the Internet2 Commons and Codian Corp. and will take place on 5 August 2005 from 12-4:00pm EDT (GMT-4). Gigaconference organizers anticipate that approximately 20 sites will participate in this event, which will showcase uses of high-end, high-performance videoconferencing. The event will also be streamed at various speeds. For a list of presenting participants (covering the Arts, Health Services, etc.) and other updates refer to http://commons.internet2.edu/gigaconference.html
If you or your colleagues consider video services at Rutgers an important emerging technology, visit or have your technical staff watch the videostream segments of the June 14th OIRT Technology Meeting "Video Services Available to the Rutgers Community." These clips are available at http://oirt.rutgers.edu/archives/tech050614.html
A Refworks representative has been invited for July 25th from 11:30am to 1:30pm in the Pane Room of Alexander Library on College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick. As this is short notice, we will also arrange for another day in August (if there is interest) from faculty to review both packages and help us select one to be site licensed.
Please provide names and/or emails of any faculty in your department that would like to help us evaluate both packages. Please RSVP to oirt@rutgers.edu.