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LITS provides access to College-owned printers for student employees.

In collaboration with the Alumnae Association, LITS continues to support the research of undergraduate and graduate alumnae/i through life-time access to JSTOR, library borrowing privileges, and access to Mango Languages.

Not sure where to go? Ask your question here and we'll help you navigate to the right place.

In some cases, it is possible to restore files that were recently removed from the College's network file storage.

BiONiC / PeopleSoft Campus Solutions application sign on and support information

We can help you find and/or develop interactive digital learning materials and integrate them into courses or programs in ways that enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.

Come to Canaday to borrow a laptop from the Help Desk.

LITS has a limited number of Windows laptops and iPads available to lend to faculty and staff.

LITS lends digital cameras, optical drives, camcorders, webcams, portable dvd players, and more.

Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore (Tri-College) libraries loan and provide access to millions of items. Tri-College faculty, staff and students can check out items from any Tri-College library Circulation Desk.

Bryn Mawr faculty, staff and students may use E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan to borrow materials that are not available from Bryn Mawr, Haverford or Swarthmore libraries.

Alumnae/i of Bryn Mawr College's undergraduate and graduate programs who are in good standing with the library may request borrowing privileges at no cost. Professors may request proxy and projectionist cards when needed.

Web Services works with members of the community to create and maintain blogs for courses, organizations, and individuals.

A limited number of Canaday carrels are available to Bryn Mawr College community members.

​​​​​​​Carpenter has a limited number of carrels for seniors and graduate students majoring in classics, cities, archaeology and history of art.

Reset and manage your College password online or by contacting the Help Desk.

Get help with keeping citations organized and formatting bibliographies.

LITS provides and supports all classroom technologies. Multimedia Services provides information to help you meet your usage requirements, and will coordinate procurement and delivery of equipment.

Bryn Mawr faculty, students and staff have access to a number of classroom response/polling systems (aka "clicker" systems) that allow speakers to get real-time anonymous or identified feedback from an audience in real time.

Bryn Mawr faculty, staff and students may request additions to the library collection.

Report suspicious activity with your Bryn Mawr account immediately.

LITS provides support for many computer hardware issues. If your College-owned computer is not working the way you expect it to, contact us.

Help Desk support for computers owned by current Bryn Mawr College faculty, staff, and students is available for issues involving connectivity to the Bryn Mawr College network. Additional fee-based services are available.

Do you have a skill to share, or do you want to plan a technology education class for your department or the College community? Partner with LITS staff to design and implement a technology education class.

LITS offers support to Bryn Mawr College community members with questions about Copyright.

The libraries keep course materials behind the circulation desk for short-term access. Faculty may request in-library reserves at one of Bryn Mawr's three libraries.

The libraries keep course materials behind the circulation desk for short-term access. Electronic reserves are available in Moodle.

Use the College's open access repository to host an electronic journal or a conference website.

Consult with Web Services to create and/or edit Bryn Mawr College web pages.

Consult with LITS staff and use the College's extensive collections of art, cultural artifacts, rare books & manuscripts.

A Bryn Mawr librarian can create a web page linking the best discipline-specific resources for assignments in your courses. This guide can also be linked to your course site in Moodle.

Get help integrating data into the College web site.

Get help with new web site projects.

We can help you incorporate technology into digital course assignments and identify technologies to address pedagogical and curricular challenges and goals.

LITS invites Bryn Mawr faculty, staff, and graduate students to apply for seed grants to support digital teaching, learning, or research activities—broadly construed.

Digital Collections at Bryn Mawr College feature historic materials such as digitized photographs, maps, newspapers, letters, reports, books, manuscripts, and other media from Special Collections and Visual Resources.

Faculty or staff may reserve the entire lab for a class meeting or other academic event. The lab is open to individuals and groups when not reserved.

Integrate a broad array of digital methods into your research and your students’ research.

LITS provides a tech trash disposal service for computers and related hardware - don't throw it away!

Domain of One's Own provides Bryn Mawr College students, faculty, and staff with an Internet domain where they can build their own websites using tools like WordPress, Omeka, Scalar or MediaWiki.

Use Tripod to search Tri-College library resources. Millions of items are available electronically or in print at one or more Tri-College library.

Use an email distribution group if you need people to be able to email a "non-person" address to reach one or more individuals.

Consult with LITS staff on mounting exhibitions on campus. Learn more about current and past displays, including online exhibitions.

Many Bryn Mawr College employees use the Financial Edge system for accounts payable, cash receipts, Investments, budgets, grants, conference services, reporting, and more.

Library materials in high demand or borrowed from a library beyond the Tri-Colleges may be subject to overdue fines and replacement costs.

Join Friends of the Library for an opportunity to contribute to the life of the Library and the College.

LITS supports several rooms on campus that are equipped with video data projection, slide projection, sound system and environmental control systems.

We are grateful to the alumnae/i and friends of Bryn Mawr College who have generously donated resources to the Libraries

Visitors to campus may request temporary access to campus wireless.

Library help

Consult with LITS staff on the preservation and use of the College's historical records.

Special Collections holds extensive physical collections on the history of women's education and hosts two important digital repositories of historic documents.

Use software and scanners in Canaday, Carpenter and Collier libraries for image and video editing; visit the Digital Media Collaboration Lab in Carpenter for hands-on help.

Use TriArte to View over 30,000 objects from the Art & Artifact Collections, plus objects from Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

Digital reproductions of materials in the collection are offered for research, publication, and commercial use.

Queries regarding an individual's primary College computer (previously "Cascade")

A librarian can work with you to develop instruction sessions and/or research assignments for your courses as well as an information literacy plan for the major.

Library items that are being processed and are not yet on the shelf can usually be expedited by request.

LITS maintains the Campus' computer replacement program, which provides one computer or appropriate access to a computer for each employee with a work-related need. We install, move, and remove College-owned computers by request - please do not move them on your own.

Set up alerts to receive email notifications when new articles are published in your areas of interest.

For quick web access, there are web-only kiosks in each library and the Campus Center. To log into a computer, visitors can visit the Help Desk to receive a guest username and password for use on campus.

How to get help in the library.

Suggest a revision to the LITS Website or this Service Catalog.

LITS provides Information about digital mapping tools and ways to learn more about them.

Did you look something up in Tripod only to go to the shelf and find that it's not there? We're here to help!

LITS offers limited help with mobile devices.

Moodle is Bryn Mawr's Learning Management System (LMS). It can be used to share materials with, quiz, survey and communicate with any closed-membership group. Sites are available for all academic courses and for student, faculty and staff committees and organizations.

Copying content from older Moodle course sites into a newer ones enables Teachers to reuse course Activities, Resources, and Question Banks.

By default, Bionic creates a Moodle course shell for each section of course. A Teacher using the same materials and assignments in multiple sections can request a single "merged" course which includes all students from those sections.

Request a non-academic course site in Moodle for a club, committee, or organization.

Bryn Mawr faculty, staff and students may access, share and store files on the College's network.

Connect to the wired network in a campus building or office.

OnBase Support

Publications are made available through Bryn Mawr's open access repository, Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College.

PeopleSoft Human Capital Management sign on and support information

Use the College phone system to make on- and off-campus calls.

Bryn Mawr faculty and staff can request configuration changes to office and department phone numbers and functionality.

Consult with LITS staff about the preservation of cultural material, both physical objects and digital objects.

Community members may add lab printers to a personal computer.

Propose a library or information technology project.

LITS purchases computers for community members with department, grant, or research funds and provides access to discounts for buying personal computers.

LITS provides Qualtrics survey software for academic purposes.

LITS offers consultative support for a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data analysis needs and methodologies.

LITS offers a range of options for recording lectures, talks, and instructional video, including the Tegrity lecture capture system for recording in classrooms, a recording equipment loan pool and editing software, and professional Multimedia Services.

Request an archival reproduction of an item from the Bryn Mawr College collection.

Do you work with a group of community members who would benefit from an orientation to LITS services? Partner with a LITS staff member to plan a session.

Request an email listserv (also sometimes known as a mailing list)

Many of the College's online services require clients to provide a second factor of authentication (in addition to username and password) at login. A Security Token generates a one-time password that can be used as this second factor. Request one here.

In specific instances, username change requests will be considered. LITS does not accept requests for specific usernames.

Your College username and password can give you access to a variety of services. Supervisors may request additional access for departmental employees as needed.

Bryn Mawr faculty, staff and students may access their College email from a computer or mobile device using a web browser or the device's native email application.

Reserve technology as part of a class, meeting or event at Bryn Mawr College.

Groups in Office 365 let you choose a set of people that you wish to collaborate with and easily set up a collection of resources for those people to share. You don’t have to worry about manually assigning permissions to all those resources because adding members to the group automatically gives them the permissions they need to the tools your group provides.

Use Tri-College Libraries Research Guides when beginning your research, to learn more about research tools and methods, and for guides specifically tailored to academic courses.

Tri-College library materials may be returned to any Bryn Mawr, Haverford, or Swarthmore College library.

Consult with LITS staff on using artworks, cultural artifacts, rare books and manuscripts in class sessions or for course projects.

Bryn Mawr College subscribes to a wide variety of streaming video services and provides help with their use.

Make an appointment with a LITS staff member prior to technology-related contracts, agreements, and purchases.

LITS staff provide consultation and referrals to internal and external resources to meet your technology learning goals.

Ask the Help Desk!

Initiate a conversation with a LITS staff member prior to a technology purchase for advice, quotes, or learning about how your purchase will be supported.

Services related to teleconferencing, or phone calls involving more than two parties.

LITS staff provide consultation for departments regarding third-party web services, including evaluating technical needs and vendor support.

College accounts lock after too many failed login attempts. They unlock automatically after 10 minutes.

LITS staff are available to help scan and catalog images for classroom instruction and to provide access to Bryn Mawr's image database, ARTstor.

Request an appointment with a LITS staff member.

LITS offers a range of software and hardware that can be used for editing audio and video files you've created or making audio and video clips to use in a course.

LITS provides support for high-quality, point-to-point video-conference calls through a dedicated Internet connection.

Use the voicemail system to check and manage messages.

LITS provides support for flexible and inexpensive forms of teleconferencing in which video and voice are transmitted over the Internet.

Get help collecting data using web forms.