Services A-Z (101)

Use BIONC to register for courses, view your paycheck, enter grades, enroll in employee benefits, view budget reports, and more.

Many administrative offices on the Bryn Mawr campus enter data or use data through a shared database system (PeopleSoft). Use these guidelines to ensure
consistent data entry.

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

Use LITS and/or Oracle-provided documentation for help using PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, PeopleTools, and Human Capital Management.

PeopleSoft patches are applied four times a year. Documentation related to the most recent patches is available on the LITS website.

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

Bryn Mawr alumnae/i may access several online research and learning resources for free through Athena's Web (managed by the Alumnae/i Office).

Alumnae/i who are in good standing with the Tri-College libraries get free lifetime borrowing privileges.

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.

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 borrow materials that are not available from Bryn Mawr, Haverford or Swarthmore libraries.

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.

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.

Get help integrating data into the College web site.

Get help with new web site projects.

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

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.

Get help with copyright questions.

The libraries keep course materials behind the circulation desk for short-term access.

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

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 with data discovery and data tools.

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

Request digital images of items in the collections.

Learn how to incorporate digital tools and methods into your research.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

General help with PeopleSoft Query is available from departmental Super Users and LITS staff.

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.

Use the voicemail system to check and manage messages.

Get help collecting data using web forms.

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.

A librarian can lead one or more instruction sessions for your class covering a variety of information literacy topics, as well as discipline-specific research techniques.

Get help with your research and accessing library resources.

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

LITS is home to The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education, which aims to foster scholarship and dialogue on the history of women's education by providing a digital space that will act as a locus for inquiry and research into these diverse histories.

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.

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.

Request iPads for curricular use in workshops or courses.

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.

Ask a question or make an appointment.

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.

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

LITS staff consult with community members on open access and publication contracts.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A supervisor may request changes to PeopleSoft security on behalf of their direct reports.

Use a College-provided telephone and line to make on- and off-campus calls.

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.

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

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

Suggest a revision to this Service Catalog.

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

Use Bryn Mawr's subscription services to stream video.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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