Loaner Equipment
The Help Desk maintains a pool of equipment that can be
borrowed for short periods by Business School Faculty, Staff and Graduate
students. Additionally there are sets of Turning
Point Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers") available to Business School
Faculty for a semester on a first come-first served basis.
All reservations are first come- first served,
so reserve it as soon as you know you will need it – and please, cancel
your reservations if you find you don’t need it after all.
To make a reservation, contact the Helpdesk by calling 301-405-2269 or email
helpme@rhsmith.umd.edu. All equipment must be picked up in person and
signed for (the Help Desk does not deliver or set up the equipment).
Equipment available for short term loan:
General
equipment loan periods should be kept as
short as possible to keep the equipment available for everyone who needs it.
- Remote control mice and wireless
keyboards
for the classroom and conference room projection equipment –
These do not have to be reserved in advance, and can be checked out
immediately before your class from room 3520.
Laptops
- The Help Desk has a series of laptops that may be borrowed.
Each of these laptops has an internal wireless card and is configured with
our standard software which includes the Office 2003 suite.
Projectors - The Help Desk has
a series of LCD projectors, which can be connected to a laptop for mobile
projection. Note: If you reserve a laptop from the Help
Desk, you are only reserving the laptop. If you need a projector, you must
make a second, separate reservation for the projector.
Digital
Camera - The Help
Desk's Digital Camera is available for short-term loan. Software and
cabling to connect the camera to your PC and download the images from the
camera are included. If you don't have access to a PC to do this, you can
log into one of the PCs in the Help Desk office and download the camera
images, however, the Help Desk is not resourced to download the images for
you. All images stored in the camera are subject to deletion at any
time after you have returned the camera to us.
Portable VHS Camcorders with tripods
are available through the Audio Visual office personnel and must be reserved
in advance.
Portable Audio Cassette recorders
are available through the Audio Visual office personnel and must be reserved
in advance.
Portable Overhead Projectors
are
available through the Audio Visual office personnel and must be reserved in
advance.
External backup devices
- CD-RW (CD burner), DVD burner, and zip drives are available.
You will have to purchase appropriate blank media from an office supply
reseller.
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