Frequently
Asked QuestionsProductivity Stations
There are 54 Productivity stations in the Malaspina Commons, 8 stations (with scanners) in the Library near the Reference Desk, and 33 stations in the Library Instruction Room (LIR) on the 5th floor (Room 508.) The Commons stations are dedicated for student access during open hours and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Students may use the stations in the LIR when there are no classes booked (see the schedule at the Reference Desk and posted outside the LIR.) You will need a Discovery account to use Productivity stations.
Productivity stations are designed to support course work. Use them for activities such as word processing (e.g. typing and printing essays), presentations, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, database design and management, and Internet access.
You can print from all Productivity stations.
Productivity workstations run the Windows XP operating system and the following software packages:
- Microsoft Office
- Internet Explorer (web browsing)
- Mozilla Firefox (web browsing)
- Adobe Reader (viewing PDF documents)
- CRT (VAX terminal access)
- WS-FTP (Internet file transfer)
- WinRAR (file compression)
- GIMP 2 (image editing)
- JWPce (Japanese word processing)
- Everyday Writer Online (writing help)
- Maple 9 (Math)
- QuickTime (movies, sound)
- RealPlayer (movies, sound)
- Windows Media Player (movies, sound)
- WinAmp (sound)
- Norton AntiVirus
- ArcView Explorer (Geographic Information Systems browser
- SPSS (statistical analysis for social science data)
Students and employees may also use the bookable Media stations for scanning, image editing, desktop publishing, web authoring and accessing memory cards.