Students’ tweets have sparked some new changes at Library West.
Patrick Reakes, chair of Library West, said students complained about unused computer monitors on the southwest corner of the third floor, so they have been moved.
George A. Smathers Libraries’ Information Technology Department has replaced the old monitors with 17-inch monitors, power outlets with USB ports and connector plates that allow students to connect their laptops to the monitor screens in 16 booths, said Stacey Ewing, assistant university librarian and information commons coordinator at Library West.
Ewing said students used the booths as group space but used their own laptops instead of the computers on the tables.
“We recently moved the old computers to the second floor so they would get more use,” she said.
Reakes said no additional funding was required for the additions.
“The only cost was staff time,” he said.
The 17-inch monitors, plugs and wires were pulled from UF IT inventory.
A version of this story ran on page 1 on 9/24/2013 under the headline "Library West gets tech updates"
