Library use of student computer fees

The first stated goal in the ISU Library's current Strategic Plan (2005-2010) is to "provide information, collections, research tools, and reference and access services to support and strengthen learning and teaching across the university, [and to] promote the integration of library resources and information technologies with instruction."

In support of that goal, the Library makes a sizeable and ongoing investment in IT infrastructure and services that directly benefit the ISU student body. This includes hardware and software in a wide variety of locations in the physical library system (Parks Library, the Veterinary Medical Library, and reading rooms in Design and Physical Sciences), as well as the infrastructure for the web-based e-Library. Support personnel also play a key role in ensuring that students make effective and efficient use of the Library's growing array of computer-based systems, services, and information resources.

Across all these areas, the Library makes use of Computation Advisory Committee (CAC) Central Pool allocations, and seeks to ensure that students benefit optimally from this particular use of their computer fees. Detailed description and accounting of the Library's expenditure of CAC allocations is available in annual reports which are available on the Computation Advisory Committee website.