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Oregon State University
Oregon State University is a comprehensive, public, research university and a member of the Oregon University System. It is the state's land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution, and has programs and faculty located in every county of the state. OSU views the state of Oregon as its campus, and works in partnership with Oregon community colleges and other OUS institutions to provide access to educational programs.
Oregon State University aspires to stimulate a lasting attitude of inquiry, openness and social responsibility. To meet these aspirations, we are committed to providing excellent academic programs, educational experiences and creative scholarship.
Information Commons
Report of the Information Commons Project Group (1998)
The Information Commons will serve many purposes and accommodate the traditional,
the innovative and the experimental. The Project Group identified the following
uses and facilities to fulfill that goal and the needs of the University
community.
Technology Planning: Oregon State University's Information Commons (2000)
The Information Commons has been both a great success and a great challenge. The
new thin client systems have great promise, but remaining hurdles include
smoothing out the process of laptop checkouts, personal laptop registrations to
use laptops elsewhere in the library, and the imminent plan to start charging for
printing. (The latter is an effort to reduce the number of printouts from the
incredible number of 800,000 printouts per term). Laptops and printing are both
topics beyond the scope of this article, but suffice it to say that they promise
to keep things "interesting" in the near future.