Computer and Internet Access:

• On UW Campus:

  ACC Computing Lab is closing permanently June 19, 1998

  The general access computing lab in the Academic Computing Center (ACC) will be permanently closed, starting June 19, 1998.

  General access computing labs for UW students, faculty, and staff are available at the following locations (some labs may have specific restrictions on use):

  - UWired Commons, Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUGL)
  - Computing Resource Center, Suzzallo Library
  - Arts and Sciences Computing Center, Communications Building
  - Balmer Hall Computer Labs, Balmer Hall
  - Center for Social Science Computation and Research, Savery Hall
  - College of Engineering Instructional Computing Laboratory, Sieg Hall
  - Health Sciences Microlab, Health Sciences Library
  - Math Sciences Computing Center, Thomson Hall

  A map of lab locations and information about each lab are available on the Web at www.washington.edu/tech_home/compmap.html

  The UWired Commons in OUGL will offer 24-hour access, five days a week starting Autumn Quarter 1998.

  Color printers are available in most of the general access computing labs listed above. Color plotters will be available in the UWired Commons and in the Locke Computing Center in Health Sciences.

  Computer tapes may be dropped off and picked up at the Computing & Communications Information office in room 131 of the ACC.

  The following services remain available at the ACC:

  - Computing & Communications Information office in room 131
  - Scheduled training classes
  - C&C offices including consulting, software licensing, and computer training

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• Computer and Internet Access Provided by City- and County- Libraries and other Labs Off-Campus:

  There is a growing number of web site for Washington libraries, their access to computers and the Internet, and information about Washington, designed for and by public libraries, including links to those public libraries with web stuff (Source: Anne Zald and others).

  • Seattle Public Library's Libraries Online! project
  • http://www.walib.spl.org/home.html || text only version

  • Here is the web site for the Kitsap County Regional Library, with branches in Bainbridge Island, Bremerton, Kingston, Little Boston, Manchester, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, and Silverdale. UW is a link on their page! http://www.kitsap.lib.wa.us/

  • Sno-Isle Regional Library: Don't see a web page for them yet. Branches in Arlington, Brier, Coupeville, Darrington, Edmonds, Freeland, Granite Falls, Lake Stevens, Langley, Lynnwood, Marysville, Mill Creek, Monroe, Mountlake Terrace, Oak Harbor, Snohomish, Stanwood, and Sultan. Phone number for central library -- 360-659-8447

  • Tacoma Public Library has a great web site: http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us. A proactive library with 9 branches throughout the Tacoma area -- 206-591-5607

  • Pierce County Rural Library District 206-536-6500 (central library number) Branches in Anderson Island, Bonney Lake, Buckley, Eatonville, Graham, Key Center, Lakewood, Orting, Parkland/Spanaway, Peninsula, South Hill, Steilacoom, Summit, Sumner, Tillicum, University Place, and Wilkeson.

  Source for this info, and more detailed phone/address info: Directory of Washington Libraries Suzzallo Reference Desk Z732.W28W35 "I've only listed public libraries, but it does include all other kinds (academic, special, and government). UW may be atypical, but we do not provide internet access to students at other institutions nor to the general public, so I'm not sure what success students will have pursuing other academic libraries. Special libraries tend to be in businesses and not open to the general public" (Anne Zald, E-Mail, 1996).

  Other options for email access: in Seattle we are seeing

  • coffeehouse/internet spots springing up, e.g.
  • Speakeasy's Remote Access Internet Node (yes, RAIN) is a public access program that brings full Internet access to Seattle area neighborhoods. RAIN terminals are located in safe, familiar environments where they provide easy, convenient and affordable public access
  • The Speakeasy Cafe and another on Queen Anne not far from the Opera House. Perhaps there are such businesses in outlying areas as well.

  • The Internet Public Library

  • Association of Research Libraries "...shaping and influencing forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication."

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  Clippings:

  Cable TV companies to give libraries free Internet links; Seattle Times, Thursday, October 1, 1998; by The Associated Press

  WASHINGTON - The cable-television industry plans to provide the nation's public libraries with free high-speed connections to the Internet. ..."