 The DIAD classroom/laboratory is used by faculty and students, and by guests of the School who are attending workshops and seminars. |
The School did so by establishing the Digital Information Access and Dissemination classroom-laboratory. The Computer Support Office within the School coordinated the effort to open the DIAD. This facility, housed within the adjacent Shapiro Library building, serves as a center for education in the area of information access and dissemination using digital technologies. It is reserved for use by SI and the Science Library staff of the Shapiro Library.
The DIAD lab is often used by SI and the library staff for teaching classes and workshops, but it is available as an open lab for use by SI students, faculty, and staff, and for library professional staff at all other times. The lab is open approximately 21 hours per day, limited only by the Shapiro Library's building hours.
This facility has been made possible by the Science Library's agreement to allocate physical space, and by the formation of a three-year partnership agreement with the University's Information Technology Division, providing funding and support staff.
This classroom-laboratory has met two important goals for instructional technology: to create a classroom-laboratory with workstations at each desk, and to expand the availability of open computing facilities for use by students working on technology-related projects. The DIAD lab, housed in the adjacent Shapiro Science Library, features approximately 40 Power Macintosh computers. All systems in the DIAD are connected directly to the campus network and to the Internet. The lab houses file servers for software applications and relevant projects, networked printers, and an instructor's workstation connected to a digital projection system.
All systems in this facility are connected directly to the campus network and to the Internet via the SI local area network. The lab houses file servers for software applications and relevant projects, networked printers, and an instructor's workstation connected to a very high-quality digital projection system. This classroom is one of the most advanced on campus, with regard to both technology and the use of technology for instruction on digital information.Technical assistance, books, and additional materials are available to lab users during staffed periods (approximately 80 hours per week). These materials are unavailable during unstaffed hours, such as late at night and in the early morning.
Since the lab may be reserved for use by courses and workshops, the room is equipped with a partition, which can be used to divide the room into two parts. This will be useful during small-group instruction, allowing a portion of the facility to be used by people not associated with the group activity.
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