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Equipment

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) has two notebook computers and other peripheral and audiovisual equipment available for loan to Xavier faculty, staff, and students. What follows are reservation policies and a description of available equipment. To make your request, you may pick up a form at the Center's office on the 5th floor of the library, or use the on-line request form.

Policies

• Reservation requests will be considered from students and staff who are involved in a CAT-sponsored initiative, and all faculty. As concerns such students, a faculty member who is working with the student must also sign the Equipment Reservation Request form.
• All equipment is loaned for a maximum of five days. It may be checked out for an additional five days providing no one else has reserved it. However, if you expect needing the equipment for more than ten days, please explain.
• Ordinarily, requests for reservation will be accepted for a maximum of one month in advance; back-to-back requests for reservation are not accepted.
• Application software is to be installed by CAT staff only. Only licensed copies of application software (original disks or CDs) will be loaded onto the computers. We require at least five working days lead-time to install software.
• The repair or replacement of damaged or lost equipment is the responsibility of the person who is borrowing it.
• Upon returning the equipment, a CAT staff member will check the condition of the equipment and sign the Equipment Reservation Request form.
• If the person who checked out the equipment cannot return to the University for any reason, he or she must return the equipment to CAT at our expense.
• Failure to follow these policies will result in loss of all privileges to borrow CAT equipment.

Equipment Listing

We have the following equipment available:

• HP Compaq nc6320 notebook computer — Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.0GHz with 15" XGA display, .99GB RAM, 75GB hard drive, DVD ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive, internal modem, and network connector. Installed software includes Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and SPSS.
• Apple MacBook Pro notebook computer — 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 15" display, 4GB RAM, 300GB hard drive, DVD ROM, airport, network connector and iSight camera. Installed software includes OS X, Microsoft Office for OS X, Safari, Firefox and Skype.
• Canon BJC-70 portable printer — Color bubble jet printer (Paper and print cartridges not included. Print cartridges can be purchased from Office Depot. The black hi-capacity ink tank, item #360-164, costs $18.99. The two ink tanks for color printing are black, item #360-172, which costs $11.99 and tricolor, item #360-180, which costs $21.99).
• Hitatchi CP-X275W LCD Projector — 1200 lumen XGA multimedia projector with carrying case (weight - 5 pounds.)
• Canon GL1 video camera — 3 CCD, 20x optical zoom, MiniDV format, optical image stabilization, composite and S-video input/output, FireWire (IEEE 1394), omnidirectional microphone, 2.5" LCD viewfinder.
• Sony ECM-MS907 handheld microphone
• Sony PCM-M1 digital audio recorder — analog and digital inputs and outputs; DAT; 48kHz, 44.1kHz and 32kHz sampling rates; rechargeable NiH batteries; requires external microphone.
• Zoom H2 Handy Recorder — records audio to digital formats on media card

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