Ha, and I thought I might be blogging quite often here in UK, ends up my 1st post in UK comes in 1 week after I reached here.
Right now I'm inside the library of UWE (University of the West of England). Nothing much to do today, just came to attend a short half an hour IT lab induction, which basically to introduce all the IT facilities the school provides to its students.
Among all the facilities, what really caught my attention was the ability to access the documents I saved in school PC, from basically anywhere outside the school.
There is a 1GB space provided to each student, in school PC, it appears as if it's part of the partition created in the computer HDD, but actually, it's often backed up by the school's IT team, and can be accessible from outside via the Intranet network.
This is cool, and useful from what I think, I don't have to worry about my laptop will crash during my work, or the pendrive where I saved the file at will corrupt. It also saves me time to upload the file up to any online storage service, or email back to myself.
They also provide printing services where students send the files to print to the printing machines, and then print it from the machines. This was much like what I've seen when I was studying in TARC. Just that this is more convenient, due to the fact that I don't have to buy a card specifically just to use the printing service, I can just straight away top up my account, which was already created for registered students, using any top up kiosk around the campus, and when I want to print, I'll just have to log in my account on the machine and print stuffs. However, the charges are pretty expensive if converted to MYR, well of course if you don't convert, it's pretty good. It's just 4p (approx. 20sen in MYR) for 1 A4 page of black and white, and 15p (approx. 75sen in MYR) for 1 A4 page of colour printing.
This makes me think of the free printing service provided in library back in UCSI, where you just have to bring your own paper, and print for free.....
Alright, since I have nothing else to do in school today, I shall return home, and do some cooking for today, and enjoy the rest of the day. This post is pretty long by now, I think I'll just make a new post again by today, to tell some stories of my life here, and also post some photos.
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2 comments:
The IT facility is the same as the one in UNiversity of Queensland.. i think most high rated uni have this kind of standard service unlike in UCSI LOL!!
Well the best thing i love bout the library here is there are tons of informative book and compilation of journals to be accessed
and it database can access almost every site and journals including Harvard! LOL!
I think ur uni should be able to do so too :D
Haha, yeah, the size of the library is similar to the 1 I went in UPM....
And at least the library here got categorize the noise level by different floors, like quiet floor, silent floor, discussion floor, lol....
Oo, hopefully here also informative enough for me...
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