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Computer Lab
General Information
The law library has forty desktop available for SMU law student use.
As well as a flatbed scanner for scanning documents or photos. The desktop computers
run Windows XP and have Pentium-4 3.0 GHz processors. Current applications
include, among others,
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Webmail link
- Corel WordPerfect 12
- Internet Explorer 6
- Westlaw and Lexis links
- CALI links
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7
- CD Burning software, and
- McAfee antivirus
The student computer lab is located on the third floor of the library.
The lab computers are password protected and are for use by SMU law faculty and
law students only.
Please do not copy files or personal software to the hard drives of the
Law Library's computers. Such files and software are erased as part of the
routine maintenance of the computers. The computers have front-mounted USB ports
to allow students to easily connect USB drives for file storage.
Printing
There are two high-speed laser printers inside the computer lab.
Any law school computer on the third floor can print to these printers, as can notebook
computers connected to the wireless network. Each student can print 1200
pages per year for 'free' from the laser printers. Students can purchase additional
printing by adding money to their printing account at the Circulation Desk. Print
jobs are stored on the server until they are released to the printer from one of
the two release stations. Files are automatically deleted from the print queue after
24 hours.