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Library & Computing

Tasks


Burning a CD

Use a CD-ROM Read/Write (CD-RW) drive to burn an audio or data compact disc.

Digital Media Center


Edit and manipulate an image

Change and edit image properties such as size, shape or color.

Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is an program which can be used to edit/manipulate and create images.

Scanner, Slide
Scan a slide for use as a computer file or insertion into other programs. Use a Nikon CoolScan slide scanner.

Digital Media Center


Printing in the Library & UC computer lab

To print from computers in the Library’s Haley Information Center and the UC Computer Lab you'll need your LuteCard charged up with Point$. Printing costs 5 cents per page. Every January 1 and September 1 full time students receive Copy Points credits on their LuteCards for 100 FREE prints or photocopies. Additional LuteBuck$ can be purchased at www.plu.edu/~lutecard/lutebuck/. The 100 FREE prints or photocopies, if not used, will expire December 31 and August 31.

LuteCard

A LuteCard is your PLU identification card, your library card, your on-campus meal plan card, and even an on-campus purchasing card. You'll need your LuteCard to access most PLU sports events, the Names Fitness Center and the swimming pool.

Printer, Color Inkjet and Color Laser (wax)

Print a color print or transparency from a computer file.

Digital Media Center


Scanning

Scan an image, text, or flat object with a flatbed scanner. Scanned files can be included in web pages, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, email, etc.

Scanner, Flatbed

Scan materials using a flatbed scanner.

Digital Media Center

Introduction to Scanning


Digitizing text

Scan and digitize text documents and convert them into text files using optical character recognition (OCR) software.

Microsoft Word

Use this program to write text.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Scanner, Flatbed
Scan materials using a flatbed scanner.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)


Setting up a personal, department, or organization website

To set up a home page, you must first obtain a computer user account (ePass) on SAGE. If you already have an account, you are all set. Accounts are created for all enrolled students at the beginning of each semester. Stop by the front desk of Computing and Telecommunication Services (CATS) during business hours with your PLU student ID and pick up your ePass username and password. Faculty and staff can call CATS at x7525 during business hours and sign up for an ePass. Finally, if you are interested in setting up a web page for a campus department or organization, obtain an authorization letter from your department head or organization sponsor and fill out the Web Account Request. This information then needs to be taken down to the CATS office.

Once you have an ePass, activate it for use. You can then setup your account for a website. Follow the directions as they are given. This process will create a Web directory inside your user directory, copy a template home page into it called "home.html", and insert a link into the PLU home page on your home page. The link will be placed under the PLU User Home Pages listing in the appropriate index. It will take about one hour for your link to appear and your home page to be accessible from a web browser.

If you already have a home page directory, the above command will tell you this and register you for a link in the PLU home page. It will not make any changes to the existing directory or its files.

The URL for your home page will be

http://www.plu.edu/~username

where username is your ePass username. Note that the character before the username is required and is called a "tilde".


Constructing a website

There are many choices for constructing a website using the space in a PLU ePass account. Anyone with access to a computer can edit a webpage using a text editor but this requires a knowledge of the languages of the web: HTML and CSS.

Websites can also be constructed with special editing programs that provide a similar interface to what you might use in a word processing program complete with buttons and toolbars that automatically write HTML code for you. Available WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, pronounced "WHIZ-ee-wig") editors include Macromedia Dreamweaver and Mozilla Composer. These tools (as well as personal help) are available for use by anyone in the PLU community in the Digital Media Center during their hours of operation.

Finally, a newly available option is PLU's web content management system Uedit. This online WYSIWYG editor can be used with the Mozilla web browser to create, edit, and update a PLU website from anywhere in the world! See the Uedit help page for more information and how to get started.