This is a continuation of my interview with the Academic Technology Systems Administrators about technology planning at Palomar College.  In this part we focus on some rubber meets the road issues like paperless environments, AV technologies, telephony, and lots of other issues.  The written response of the technicians is provided in the post below, and the audio of an interview with them follows the post. Additional Questions for ATRC Staff 1.  Would you support a goal of creating a paperless environment at Palomar College, if it meant that you would not have access to printers and would have to rely...

I love books.  I also supervise a large computer lab at Palomar College, the largest, in fact.  We are located on the ground floor, more like the semi-detached basement, of the library building.  Right now the lab is jammed.  Every computer is occupied and there is a line of about 40 people waiting to get on a computer–this after expanding the lab several times over the years.  I have just read the New York Times article “Do School Libraries Need Books?“, so I was struck with the idea of going up to the third floor of our library building, the area called the “stacks,”...