Hewlett-Packard Donates Computers To Colorado State University Morgan Library For High-Speed Document Transfer
Wednesday, September 10, 1997
FORT COLLINS--A grant from Hewlett-Packard Co. will enable
Morgan Library at Colorado State University to better use the
Internet to help offset losses from the July 28 flood.
With the aid of six cooperating libraries, Colorado State
will use computers and printers donated by HP in a high-speed
document transfer system called Ariel. Ariel will allow articles
from cooperating libraries to be scanned, digitized, and
transmitted at high speed via the Internet to one of the seven
receiving stations donated by HP. The journal articles document
previous research in all fields and serve as essential references
for ongoing research. Receiving stations for use by faculty and
graduate students are being installed in departments across the
Colorado State campus beginning this week. Two additional
stations will be located in the library for undergraduate use.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to experiment with the role
of technology in our library service package. I predict that
people will very much like the convenience of delivery directly
to their areas," said Julie Wessling, assistant dean at Morgan
Library.
Colorado State is installing Ariel sending stations at the
following universities: University of Colorado-Boulder;
University of Denver; Colorado School of Mines; University of
Northern Colorado-Greeley; Cornell University-Ithaca, N.Y.; and
Arizona State University-Tempe. The stations will be devoted
exclusively to sending documents to Colorado State with a
turnaround time of 24 to 48 hours. As many as a thousand
requests a day are expected for journal articles damaged in the
flood. A web page devoted to listing all flood damaged journals
has been created. The page can be accessed at
www.coalliance.org/csuflood.
A unique collaborative effort between Colorado State,
University of Colorado, HP and the other universities produced
the grant, which will provide access to vital documents using
state of the art technology. The donation process was set in
motion by James Williams, dean of CU library. At the suggestion
of Camila Alire, dean of Morgan Library, Williams submitted an
emergency grant proposal to HP.
The resulting grant, valued at over $28,000, is the most
recent example of the partnership between Colorado State and HP.
"Colorado State is a cornerstone of the Fort Collins
community, and HP is pleased to make this contribution to help
the campus recover from this devastating flood," said Will
Arduino, spokesman for HP. In addition to working with Colorado
State in ongoing mentoring, scholarship and internship programs,
HP has been the university's most generous donor, giving over $11
million to date.
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