Your computer may be offered to someone else if you are not using it for study purposes or if you leave it unattended for more than 10 minutes during peak times (10.00am to 4.00pm, Mon-Fri). If this is done, where possible, we will save a copy of your open documents to a removable media, and pack your belongings. Belongings can be collected from the Lending Desk on the ground floor.
Use the right computer for your needs
Quick Access: Catalogue search, email, database and Internet access, no floppy or CD/DVD drive, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.
Study Access: Catalogue search, email, database and Internet access, floppy disk and CD drive/burner, full software applications. Input languages available:
Lab 1 computers
Korean, Japanese, Chinese (PRC), English (Australia), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), English (US), Farsi, French, Italian, Spanish (Traditional sort), Thai, Urdu.
All other Study Access computers
Chinese (Taiwan), Korean, Japanese, Chinese (PRC), English (Australia), English (US), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (UAE), Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), Chinese (Macau SAR), Chinese (Singapore), Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Gurati, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Tips:
Only the computers in Lab 1 require you to login using your UOW username and password. No password is required for all other computers in the Library
Your UOW email username and password allows you to access the Internet, databases and other resources via the UOW proxy server or EZproxy.
Note that network traffic outside of the University is counted against your Internet quota. See your faculty staff about your Internet quota.
Library Rovers are available to help you between 9.30am to 4.30pm, Mon-Fri.
Visit the Library outside the peak times of 10.00am to 4.00pm, Mon-Fri, to increase your chance of using our computers.
Computers are also available in the ITS labs in Building 17 - use the ITS Link on Level 1 of the Library.
Save your work early and often
Back up your work
Save your work early and often
It is YOUR responsibility to save your work: files are automatically deleted from the computer when you log off, and it is not possible to recover them after this time.
Bring a removable disk or device on which to save your work; e.g. USB memory sticks/thumb drives. Copy your document to the desktop from your disk and work with this copy; when finished, do a final save to the desktop, then copy that file back onto your memory drive.
