Keener, 'New Photocopiers Coming to D. H. Hill Library', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v21n07 (February 1994)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 21 no. 7
February 1994
Keener, Don
"New Photocopiers Coming to D. H. Hill Library"


The D. H. Hill Library will soon replace its fourteen IBM self-
use photocopy machines with sixteen new Canon copiers. The 
new machines are being modified to serve as "walk-up" vending 
copiers. The present vending-card system also will be replaced 
with a new system configured to accept the University's 
AllCampus Card.

Installation will probably occur during the first week in March. 
The changeover will not be painless for either the library or 
its users, but the end result will be greatly improved self-use 
copy service offering better-quality copies produced at a much 
faster rate, with significantly less machine down-time.

Changes to electrical wiring and the transfer of copy card 
value from present D. H. Hill Library copy cards to new vending 
cards must be accomplished to effect the changeover to the 
new machines. The time required to make electrical wiring 
changes will vary with each machine location, and groups of 
machines will have to be taken out of service to complete this 
work. Five new machines will be installed at the beginning of 
the changeover process before any of the older machines are 
taken out of service: two will go in the bookstack addition's 
sixth-floor study room; two will be in the Reference area 
outside the Interlibrary Center, and one will be placed outside 
the Reserve Room. These new machines will be available for 
use while the older machines are out of service.

Present D. H. Hill Library copy cards will not operate the new 
copy machines. The AllCampus Card used by students and 
faculty to check out books will serve as the copy card for 
these new machines and for the vending microform copiers and 
CD-ROM printers in the Documents Department. AllCampus 
Cards must be encoded with a site code before they 
can be used as copy cards. As soon as the new machines 
have been installed, users holding D. H. Hill Library copy cards 
will need to take their cards to the Photocopy Services Desk to 
have the value on their old library copy cards transferred to 
either their AllCampus Card or to a substitute copy card. 
There will be no charge for this value transfer or for 
a replacement card.

Beginning with the installation of the first five new machines, 
Photocopy Services will offer the card-value transfer service 
from 8:00 A.M. to 12:00 MIDNIGHT, Monday through Thursday; 
8:00 A.M. to 8:30 P.M., Friday; 9:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Saturday; 
and 1:00 P.M. to 12:00 MIDNIGHT, Sunday. The card-value 
transfer service will be limited to normal Photocopy Services 
hours (8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday) at the 
close of the spring semester.