Currently, when students, faculty, or staff wish to use software that is not a part of their desktop environment, they must walk to one of the public computing labs. If the software is in the lab, it might be fine; if not, well, maybe there is another lab with it. When those fail, the seeker is left out in the cold.

This project would purchase "roving" licenses for software that could be "checked out" for use in offices, rooms, or special instances. The license would be managed by a "key-server" like software that would guarantee that only the correct number of licenses were in use at any time. The software set would be limited to special instructional and not often used packages -- i.e. not WordPerfect, or Excel. Sample products would include Macintosh and Window licenses for:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Arc/View
• Pagemaker
• Quark
• SAS
• SPSS
• Stella (Dynamic Systems Modeling)

This software would be purchased for the library so that it could be cataloged in LUIS. Components of a model system exists at Colby College and Dartmouth College, for example. Colby's circulating collection of computer software is in the MacLab, 4th floor Lovejoy. The items available are included in the Colby Online Catalog(Type library at the login prompt) and may be searched by title, words in title, or the call number MacLab. Dartmouth College developed the Sassafras Software KeyServer License Manager software provides sitewide management for Macintosh and Windows platforms.