Computers
Logging In
- You must be registered as a student for the current semester, a current faculty member, a WVU staff employee, or a registered resident borrower to be allowed to use library computers.
- Students log in using their Mix Address as User Name and their birth day plus the last four characters of their WVUID as a password.
- Faculty and staff log in using their GroupWise ID as User Name and their birth day plus the last four characters of their WVUID as a password.
- Library authentication is simply a yes/no verification and is not intended to track or monitor the applications used or internet sites visited by a particular user.
E-mail attachments must be saved to “My Documents” before you edit them.
There are a total of 363 computers in the WVU Libraries system:
- Downtown Campus Library - 244 computers
- 150 public workstations
- 30 in the computer classroom (open when class is not in session) (Guidelines & Policies for the Downtown Campus Library Computer Classroom (Room 136) (April 2006: PDF))
- 4 in private group viewing rooms you can reserve at Media Services
- 60 laptops
- Evansdale Library - 69 computers
- 51 public workstations
- 20 laptops
- Health Sciences Library - 50 computers(with Center for Computer Based Learning)