What's in HL 217 and HL 150?

You might have noticed some room changes in the Holman Library building.

First, we have a brand new classroom! HL 217 is located in the North East corner of the second floor. One of your classes just might attend a library workshop there in the future. Also, just like HL 213, when there are no classes being taught inside HL 217, individual students can use the space as an open lab for silent study. Just double-check the instruction schedule posted on the classroom door before entering!

Bonus: Next to HL 217 is a newly-installed water fountain with a filtered water bottle station! Refill your reusable bottles with cool water, and watch the digital counter tick up counting every plastic bottle "saved" from the landfill.

Second, the Public Speaking Center has made HL 150 its new home. If you're looking for help with speeches and presentations, you can find this room at the end of the hall on the first floor of the HL building near the North entrance. Find their open hours and make an appointment via the Public Speaking Center webpage.

As always, if you need directions or help finding a resource on campus, we can help you with that! Come to the Reference Desk on the second floor of the library, and a librarian will be glad to help you find what you need.

How to obtain a FREE copy of Microsoft Office

Visit the following website:

http://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education

 

Step 1: Click on “Find out if you’re eligible” link

 

Step 2: Enter your GRCC email address

( @mail.greenriver.edu) and click “Sign up”

 

Step 3: Click on “Continue”

  

Step 4: Enter your email address again as well as your password

(This is the same as logging into your student email!)

  

 

Step 5: Once logged in, click “OK, got it” to continue

 

Step 6: Once logged in, you can now download the Office Suite!

Use your new Student Virtual Desktop!

You can use your own device to login to a Student Virtual Desktop and use nearly all of the applications found on Green River open lab computers!   

·         It works anywhere you have an internet connection.

·         Student Virtual Desktop can be used on a PC, Mac, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

·         A Student Virtual Desktop provides access to the student H, S & T network drives.

·         Note: you must first create a password on a campus computer before you can login to Student Virtual Desktop.

STEP 1: To access one of these desktops from your own device, go to http://desktop.greenriver.edu/

STEP 2: Login and launch the "Student Desktop" icon.

STEP 3: To set up Student Virtual Desktop for the first time on your device, you will automatically be prompted to install vWorkspace Connector’ software to enable launching a virtual desktop.  Follow the prompts to install the software.

STEP 4:  login with your username (student ID Number) and the password that you created this quarter for the Green River open lab computers. 

Special instructions for Mac users: To properly install the client software, Mac users will need to launch the downloaded “*.dmg” file, then hold down the “CTRL” key while selecting the “Web Access Connector” option, and click on “Open”, then follow the rest of the prompts to complete the installation.

IMPORTANT:  Do not try to save documents or other work on the virtual desktop.  Instead, save your work to your student “H” drive (Access it from:  Start Menu/Computer) or you can save to a USB drive.

Do not use the “Sync” option in OneDrive.  Each login to a Student Virtual Desktop is temporary, and anything you add is destroyed as soon as you log off or get disconnected.

Wireless Printing Now Available

GRCC Students are now able to email print jobs to the print release stations in Holman Library (HL) and the Technology Building (TC). PDF, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents can be printed. Simply follow the instructions below.

1   1.  Log in to your Green River Student email account: http://grcc.greenriver.edu/student-email/

2   2.  Address a new email to one of the following email addresses:

•  Print-BW@greenriver.edu   to print black & white documents in HL or TC
•  Print-Color@greenriver.edu  to print color documents in HL or TC
• Print-HLPoster@greenriver.edu  to print posters in HL
• Print-TCPoster@greenriver.edu  to print posters in TC

3   3. Attach your documents to the email

• Documents must be in one of these formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF
• Multiple documents can be attached to one email to print at the same time.

4   4. Click send.  You will receive an email confirming that your print job has been received.

5   5. Go to the corresponding print release station in HL or TC.

6   6. Enter your Student ID and Password at the print release station to print the document.

Weather Alert!

Worried about that winter weather?

  
If you're worried about snow or bad road conditions and how they will impact your commute to GRCC, then worry no more! GRCC has a solution that can help!


Sign up for the Safety Alerts and get a text alert when there is an emergency or active incident of crime on campus, where there are power outages, traffic blocking the nearby roads, or of course, inclement weather that would cause the school to close or delay classes.

Click on the screenshot below to sign up for this free service!

You can also use this online form to sign up for other kinds of alerts on campus, such as the ones listed here. If you prefer to receive emails, that's an option too. 


Learn more on the website, and if there is snow or nasty weather that closes the school for a day, be sure to take a break from studying to have some fun!

Snow Day

Happy 2015! Reset your passwords to start Winter Quarter off right.

Happy New Year and welcome back for another quarter! There are a number of changes around the library this January, including a new library classroom on the second floor, a new water bottle refill station, and new login passwords for on-campus computers and wifi acess!

All campus student login passwords need to be reset at the beginning of each quarter. Here's how to get started:

1. Sit down at any campus open lab computer (Holman Library and the TC Lab are the two most common places to find a computer).
2. When the screen asks you to login, click on "Forgot my Password" (Yes, we know, no one really forgot-- but this connects you to the password reset screen.)
3. Select "I am a student" from the drop-down menu and enter your Green River Student ID number (123456789) as your username.
4. Answer the questions and set-up a new password. 
5. You're done! Now you are all set to log in to campus lab computers, printing, and the GRCC Student WiFi for the rest of Winter Quarter.

If you have questions, please come see us at the Holman Library Reference Desk or the TC Lab Student Helpdesk -- and have a great Winter 2015 quarter, everyone!