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Mearns - McPherson Classroom 130

View from the back of LIB 130
The view from the back of the classroom featuring rows of computer desks facing the front of the room and a row of bar-height raised desks without computers at the back

Room details

Computer lab

Lab type
Teaching lab (booked for classes and events; available for drop-in study space when not booked)
Capacity
35 seats and desk spaces; 29 computers (including 1 lectern and computer for an instructor)
Room number
LIB 130
Seating
29 padded chairs with wheels; 6 counter-height unpadded stools
Layout
Single level, fixed furniture in rows
System type
Windows
Hours
Mearns - McPherson library hours
Real-time info
Mearns - McPherson classroom 130 on AllSight

Location

This classroom is on the 1st floor of the Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library.

Accessibility and layout

This classroom includes:

  • fixed furniture
  • low-pile carpet flooring

Classroom features can sometimes create accessibility barriers.

Wheelchair-accessible desk in Mearns-McPherson 130
The classroom has a manual height-adjustable desk for wheelchair users in the front row.

Accessibility reserved furniture

  • adjustable height desk (manual)
  • Windows computer
  • padded chair (no arms)

This furniture is in the front row of the classroom and should not be removed from its position.

Layout

The furniture is heavy and not intended to be mobile. The furniture map shows the intended layout for this room. Dimensions and the shape of the room are approximate and not to scale. 

Floor plan of Mearns-McPherson 130

Mearns - McPherson 130 has 4 rows of desks facing the front of the classroom. Each row has 7 desks with Windows desktop computers. 4 are on the left side of the room and 3 on the right, with an aisle in between them. There are 3 long, raised desks at the back of the room without computers.

Presenting

This room has a standard classroom audiovisual (AV) cabinet with:

  • 1 digital video projector
  • 1 document camera
  • Built-in classroom computer with webcam
  • Video and audio laptop connectors (HDMI, VGA, 3.5mm audio)
  • Button controls for AV system
  • Wireless mic

It also has:

  • A Blue Snowball conference mic on a mic stand
  • 1 portable green chalkboard

For more information and instructions for the audiovisual equipment, visit:

Printing, scanning & copying

Lab computers in this area can print to the print queues:

Queue Type Closest printer
LIBR-BW B&W, LTR Outside the classroom, under the stairs
LIB-CLR Colour, LTR Outside the classroom, under the stairs
LIB_MM Colour or B&W, LTR or LGL Outside the classroom, near the Macs

The locations of the printers on the main floor are marked on the technology floor map. Learn more about printing in computer labs and printing, copying and scanning in the library.

B&W
Black-and-white (or gray scale) laser printer
Colour
Colour laser printer
LTR
Supports letter-size (8.5"×11") paper
LGL
Supports legal-size (8.5"×14") paper
Large format
May be tabloid-size (11"×17") paper, poster printing or roll printer
BYOD
Supports BYOD (PaperCut) printing

Software

This room uses the general Windows lab software set as a baseline. It also has ArcGIS Pro installed.

Software in computer labs changes frequently. We add, remove and update apps several times a year, usually based on course requirements. This page only lists software that's part of our standard build, which remains relatively consistent from one term to the next. You can search all software currently installed in labs using AllSight.

The general lab software for Windows configuration provides common and versatile tools for scholarship in science, humanities and interdisciplinary fields.

  • ACD/NMR
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader (or Pro) PDF viewer
  • Audacity audio editor
  • Beyond Professional Browser
  • calibre e-book reader
  • ChemDraw
  • Cyberduck FTP client
  • Dynare
  • Echo 360 Universal Capture
  • EViews
  • File Open
  • GIMP image editor
  • Google Chrome
  • Google Earth Pro
  • Handbrake media encoder
  • HLM
  • MATLAB
  • Mercury
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Microsoft OneDrive sync client
  • Microsoft Power BI Desktop
  • Microsoft Teams and video meetings and chat
  • Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • MikTeX
  • Minitab
  • Notepad++ text and code editor
  • OBS Studio livestreaming
  • Open JDK
  • PanDoc
  • Praat
  • Respondus LockDown Browser
  • R Statistics and RStudio
  • SPSS (IBM)
  • Stata/BE and Stata/SE
  • Twine
  • Visual Studio Code text and code editor
  • VLC media player
  • Zoom Workplace video meetings
  • Zotero reference manager

Get help

Contact the library Ask Us Desk to:

  • get help with computers and other library resources
  • report an issue with library technology
  • report a problem with the room or furniture
  • request or get info about bookings
  • request software for a course or workshop