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OWL Labs Definition

All public computer labs on campus are OWL Labs (Open Workstation Labs). They are owned and maintained by the department in which the lab resides, but OWL labs receive significant subsidies from the Office of Information Technology (OIT) in exchange for being available to everyone on campus and maintaining a lab-assistance staff to help users. OIT does not offer direction on what is available in the labs, as they do for the OIT Computer Labs, so OWL labs tend to have a wide variety of software and hardware. Most labs use the Pay-For-Print service provided by OIT. One exception is Office of Academic Computing Services (OACS) who run their own open computer lab and charge independently of the Pay-For-Print system. Find out more information about OWL Labs.

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