Technology & Multimedia

Information Arcade (Main Library)
The mission of the Information Arcade is to facilitate the integration of new technology into teaching, learning, and research, by promoting the discovery of new ways to access, gather, organize, analyze, manage, create, record, and transmit information.

Information Commons (Hardin Library)
The Information Commons, Hardin Library's state-of-the-art educational technology facility, offers high-end multimedia development workstations, two networked electronic classrooms, a case-based learning/conference room, and general use computers for database searching, e-mail and word processing.

Main Library ITC (Instructional Technology Center) - 2nd Floor
The Main Library boasts the largest ITC facility on campus with over 200 computers available to students at the University of Iowa. Laptop computers can also be checked out for up to 3 hours and used anywhere in the Main Library or can be checked out overnight and returned the next day.

Laptops and Wireless Access
Students, faculty, and staff can connect their laptop computers to the wireless network in a number of library locations around campus. The library also provides laptop checkout and wireless card checkout at several locations.

Media Services
Media Services holds non-print materials such as newspapers, videotapes, DVD, laser discs, audio cassettes, and records. Film subjects range from documentaries to feature-length and foreign language films.