Bloedorn Technology Center: Equipment for Loan

Himmelfarb Library loans various pieces of equipment to support curricular development and activities in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), Milken Institute School of Public Health (GWSPH), and School of Nursing (SON).

Through our loan service, faculty, staff, and students can request the use of the following items:

• Laptops for emergency faculty and emergency student exam-taking use only
  • Dell Latitude 7310*
• iPads for student exam-taking only
  • 9^th generation Model M2K3LL/A
• Canon Vixia Camcorders
  • Models HFS20 and HF R800
• Camcorder tripods
• Logitech HD Webcams + tripods
• RODE VideoMicro On-camera compact microphone
• Power DeWise Lavalier Microphone
• Olympus Digital Voice Recorders
  • Models WS-853, WS-400S, and WS-210S
• MIcrosoft LifeChat USB headsets
  • Model LX-3000

*The installed software on the Dell Latitudes includes:

• Examplify (on the emergency student use laptops)
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Audacity
• Camtasia 8
• GraphPad Software Prism 7
• Handbrake
• IBM SPSS Statistics 23 Standard
• iTunes
• QSR NVivo 11
• SAS 9.4

Advance reservations are recommended when possible, but not required. To reserve an item, or to learn more about the library’s equipment loan service, contact Catherine Sluder, Bloedorn Technology Center Manager, at (202) 994-9453.  You mail also email her at crharris@gwu.edu.

Equipment is available for loan:

Mondays through Fridays, 8:00am – 4:00pm

Borrowers should come to the 1^st floor Circulation Desk to borrow equipment.

Each piece of equipment circulates for one week.

• The emergency laptops and iPads circulate for 24 hours.

Return all equipment to the first floor Circulation Desk at Himmelfarb during all open hours.

To maintain quality assurance standards for the library’s equipment, all unauthorized software, information, or documents left on equipment is subject to deletion upon return.

If you suspect that a piece of equipment may have been stolen or if the equipment checked out to you is missing, please call Campus Police at (202) 994-6110 and the BTC Manager, at (202) 994-9453 immediately.

If equipment is damaged during the loan period, the responsible person and/or department will be responsible for all costs/fees associated with repairs or replacement.

There is no charge for use of borrowed equipment.