Key changes in information technology

• The unit is now called the Office of Information Technology. The new name uses more up-to-date terminology and makes it consistent with Vice President Betty Leydon's title.

• Two University units that provide technology-related services and previously were not part of OIT have joined the organization: the Educational Technologies Center and the Partnership 2000 initiative.

• The office has a new Web site at <web.princeton.edu/sites/oit/index.htm>. The site is organized so that constituents can view the information in the most appropriate way for their status at the University: faculty, staff or student. "There will be separate pages for those groups, and the services under them will be organized with an eye toward the role those people have," said Leydon. "We hope this new structure will make it easier for people to find information. Also, by focusing on the services we do provide, we're hoping to learn what services are needed that we're not providing now."

• The office has instituted Google [about Princeton's Google] as the new search engine for the <princeton.edu> domain. In addition to helping people find things more easily, Google provides a database search for images. The office also has added features not previously available to the people search function on the Web. The advanced people search allows users to find names that "sound like" what they type and are not necessarily spelled correctly.

• Some programs created in the provost's office that are organized around the purchase and support of computers by faculty, staff and students will now be administered by the Office of Information Technology. "The people using the equipment still will be making the decisions," Leydon said. "We'll just be facilitating the provision of services or purchase of machines."

• OIT will mail a new monthly newsletter to all faculty and staff and post it on the Web. The one-page publication will provide readers with short pieces of information to help them use technology and will point them to resources for more details.
 

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