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Introducing Hopkins ITS, version
1.0
In the world of computer technology, time doesn't just move
rapidly, it shoots by like a rocket. New versions of software
come out quicker than horror-movie sequels, and a few months from
now today's most powerful and fastest computers will be
considered middle-of-the-road. These tweaks and updates are
intended to provide the user with an ever-expanding array of
options, faster service and the latest in technological
advances.
Similarly, when Stephanie Reel assumed her
position as the university's chief information officer on Jan. 1,
she inherited an information system that, although completely
functional, needed an update of its own. Reel says that meant a
more flexible and streamlined computer network, synergy at the
management levels, better customer service and the availability
of state-of-the-art digital media for students, staff, faculty
and patients.
The result is Hopkins Information Technology
Services, or Hopkins ITS, which combines the university's former
Administrative Computing and Homewood Academic
Computing departments. And, like a software or computer
manufacturer, Reel's management team will keep Hopkins ITS
forward-moving with the development of a strategic plan that will
address the university's most pressing information technology
needs for now and the future.
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Historian examines 200 years of medicine in
Maryland
The library at the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland's
downtown Baltimore headquarters is said to be haunted by the
ghost of a librarian named Marcia Noyes, who died in 1946. Noyes,
as legend has it, roams the building's fourth-floor stacks, where
the library's oldest books can be found, and, if it's very quiet,
they say you can hear the phantom sounds of a card catalog
shuffling.
Jane Eliot Sewell, an adjunct faculty member at
the School of Public Health
who holds a doctorate in the history of medicine from the School of Medicine,
says that despite being told that nobody ever goes up to those
stacks, she thought it was worth the risk to get her hands on the
aging volumes stored there.
Full story...
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