Library Teaching and Learning Center

Fred L. Mathews Library and Conference Center at the Dowagiac Campus Library Teaching and Learning Center at the Dowagiac Campus

The Library Teaching and Learning Center is one of three TLCs. The Library TLC is located in the Fred L. Mathews Library and Conference Center at the Dowagiac campus of Southwestern Michigan College.

The TLCs provide many resources including free tutoring in all academic subjects, reference materials for many courses and computers that are loaded with software specifically chosen to assist learning.

Software Unit Number
Windows XP, SP2 Macintosh Unit Macintosh Unit  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
ADP Payroll Accounting Software    
Adobe Creative Suite
  Acrobat CS                        
  Go Live CS                        
  Illustrator CS                        
  Image Ready CS                        
  Photoshop CS                        
Dreamweaver 8                        
Inspiration v6.0    
Maya v6.0.1                        
Math Programs
  Basic Mathematics v3E (CD Required)    
  Hawkes Learning Systems
Introductory Algebra
   
  Introduction to TI-30Xa
(PowerPoint User Guide)
   
  Introductory Algebra v3E (CD Required)    
  Math 105    
  Math Review
    Basic Math    
    Algebra    
  Statdisk v10.3.0    
Microsoft Internet Explorer v7.0.5730.11(1)    
Microsoft Internet Explorer (MAC version)                        
Microsoft Office XP v10.6612.6626, SP3(2)    
New Century Handbook (The)
(Brief Edition)
   
NDC Medisoft v9.0
  NDC Medisoft Patient Accounting    
  NDC Medisoft Manual    
Nursing Programs
  AccuCalc v1.1 (CD Required)    
  AP Challenge    
  Behavioral Changes in the Elderly    
  Confidentiality    
  Delmar Critical Thinking - Nursing
Fundamentals v1.0
   
  Delmar Lab and Diagnostic Tests    
  Diet Analysis v8    
  Enhancing Professionalism    
  Enternal Nutrition Gastronomy and Jejunostomy Tubes    
  Ethical Decision Making v1.0    
  Fluids Electrolytes - Acid Base Balance v1.40    
  Fluids Electrolytes 2E    
  Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing vE3    
  Fundamentally Fun Graphics v2.0    
  Interactive Wound Care    
  Lawsuits Against Nurses v1.0    
  Medical Terminology - Language of Health Care (CD Required)    
  Meds Software - NCLEX-RN Success    
  Oncology Update
    Breast Cancer    
    Colorectal Cancer    
    Pediatrics An Interactive Program (CD Required)    
  Physical Assessment - Practical Chest Auscultation    
  The Older Adult World    
  Virtual Clinical Excursions - Pediatrics CD Required)    
  Virtual Clinical Excursions - Medical Surgical Nursing (CD Required)    
Quark XPress v6.0                        
Read & Read Gold (textHelp)                          
Science Programs
  AnatLab - Head, Neck, Abdomen,  Thorax    
  AnatLab - Upper and Lower Limbs    
  Blue Skys (CD Required)    
  Earth Systems Today (CD Required)    

  Saunders Interactive General Chemistry v2.5    
Southwestern Keyboarding
  CheckPro 2003, v5.1    
  Keyboarding Pro v4.0    
Word Perfect Office v11.0.0.321, SP3(3)    
(1) In addition to the standard plug-ins included with Internet Explorer (for PC), Adobe Acrobat Reader v8.0, Microsoft Media Player v10.0, Real Player v10.0, Flash Player v9.0, Shockwave v10.0, DJVU (Compression Plug-in for eBooks) and Apple QuickTime v7.1 have also been installed.
(2) Microsoft Office XP includes Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and Microsoft FrontPage
(3) Word Perfect Office 11 includes WordPerfect 11.0, Quattro Pro 11.0, Corel Presentations 11.0 and Paradox v11.0.
Macintosh Unit Macintosh Unit

Hardware Specifications

12 Dell GX620 2.99 GHz Computers with 1 GB of Ram Running Windows XP SP2 with DVD/CD roms only. All computers are protected with Symantec AntiVirus software. Drivers have been installed for the USB Memory Stick which is available for purchase in the SMC Bookstore.
2 Macintosh 733 MHz PowerPC G4 Computers with 256 MB RAM with 250 MB Zip Drives running OS 10.3 (Panther)
2 Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4200 Printers
1 HP Scanjet 8200 attached to Unit 14