Facilities

IAKM Office
The IAKM office is located in room 316 of the library. The offices of the Program Director, Thomas J. Froehlich and the Academic Program Coordinator, Janna Korzenko are located there. The front office includes a small collection of resources that may be helpful to students including career information, hard copies of course syllabi and books and journals relating to IAKM.

Student Mailboxes
Student mailboxes are located on the third floor between classroom 317 and the IAKM office. Each student is assigned a mailbox at the beginning of each semester where instructors and the program may distribute information and return assignments. A list of names and corresponding mailbox numbers is posted near the mailboxes.

Computer Labs
The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) makes available two lab rooms in the main Kent State University library for the use of IAKM students. The first is the Student Lab (Room 310A), which holds twelve 2.4 GHz Windows XP PCs. An additional graphics station with dual monitor system, HP scanner, and color Inkjet printer can also be found in the front of the room. The second room is the Electronic Classroom (Room 315). This room contains twenty-four 1GHz Window XP PCs.

Students using these systems receive student accounts in the departmental LAN, file space, and the right to print to the departmental laser printers. All students are to follow the Official Lab Use Policy, which can be found on the SLIS website at.

Student Lounge
SLIS also provides a student lounge for use by students of both the MLIS and IAKM programs in Room 310L Library. There is comfortable seating, general library and career resources, vending machines and kitchen facilities including refrigerator, microwave and coffee machine available for students' convenience.

Usability Lab
The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Usability Lab was recently completed for use by both SLIS and IAKM for education, research and outreach. It is a state-of-the-art facility with the latest eye-tracking equipment and capturing software. For more detailed information see the usability lab page.