Jonathan Gregory

jonathan.gregory@mtsu.edu

Kevin States

Disability & Access Center

Open computer labs

LIB 174

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The Adaptive Technology Center (ATC) offers equitable access for MTSU and the surrounding community through technology. Our function as an open computer lab, provider of services, collaborator with faculty and staff, and short-term equipment lender serves more than 1,300 individuals annually. This includes over 1,000 students who are registered with the Disability and Access Center (DAC), diverse learners, nontraditional students, students studying disability related fields, and other university areas that use adaptive technology. This proposal includes software updates. With these additions, the ATC will offer up-to-date equipment and services to the population it serves. This Year, we are switching to a limited license of 150 seats for Read & Write due to a lack of usage from the MTSU population. Even with the change in license type, all forms of Read & Write are still available to the MTSU population. This will just allow us to better monitor the usage of Read & Write to determine the best steps for this product moving into the future. This renewal for Glean includes an additional 50 licenses on top of the 50 from last year, as we have seen a marked increase in the students actively using Glean. This quote also includes Glean's new live captioning to better assist students with hearing disabilities. This package also includes comprehensive training for students, both live training webinars led by Glean staff and a large knowledge base available to the students at any time.