Here at MSU our goal is to be service oriented.  We have created a Faculty
Resource area in our Research Pre-Award office.  Faculty can come to review
directories, newsletters and much more.  I also have a PC available to
quickly show a faculty person or student how to best use our web site and
the on-line databases (SPIN, COS, TGA) that we subscribe to.  We also give
grantsmanship seminars, but they have an opportunity to have some
one-on-one computer help if they wish.

I have installed the PDF software on my Macintosh and also on the PC I
mentioned above.  Faculty are welcome to bring their files over on a disk
to be transferred into PDF.  It only takes a few minutes.  Several faculty
and departments have purchased their own copies of the PDF software, but it
is not mandatory.  We checked into an Adobe PDF site license a couple of
years ago and it was cost prohibitive.  We also have a scanner available
for those letters of support.  As I said, here at MSU our goal is to be
service oriented!  (We are a campus of about 11,000 students, with research
expenditures of $52 million.)

Audrey Thurlow
Program Specialist
Vice President for Research, Creativity, & Technology Transfer
P.O. Box 172460
Montana State University-Bozeman
Bozeman, MT 59717-2460

406-994-6240
406-994-4152 (fax)
xxxxxx@montana.edu

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