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College Licenses for Overleaf Premium Now Available

We are delighted to be able to offer current Bryn Mawr College faculty, students, and staff using the Overleaf collaborative online LaTeX editor premium accounts through the College’s new institutional license.

Please see Overleaf: Premium Features for more information.

If you have any questions, contact the Help Desk (help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440).

LITS Welcome Back Newsletter 2023

Top Resources for Students

New and returning students: get started with FREE Microsoft Office for your personal computer. Learn how to access a variety of software from the library, your dorm, and off-campus – and get info about wireless, printing, Moodle, and more!
The Assistive Technology App Database is now up and running on the Assistive Technology: Features and Resources page. Use the database to find resources on accessibility, productivity, note taking, time management, writing, and more.
Check out LinkedIn Learning for online courses and quick tutorials in software, business, and creative skills.

LITS News Highlights

Bryn Mawr’s Next-Gen Enterprise Strategic Planning and Institutional Readiness Project is well underway. The project team is making progress towards developing requirements and data strategy, and we’ve published Guiding Principles on the project website. Watch The Lantern newsletter for updates and opportunities to provide input. Send questions or suggestions to our project address, brynmawr@morantechnology.com, or directly to anyone on the project leadership team.
Our upgrade to Moodle 4.2 is complete and the site is now online. See what’s new and get help from our EAST team!
LITS has enabled Microsoft’s accessibility checker by default for College-licensed Microsoft 365 apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), all of which are available to current community members online, on College computers (including public lab computers), and on personal devices.

Welcome New LITS Colleagues!

Janelle Rebel, Seymour Adelman Director of Special Collections

Cameron Bucher, Educational and Scholarly Technology Assistant

Upcoming Exhibition

Cecilia Paredes: Not ~ At Home opens October 25th in Bryn Mawr’s main gallery space, the 1912 Gallery (formerly the Rare Book Room).

See our full calendar of events

Study Break!

Cozy up with a book in the newly named Nook! Visit the Students Shape the Shelves book display and other additions to the library collection in the Nook, located to your left just inside the front entrance of Canaday.

Librarians are always available for academic consultations…but sometimes you need something fun. This page collects some favorites. We also have access to many major newspapers!

Spotlight on Security

Faculty and staff:
- Back up files automatically with CrashPlan (formerly Code42)! See Ask Athena for how to get started.
- The College has a new antivirus solution, CrowdStrike Falcon, which automatically detects and prevents malicious behavior while reducing false positives. You can confirm that it’s already installed on your College computer by searching for the app.
- The College’s Information Security Education Program will launch in October!
Please note that your College-provided antivirus subscription to Sophos Home expired at the end of July. New options are available now.
If you believe you’ve given your information to a phisher, immediately change your password and contact the Help Desk: help@brynmawr.edu, 610-526-7440.
Learn how to identify email scams: Malware and spam: Phishing emails

Reminders

The Special Collections Reading Room has new fall hours:

Mon-Fri: open 12pm – 4pm
and by appointment (SpecColl@brynmawr.edu)
Sat-Sun: closed

Keep up with @BrynMawrLITS happenings on Instagram, and check the LITS Blog for news and System Status – so you know what’s up (or down), and when.
We’re here to help – don’t hesitate to contact us at help@brynmawr.edu (610-526-7440) or library@brynmawr.edu. Visit us in the libraries or online at lits.brynmawr.edu.

Starting Tuesday, May 9th: Automated Antivirus Migration

Good morning!

Automated antivirus migration begins at 9am TOMORROW (Tuesday, May 9^th). The migration can start as early as 9am or happen later in the day or week (or even later if you are not on campus regularly) – it’ll all depend when and how your device connects to the College network.

Since Macs will require a restart, LITS highly recommends manually migrating to CrowdStrike Falcon [https://askathena.brynmawr.edu/help/antivirus-migration] before Tuesday (5/9) if you would like restart to happen at a specific time.

For more information, see the LITS blog [https://lits.blogs.brynmawr.edu/11462]. As always, please reach out to the Help Desk at 610-526-7440 or help@brynmawr.edu if you have any questions!

Thank you,

Bonnie

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Happy almost-the-last-week of the semester! Please be aware that the automated antivirus migrationbegins on Tuesday, May 9^th. The specific time of the migration depends on when and how your device connects to the College network. This means the migration can start as early as 9am on Tuesday (5/9) but could also happen later in the day or week (or even later if you are not on campus regularly).

Your device will NOT be affected if you have manually migrated to CrowdStrike Falcon[https://askathena.brynmawr.edu/help/antivirus-migration] before Tuesday (5/9). You can confirm that CrowdStrike Falcon is installed by searching for the app on your computer[https://askathena.brynmawr.edu/help/crowdstrike-falcon-antivirus-overview#finding-crowdstrike-falcon].

Since Macs will require a restart, LITS highly recommends manually migrating, so the restart happens at a specific time of your choosing.

As always, please reach out to the Help Desk at 610-526-7440 or help@brynmawr.edu if you have any questions!

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Today is the day! You will be able to migrate to CrowdStrike Falcon [https://askathena.brynmawr.edu/help/antivirus-migration] starting at 9am today.

We highly recommend completing the migration process at your earliest convenience to avoid getting caught in the automated migration that begins on Tuesday, May 9^th.

If you need to wait for the automated migration, please be aware that College Macs will require a restart that you will not be able to defer. For questions and assistance, contact the Help Desk at help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440!

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We have less than a week before the migration from Sophos to CrowdStrike Falcon becomes available in Software Center for you to download! We, truly, are very excited about CrowdStrike Falcon’s detection capabilities and low rate of false positives that will mean everyone at the College can spend a little less time worrying about malware.

Starting at 9am on Tuesday, April 25^th, you will be able to use the antivirus migration instructions over at Ask Athena to migrate to CrowdStrike Falcon [https://askathena.brynmawr.edu/help/antivirus-migration]. We highly recommend completing the migration process at your earliest convenience to avoid getting caught in the automated migration that begins on Tuesday, May 9^th.

If you need to wait for the automated migration, please be aware that College Macs will require a restart that you will not be able to defer. More details to come! The Help Desk is reachable at help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440 if you have any questions or need assistance.

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LITS is proud to announce our new and improved antivirus solution, CrowdStrike Falcon! It will be available for download starting Tuesday, April 25th. If you already have or are receiving a new College computer this month (April 2023), CrowdStrike Falcon will already be installed.

We’re very excited to be migrating to CrowdStrike Falcon as its features will help the College better detect malware and other fraudulent activity while reducing false positives! For more information and to get a preview of how the new antivirus will work, please visit our overview [https://askathena.brynmawr.edu/help/crowdstrike-falcon-antivirus-overview] posted on Ask Athena.

As always, don’t hesitate to let the Help Desk (help@brynmawr.edu; 610-526-7440) know if you have any questions!