The courses are also aimed at information analyst trainees that move to the various business offices on completion of their training. Documentation on information technology is plentiful at UT Austin. Fortunately, most of the documents have now been moved to the Web and are readily available to all. Recently, Administrative Computing began assigning persons to the Academic Computing help-desk to assist users of the administrative services. Academic Computing has an extensive proprietary software distribution service which makes available to departments and individual alike software packages at minimum cost.
Consultation is provided for most of the packages distributed.
The MicroCenter sells microcomputer systems and software to students, faculty, staff and departments. The MicroCenter also provides hardware maintenance services for the systems they sell. Academic Computing provides a campuswide maintenance service for computing equipment owned by departments, research units and offices. Many other support services are available to students, faculty, and staff, and pointers to those services can be found in the home pages of the three organizations cited. Administrative Computing Services provides an ongoing, comprehensive training program in the use of electronic information resources for faculty and staff.