Both branches have a wide-ranging stock, and work in conjunction with University departments to make sure that the books needed for particular courses are available. IT skills are likely to be essential for your work at the University, and will provide firm foundations for your on-going career. This section concentrates on computing facilities available to students at Reading. Registration Registration is required for any use of ITS computers. All students are registered, most before their arrival at the University.
Registration provides access to communal facilities, the network, the Internet and electronic mail.
ITS manages about two dozen computer rooms offering in excess of 400 computers with a wide variety of applications and information services. These are available to all members of the University, many out of office hours. Computing areas in the Libraries at Whiteknights and Bulmershe Court campuses are available solely for drop-in use. Most other rooms are bookable, by staff, for teaching, although otherwise they too are available for drop-in use. Most of the computers available are pentium PC's, with CD-ROM and sound cards, currently running Microsoft Windows 95.