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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>LaptopsAnytime™ Launch Party <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Today @ Gee Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>When</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>: Today<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Time</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>: 2 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Where</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>: 1<sup>st</sup> floor of Gee Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Monterrio Jones, SGA president, will be joined by Lucky the Lion to be the first person in Texas to check out a laptop from a LaptopsAnytime™ kiosk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Refreshments will be served!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>James G. Gee Library at Texas A&M University-Commerce is hosting a LaptopsAnytime™ launch party November 13 at 2 pm. During the launch, a student will be joined by Lucky the Lion to be the first to check out a laptop from the kiosk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>“We are excited to be the first library in Texas to offer this innovative new service,” said Greg Mitchell, Director of Libraries. “We partnered with LaptopsAnytime™ to create a customized machine that dispenses the standard university laptops. It offers our students the convenience of computer technology any time of the day or night, with no rental charge.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Students just have to bring their student ID card to swipe, and then they will be able to check out a laptop. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>“The LaptopsAnytime™ kiosk will benefit the students by allowing them to check out a laptop for one day,” said Sean Anderson, Technology Librarian/Web Master. “These laptops are able to leave the library and can be used at their dorm, home, class or anywhere they choose. As with the computers in the Nexus, the laptops will wipe out all stored information when they are shutdown, thus keeping a student’s work from being hijacked. We may have started small, but I envision big things coming from this.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>LaptopsAnytime™ was founded in 2008 with the purpose of giving back to the community through convenient, on-demand access to full-function laptops. In 2011, they won the Dell Mobility Challenge sponsored by Dell and Intel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>“Laptops are always extremely popular with our students,” said Chuck Brookshire, Nexus Specialist. “We now have a way to provide fast and convenient check-out of these essential items with a minimum of manual intervention. The ability to use these laptops for extended periods of time, both in and outside of the library, will be a great feature of this new service!” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>For more information on Gee library, go to <a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/library">www.tamuc.edu/library</a> or go to their Facebook page, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TAMUCLibraries">www.facebook.com/TAMUCLibraries</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Read more at the <i>Pride Online News and Events page</i>: <a href="http://sites.tamuc.edu/news/archives/5411"><span style='color:#1F497D'>http://sites.tamuc.edu/news/archives/5411</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>