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Dual Display Stations
Dual Display Stations provide library users with a robust workspace on campus. Using personal devices, users can add a keyboard, mouse and monitor with a simple plug-in (USB-C or USB-A) through a Dell universal dock. Dual Display Stations are located at the following locations:
- David Lam Library
- Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- Near Ike's Cafe (Level 2)
- Chapman Learning Commons (Level 3)
- Music, Art & Architecture Library (Level 3)
- Koerner Library (Level 2 and Level 4 in Room 497)
- Woodward Library (Level 1)
- Law Library (Levels 2, 3, 4)
Public Workstations
350 public PC workstations are located at all UBC Library locations.
64 public Mac workstations are located at the following locations:
- 30 workstations in the Chapman Learning Commons on Level 3
- 8 stations in the Music, Art & Architecture Library on Level 3
- 4 stations in the Koerner Library on Level 3
- 16 stations in the Law Library on Level 2
- 6 stations in Canaccord Learning Commons (pre-bookable by Sauder students) on Level 2, room 221
The following keyboards are pre-installed, and other language input options are available through computer settings:
- Arabic
- Chinese
- First Nations Unicode Font
- Japanese
- Korean
Software at Public Workstations
| Software | Available at all PC Public Workstations |
Available at all Mac Public Workstations |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat Reader DC | ✔ | |
| Adobe Acrobat Pro DC | ✔ | ✔ |
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller DC | ✔ | ✔ |
| Adobe Creative Cloud : Sign in Required
After Effects,Animate, Audition, Bridge, Please note: Due to licensing restrictions, Adobe Creative Cloud software is not available remotely. |
✔ | |
| Adobe Digital Editions | ✔ | |
| Apple: Garageband, iMovie, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Photos |
✔ | |
| Quicktime Player | ✔ | |
| Audacity | ✔ | |
| Beyond 20/20 Professional Browser | ✔ | |
| Camtasia (TechSmith) | ✔ | ✔ |
| CyberDuck (for FTP) | ✔ | |
| Epson Scan | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Earth | ✔ | ✔ |
| FileOpen | ✔ | |
| Filezilla | ✔ | ✔ |
| Juris-M | ✔ | ✔ |
| LibreOffice | ✔ | |
| Mendeley Plugin | ✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft Office : Excel, OneNote, Powerpoint, Word |
✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft Office : Access, Publisher | ✔ | |
| 7zip | ✔ | |
| Skype | ✔ | ✔ |
| Snagit (TechSmith) | ✔ | ✔ |
| VLC Media Player | ✔ | ✔ |
| Xcode and Bbedit | ✔ | |
| Zotero | ✔ | ✔ |
Additional Mac Software
| Mac: Additional Software Availability |
Chapman Learning Commons Level 3 |
Music, Art & Architecture Level 3 |
Canaccord Learning Commons Rm 221 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple: Garageband, iMovie, Keynote,
Numbers, Pages, Photos |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Audacity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Final Cut Pro | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Github | ✔ | ||
| Redcine-x Pro | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Videoscribe | ✔ | ||
| Zoom | ✔ |
Additional PC Software
| PC: Additional Software Availability | Chapman
Learning Commons Level 3 |
Koerner
Room 217 |
Koerner
Room 218A (Remote access) |
Koerner
Room 497 (Digital Scholarship Lab) |
Woodward
Teaching Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Creative Cloud : Sign in Required
After Effects,Animate, Audition, Bridge, Please note: Due to licensing restrictions, Adobe Creative Cloud software is not available remotely. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Anaconda | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| ArcGIS Pro
Please note: ArcGIS Pro now requires users to have their own Named User License. Please see https://gis.ubc.ca/software/ for more info. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Blender | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Cygwin | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| FME Form | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Gephi | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Git | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Google Earth Pro | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Grass GIS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| IrfanView Image Viewer | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Lockdown Browser
Please note: must be installed by user |
✔ | ||||
| Matlab(Mathworks) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| MiKTeX | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| NVivo | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| OpenRefine | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Oracle VM Virtualbox | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Oxygen XML Editor | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Pandoc | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Pyzo | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| QGIS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| R & R Studio | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| SAS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| SPSS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Stata SE | ✔ | ||||
| TeXStudio | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Tortoise SVN | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Visual Studio Code | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Zoom | ✔ |
- Eastview Siku Client is available on computers in the Asian Library .
- Additional financial software programs are available in the David Lam Library and Canaccord Learning Commons, Leith Wheeler Investment Research Lab (CLC 222). Additional permissions for access is required. Please check with the David Lam Library Staff for further information.