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OUR MISSION
"The Georgetown University
Law Center Information Systems Technology (IST) Department
is a team of ever-improving professionals committed to lead
the information technology efforts of its community through
effective planning and on-going teamwork resulting in a positive
experience." |
To Lead |
The IST Department proactively manages
and exercises technology leadership rather than merely responding
or reacting to the Law Center community's needs. |
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The IST Department has a vision for
technology that is several years ahead of implementation, so
that we can take advantage of new technologies at the most ideal
time. |
Teamwork |
Technology is not something that
the IST Department does for people, but rather the result of
close cooperation with all members of the Law Center community
and the University, peer institutions, and business partners. |
Positive
Experience |
While keeping in mind the realities
of budgets and information security constraints, the IST Department
strives to achieve community satisfaction with technology by
closely matching expectations with actual services and resources. |
VISION
- The virtual Law Center is an integrated collection
of web services for legal education and research. Secure and
private access is granted to all Law Center community members
and visitors through any Internet-enabled device.
- The physical Law Center uses high-performance and wireless
communications to support all Internet-enabled devices and
multimedia interactions throughout the entire campus.
STRATEGIC GOALS
- To use technology to facilitate teaching and legal research.
- To provide community members and visitors with state-of-the-art
technology that enhances the perception of Georgetown University
Law Center.
- To advance the mission of the institution beyond its physical
and geographical limitations.
FIVE-YEAR OBJECTIVES
- To organize and update secure, privacy-aware, and scalable
databases and web services integrating administrative and
academic processes.
- To maintain a 99% reliable, convergent, and increasingly
wireless network infrastructure composed of communication
services, wired and wireless access points, servers, third-party
providers, and security systems.
- To provide adequate distance-capable multimedia services
in the majority of classrooms, courtrooms, seminar and meeting
rooms, public library areas, research clusters, and living
spaces.
- To train and support community members through individual
and group orientation sessions, on-line self-help resources,
electronic publications, live support, instructional technology
assistance, and technical education programs.
BEYOND THE HORIZON
A key component of the new strategic plan for
technology at the Law Center is an image of how legal education
will be transformed in the next two decades, partly because
of technology developments. Some of our faculty members envision
walking into a classroom, giving verbal orders to the room systems,
and having the system intelligently search and display the multimedia
segment of their choice. Others would like to type their names
or those of their colleagues in a computer and have their entire
intellectual production one-click away. Some students dream
about laptop computers without hard disks that can operate for
many hours on their batteries. Others believe that sophisticated
mobile phones with voice-recognition will make computers obsolete.
Administrators envision teaching sessions in which students
and faculty members sometimes seat in different continents. |
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