I wanted to make you aware of a new service for faculty, staff and students called eduroam (education roaming). This allows faculty, staff and students to use their UofT wireless login credentials in order to use wireless networks when they are visiting other participating universities (see a list for Canadian universities: https://wiki.bc.net/atl-conf/display/CANEDUROAM/Using+eduroam; see worldwide universities: http://www.eduroam.org/)
UofT faculty, staff or students visiting another participating institution should contact the Information Commons Help Desk – help.desk@utoronto.ca, 416-978-HELP (4357) for technical support to configure their laptop BEFORE they go to another university.
And, visitors from other participating universities should be able to use their own credentials to login to the wireless when at UofT libraries. Visitors to UofT should contact their home institution's IT support for assistance. Technical support for eduroam will be provided by one's home institution.
If there are questions about eduroam at the Info Desk, UofT faculty, staff and students can be directed to the Information Commons Help Desk. Visitors from other universities can be assisted by directing them to their own university's web page to find their IT contact info.
Information about eduroam appears on several library webpages:
Gerstein's "All services" page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/services/all-services
Gerstein's Services to faculty page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/faculty/services-for-faculty
UTL web page: Computers & accessing eResources: http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/services/computing-connecting
eduroam @ UofT: http://eduroam.utoronto.ca/
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