 Welcome to the Shawstack Room located on the second floor of Alden Library in the Learning Commons. The funds to establish and operate this room have been graciously provided to us by Ling Shawstack, a longtime friend and former director of the Ohio Fellows Program at Ohio University. Welcome to the Shawstack Room on the second floor of Alden Library in the Learning Commons. This room is open any time of day that the Learning Commons is open, so that's 24 hours a day, five days a week during the regular school year. And on Saturday mornings we open up at 10.30, close at midnight. Sunday at noon we open up and then stay open all week till Friday. The Shawstack Room is first come, first served, so if you come to the desk at the second floor, the reference desk on the second floor of Alden Library, all you need to do is ask to be let in. We have two computers in the room, so there are two places for people to sit and work on the software packages that are available here in the library. The blackboard that has contrast markers, so if you prefer to see color or white marker on a black background, you can use this for your group study presentations or to outline chapters or whatever. We have a Braille embosser hooked up to one of the computers, so if you have a Word document, for example, you can translate that Word document into Braille and then send it to the embosser and actually print out a document in Braille text. A number of software packages that are available here in the room. They range in everything from software that will allow you to study better by creating outlines as you go through text. We have software that will convert speech to text. We have software that will convert text to mp3 files. We also have the software that will enlarge text or enlarge screen images. We have programs that will read to you what is on the screen, so depending on what you need to use this room for, we have a lot of different options for you and you can always just come in and ask.