For years, most of us in the campus card technology arena have looked to the big three annual conferences for our educational opportunities. Depending on our specific job responsibilities, we would go to NACCU in the spring, NACUBO in the summer, and/or NACAS in the fall. In recent years, EDUCAUSE has begun to provide more […]

A look at a number of campus card events Following is a description of several pending educational opportunities for card technology professionals. NACUBO Workshop on Campus Cards May 2-3, 2002 • Washington DC This workshop, presented by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), is designed to provide essential information for planning […]

As institutions seek to enhance their identification programs, many benchmarks are set. Typically they include a digitized photo ID integrated with their meal plan, security, banking and stored value. Ultimately many institutions seek ways to get more from their card program and turn toward the latest technologies. There is something relativelty new on the horizon, […]

Hofstra is a private university located in Hempstead, NY about 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island. More than 13,000 students participate in the undergraduate, graduate, and law programs. An additional 2600 faculty/staff raise the Hofstra population to 15,000 individuals. Add the cards are issued to alumni and special programs and the total HofstraCard […]

Issuing the identification card BY LOWELL ADKINS, ADKINS ASSOCIATES This is the first in a series of articles about access control and security on campuses. These writings are an outgrowth of a series of seminars I have done over the last several years – and those seminars are the outgrowth of thepractical experience I received […]

Why did the librarian cross the road? To get to the barcode. Frequently, card programs receive significant resistance from campus librarians. On many campuses, no other entity has more frequent interaction with the ID card than does the library. Add to this the fact that the librarian’s role has undergone staggeringly rapid change caused by […]

The following process shows one method for generating library numbers from the student ID encoded on the mag stripe. In this case the institutions existing system utilizes a 14-digit barcode and the unique ID number encoded on the magnetic stripe of the card is a 16-digit ISO number. Other scenarios exist, but function in much […]