 
The Henderson Computer Resources Center (HCRC) and the adjacent Henderson Technology Laboratories are the hub of academic computing at Bard. The Henderson staff coordinates information technology planning, use, and distribution on campus and installs and maintains hundreds of computers throughout the campus.
The Henderson Technology Laboratories building contains a PC-based computer classroom and a mixed Macintosh and Windows-based PC public computing lab, which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week
The Campus Network
The Bard network features a Gigabit backbone with 100MB desktop speeds that link College facilities and give students, faculty, and staff access to Internet services, e-mail, and the World Wide Web from classrooms, residence hall rooms, offices, and public areas. Bard provides high-speed ethernet access to the Internet and campus computing resources via fiber-optic cabling to all student residence halls and 802.11b(g) wireless networking in several areas around the campus including the Stevenson Library, Henderson Technology Lab, Ottaway Gatehouse, Fisher Studio Arts Building, Hegeman Hall, Albee Hall, Rose Hall, Bertelsmann Campus Center, the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and Ward Manor Cafe; also: Tewksbury Hall, Robbins, Bartlett, Sawkill, Keen Basement, Sycamore, Spruce, Maple, and Mulberry (residence halls). Students wishing to use wireless networking will need to purchase compatible wireless network interface.
The Bard network provides students, faculty, and staff access to Internet services, e-mail, and the World Wide Web from classrooms, residence hall rooms, offices, and public areas.
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Facilities
The Henderson buildings house the largest single concentration of public-access computers on campus. The facilities include computer classrooms and public-user labs; specialized multimedia facilities; file, print, and Web servers; and an extensive software library. High-end PC/Windows and Macintosh computers are available for use at the Henderson Center, along with scanners, DVD burners, Jaz and Zip drives, color and black-and-white laser printers, and video input/output running under a variety
of multimedia software titles. The Henderson Technology Laboratories building contains a PC-based computer classroom and a mixed Macintosh and Windows-based PC public computing lab, which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Other public computing facilities are located in the Stevenson Library and Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Computer Resources and Real-Time Videoconferencing
Students, faculty and staff have unlimited access to the Internet, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. The Helpdesk and tech support services in the Henderson Technology Laboratories building offer training sessions, open to all students, staff, and faculty, on productivity applications and Internet/web, 2- and 3-D graphics, video, audio, and multimedia applications and development.
802.11b(g) wireless networking is available in several areas around the campus including the Stevenson Library, Bertelsmann Campus Center and Ward Manor Cafe.
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Bard exploits the benefits of shared instructional technology, via global communication networks and the Internet. The
prime example of this is the Bard-Smolny Virtual Campus project, which, using real-time videoconferencing, links students and faculty at Bard with colleagues at the Smolny College of the Russian State University of Saint Petersburg. This state-of-the-art technology reinforces curricular exchange and is a vital component in educational collaboration at an international level.
Hours of Operation
The main lab in the Henderson Technology Laboratories building is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All facilities in the Henderson Computer Resources Center are open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to midnight, on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., on Saturday from noon to 9:00 p.m., and on Sunday from noon to midnight.
Support Staff
Henderson staff is available from Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For assistance, call the Henderson Help Desk at 845-758-7500.
Click here to download the Computing at Bard recommendations/requirements PDF.
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