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College of Health & Social Services
Media & Resource Center

Resources (Print and Hardware) The CHSS Media & Resource Center

Pioneer DVD Recorder

Various items, such as video cameras and TV/VCR combos are available for faculty and staff (and specially designated/trained students) to "check out" from the Media & Resource Center.

Faculty may request training of groups of students for basic use of video cameras for class projects. Additionally, students who need to use multimedia equipment for oral examination presentations should be trained in advance of their exam time to ensure that they are able to connect and use the piece that will be key to their exam concerns.

For the cost of materials, faculty, staff and students from around the NMSU community can print large format posters (42" X 48" to 42" X 96") after using providing a completed PowerPoint slide for printing. For more information, please call or email the MRC. Templates and information are provided below.

Faculty, GTAs, GRAs, staff (or presenting guests) of the College of Health and Social Services may reserve the equipment available by either emailing the MRC or calling (505) 646-4388. Please include in your reservation request the date(s) and time(s) of your need, what you are needing to accomplish (i.e. what your equipment is needing to help you do...), and who will be responsible for the equipment.

Note: Students who are not established graduate teaching assistants or research assistants for CHSS, Departments of Nursing or Health Science, or the School of Social Work but are sent to retrieve equipment on behalf of a faculty or staff member need to be mentioned by name in the request or the equipment or the equipment will not immediately be released to them.



JVC miniDV/S-VHS combo unit...

Coin operated Ricoh copier

Student print resources include Nursing Journals and Periodicals; books from the Hesperian Foundation, including "Where There Is No Doctor" and the Spanish translation "Donde no hay doctor"; APA Manual for document formatting; Healthy People 2000.

Faculty and Staff resources include "SafetyLit", "MMWR" (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), "Distance Education" Journal (2000-2005)

Nursing Videos: Listing in Excel Format | PDF Listing by Call Number
PDF Listing by Title
Nursing Books: Listing in Excel Format | Book PDF Listing by Title
listings are up-to-date, as of May 12, 2006

  • When requesting a specific title or titles, please provide the call number for each. Titles, possible titles, or content descriptions instead of the call number may result in a significant delay in the processing of any request. The listings above supply all information available to the staff of the CHSS Media & Resource Center.
  • To ensure availability to faculty members using nursing videos in class, as of March 6 (2006), students may only view videos in the MRC proper or in one of the three MRC meeting rooms. To borrow a Nursing videotape and/or use an MRC meeting room, the student making the request must pick up the tape using their NMSU student I.D. (or a copy provided to the MRC for such purchases). No other form of identification may be used.
Poster Templates in PowerPoint format
(Updated March 9, 2006)

These templates (to be in basic 4' X 4' or 4' X 8' formats) are intended to be used for large-format ("poster") printing in the Media and Resource Center of the College of Health and Social Services. This service is for the benefit of the students, faculty and staff of the departments and projects of the College of Health and Social Services. However, each CHSS professor requiring posters will be the primary point of contact on any poster-related assignment, as per the CHSS Media Policy. Additionally, it is expected that professors have made arrangements for payment through their school/department or that students have been clearly informed that this is to be a student-borne expense. There is a charge for each poster. Please note these requests and assumptions:

  1. Please contact us no less than four (4) full business days before you require delivery on any completed poster. Additionally, please only expect that an agreement for work exists when you have actually discussed with an MRC staff person all of the particulars related to costs and dates for each project. Only certain staff are available to deal with poster output. If, based on our planning discussion, we agree to do your poster, we will establish the aforementioned costs and dates. If we are unable to do your poster, we will mention at least one other location that may be able to assist, but they will not necessarily be another NMSU location or facility.


  2. Templates in PowerPoint format are located below. The only sizes we are able to provide "ready-for-info", at this time, are the ones below.


  3. Please do not change the dimensions of the templates, particularly the almost-8-foot template. Your poster will be scaled up to (approx. 92" X 42" to accommodate the actual size of the display boards used at NMSU; unless we are told otherwise, this is the size to be used for the 2006 G.R.A.S. poster presentations) upon final printing. You may change colors, fonts, etc., but please do not alter the Page size of this single-side PowerPoint file. If the size is altered, at the very least, you will delay the delivery of your finished print. Note: the "blue squares" in the upper left and upper right corners of most templates are placeholders for logos; if you do not need an image in either area, please delete the relevant placeholder.


  4. Due to difficulties cause by PowerPoint's bugs, it is no longer possible to offer any PowerPoint-based work at the 42" X 72" size. You will have to use prepare your work in Adobe Illustrator or another program for this size. We can only be fairly sure of moderate success with PowerPoint-based templates at the sizes we offer. You will find that even commercial vendors such as Imagers.com have difficulties using PowerPoint and are quite clear on this point.


  5. Please only use standard Windows (TrueType) fonts, such as Georgia (instead of Times New Roman) or Arial. If you are unsure, please contact the MRC office at 646-4388 to get a list of suggested alternatives.


  6. It is assumed you, or someone on the team, are comfortable with PowerPoint. Meeting with Rex Suba and the MRC staff in the College of Health & Social Services is intended to clarify the process of preparing the poster for print and then print; it will not be a substitute for basic instruction in PowerPoint slide composition and manipulation. There are some resources in the MRC to look at and some online.


  7. You will be returning the completed file with a new name, not the name of the original template. In other words, you will save the template with a different name than it arrived, just in case you need to return to a pristine, unaltered file.


  8. You will be bringing the completed PowerPoint file and all associated/included files on a CD, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, USB flash/thumb drive, or other standard medium that will completely all of the related files for the content on the PowerPoint slide. This will include any source Excels file if you were including charts, etc., that were not directly created in PowerPoint. Please arrive understanding that, unless you have previously sent your files successfully, you must leave the media containing your poster file(s). Leave a complete listing of contact information (name, email addresses, phone numbers, times when you may be called, etc.) before you leave any materials for work.


  9. We appreciate your understanding that this is a "drop-off" service, not one where you are able to wait and watch your output prepared. You will have a minimum of 36 hours "wait" before the completion of your output. Any redos that are due to errors found after the submission of the requested job will result in charges; the only free errors are those cause by our staff. Since no design work is completed for our staff, you will bear 100% of the responsibility over the content you prepare, from the correctly chosen templates to any production costs incurred as a result.


  10. Estimated Costs can be discussed with you if the staff member who is going to actually output your file is present. Unless otherwise mentioned, posters created will be on heavyweight coated paper which may or may not be appropriate for heat lamination. Posters between 42" X 35" and 42" X 56" will be no less than $25.00/poster; posters between 42" X 56.5" and 42" X 72" will be no less than $35.00/poster; posters between 42" X 72.5" and 42" X 96" will be no less than $45.00/poster. (Prices as of October 2005).


  11. Transport or mailing tubes are available at an extra cost.


  12. Because of PowerPoint's problems and quirks, please assume that any new rendition/version of your poster that is not based on a layout and design that was successfully printed out previously and is at the same previously exact size as the aforementioned successfully printed version must be redone, at its new size, from scratch.

The actual files
 You must first "save" these to your computer before you can alter them;
merely clicking on them to "open" or "view" will not result in an editable file

Possibly Helpful Poster Presentation Prep Tips

Rexel V. F. Suba, CHSS Instructional Media Specialist,
The College of Health & Social Services
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3446
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
Email: chssmrc@nmsu.edu
Telephone: 575.646.4388
Facsimile: 575.646.6166