178 Years and Counting
Donald D. Hedberg challenged Carthage to create a program that would show budding entrepreneurs with science backgrounds how to succeed in business, backing that challenge with a gift in this Dr. Evil-worthy dollar amount.
One Million Dollars
Affectionately known as a "PC Load Letter" error, this common printing issue is due to a lack of this.
Paper
If you want to take out a book but it's currently checked out, you'd place one of these to be next in line for it.
Hold (or Request)
This digital storage system is designed to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of information efficiently, much like a super-powered filing cabinet.
Database
Whether it's a live lecture or sporting event, our Media Services Department makes sure you can watch it instantly over the internet, a process commonly known as this.
Streaming
Carthage College was originally located in this city in Illinois.
Hillsboro, Illinois
If your computer is making a lot of noise and feeling hot, you might need to clean the dust out of these.
Fans (or Vents)
This 10-digit or 13-digit number uniquely identifies a book and is often found on its copyright page, like a book's personal ID.
ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
In a relational database, information is typically organized into these structures, with rows for records and columns for fields. Think of a spreadsheet.
Tables
Recordings of Media Services' live broadcasts, as well as video recordings of many other events and activities, can be found on this popular Google-owned service.
YouTube
In 1852, the College relocated to this town in Illinois sharing the same name as Bart and Homer's hometown.
Springfield, Illinois
When your wireless mouse stops moving on screen, the simplest fix is often to check if these need replacing.
Batteries
When a book is removed from the library's collection, often due to damage, being outdated, or simply not being used, it undergoes this process.
Weeding (or Deselection)
In a database, a single row of information, like all the details for one customer or one product, is called this.
Record
To avoid that annoying spinning circle mid-show, your internet connection needs to deliver data at a steady pace, a process known as this.
Buffering
Carthage College established its lakeshore campus in Kenosha, Wisconsin in this year.
1962
Your computer warns you about "low disk space." To fix this, you often need to delete old files or clear out this digital wastebasket.
Recycle Bin (or Trash)
A collection of articles, journals, or magazines that are published regularly, often on a specific topic.
Periodicals
When you ask a database for specific information, like "Show me all students from Texas," the answer it gives you is the result of this.
Query
To make sure your show looks good without taking forever to load, streaming services use this technology to shrink video file sizes.
Compression
The original library at Carthage College's Kenosha location was called Ruthrauff Library, and was located at this building on the north side of the campus.
Clausen Center
Your computer's clock is always wrong, even after you set it. The likely cause is a dead one of these small power sources on the motherboard.
CMOS Battery
This system, named after a librarian, organizes nonfiction books by subject using numbers like 300 for social sciences or 800 for literature.
Dewey Decimal System
This machine-readable data storage method predated magnetic storage and involved creating and inputting stacks of these.
Punched Cards
Before the internet brought on-demand movies and shows to your devices, most homes relied on antennas or cables to receive their daily programming, a system known by this two-word term.
Broadcast Television