Big Plant On Campus

"It is an excellent way of doing things," declares Michael K. Loyd, director of Graphic and Mailing Services.

While Loyd acknowledges the convenience and cost-effectiveness of LSU's centralized copier maintenance program, he cannot take credit for it; he inherited it.

In 1986, Curtis Simmons, then-director of Graphic Services, was asked to take over the copiers in the main library. Not only was he up for the challenge, he decided to go one step further. He went to various conferences and learned how he could centralize maintenance for all of the university's copiers.