Innovation And Success

"They were just thrilled," Loyd explains. "We were treated like celebrities."

It is through these travels that Loyd has found many of the money-saving ideas that he has brought to the university. On a tour of Colorado State University, he was impressed by a student intern program, which he later successfully implemented at LSU. Similarly, while at the University of Pittsburgh, Loyd got the idea to allow customers to self-publish short runs of books using a networked DocuTech and a color copier. He notes that many of the services he has brought to the in-plant were ideas other shops came up with and he brought back to his campus.