Basement, David Hume Tower,
George Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9JX

Tel: 0131-650 3974
Fax: 0131-650 6538
Email: LHC@ed.ac.uk

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Language and Humanities Centre

On-site Facilities

The Language and Humanities Centre, located in the basement of the DHT, consists of a suite of four teaching and self-study rooms along with other support areas, as listed below. These rooms may be booked by staff from the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, for classes, by contacting Barbara Brown or Teale Failla on 503974 or email Barbara.Brown@ed.ac.uk

Lab 1
This is a self-study room equipped with seventeen individual vhs video recorders, DVD players and televisions, all available for private study. The 17 televisions are also connected to our satellite dishes and give a selection of live foreign language channels, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish. Other languages may be available on request. This self-study room is available to students between the hours of 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Lab 2
This is equipped with a 20 booth digital language laboratory, which is used mainly for language teaching. However students may use it on individual access to work on audio materials held on the language laboratory file server. It can also be used as a teaching room for up to 20 students and has a 42" widescreen surround sound television, DVD, VHS, audio cassette player and CD replay facilities. The television can also display normal UK and satellite television channels.

Seminar Room
This has seating for up to 15 students, and is equipped with an LCD projector and a laptop, a 7ft x 5ft screen. Audio, video and DVD replay facilities are all available.

Lecture Theatre
The Lecture Theatre is laid out cinema style, for 60 students. It has large screen television projection on to an 8ft x 6ft screen and surround sound. Can be used with video, DVD, UK and satellite television. This is also equipped with a laptop and LCD projector.

Library
The library has a stock of about 6,000 video and dvd films and documentaries available, either purchased or recorded from satellite or terrestrial television, available in various languages, for self study and teaching. Details available on our vidCat catalogue, http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/lhc/vidcat/ It also has a large collection of audiotapes, again in various languages. Tape sales etc., photocopying, binding and FAX facilities are also available. Printouts by users of the ArtLAN Computing rooms can also be collected from the library.

Multi-media room
This room is equipped with video editing facilities, both conventional video to video and by using video editing facilities on PC. Copies can be made to CD, VHS or DVD once completed. We are also able to produce colour printouts and OHPs from video clips for presentations. A slide copier and a scanner are also available for use. Technical staff are available to give help if required and a booking system is in place for the use of this room.
We also have a small technical area where Technical staff are available to assist with audio-visual and computing problems and tape copying/editing.

Other facilities
Audio-visual and computing equipment is available on loan for teaching, free of charge. Equipment includes a 28" television/dvd/vhs trolley (DHT only), 2 laptop computers, Mini DV camcorders, Hi8 camcorders, dvd players/recorders, vhs recorders, microphones, cassette/cd/radio portables, OHP's slide projectors, screens and an LCD data projector. Please check our website at http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/lhc/equip.html for a full list of equipment available for loan. If what you require is not listed, give us a call, as we can't list every item that's available.

Blank audiotapes, videotapes, miniDV tapes, batteries, floppy discs, CD's, DVD's, Zip discs and film are all available to purchase, either by using an internal order or cash, to staff and students. A full list and prices are available from our Enquiries Desk or at our website http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/lhc/pricelist

We also offer copy services, audio duplication (3 cassettes copied in under 2 minutes), a 5 x CD copier, a 5 X DVD copier and VHS copies. We can also copy between most audio and video formats and with video can transcode between PAL, SECAM (French) and NTSC (USA and Japan) on the majority of formats. For the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, these facilities are available free of charge apart from material costs.
Photocopying is available and materials can be comb bound, wire bound or heat bound.

We supply a television backup service, recording off-air television, under the ERA University Licence agreement, 7 days a week from 6pm to 2pm. The channels covered are BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and BBC4. These recordings are held for approximately 2 weeks on a hard disc recorder. During this period, we can supply a copy of any programme, for use in teaching, that was missed at the time of broadcast. The cost to the School is the cost of a blank tape/DVD or, if held in the Language Centre at no cost to the School.

General enquiries should be to Barbara Brown or Teale Failla, telephone 50 3974, or email Barbara.Brown@ed.ac.uk