 To request services from the Language Resource Center staff, please read the overview below and fill out the relevant sections of the form on the appropriate following pages (links to these pages or e-mail to LRC staff follow each section). A member of the LRC staff will contact you as soon as possible to follow up on your request. The Language Resource Center provides the following services to Brown faculty members in language, literature and cultures departments:
Project Management and Support
If you're in one of the departments forming the LRC's core constituency (Center for Language Studies, Classics, East Asian Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Judaic Studies, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, or Slavic Languages) the Language Resource Center serves as your first point of contact for technology-based projects. These might include creating Web resources or an independent site; producing digital audio, video or still images; audio or video recording-any project involving technology and the teaching of languages, cultures and literatures. We can help you evaluate your needs, plan the project in detail, provide material and personnel support, or help coordinate the support you need from other campus resources such as the Instructional Technology Group, Scholarly Technology Group or Web Publishing.
Request project support by e-mailing the LRC professional staff.
Digitization of Materials
The LRC is committed to the digital distribution of most instructional materials. Advantages to this approach include ubiquitous access, transparent user interface, preservation of original media, and quality of transmission. We can help you integrate digital media into your teaching and provide network storage for digital audio materials.
As a matter of policy, the LRC will digitize video and audio materials only under strictly controlled circumstances, and only within the limitations of educational fair use or with the written permission of the copyright holder, whether this pertains to a music CD, commercial audiocassette, feature film or off-air recording from television. Please read our copyright policy as it pertains to reproduction of audio and video materials.
Request digitization of audio materials for a course by e-mailing the LRC staff.
Requests for course reserves based on commercially-produced music materials may be made to BrownEARS, the University's streamed music course reserve service. For more information on BrownEARS, please contact the Librarian at Orwig Music Library.
Reserves for Classes
The LRC provides shelf space and circulation for materials placed on reserve by faculty members for their students' use onsite, during regular LRC hours of operation. All materials placed on reserve must conform to the LRC's policies on copyright and educational fair use . Items on reserve will be associated with a bar-coded unique identifier to ensure their return to the circulation desk. The LRC cannot guarantee the presence or condition of reserve items not tagged in this manner.
Use the Library's Online Course Reserve Access system (OCRA) to reserve video materials to be circulated through the LRC.
Training and Consultation
The LRC provides three primary types of learning opportunity to faculty members at Brown, including Teaching Assistants in its affiliated departments: group training (workshops), one-on-one training for faculty members, and coaching (a scheduled series of one-on-one sessions aimed at improving a faculty member's skills in a particular area of technology use).
The LRC offers regularly-scheduled and announced workshop opportunities during the academic year for all faculty members of the Brown language, literature and culture community, as well as group training opportunities upon request for specific departments or subsets thereof. Faculty members may request individual training sessions with LRC personnel - all such requests should be made through the Web reservations form on the following pages.
Request training or a consultation by e-mailing the LRC professional staff. |
