Audio Visual Services is a resource offered by Canterbury Christ Church College Library to assist students and staff at the College in using audio-visual materials and equipment to aid teaching or learning.

Our unit offers a loan service for students at the college, where AV equipment - i.e. camcorders, dictaphones - may be borrowed for use in their studies.

We are also responsible for the AV equipment in lecture rooms, whether that entails maintaining existing equipment or installing specialist equipment for use in a specific lecture. Staff should write or telephone if they have any particular needs for a lecture, stating the date, start and end time and the room number.

The Off-Air Recording service offered by the unit operates under an ERA licence recording broadcast programmes for staff and the Library. Please enter requests using the form that we can supply.

The other area of our responsibility is photography. We maintain a slide collection of photographs taken by us in and around the college for use by staff. The production of slides from text books and such like is also undertaken by us on behalf of staff, subject to the DACS licensing scheme. As well as these undertakings, we take 'mug-shot' pictures of students at the beginning of each year for use in their student records.

Services

Lecture Facilities Cassette / CD Flip Charts LCD Computer Display Panels / Projectors OHPs Public Address Radio Mics Slides Video

TV and Radio Recording Off-Air Schools Programmes Open University BBC, ITV, Channel 4 Satellite (Sky and European) Audio and Video Tape Duplication / Format Change

Photography Mug Shots Prints Slides Digital Pictures

Equipment for Loan

• Camcorders (full-size VHS or SVHS-C)
• Cassette Recorders / Dictaphones
• CD / Tape Players
• Flip Chart Easels
• Portable OHPs
• Portable Screens
• Slide Projectors
• 35mm and Digital Cameras

Conditions of Use

Equipment and services offered by Audio Visual Services will only be supplied to students and staff of Canterbury Christ Church College for use directly related to the college.

The copying of Off-Air video tapes and audio tapes is subject to ERA licence restrictions. Copies may only be made for use in the college or in other establishments covered by the ERA (Educational Recordings Agency), and the soundtrack must not be altered.

Commercial tapes will NOT be copied unless accompanied by written permission from the copyright owner.

WWW AV Links

• The BBC
  
  All the information on BBC television, radio and World Service programmes, including BBC Schools and The Learning Zone (both of which are recorded in entirety by us [excluding OU programmes])
  
  
• Channel 4 Television
  
  Another excellent terrestrial television site, with all the Channel 4 Schools listings and information
  
  
• Sky Television
  
  The details of Sky broadcasts, with some very good sports information pages
  
  
• SatcoDX
  
  An indispensible site if you are interested in receiving Satellite broadcasts. Every TV broadcast satellite is listed, with an extensive and fully up-to-date list of channels, including links to their relevant web-sites.
  
  
• Worldwide TV Standards - A Web Guide
  
  A useful guide to the different television standards throughout the world, produced by Surrey University.
  
  
• The Episode Guides Page
  
  Episode lists for over 1200 TV shows. Many of the more popular programmes also have plot summaries and cast lists.
  
  
• The Internet Movie Database
  
  Extensive film information site.
  
  

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