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fine arts library



Art

Music

Theatre

Dance

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the FAL


computing

and Other Equipment
Wireless Access is available throughout the library

Printing is available from all of our stations, including color printing. To print you will need a copy card which can be purchased on the 3rd floor of the FAL. Cost per page is .13 for black-and-white and .80 for color.

Some handy tutorials,
courtesy of UT's I-School:
Graphics and Multimedia Office Tools

EID stations including Courtesy Borrower access

15 PCs with DVD/CD-RW drives including Vista, Office 2007 Suite, Adobe Creative Suite

10 Macs with DVD/CD-RW drives including OS X Office XP Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, iTunes, iMovie

Multimedia stations (Students, Faculty and staff only)

Audio editing stations:
1 each Mac and PC, same configuration as above plus Audacity software, DAT, cassette and M-Audio input interface.

MIDI stations:
1 each Mac and PC, same configuration as above plus Sibelius and Finale.

Video editing stations:
2 Macs same configuration as above plus DVD +/- R, RW drives with Final Cut Express and iDVD. Hardware includes S-VHS deck and Mini DV deck.

Scanning stations:
1 PC same configuration as above plus PhotoScore scanning program. Hardware includes flatbed and slide scanners.
2 Macs same configuration as above plus score scanning program. One includes flatbed scanner and the other has 2 slide scanners that allow batch scanning, negative strip and large format negative scanning.

How to Use the Scanners: Brief guides are available for download:
PC flatbed
---Mac flatbed---Mac transparency---PC transparency.
Please contact Ellen Gibbs if you have suggestions on how to improve these guides.

Listening and Viewing stations

4 TVs with built-in DVD/VHS players. In addition one has S-VHS and Worldwide player attached. Another has LaserDisc and U-Matic players attached.

1 Listening/Dubbing station with turntable, dual cassette, and CD player.

Other equipment available for checkout

Headphones
Digital Cameras
Digital Video Camcorders
Laptops  
MIDI Keyboards
Slide scanner attachments  
Portable CD players