STELLA Classroom Facilities

The classroom can be booked for teaching. Contact Jean Anderson, J.Anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk, telephone (0141 330) 4980.

The classroom has 21 PCs with the standard packages for word processing, database work, email, Internet access etc.

Access and Assistance

The classroom is for all staff and students of English Literature, English Language and Scottish Literature. There is open access except when classes are in progress. Much of the teaching software is self-access. Members of other Arts Faculty departments may use the classroom when it is free.

Jean Anderson is available to advise on computing in English teaching and research either by appointment or by email (j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk).

Compact Disks

All the PCs and the Mac have compact disk readers/writers. We have the Oxford English Dictionary, the ICAME Corpora, The Times and Sunday Times for 1995, the Scotsman and the Scotsman on Sunday for 1995, the English Poetry Full-Text Database, the New Scientist, Byte and some encyclopaedias. Other CDs are available on the Arts network (see Class Applications). The PCs in the HATII labs at 11 University Gardens have CD writers.

Printing

A laser printer is in the lab on the right corner. Printer credits must be paid for in advance at Computing Service or the Library.

Scanning

There is one scanner in the STELLA lab with software for creating digital copies of pictures and text.

Texts and other Resources available On-line

English and Scots Language and Literature Links: This is a comprehensive list of links for all English and Scottish studies, including Linguistics and Phonetics. The list is approved by course tutors.

Given that all three disciplines involved are text-based, we collect and make available suitable texts from computer archives world-wide. The Texts Directory on Q:\ENGLISH\TEXTS is available in the STELLA classroom and has hundreds of electronic texts including Old English, Middle English, Chaucer, Older Scots, Shakespeare, Victorian novels and some journalism.

We have also developed our own text archives in the SCOTS Corpus, COMET: COMputerised English Texts and STARN: the Scots Teaching and Research Network.