These are listed in the OUCS Guide to Services, including the many training courses. If you do not use computers regularly at the moment you are strongly advised to take some of the basic introudctory courses. Of particular interest to anthropologists, especially those conducting or planning research, are the resources and advice available at the Centre for Humanities Computing. The basement computer room may be used during normal Institute opening hours. If during these hours the door is locked the key is usually to be found, attached to a block of wood, in the Administrator s pigeon-hole.
All students have equal access to all the machines in the basement.
There is currently no booking system. If pressure becomes too great we can easily institute one please contact me as soon as you think there may be a problem. We periodically check whether the number of sheets printed tallies with the number paid for. If these get seriously out of sync we may restrict or remove the printers. All the computers are pre-loaded with certain software, data files and programs which are distributed among a number of named folders.