The Department of Special Collections at King's College has much rare and unusual material, including early printed books, and a wealth of manuscripts and archives. The Library also acts as the link to the resources of other libraries in Britain and abroad through its Document Request Service. We know you may only be able to afford the essential texts, so the Library provides the books and journal articles which appear on reading lists. The Library can help in many other ways you can photocopy lecture notes there, read the latest issue of a newspaper or magazine, check maps for a weekend walk, or look up the phone number of a friend or organisation anywhere in Britain. Networked PC clusters are also available in several of the Halls of Residence.
Most classrooms have laser printers, allowing rapid, high-quality printing.
There's also a central UNIX service offering large amounts of memory, processing power and specialised software, and a small number of powerful Sun workstations. The main IT Help Desk, the Reception Desk, and some of the computer classrooms are all in a single location. So in this one area you can use a PC, buy computing documentation or floppy discs, pay money into your printing budget, or just ask for general advice about the computing service. There are also help desks at the Medical School, and in the Queen Mother and Taylor Libraries - the latter two provide information and advice on both library and computing matters. The University has a well-equipped Language Centre, which supports courses given by the School of Modern Languages, and also provides language services to the University as a whole.