Student office space continues to be limited, but space provisions have improved greatly in recent years. There is a suite of graduate student offices in room 1407, including a student computer lab. This suite of offices includes desks for which Teaching Assistants typically have priority, due to their teaching duties. If we cannot provide you with an office, you can get a carrel in the library. Students working on experimental projects typically take advantage of the work areas in the department's many labs. Students working on computational linguistics projects often use equipment and office space in the CLIP Lab in the AV Williams Building (Computer Science).
Many computers are available for graduate student use. Both Wintel PCs and Macintosh computers are widely available. Students who need to work with Unix have access through the University's computing services or through the computational linguistics facilities. There are general purpose computers in the student lab suite, and in the department's lab areas. There are also many university-operated computer labs around campus which are available for student use. Specialized computer equipment for experimentation, data analysis and computational linguistics are available. Visit the web sites of the department's labs for more detailed information on the various state-of-the-art research tools that the Department has acquired in recent years.
The Department maintains its own Web Server, with ample storage space and easy access. Students are encouraged to develop their own web presence. Technical support is available.
All students have free access to e-mail and Unix computing through the university computing services. High-speed dialup access for e-mail and web services is also available free of charge.
Graduate students may make photocopies in the Linguistics Department, or at various other locations on campus. See Kathi Faulkingham to open a Linguistics Department copying account. You will need a 4-6 digit code. You must pay for copies, except for those required for a class where you are a teaching assistant. A variety of printers are available in the department. The Department has a fax machine, located in the Linguistics Department Main Office (room 1401). Obtain permission from the Office Supervisor, or the Department Chair, before using the fax machine. A number of scanners are also available in the department.
The Linguistics Department maintains a small departmental library, which carries a number of works of use to graduate students in Linguistics. The University's main research library is the McKeldin Library. This library carries large collections in Linguistics and related fields, including subscriptions to a wide variety of journals. The library now has extensive electronic resources, including many excellent databases, and electronic subscriptions to many journals, which allow readers to access and download journal articles from their office via the web.