Services for SLLC Faculty and TAs
Program Recording and Archiving
Programs on campus cable can be recorded at Language Media Services. You will have to provide LMS with a video tape and fill out a work order form available in JMZ 1204. A twenty-four hour notice has to be given prior to the broadcast of the program.
Media Duplication
Faculty may request to use our duplication station in LMS to edit videos and/or convert videos to other standards. Please note that we follow applicable copyright laws and can make no exceptions regarding copyrighted material. If you have any questions regarding copyrighted material please consult LMS staff on duty or refer to a copy of the law located in LMS.
"It is not yet legal for us (University of Maryland employees)
to copy VHS to DVD for any purpose at this time without the
permission of the copyright holder.* Faculty members can do so
in their homes for their own purposes, however it will
not be legal for us to do so until NEW VHS player/recorders are
no longer being manufactured. VHS is still a viable format as
defined by the copyright law.
US Copyright Law - Title 17, Chap. 1, sec. 106 subsec C2 says:
"For purposes of this subsection, a format shall be
considered obsolete if the machine or device necessary to
render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer
manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the
commercial marketplace."
Interesting wording. Although "commonly available" might have
offered more interpretive leeway... I'd say that if you can't
find at least one new and regularly marketed machine--not a
one-off from remaining stock somewhere--that easily qualifies
as being NOT "reasonably available". Elsewhere the law talks
about locating at a "fair price" an "unused" copy of media
programming. So it's sensible to think that machines for
playing the media ought to be not only available but new as
well. And if a current model is no longer manufactured
anyway, that cinches it.
* There actually is one exception: if the program is damaged
or at peril, and out of print, one can do so. However, if a
new VHS or DVD is being sold by anyone, that does not apply."
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Allan C. Rough
Manager, Nonprint Media Services
Document and image scanning
Faculty may drop off documents or images for scanning. Please allow 3-5 business days for turn around. These items can be scanned into the following formats:
- JPG used for web images or email, smaller file size
- TIFF for high quality images, larger file size
- PDF (portable document format): universal file format for articles, chapters in books
- OCR (Optical Character recognition) is also available if you would like to edit a document in Word or text and do not have the original.
Media Consulting
Instructors may make an appointment to speak with the LMS supervisors to decide how best instructional media options may be included in their class syllabus and incorporated with their teaching style. We prefer that such appointments be made for the semester in advance so that we may spend the greatest possible amount of time working with you to incorporate technology into your teaching schedule
Classroom/Event Recording
LMS will upon request: Photograph, Record Audio, or Record Video for an event or class. Photographs of an event can either be made into a gallery for display or turned over to the requestor depending on their needs. Video Recordings must be processed and edited and may take up to a week to be returned in a usable format. Please let the LMS supervisors know about the event to be recorded at least one week in advance.
