Computing & Information Services | Brown University

Online Course Reserves Access (OCRA) is a service used to place books and other physical media on reserve and to create electronic reserves: links to ebooks and other online content, digitization of articles, book chapters, full-length movies, short video clips, and audio files. Links to reserves in all formats can be added to a MyCourses site.

Digitization services are available for personal slide collections, photos, videos, audio cassettes, text (OCR and PDF) which will be used for faculty and graduate student teaching, presentations and research. Content is prepared according to Brown Library standards, and full quality archival copies are made whenever needed.

The Language Resource Center (LRC) provides online access to audio materials and other digital resources for language teaching and learning, as well as other technological support for language teaching and learning in conjunction with the Educational Technology Center and Academic Technology group.

Telecommunications offers 3 different types of audio conferencing:

PASS Computer Training classes are offered during the academic year and include topics such as Microsoft Office, web publishing, graphics, and database software. Most classes are short (1 to 2 hours) and provide a general introduction to the software. Classes are led by undergraduate trainers.