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The W.M. Keck Humanities Resource Center was funded in 1996 by a generous grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. While the Center replaces the language laboratory as a focus for the study of foreign languages, it is designed to support many kinds of learning activities that integrate video, sound, and text. We provide multimedia support for teaching in all areas of the Humanities.
Inside the Center you will find twenty-five student stations and one monitor/teacher station. The stations are all ergonomically designed and vary in size depending upon the equipment available at each station. Walk in and take a look around.
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The Keck Center is located in room 17 on the terrace
level of the newly renovated Lawrence Hall. Outside of the Center, as a main
focus of the terrace level and all of Lawrence Hall, is the terrace lounge
available to the entire campus community. The lounge and the Center are graced
with 
The Center is equipped with a Tandberg IS-11 Language Lab with audio and video distribution, twenty networked iMacs all with CD/DVD players/burners, nine Windows PCs with CD/DVD players/burners, one Mac scanner, one PC scanner, nine VCRs, one multi-standard VCR, two laser printers and one color laser printer. The computers are equipped with standard word processing and web browsing software and various kinds of language software that is used to supplement language learning at Colgate. The Tandberg system allows for individual use of audio cassettes at each station and video viewing at the 8 stations with VCRs. It also allows for distribution of audio or video to any or all of the stations. This makes the Center usable for classroom use as well as individual use. The system is also capable of distributing the feed from the campus cable system to the computer screen at any or all of the stations. This is useful for students who would like to view foreign news programs via