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Facilities and Resources
The Law School has excellent
computing facilities
Cardiff Law School offers outstanding on-site facilities
in a first-class teaching environment. This has been
achieved through the University’s continuous
programme of investment in its estate. The Law
School is accommodated in the Law Building, which is
in the heart of Cardiff’s civic centre. The School is
also very close to the main social facilities offered by
the Students’ Union and the highly rated university
Fitness and Squash Centre at Park Place.
Computing
Cardiff University continuously works to upgrade the
computing facilities available to students. The
University has a resource centre, very close to the Law
School, which contains over 250 networked stations.
The Law School provides additional facilities for
students and complements the computing laboratories
within the Law Library. As a result, every student
should have free access to appropriate computing
facilities whenever they need it.
On entry to the University, each student is given a
registration number and password, together with an e-
mail address, and has access to Cardiff Portal which
provides a personalised gateway to web-based
services within and beyond the University, enabling
users to access a range of online resources including
e-mail, personal filespace, shared files and electronic
journals. Cardiff Portal is available from any web
browser, regardless of location. Students have access
to the large number of software packages which are
maintained on the University network servers. These
include the latest spreadsheets and statistical
packages, as well as a wide range of databases, word
processing and graphics packages, which can be used
to produce reports and dissertations to a professional
standard.
General computing support is provided by the
University's Computing Centre and Libraries, with
which the School's computing services are closely
linked. University Computing Services are available
at a number of locations on a 24-hour basis and
postgraduates have the additional benefit of the IT
facilities provided via the Graduate Centre. Cardiff
University also hosts ARCCA (Advanced Research
Computing@Cardiff) which houses one of the
country’s most powerful supercomputers, enabling
previously impossible research.
Cardiff has an outstanding Law Library with over
100,000 volumes and subscriptions to over 200
current periodicals and law reports. It is conveniently
located in the Arts and Social Studies Library,
opposite the Law Building. Students can borrow up to
12 books at any one time, with a standard loan
period of up to three weeks. Heavily demanded books,
such as recommended texts, may be borrowed for
shorter periods. The library is fully computerised,
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