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The Hertis Information Centre For Industry At Hatfield Polytechnic - Translation Of Business Information To Foreign Languages

1987 , Hatfield (Hertfordshire)

Cat no. 49718

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Scenes at the offices of a library-based translation service for local organisations.

The HERTIS Information Centre for Industry at Hatfield Polytechnic offers translation in 40 languages and is inviting translators who can help extend their range. Scenes of the office where staff answer the telephone and work at desks and computers. Translators address the camera in Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and they can also offer Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Romani, Latin, Scandinavian languages, Afrikaans and Japanese, though not yet Chinese or Bengali. The service offers translation for business customers and for personal correspondence. Information Officer Kate Morris describes the work of the service. The reporter was Peter Lugg for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Industry; Languages; Translation; Business services; Hatfield Polytechnic; Hertis Information Centre; National identity

Additional Description

HERTIS was a college library network serving further and higher education and industry in Hertfordshire. The acronym stood for Hertfordshire Technical Library and Information Service. The network was managed by Hatfield Polytechnic Library and was established in 1956 in response to the expansion of new industries in the county. Together with the county library service, they aimed to provide resources for leisure, education and industry. A poster seen in this video advertises another of their services, the Hertfordshire Business Databank.

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The Hertis Information Centre For Industry At Hatfield Polytechnic - Translation Of Business Information To Foreign Languages

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