CCUMC: The Consortium of College and University Media Centers

College & University Media Review:
A Look at Practices, Trends & Research
Spring 1997 Volume 3, Number 2

• Through the editor's lens,
  Michael J. Albright, Iowa State University
• Turning technologies into teachnologies: The Teaching & Learning Technologies Lab at Indiana University,
  David A. Goodrum, Cordah Robinson Pearce, and Gail A. Rathbun, Indiana University

  In 1994, although Indiana University Bloomington had highly developed, multi-pronged support services for teachers and course development, an excellent media library, and a sophisticated, well-run computer network and campus computer facilities available to students and faculty, it was determined that students and teachers were not receiving the fullest benefits of existing technologies. Like many large institutions, the responsibility for the support of instruction was spread across various centralized and local support organizations. The vice chancellor of the Office of Academic Affairs and the associate vice president in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology agreed to jointly organize centralized help for faculty working with instructional technology, creating a strategic partnership between two of its respective service units--Instructional Support Services and University Computing Services. The Teaching and Learning Technologies Lab facility opened in October 1994. TLTL gives faculty a single point of access to the array of services offered by the two partnering organizations. This article will describe the scope of the TLTL’s efforts; some indications of, as well as some reasons for, its success; and a description of its approach to dealing with clients.

• The Five Colleges multimedia access project,
  Matthew Mattingly, Five Colleges Multimedia Access Project

  In 1995, Five Colleges, Inc., a consortium consisting of four private colleges and the University of Massachusetts, received a grant of $1.1 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to modernize the Five College library system. The grant included funding for three distinct but related training projects, based on the campuses of Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and Amherst Colleges. The Amherst project, entitled the Multimedia Access Project (MAP), was established to encourage, train, and support Five College faculty in the development of multimedia courseware and to promote a culture of cooperation across different disciplines and campuses. The MAP has been underway since September 1996 and has included the establishment of a Web site and listserv, faculty workshops, and a call for proposals. Eight projects have been selected for funding or sponsorship.

• Issues in video collections and new technologies,
  Rick E. Provine, University of Virginia

  New video and computer-based technologies are in the process of transforming the media library environment. Although videotape and, to an extent, videodiscs continue to play a central role in our circulating collections, interactive CD-ROMs and audio CDs have become important additions to the inventory at the Digital Media & Music Center at the University of Virginia, and the digital videodisc (DVD) offers enormous potential. Major issues facing library media centers include the collection outliving the hardware needed to display it, maximizing use of the collection, implications of digital technologies for access vs. ownership, and fair use of copyrighted materials in a digital age.

• Center Focus: The Media Library at the University of North Texas,
  Sharon G. Almquist, University of North Texas
• Center Focus: The Multimedia Center at Sonoma State University,
  Margaret Jourdain, Sonoma State University
• Distance Education: Resources to Improve Learning,
  Susan Chesley and Janis Dickens, University of California, Santa Cruz

  More and more faculty are using distance education technology to reach today's students. This technology requires different teaching techniques, course organization, course presentation, and teacher-student communication styles. Media center staff members play an important role in assisting faculty with this transition and assuring quality instruction. This bibliography is written as a resource for teaching faculty as well as support staff who are engaged in this endeavor. It includes selected, annotated citations for journal articles and books, online resources, distance education organizations and journals, and video recordings.