[Web4lib] "Media" Lab

[Andrew Darby]

Marc,

You could check out the New Media Consortium (NMC) website:

http://www.nmc.org/

There is a membership page, some of these link directly to the New
Media Center (or whatever the institution calls it), although others
just link to the institution's home page.  It's somewhere to start if
you want to see what's being done elsewhere:

http://www.nmc.org/membership/index.shtml

We investigated this recently, wrote up the requisite report.  Much of
it was specific to our environment, but we identified five types of
media centers (with examples) and perhaps this would be helpful:

Model 1
NMC Lab Model (Self-Service)
A NMC lab is a creative place where faculty and students can gain
access to multimedia hardware and software to create, design, capture,
record, edit, and publish new media content.  Computer labs are
equipped with high-end computer editing stations, decks, and monitors
along with media editing software.  Equipment can also be loaned out.
This model applies a self-service approach with access to trained
consultants who can provide basic training and troubleshooting.

•	Virginia Tech - New Media Center - http://www.nmc.vt.edu
•	Princeton - New Media Center - http://www.princeton.edu/~newmedia
•	U of Texas - Center for Instructional Technologies -
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/index.html
•	Mississippi State U - Instructional Media Center Department -
http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=3
•	U of Hawaii - Digital Media Center - http://www.dmc.hawaii.edu

Model 2
NMC Full Service Model
A NMC full-service model blends traditional and new media production
services.  This model resembles a Kinko's store.  For example, the
client is greeted at a front counter; employees take and process a
client's work-order(s); the client returns later to pick up his/her
completed job or project. In the back is a meeting room where
employees meet with clients who require long-term project development.
 This model offers a wide range of media services, such as: video
production, media duplication, photography, graphic design, specialty
printing, multimedia and computer graphics.  The Center charges a
competitive fee for all services.

•	Cal State, Chico - Instructional Media Center - http://www.csuchico.edu/imc
•	U of Oregon - Center for Educational Technologies -
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/cet


Model 3
NMC Studio Model
The NMC Studio model is a state-of-the-art campus studio with
full-time employees charged with overseeing and managing approved
projects.  The production studio accepts ongoing proposals from
faculty. Proposals are reviewed and awarded.  Projects fulfill
faculty's need to experiment with new interactive modes of
instruction.  A team of developers build faculty-based media projects
with the goal of enhancing teaching and learning at the College. The
overall focus is on research, development and innovation, rather than
on user support, troubleshooting, and fix-it activities.

•	Yale - Center for Media Initiatives - http://cmi.yale.edu
•	Calvin College - Digital Studio - http://digitalstudio.calvin.edu
•	U of Maryland - New Media Studio - http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/studio
•	U of Oregon - Interactive Media Group - http://nmc.uoregon.edu

Model 4
NMC Department Model
A NMC Department Model provides a full set of instructional services,
including classroom training facilities, video editing labs, audio
editing labs, self-service faculty lab(s), and a media development
studio.  All of these individual services are lumped under one NMC
department or a sub-department.

•	UC Berkeley - Educational Technology Services - http://ets.berkeley.edu
•	U of Nebraska-Lincoln - New Media Center - http://www.itg.unl.edu/nmc
•	UCLA - Office of Instructional Development - http://www.oid.ucla.edu
•	U of Minnesota - Digital Media Center - http://dmc.umn.edu
•	U of North Dakota - Center for Instructional and Learning
Technologies - http://www.cilt.und.nodak.edu
•	U of Wisconsin Milwaukee - Learning Technology Center -
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/LTC/services.html
•	Case - Instructional Technology and Academic Computing (ITAC) -
http://www.case.edu/its/itac

Model 5
NMC Satellite Model
Rather than building one "brick and mortar" lab to accommodate the
entire campus, this model provides resources to individual schools and
departments to build their own smaller New Media Lab within their own
space.  These satellite labs can be linked together by a common
website and share support and training resources.

•	Dartmouth - Instructional Centers
-http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/resources/facilities/classrooms/instructional.html
•	Brown - Multimedia Labs - http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/blogs/mml-tech


Andrew

On 10/24/06, Marc W. Davis <marc.davis at drake.edu> wrote:
>
>
>    There is some [vague at best] discussion going on here about adding
> a "media" lab into our InfoCommons mix. This is a very unformed
> notion as yet unsupported by any real needs assessment or user
> survey. What I'm hearing ranges from CD/DVD burning to video
> production, with stops along the way for podcasting, flash, html,
> scanning, conferencing, and who knows what else. Up until now, the
> InfoCommons has been framed as a fairly standard library computer lab
> -- databases, office apps, miscellaneous course-specific plugins.
>
>    I'd like to find out what sort of software, infrastructure,
> personneland capabilities more advanced installations provide to
> users (both students and faculty) and suggestions as to "model" sites
> or good resources to begin with in examining how we can expand our
> services.
>
>    Thanks for your time and attention.
>
> -------------
> Marc W. Davis
> Systems Administration Associate
> Cowles Library
> Drake University
> (515) 271- 1934
>
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