SI-ASB-2008: Columbia College Chicago Library


Columbia College Chicago Library 624 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605 www.lib.colum.edu	Projects 3
With more than 120 academic programs and nearly 11,000 students, Columbia College Chicago is the largest and most diverse private arts and media college in the nation. Because of our size, we can offer an unparalleled array of courses with exceptional technological resources in the heart of one of America's greatest cities. The Library of Columbia College Chicago supports the educational needs of twenty-two academic departments at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The collection reflects the nature of the College, which emphasizes visual and performing arts, media and communications within a liberal education context. The Library maintains strong collections ranging from art, photography, communications, journalism, and film/video to resources in arts management and marketing. We house one of the largest collections of art materials in the Chicago area. The Library's main collections include our general circulating collection, Reference, Periodicals, Special Collections, the College Archives, Audio-Visual, and the Visual Resources Collection. Numbers--Books: 258,000+, Periodicals: 2000+, Full-text journals: 10,000+, Databases: 90+, Digital images: 22,000+
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Students who participated in ASB at the Columbia College Chicago Library: Susan Cain and Dejah Rubel.

“Working with other professionals just getting started building their archive was really neat. Made me more confident about my skills. “Heidi, Kevin, and Dominick were all awesome! Very smart, very informative, and didn't mind my asking them TONS of questions!”

“Working with Celia Ross, online instruction (and SI Alumnus), I surveyed resources for best practice in online tutorials for teaching information literacy. I presented a report with recommendations.”

Projects

Digitization Project: Oral History Class Civil Rights Movement Interviews

Dejah Thoris Rubel. Code: COLUMC-01

Interns
1

One student with an interest in digitizing, cataloging, preserving and reformatting archival material Discover how to digitize and present oral histories online. In 2003, Columbia College Chicago's Art of the Interview class members took the oral histories of some Chicagoans involved in the Civil Rights movement. Each interview packet contains a taped oral history, a transcription of the session, and release forms. Learn step-by-step how to take these raw materials and digitize, preserve, and present them online for research and scholarship under the supervision of the digital services specialist and college archivist. You will do everything necessary to take the physical object, move it into a digital library, and present it on the Web according to the best practices established by libraries and archives.

Information Literacy Online Tutorials Redesign project

Susan Cain. Code: COLUMC-02

Interns
1-2

Students working on the Information Literacy Online Tutorials project will help to update and streamline existing online tutorials. Currently, there are four online tutorials: two are focused on First Year Writing, one on Art History and one Film History. All were originally built using Camtasia. Working with the Library's Instructional Design Coordinator, students will assist in the redesign of one or more of these tutorials. Depending on a few factors (students' technology background, tutorial design ideas and information literacy goals, etc.), new tutorials may be built using Camtasia or it may be decided that an alternative technology will be used.

Students with Camtasia or other online tutorial experience and/or extensive web design skills [especially PHP & Dreamweaver] are preferred. Instruction/Info Lit experience a plus.

Intranet Development Project

Code: COLUMC-03

Interns
2-3

Students will help analyze and organize the content of the current shared drive, customize a user interface which promotes effective collaboration and use of information shared among staff and identify information relevant to Library history/policies/procedures for migration to the new intranet. Preferably students will have some experience in creating/developing user interfaces in shared environments. Working with a Reference Librarian, students will work to develop an interface for the shared drive that encourages use in accordance with the best practices guidelines and also aids users in determining whether the future location of information is best suited to the shared drive or the intranet.

The SI Alternative Spring Break is open to graduate students of the University of Michigan's School of Information. Undergraduates looking for Alternative Spring Break opportunities should look into the University of Michigan Alternative Spring Break program administered by U-M's Ginsberg Center.