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Columbia University Libraries: Butler Library’s Media Center and Digital Humanities Center
Bethany Edwards
LIS 698-01: Practicum
Dean Giannini
*Caution: Large-Scale Projects at Work
*Interning at Butler Library
*1) Kim’s Video DVD donation
*2) Reference Desk
*3) Digital Humanities
Center
*Kim’s Video DVD’s
*Cataloging system: Voyager
*Fairly straightforward copy cataloging
*Some foreign films required some detective skills
*Russian characters for “English subtitles”
*The Reference Desk
*Sunday afternoons
*“This is due on Monday.”
*Advanced research questions
*Lots of questions about technology and the library’s online tools.
*CLIO
*Subject Guides
*Printer Privileges?
*Digital Humanities Center
*Official Practicum Project
*Bob Scott, Director
*DHC is in conversation with Digital Science Center and Digital Social Science Center
*Planned future expansion
*DHC: “New in 2012”
*DSC and DSSC have been renovated in the past few years
*DHC has been told they will get a renovation and an additional space
*Assessment of current DHC is planned before renovation/expansion—data driven improvements
*Issues: Delays, no assessment librarian
*DHC: New Space
*Literature review
*Open questions about use of space will be included in faculty focus group sessions
*Unique nature of the space presents challenges
*DHC: Focus Groups
*Focus on faculty: Database
*Focus on process: Best practices in conducting focus groups in libraries
*Focus on action: Questions, notices, meetings
*Focus on the future: Work in progress
*Digital Tools
*Filemaker Pro
*RefWorks
*Google docs
*Familiarity with DHC’s tools*ABBYY Fine Reader
*Adobe Suite
*Nvivo 9
*Arc, Google Earth
*SPSS
*Findings
*Based on previous assessment results, DHC is on the right track in terms of gathering and interpreting data.
*Staff associated with DHC are very enthusiastic
*Lack of an assessment librarian (or someone in a similar role) made the smallest steps more difficult
*“Intern” status has prevented useful interaction with the IRB
*Why hasn’t focus group happened yet?*Faculty seem to respect the DHC and digital scholarship
*Main barrier is time and resources
*DHC director , steering committee, and faculty selected for focus groups have limited time
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