731-881-7063
Online Catalog
The Library's extensive collection of media holdings can easily be accessed by using one of the department's online public terminals, known as an OPAC, or Online Public Access Catalog. Our staff can quickly show you how to limit your author, subject or title searches to various forms of AV material. If you have not done so already, come by the department and let us help you become familiar with this technology.
Videotape & DVD Collection
The Paul Meek Library houses the area's most extensive educational and classic-film videotape collection. With over 5,000 videos and nearly 1,400 DVDs to choose from, users can access educational videos on almost any subject which supports the university curriculum. In addition, the Media Services Department also assists UTM's film history classes by offering the very best of classic Hollywood and international feature films, selected from a variety of 4-star filmographies. We are very proud of both collections, and invite you to browse our holdings through the library's OPAC. Most of these titles are available for circulation, although the media collection is not accessible through interlibrary loan.
Audio/Video/Microform Playback Facilities
Our department has a large public-service room used in part for storage of our extensive microfilm and microfiche collections. In addition, we have a separate viewing room for microforms, video cassettes, DVD'S, slides and other popular media formats. State-of-the-art media carrels and low-level lighting provide our users with all the privacy they need for viewing or listening to their individual academic assignments.
The Paul Meek Library houses two separate media classrooms. The larger Ryan Seminar Room seats 56 students and is the primary media playback classroom on campus. In addition, we also have a smaller Library Instruction Room nearby which seats 24 individuals. This room can be scheduled on a first-come basis if you would like for your students to receive formal instruction in learning to use the library. The Media Services Department also shares responsibility for scheduling and supporting UTM's two large academic auditoriums in Gooch Hall and the Humanities Building, where public address and media equipment can be set up for your use by members of our staff. If you need to schedule any of the above facilities, call us at x-7063 or x-7069.
Picture Scanning Service
Many students are now required to create Powerpoint
presentations as part of class assignments, and they often need to
incorporate pictures which cannot be downloaded from the web --
personal photographs or shots from magazines and books. The
Library Media Department has a scanning service
for students needing pictures for their classroom presentations.
Our photography assistant will scan the photos into jpg. files
and save them into Power Point as required. Blank CDs and jump drives may be purchased at the Computer Store in the University Center.
Students may also scan pictures, etc. using the equipment at the multi-media workstations
(mentioned below) and email the results to themselves or save on their jumpdrive, a paper print will cost 20 cents each.
Video Streaming of Academic Speakers
Beginning with the 2003-2004 academic year, all visiting academic speakers who have agreed to have their speeches included in the database can now be viewed online in streaming video format. The Media Services Department hopes that you will find this useful as a teaching and learning resource or as a way to view speaker events that you could not attend in person. The Media Technician is responsible for creating and maintaining this site: http://www.utm.edu/staff/preavis/academicspeakers/
Multimedia Workstation Computers
These specialized computer located in the Media Services Department are a new, full-featured, state-of-the-art machines featuring hardware and software which will allow students to create many different types of multimedia content. These computers are available during normal Library operating hours. Here is a summary of the different hardware and software features of the Student Multimedia Workstation computers:
Hardware:
* CD-RW burner- You can burn your own CD-Rs or CD-RWs
* DVD burner - Using the video creation software (mentioned below) you can create your own DVDs
* HP Scanner - you can scan pictures or scan documents using the available OCR software. You can even scan 35mm slides!
* TV/VCR combo unit - save the movies that you create onto a VCR tape
* Headset microphone and speakers - record your own audio files using the audio creation software (mentioned below)
* USB and Firewire ports - these connections allow you to attach devices to the computer such as digital cameras, video cameras, and external hard drives
Software:
* EZ CD-creator - burn your own CDs
* Dreamweaver 2004 MX - create and edit web pages and web sites
* Frontpage 2003 - create and edit web pages and web sites
* Adobe Photoshop 7 - create and edit images
* Pinnacle Studio 10 - create video clips from footage on your own VCR tapes or digital camera, then burn them to DVD or CD, or put them on the internet
* Adobe Acrobat 6 - create and edit PDF files
* Sound Forge 6 - create and edit audio files
* Cleaner XL - after you create your video clips using Pinnacle Studio 8 (mentioned above), you can use Cleaner to create many different formats of your clips, such as Real Player, Windows Media, Quicktime, and Flash!
* Microsoft Office 2003 - create and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access documents
If you have any questions about this new service, feel free to call the Media Services department at 587-7063. We look forward to helping you!
Campus Announcements - Channel 66, CCTV
You may call and request certain upcoming events and schedule listings as well as special occasions be advertised on the campus cable system on channel 66.
For assistance with your media needs contact:
Linda Woodrough, Library Supervisor I: x-7063 or e-mail to lwoodro@utm.edu.
Bob McCluskey, Library Associate II: x-7062 or e-mail robertm@utm.edu
Patrick Reavis , Technician Assistant II: x-7069 or e-mail to preavis@utm.edu
