Recognizing outstanding staff
Two years after it was formed to help faculty members incorporate new media into the classroom and their coursework, the Harvard College Library Planning and Management Team for Expanding the Boundaries of Authorship had to rapidly shift gears. As course assignments increasingly began to call for multimedia components, the team moved to meet the growing need for support and training in the use of new media tools. The team launched a website, Expanding the Boundaries of Authorship, that collected a wealth of information on the use of multimedia tools, developed a Library Guide for Multimedia Authoring, and launched a Wintersession “boot camp” in multimedia authoring that included presentations by faculty and experts in the field. In acknowledgement of their efforts, the team was among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) staff honored on March 6 at the fourth annual Dean’s Distinction awards. In nominating the team, Martin Schreiner, who heads up Maps,...