Category Archives: Digital Media Lab

Interviews with Photographers 0

Lately, I’ve made an effort to produce more video content for my library’s YouTube presence. Here are some video interviews with some of the top finishers from the recent teen photography contest. I shot each of these five videos in our Digital Media Lab against the chroma key wall (aka SPL’s green monster). It was [...]

Digital Media Librarianship 0

It’s been 7 months since the Digital Media Lab (DML) opened and we’re continuing to see it being used for tons of interesting projects by a wide variety of people. Yesterday, I staffed the DML for 3 hours and just in that time alone I met the following people: a recently retired man interested in [...]

Mashable Picks YouTube 0

I’ve had the opportunity to talk a lot about the Digital Media Lab to both patrons and professional colleagues in recent weeks. Whenever I start explaining why we created the space and the context in which we did so, I always find myself starting with incredible growth of YouTube and digital video. Even though the [...]

Empowering Library Users to Work with Digital Media 0

For the past year and a half I’ve been working on creating a new Digital Media Lab at mpow. We opened the lab a few months and this morning I’m giving a presentation at NSLS about the entire process of getting the lab up and running. My presentation will include the following: What is the [...]

Opening the Digital Media Lab 0

The Digital Media Lab I mentioned awhile ago is finally open to the public and I am very happy with how it turned out. MPOW now has a newly remodeled space featuring four shiny new Macs that are loaded with software goodies. We also have other equipment including two new scanners and an M-audio USB [...]