IMATS News & Announcements
Please join us in congratulating the EFMP grantees!
Welcome our new Director of AV Services Rosana Chang!
TDSI is a virtual, intensive institute for faculty that includes one-on-one consultations, training in digital tools for the classroom, workshops on integrating digital assignments into your syllabus, and more!
Josalynn Smith, Rita Nguyen 'BC 23, and Jenna Freedman led a workshop on using Canvas, Google Slides, and InDesign to make zines. Here are the slides, video, and zine templates.
As we begin spooky season and reminisce Central Park in autumn, we welcome you to the September/October 2020 issue of @barnlib. Keep reading for news highlights from the BLAIS Staff at Milstein!
We're recognizing Professor Lozano for her innovative and collaborative 'Radio Immigrante' project! We've also named three runner-ups - Meredith Benjamin, Wendy Schor-Haim, and Cecelia Lie-Spahn - for their work with the Zine library.
Because the need to make sense of urgent questions can’t wait, the College introduced a new course that puts first-years first.
Congratulations, Josalynn! She previously worked as the IMATS Assistant.
IMATS Media Specialist Karl-Mary Akre, BC'16 is leaving Barnard to pursue an MFA at UT Austin.
Our amazing AV team is hard at work updating classrooms so they're ready for hi-flex teaching in the Fall!
For our first-ever summer camp, join us at daily workshops around the theme of racial justice!
From our sweaty homes, where we wish we were in the MLC complaining that the AC is too cold, welcome to the July 2020 issue of @barnlib.
The Digital Humanities Center, Center for Engaged Pedagogy, and IMATS hosted a three-day, virtual intensive for faculty to design assignments that critically engaged with digital technologies.
Welcome to the June 2020 issue of @barnlib. BLAIS full-time staff are working from as far north as Vermont and as far south as Georgia. From our homes to yours...enjoy!
Ruby Mastrodimos '18, the Sloate Media Center Post-Baccalaureate fellow, directed and edited a music video for Long Neck's new album "World's Strongest Dog."
Melanie Hibbert, Interim Co-Dean of BLAIS and Director of IMATS and the Media Center, will lead a webinar how our library and academic centers quickly transitioned to offering online services.
We asked @barnlib student staff to share how and what they're doing since we went online in March and invited them to upload a photo of themselves or one that represents this time period for them.
Having a hard time staying focused or creating your study space?
UPDATE 9/22/20: This service is no longer available. For Barnard students looking to access the Adobe Creative Suite, please use Apporto. This service is run through BCIT, please contact them with questions.
Barnard and Columbia affiliates can now have remote access to the Adobe Creative Cloud! Use all your favorite programs - such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro - on your own computer.
The media Center is interested in helping members of the Barnard College community create media-based documentation around the effect of COVID-19 on their lives
In keeping with our theme this semester, IMATS now has equipment for music makers!
IMATS has created a web application for Dr. Meena Rao's organic chemistry lab!
IMATS is excited to announce the recipients of the first Emerging Digital Designer Grant: Kristen Akey '20, Christina Duan '23, and Cindy Espinosa '22.
Screenwriter, director and content creator Rachel James named to Young & Hungry List which spotlights up-and-coming creatives!
This week we talked to Josalynn Smith the IMATS Senior Department Assistant. Find out more about her favorite spot on campus, her work at IMATS & the Sloate Media Center and more!
Applications are now open for our new Emerging Digital Designer Grant!
IMATS has a 3D image scanner, from a "Campus of the future" grant from Hewlett-Packard. This is for the "Digital Repatriations" project with Prof. Severin Fowles, involving 3D scanning indigenous artifacts.
Make your way to the second floor of the Barnard Library in the Milstein Center, through the elevator lobby to the IMATS Atrium next to the IMATS Equipment Checkout desk; have a seat on the plush couch under the portrait of James Baldwin and browse the powerful shelf of books there.
This week we talked to Ben Rosner, who is the Instructional Application Developer and Support Specialist at IMATS. Find out more about Ben's favorite spot in the Milstein Center, his favorite project and his amazing collaborator, his cat Sal.
Nominated by Melanie Hibbert and Alisa Rod, Premilla Nadasen is recognized for her "Maids and Madams: Nannies, Maids, and Care Workers in a Global Economy" and "Mississippi Semester" courses.
We can't believe our good fortune in hiring Columbia School of the Arts MFA '19 Josalynn Jade Smith as IMATS Senior Department Assistant.
The IMATS Atrium (across from the equipment checkout room) has a comfy couch, art on the walls, and a browsing collection.
On our Academic Technologist for Web & UX, Elana Altman's recommendation, we have purchased a site license for Sketch.
Jen Brown, Jenna Freedman, Jen Green, and Melanie Hibbert present at the American Library Association annual conference on Diversity, Equity, and Justice; a union catalog for zines, the Milstein Center, and DIY video creation, respectively.
BC alums retain access to the physical library, staff, and a suite of licensed databases. (updated)
For National Student Employment Week, we're celebrating our student workers.
The Wikipedia entry for Awkwafina was created at Barnard during our 2013 Asian American editathon by then-IMATS Director Alexis Seeley.
April is packed with workshops, the continuation of the Feminist Film Series, and more.
New this month in the Barnard Library in the Milstein Center at Barnard College, Columbia University
The weather is freezing, but the library has events galore to keep you warm.
The Media Center's Feminist Film Series continues this Spring, now on Thursday nights.
The Sloate Media Center team launches a brand new program to support Barnard filmmakers, powered by the Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.
We're preparing for the many new faces and new events that spring semester will bring!
For research perfomed in the Barnard Archives, Center for Research on Woman, or Zine Library. Applications due midnight ET 3/3/19.
They experienced and learned about emerging technologies and applications.
Barnard Instructional Application Developer Ben Rosner is the lead developer on this project.
The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard College will be a new academic hub in the heart of campus, bringing students and faculty together, facilitating collaboration, and fostering dialogue when it opens this August.
The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard College will be a new academic hub in the heart of campus, bringing students and faculty together, facilitating collaboration, and fostering dialogue when it opens this August.
