MakeYourStory: Business Resources for Makers

The MakeYourStory podcast at Purdue University celebrates makers through the lens of the narrative podcast. Learn about the MakeYourStory podcast and its connection to highlighting business resources for makers and podcasters. This session will discuss the structure and development of the MakeYourStory podcast, with an emphasis on promoting library resources for makers and podcasters

MakeYourStory: Showcasing Student Entrepreneurs

This presentation details the Purdue MakeYourStory podcast, highlighting stories of student entrepreneurs and various forms of making. Among many achievements, this podcast details use of the makerspace, student Soybean Competition innovations, and TikTok content creation

Connecting During COVID: Creating and Sustaining Communities in HyFlex and Virtual Settings

Librarians have approached community engagement and outreach in many different ways. Whether presenting to members of community groups or hosting events and tours, librarians have actively worked to promote and inspire the use of information resources in the communities they serve. Due to the impact of COVID-19, methods of community engagement and outreach have changed immensely, calling for new and innovative approaches to creating, connecting, and engaging communities. This session highlights emerging and evolving approaches to engagement and outreach for librarians, offering attendees a variety of methods to consider as they work to safely and creatively connect with their communities

Sights and Sounds Reunited: An Exploration of Information Behavior in the Vitaphone Project Community

Discovering a presumably lost reel of film is an exhilarating moment for moving image archivists and film historians contributing to and studying the overall preservation of cultural heritage. When discovered, one’s most prominent inclination is to spread the news and communicate the finding. In some cases, this may be one reel of many that were thought to be lost. In other cases, perhaps other reels from the same film have been discovered but in exist in different locations or even in various countries. The discovery also prompts a variety of questions and next steps: How can these reels be unified in order to piece together the film? Who else possesses components, be it reels of footage, sound discs, or stills, from the same film? Where are these components located? Unfortunately, the answers to these questions are often not readily available, as is evident in the initial attempts to locate, reunite, and restore many different presumably lost films. The work to restore Vitaphone features, however, brings about an interesting success story; in an effort to overcome the challenges of communicating among archivists and private collectors from all over the world, the Vitaphone Project (VP) community has had many triumphs in working towards the rediscovery of Vitaphone features. Thanks to the efforts of the VP, a community dedicated to the location and restoration of Vitaphone features and matching soundtracks, audiences have been able to enjoy a multitude of feature-length and short subject films that were once thought to be lost. The VP has worked to preserve and restore the many performances captured in Vitaphone features during the dawn of the sound era, namely highlighting the works of performers who transitioned from live vaudeville routines to careers in the film industry. Moreover, members of the VP community have actively worked with collectors and archivists worldwide to reunite Vitaphone films with their soundtracks. Their discoveries of Vitaphone films and their accompanying soundtracks have led to the complete restoration of several Vitaphone features. In turn, several studio-sponsored commercial releases of these features have become available for public consumption via modern media formats. Like working to complete a puzzle, the VP community has taken on the challenge of piecing together an important part of film history. Though the VP has had much success in reuniting Vitaphone films with their corresponding soundtracks, there is a need for more effective communication within their community. While the VP community is active on Facebook and has a website, the community as a whole lacks a centralized place in which collectors can easily interact with one another; mostly fans and enthusiasts, as opposed to collectors, utilize the VP community’s Facebook group. The constant postings from aficionados of the community’s efforts are certainly welcome and exciting for the group but also make it difficult for collectors to share information with one another. While the website was updated in 2019, its interface is outdated and needs reimagining in terms of structure as well as updates in its content to reflect the changes and updates in the community, so that it can offer a relevant, interactive interface and stronger means of communication for collectors. Not all individuals in the VP community are active on social media or even on the internet, so it is important that a new interface or means of communication keeps in mind the needs of those members. Overall, the community would benefit greatly from an interactive platform that would allow users to share information about their Vitaphone collections in order to reunite film prints with their proper soundtracks and lead to their full restoration. Grounded in Archival Intelligence Theory and Social Network Theory, this article examines the information behavior and interactions of the VP community and proposes research designed to enhance communication between its members to advance the mission of the organization

MGMT 110 Introduction to Management and Information Strategies Fall 2021 Syllabus

Syllabus for MGMT 110: Introduction to Management and Information Strategies offered Fall 2021

MGMT 110: Standards Module In-Class Lesson Plan

Lesson plan for a 50 minute in-class standards module in MGMT 110: Introduction to Management and Information Strategies. Offered Fall 2021

MGMT 110: Standards Group Challenge Assignment

Group project for MGMT 110: Introduction to Management and Information Studies covering the use of standards in business decision-making. Course offered Fall 2021