Spring 2006 - Mon 6pm - 8pm, Rm 643 (or elsewhere)

Advanced Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Workshop H72.3490

Version 1.2
(latest version of syllabus always at http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/program/06spring/adv-topics.shtml)

Instructors: Howard Besser; Sarah Ziebell Mann (intensive Cataloging)

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Jan 23: Continuation of Cataloging [from last term's Access class], part #1 (SZM)

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Jan 30: Continuation of Cataloging [from last term's Access class], part #2 (SZM)

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Feb 6: Updates and a look at the coming semester (HB)

Topics covered:

• Interesting recent news and updates
  • Google's search within library books service ('Googleizing' libraries won't replace books, SF Chronicle, Dec 18, 2004)
• Discussion of thesis projects
  • what's involved
  • progress thusfar
  • due dates
  • Advisors (Sarah, Mona, Howard, Linda T.) and Cinema Studies Secondary Advisors
    
• Conferences & Proposals
• AMIA proposals
• Orphans
  
• CS Student Conference
• Information Resources--Accuracy/Reliability, Sustainability
• old hierarchical model-- Encyclopedias
• new participartory model -- folksonomies and open source
  
• issues and examples
• Structure and operation; costs and business models
• Encyclopedia Britannica vs Wikipedia and Dec 2005 study from Nature 
  
• imdb vs AFI Catalogs 
  
• What we'll do this semester, how things will work, trips, timetables and deadlines
  • Questions on Schedules
    • GEH and IPI visit (tentatively M-W Apr 17-19)
      
    • NARA/Smithsonian/Colorlabs visit
    • Other possibilities
      
    • IFI & Projection
    • MOMA Posters (QNS)
      
    • MoMA Hamlin and John Allen?
  • Upcoming
    • xxxx
    
    

Feb 13: No class

Howard in Dayton; time to finish your work from last semester

Feb 20: No class; National Holiday

Feb 27: Preparing to look for a job -- job listings (HB)

Assignments due before class:

• Be prepared to give a 10-minute summary of your thesis project including: where you're at thusfar, what you have left to do, what challenges have you faced, where do you need help on parts of it, etc.

1. Look closely at Weblinks for Professional Organizations
2. Look closely at sample job postings from last year and from this year 
3. Read:
   • Guggenheim Loses Top Donor in Rift on Spending and Vision, NY Times, Jan 20, 2005

Topics covered:

• Advisors for Thesis Projects
• Places to look for job listings
• Class discussion of what the job listing really means (close reading/deconstruction of sample job listings)
• Interesting recent news and updates
  • xxxx
• update on visits
  

Mar 6: Preparing to look for a job -- resume writing (HB)

Assignments due before class:

• Look closely at sample job postings from last year  and from this year  
• Do one version of your resume and bring 3 copies of it with you to class

Topics covered:

• Class discussion of resumes; group comments and critiques of each person's resume
• xxx
  
• Interesting recent news

Mar 13: No class; Spring Break

Mar 20: Resume-writing, Visits, Web Design (HB)

Topics covered:

• Continuation of class discussion of resumes; group comments and critiques of each person's resume
• Projection dates

Mar 27:  Practice oral thesis presentation (HB)

Assignments due before class:

• Prepare to give a 5-10 minute oral summary or portion of your thesis to the rest of the class.  The feedback should help prepare you for your final thesis presentation.
  

Topics covered:

• Thesis procedures, expectations, etc.
• Presentations and discussion
  

Apr 3: Cataloging (SZM)

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Apr 10: Grant-writing, Discussion on Thesis Projects (HB)

• Read:
  • xxxxx

Topics covered:

• Grant Writing
• Continued discussion of sample job postings

Apr 17: Design & Dissemination Issues, Job-Hunting (HB)

Assignments due before class:

• Webpages/images describing NARA/Smithsonian visit due
• by April 13
  
• revise your resume and email the latest version to the entire class
• email to Howard a nice looking html file listing every significant project you've done during MIAP, every internship you've done, etc.
  

Topics covered:

• Review of everyone's resumes
• discussion of summarizing your work, self-promotion, having a personal web presence, etc.
  
• Job-hunting discussion
• On-the-job issues

Apr 24: Cataloging (SZM)

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