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>2. description of the project

This really will be from the ground up, though we have 'dreamed' for a long while of cataloging/indexing and creating a search engine function.

Some of this is beyond the scope you offer, but I think it may be parallell, as for the specific search classifications we use.  I guess it will depend on what the time available from the volunteers/interns might be.

I'd like to have some open discussions on these issues (index classifications) to preceed actual work time from the interns.

There might be value in some imc techie involvement, as I understand you have offered to "online" the index.  It will have to fit our sourcecoding and I don't know but there may be tech issues arise.

We can then modularize some discreet projects that one or two can complete easily.  At present the videos are alphabetized on a shelf and we have a listing to match.

We are not classed by topics, geography, speakers on the tapes...We have no classification by countries depicted, union issues or indigenous, enviro...

We would like this project to ease researh use, as well as just be a film watchers selection tool.  

But then my biases may be getting over ambitious for you.  I hope you understand I have hopes to inspire our network, as well as just polish our local collectives offerings.  That means keeping it simple and accesable to our members for update.  So we should have enough to start with in the films, let alone the books too. 


>3. provide contact info

I am willing to give this project the ownership it needs.  But because we have events and other activities, we need to coordinate and reserve  in coordinated fashon with other events to insure an optimum worksite.  It will need the capability to view tapes I am supposing.

So I am willing to recieve input and co-ordinate this from anarch3m at lycos.com.
Others may join and we can work as a c.c. list 

>4. indicate that we prefer a candidate who has
>advanced cataloging knowledge (her suggestion!)

We are rankest amateurs who don't yet know what we want or what we can have.  Experience from the interns can help us decide what we can accomplish, and help us plan the modules.  
>
>Will you do a paragraph or two on the IMC, and e-mail
>it to me?   Also, here's a start on the project
>description.  Please edit it and send it back so that
>I can get this out to her asap. 
>
>Project description:
>The IMC currently owns a small, un-cataloged library
>of outstanding social justice documentaries, films,
>books and magazines.  Our mission is to make these
>materials as accessible as possible to the public, as
>the educational value of any of these materials is
>dependent on the widest possible viewing and
>distribution. 

My wording:  Our mission is to make these materials acessable for researchers and educators as well as to make these materials as accessible as possible to the public. The educational value of any of these materials is dependent on the widest possible viewing and distribution. If the choice of what to view can become a simple and confidant choice, we are sure to promote more viewing.
>
>We are seeking a Library Science student with advanced
>cataloging knowledge to direct us in establishing a
>cataloging system for approx. 250(?) videos and 300
>(?) books and magazines to include the capacity for
>cross-referencing by title, director, and subject.  We
>would like to have a software program that would
>enable us to update the catalogue as necessary.
>Printed catalogues for walk-in visitors to the center
>would be available, as well as an on-line listing.
>
>Please contact Ellie Rose (elro11 at yahoo.com)or Sara???
>at **** for more information on this portfolio
>opportunity. 
>
>So, Sara, e-mail me your responses to this rough
>draft, and run it by whomever seems appropriate.  My
>phone # is 545-1160.  I'm really excited!  We should
>get going on the shelves so that we have a physical
>space for our library!
>Ellie
>
>
>
>Sara- 
>
>Here is a copy of the e-mail I sent to Lynnea at the
>UW School of Information Studies.  Please contact me
>asap.  Do you think the IMC is ready to have an intern
>come in to set up the library?  Is there enough
>consistant staffing to oversee such a project, because
>if not, it isn't fair to bring in an intern who won't
>really get a good work experience out of their time
>and effort.  I understand the IMC is all volunteer
>run-is there any kind of oversite there?  Please
>contact me, as Dan is out of town now, and I don't
>know who I should be coordinating with if not you. 
>Thanks!
>Ellie
>
>Greetings Lynnea-
>
>We spoke on the phone last week about an internship
>opportunity at the IMC.  I e-mailed the volunteer
>staff person there who is the official IMC liason for
>the project, and I'm not sure what's going on, but I
>haven't heard back from her. I apologize for the
>delay, and just want to let you know that we are very
>much interested in getting assistance with our
>library.  I will be in touch with you as soon as I
>hear back from my contact there.
>
>Thank you, and again, my apologies for the delay.
>
>Sincerely,
>Ellie Rose
>545-1160
>
> 
>Greetings Lynnea-
>
>We spoke on the phone last week about an internship
>opportunity at the IMC.  I e-mailed the volunteer
>staff person there who is the official IMC liason for
>the project, and I'm not sure what's going on, but I
>haven't heard back from her. I apologize for the
>delay, and just want to let you know that we are very
>much interested in getting assistance with our
>library.  I will be in touch with you as soon as I
>hear back from my contact there.
>
>Thank you, and again, my apologies for the delay.
>
>Sincerely,
>Ellie Rose
>545-1160
>
>
>
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