2006 Student Travel Award Winners

NEASIS&T is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2006 awards are:

Karie Kirkpatrick
Simmons College
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
for her paper entitled "OpenCourseWare: An 'MIT Thing'?"

Abstract
In 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shocked the education world by announcing that it would create a Web site whereby professors could make their course materials available to the electronic world for free. Five years later the OpenCourseWare (OCW) site contains materials for 1,400 courses with nearly 20 million visitors viewing MIT OCW content since October 2003. With other institutions beginning to follow MIT’s lead, has OCW started a revolution in education, or will it always be an “MIT thing”? My essay explores the history of the OCW program; discusses site content, architecture, technology, and copyright policies; overall worldwide impact; and considers future directions of OCW.

and

Scott Salvaggio
scott_salvaggio@harvard.edu
Simmons College,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
for his paper entitled "Enhancing a Digital Sheet Music Collection"

Abstract
The Indiana University Variations2 Digital Music Library contains a tool that allows the user to simultaneously view the sheet music and listen to a performance of the corresponding piece. This combination of sound with synchronized sheet music provides the user with a notably richer, more informative experience. Although extremely versatile, the Variations2 synchronization tool requires resources that may be beyond the scope of some libraries. Using the MIT Lewis Music Library’s Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection as the source content, this paper explores an alternative approach to synchronization using Microsoft PowerPoint and offers a workflow that may be more feasible for libraries to undertake.

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These awards entitle each recipient up to $750 to help defray the costs of attendance at the 2006 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, "Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All," which takes place November 3-9, 2006 in Austin, Texas.

Congratulations to both Karie and Scott for their outstanding research papers!

 

cquirion@mit.edu
25 July 2006