VIRTUAL LIBRARY TIMELINE
October 2000
Week before 10/30: Dr. Paul Resta contacts Dr. Loriene Roy about contributing and/or creating a virtual library for Northwest Indian College as part of the PT3 grant shared by NWIC, Portland State University, Texas A&M, and UT Austin. Dr. Vivian Delgado at NWIC expressed the College's need for a good online educational library.
10/30: Dr. Resta mentions contacting Dr. Roy about building this virtual library for the college.back to river
November 2000
11/8: Conference call with Dr. Roy, Dr. Resta, and Dr. Delgado. Dr. Delgado explains that NWIC wants to gain accreditation to become a stand-alone degree-conferring institution. In order to facilitate accreditation, they need an educational library that their pre-service teaching students can use.
Dr. Roy contacts Nancy Carroll, the librarian at NWIC, in order to include her in the virtual library's development.
11/9: Dr. Roy emails Liz Staples from Bay Mills Community College and Dr. Maurita Holland from the University of Michigan. Dr. Holland and the University of Michigan created a virtual library home page template for Bay Mills under the auspices of a Kellogg grant. Dr. Roy wanted to let them know who we are, what we are doing and to see if our work supports their efforts.
11/27: Videoconference with Portland State, UT Austin, and NWIC. Dr. Roy announces that her Spring 2000 classes (Information Resources in the Social Sciences and Library Instruction) could help create the virtual library for NWIC.back to river
December 2000
12/12: The ACES (Advancing Cross-Cultural Educational Skills) discussion list is established.
12/13: Videoconference with NWIC and PSU. UT Austin was unable to participate due to inclement weather.
12/19: Dr. Roy receives sample syllabi from NWIC in order to create relevant pathfinder topics for the Social Sciences class.
January 2001
1/16: Dr. Roy hears back from Maurita Holland at the University of Michigan, who voices her support for our project.
1/22: The Social Science class signs up for their pathfinder topics.
1/29: Videoconference with A&M, PSU, NWIC, and UT Austin. Dr. Roy describes what her classes are working on for the virtual library.
1/31: Dr. Roy submits a Poster Session for ALA Annual describing our virtual library project.back to river
February 2001
2/5: We receive the ACES Goals and Objectives.
2/6-9: Anne Marie Hilscher goes to Portland as UT's representative for the PT3 meeting. She learns that NWIC is very happy about the pathfinders and the technology demonstrations that will be included in our virtual library. Vivian Delgado mentions that it would be nice if we could incorporate some of the ideas and philosophies espoused in Greg Cajete's book Look to the Mountain. Additionally, they would appreciate any information we could gather on grants and accreditation.
2/13: Anne Marie reports on the meeting in Portland to the Library Instruction class.
2/14: Nancy Carroll provides us with the contact information for Bill James, the Lummi language director, so that we may see whether we can use Lummi words in naming the sections of our virtual library.
2/20: Dr. Roy creates the first draft of the virtual library's topic and connections using the software Inspiration.
2/21: Dr. Roy meets Dr. Samuel Henry in Tampa, Florida at an international conference on service-based learning.
2/27: Mark Cristal, a graduate student in education, demonstrates QuickTime (software that allows one to make virtual moving pictures) and takes a QTVR shot of the Library Instruction class.
2/28: The virtual library project contribution costs are added to the ACES quarterly report.back to river
March 2001
3/4: Peter Larsen creates a temporary storage web page for any useful web sites the Library Instruction students may find for the virtual library.
3/5: The pathfinders created by the Social Sciences class are completed and uploaded onto the web.
3/6: The Library Instruction students select the virtual library technology and content areas for which they will be responsible.
Dr. Roy presents the second draft of the Inspiration document.
3/7: Videoconference with A&M, PSU, and UT Austin. NWIC could not participate due to tech problems. Lois Cohen expresses her enthusiasm for our Inspiration document and for the progress Dr. Roy and her students are making on the virtual library.
Aimee Akerman creates a mock-up of a virtual library home page.
The virtual library discussion list is activated. This list includes members of Library Instruction as well as interested parties from NWIC.
3/12-13: Tony Cherian goes to NWIC and assists with a technology workshop held at the college.
3/20: Tony reports on his trip to Washington to the Library Instruction class.
Cathy Pedraza presents her draft of the website evaluation section of the virtual library.
3/27: The Library Instruction class looks at and discusses some excerpts from Look to the Mountain that Dr. Roy prepared. We speak about what aspects of our virtual library--both in content and design--integrate Cajete's ideas.
Neil Krasnoff and Piper Martin present technology demonstrations on converting text files to HTML and HTML I, respectively.
April 2001
4/3: There are three technology demonstrations: Cathy Pedraza demonstrates Advanced HTML, Aimee Akerman presents Dreamweaver 4.0, and Anne Marie Hilscher shows everyone how to use Image Mapping.
We discuss the fact that we need a definitive file structure and standards for the virtual library site. People show their work in progress to the class for comments and suggestions.
4/5: Tony Cherian and Aimee Akerman set up the official file structure.
4/10: The technology demonstrations today are Peter Larsen's explanation of the finer points of PowerPoint and AJ Johnson's presentation of Photoshop 5.5.
Dr. Joseph Janes, creator of the Internet Public Library, visits the class and speaks about his own experiences making a virtual library. He views the NWIC site we are working on and offers suggestions and encouragement.
Aimee Akerman familiarizes the class with the file structure and we vote on the standards for the site.
4/17: Our technology knowledge increases today after Frances Ramberg demonstrates Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and Valerie Valdez introduces us to Java Scripting.
The class members continue to report on their site contribution. Additionally, we work on our pages in class in order to exchange our knowledge and help each other as needed.
4/24: Amos Turner gives the final technology demonstration with an explanation of Flash.
Everyone refines their pages and prepares them for uploading while they have their pictures taken.back to river
May 2001
5/1: We use this class time to do browser checks, to debug, and to have a Greg Cajete-inspired celebration for closure.