Special Collections: Guide to the University College Media Services Collection

Administrative Information

Collection title:  University College Media Services collection
Collection number:  SpC MS 1728
Dates of collection:  1991-2001
Size of collection:  6 boxes (6 linear ft.)
Provenance:  Gift of Dianne Ballon, Production Specialist in 2011.
Restrictions on access and use:  Stored in the library's remote storage area.  One week's notice requested for access.

Historical Note

The University of Maine System developed distance education methods based on interactive technologies to bring higher education to communities across Maine. The network of campus sites was known as the “Education Network of Maine,” and was linked by an interactive television system housed on the campus of the University of Maine at Augusta. During the period of 1990 to the early 2000s, a fiber optic spine connected seven University campuses with two way audio and video transmission. Programming was distributed by ITFS microwave to over 85 locations throughout Maine.

Scope and Content Note

This collection includes materials related to planning and activities of the Educational Network of Maine from 1991 to 2001.  Background notes and documents related to the production of several videos as a part of the distance education program for the University of Maine System and its ITV (Instructional Television) program. Notes provide information about a teleconference titled, “Educating Amy,” a filming of the Maine Volunteers for Justice, and videos created for training of Animal Control Officers in Maine. Master videorecordings are included in beta format.

Contents

Box 1

f1-2  Teaching at a distance manual, 1991
f3  Access through distance education document, 1992
f4  Access through distance education document, 1993
f5  Access through distance education document, 1994
f6  Interactive strategies teleconference agendas, 1993-1994
f7  Crew list for studio events, 1994
f8  Educating Amy teleconference agenda, 1994
f9  Educating Amy documents, 1995-1996
f10  Education Network of Maine list of promotional tapes, 1995-1997
f11  Animal control officer training list of tapes, 1997-1999
f12  Maine Volunteers for Justice taping documents, 1998

Box 2

Videorecordings in Betacam SP format, 4 by 6 inches (10 by 16 cm)

EM 214  Amy Scenario
EM 217  Amy roll-ins
EM 218  CSU roll-ins
EM 221  Educating Amy Prog. #3
EM 222  Educating Amy Prog. #3
EM 223  Education network of Maine
EM 228  Jeff and Jon Roll-ins, active learning, 1996
EM 229  Active learrning, 1996
EM 230  Active learning, 1996

Box 3

EM 231  Active learning, 1996
EM 232  Activie learning, 1996
EM 246  Student assessemnt, open and clos roll-ins, 1997
EM 248  Maine DHS racoon rabies public service announcement, 1997-2001
EM 266  Maine Watch, MPBN, the creation of ENM [Education Network of Maine] and what it means, Feb. 16, 1995
DM 240  Animal Control Officer certification training, 1997
DM 240a  Animal Control Officer certificaiton training, 1997
DM 240b  Animal Control Officer certificaiton training, 1997
DM 240c  Animal Control Officer certificaiton training, 1997
DM 241  Animal Control Officer certification training, 1997

Box 4

DM 242  Animal Control Officer certification training, 1997
DM 243  Animal Control Officer certification training, 1997
TC 1213  Uplink: National teleconference on Amy, Oct. 3, 1995
TC 1260  SDL: National teleconference on Amy, Nov. 29, 1995
TC 1301  Uplink: National teleconference on Amy, Feb. 1, 1996
TC 1321  Uplink: National teleconference on Amy, Mar. 5, 1996

Box 5

Videorecordings on BetaCam SP format, 5.5 by 10 inches (14 by 25 cm)

EM 208  (Dub of EM 208), distance teaching strategies, 1994
EM 216  Amy roll-ins
EM 240-260  Animal Control Officer certification training, 1997
CO 754  Amy Uplink, Oct. 1995

Box 6

CO 756  Amy and academics, 1995
CO 757  Educating Amy program #3, 1996
CO 759  Educating Amy #4, 1996
CO 773  Active learning
CO 900  Maine Volunteers for Justice, 1999
CO 901  Maine Volunteers for Justice, 1999
WT 18  Teleconference class excerpts, National Teleconference on Distance Education, 1994

Finding Aids for selected manuscript collections in the Special Collections Department at Fogler Library are accessible online in URSUS, in a browsable Guide to Manuscript Collections. Please contact Special Collections at spc@umit.maine.edu or (207) 581-1686 for further information.

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Special Collections Staff: spc@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 01/17/2013