Lois Brooks
Support for Technology in Scholarship: the Academic Technology Specialist Program 		August 11, 1.00-3.30

Presenters: Lois Brooks, Daisy Flemming, Michael Gonzalez, Victoria Szabo, Makoto Tsuchitani

Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has adopted an innovative approach to infusing technoloyg in meaningful ways into learning and teaching. The Academic Technology Specialist program places staff who are skilled in content and technology direclty into departments to work with faculty. These Academic Technology Specialists work individually and as a team to discover resources, deploy technology, and transform education. The Academic Technology Specialist program began in 1995 at the direction of a faculty commission, who provided seed funding and asked the Stanford Libraries to manage the program. The match proved beneficial for both the Libraries, who were beginning to augment traditional archives with digital archives, and for the the ATS' who were charged with discovering resources. In this session we'll describe the program management and funding model, review several projects from the program, and explore the relationships that have made the program successful.

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Lois Brooks is the Director of Academic Computing at Stanford University. She started the Academic Technology Specialist program in 1995 with a directive and seed funding from the Stanford President's Commission on Technology in Teaching and Learning, and has sheparded its growth and development ever since. She also directs Stanford's Residential Computing program, as well as the technology enhanced classrooms, computer labs, consulting and teaching programs that comprise Academic Computing. Her background in libraries is limited to that of an enthusiastic reader, but as a career technologist, finds that the collaboration and organizational link with the Stanford Libraries enriches technology programs immensely.
url: http://acomp.stanford.edu

 Victoria Szabo is the Academic Technology Specialist for the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM). She has been at Stanford since January of 1999. Prior to coming to Stanford she worked as an Instructional Multimedia Specialist at Grinnell College. Victoria recently received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester and has published essays on comparative media (books and film).