Arts and Humanities Faculty: Join us for a Project Bamboo lunch
discussion
November 14, 2008
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Memorial Library Room 362
Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to bamboo@library.wisc.edu
Fragmented technologies used in the arts and humanities mean that researchers across these fields do not have a shared sense of what technology they need now and what technology they would like to have in the future.
Project Bamboo is working to change this situation and the University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently engaged in that process. The UW-Madison Libraries and the Division of Information Technology are actively working with UW-Madison faculty to understand campus needs and to explore possible programs and infrastructure to support the digital arts and humanities. Participation in Project Bamboo provides us with a framework for exploration of these issues at the local level. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts or learning more about how you can participate please contact us at bamboo@library.wisc.edu.
Project Bamboo is an 18-month planning and community design program where through a series of conversations and workshops, we are mapping out the scholarly practices and common technology challenges across and among disciplines to discover where a coordinated, cross-disciplinary development effort can best foster academic innovation. Input into the Bamboo process is sought from individuals who come from a diverse range of institutions (small liberal arts colleges to research universities), organizations (consortia to content providers), professional backgrounds (faculty, librarians, researchers, IT leaders, and technical specialists), and regions.
UW-Madison Bamboo Advisory Committee
Jill Casid (Art History and Visual Culture), Michael Connors (Art), Susan Cook (Graduate School and School of Music), Kristin Eschenfelder (School of Library and Information Studies), Susan Friedman (English and Institute for Research in the Humanities), Magdalena Hauner (L&S and African Languages & Literature), Rik Hunter (English grad student), Lee Konrad (Memorial Library), James Leary (Folklore and Scandinavian Studies), Jon McKenzie (English), Jim Muehlenberg (DoIT), and Natalie Van Deusen (Scandinavian Studies grad student)