Alan H. Wallace

Use Research Services

Alan H. Wallace et al. — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:43:46 PDT

Brief online "infomercial" promoting Research Services help in the John C. Hodges Library.

How to Create a Great Video Tutorial (Pre Conference Workshop)

Michelle Brannen et al. — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:15:15 PDT

This pre-conference will cover the basics of planning, editing and publishing a video tutorial or tour. The presenters will cover the basics of creating a high quality product. We will discuss and demonstrate audio recording. Attendees will be given video samples to practice hands on editing with iMovie software. At the end of the workshop, students should be comfortable with the process and motivated to plan and produce their own videos.

Music Library Infomercial

Alan H. Wallace et al. — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:17:43 PDT

With Karmen Crowther, Creating and Delivering Video-Streamed Internet Orientation and Instruction, in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning

Alan H. Wallace et al. — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:30:11 PDT

As educational institutions prepare to meet the challenge of delivering services to an increasingly divergent 21st century population, traditional methodologies for providing those services are also changing. The development of the Internet has greatly increased the electronic options that such institutions have available for instructional delivery. Despite the widespread use of various Web-based technologies, one such technology, streaming media, has been relatively little used on college and university campuses. Yet it holds considerable promise for instruction and orientation, especially for distance education programs and other services to remote users.

Marketing Music Library Services Through Video Infomercial and Resource Guides: A Case Study from the University of Tennessee George F. DeVine Music Library

M. Nathalie Hristov et al. — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:28:22 PDT

To raise awareness of the variety of library services and resources offered, demonstrating relevancy to the current age, two librarians from the University of Tennessee created a library infomercial/visual resource guide targeting the Music Library's primary users. This article explores the impetus for engaging in such a marketing initiative, the planning process, production of the video, and delivery. Additionally, a survey designed to assess the effectiveness of this project was created and its results shared. Ideally, the information contained in this article can be applied to similar marketing initiatives by other libraries.

“Marketing Music Library Services through Video Infomercial and Resource Guides (poster session)”

Alan H. Wallace et al. — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:44:04 PDT

The Amazing J. Lawrence Cook of Tennessee

Alan H. Wallace — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:26:43 PDT

From the SEMLA report of the conference: Alan Wallace of the University of Tennessee gave a presentation on "The Amazing J. Lawrence Cook of Tennessee" that encouraged attendees to broaden their thoughts on the nature of artistic creation and recorded music. J. Lawrence Cook was a composer and arranger who throughout the course of his life created between 15,000 to 20,000 piano rolls for player pianos. Wallace discussed how the piano roll was the most common medium for recording and replaying music in an era before the widespread use of the phonograph and argued that the jazz music Cook cut into his piano rolls helped to interest people all across the nation in jazz. While the presentation focused on Cook and his creations, Wallace also recounted how his interest in Cook sprang from his inheritance of a player piano and purchase of rolls created by Cook, and how his research was furthered by his discovery of an international internet community sharing an interest in Cook. The work this primarily non-academic group of dedicated researchers has done to record and make available the history and contributions of the little-known Cook is impressive and showcases an emerging research model practically impossible before the advent of the internet.