Meeting with possible collaborators for grant activities

Last Friday we met with a variety of people who had advice for us about video software for our makerspace.  Eric Friedman is the chairman of CALOP (Commission for Access and Local Original Programing), Ed Mass is the COO of Crazy for Education.com, and Paul Heirent, a local video producer.  We talked about Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro, Premier Pro, Photoshop, Motion and St. Louis Ted Talks.  We also talked about how equipment is getting cheaper and that this is a perfect time for libraries to enter the video and audio arena.

Ed Mass' company is involved with "flip education" which has teachers doing videos of lesson plans to be viewed at home leaving class time to work on the concepts.  He told us about the simple recording methods being used by educators who are flipping education.

All participants have great suggestions that we will take into account as we develop our plans and choose the hardware and software.

Signing the Memorandum of Understanding for the MOREnet grant.

 University City Public Library Director Patrick Wall signing the Memorandum of Understanding for the MOREnet Public Library Research Project grant on September 25, 2013.

The Board of Trustees of the University City Public Library voted unanimously to approve the terms of the MOU at their September meeting. The $330,000, 3-year grant will allow the University City Public Library and MOREnet to explore the future of library services and provide the citizens of University City with training software for a variety of computer applications. The grant will also fund the purchase of equipment and software for audio and video recording and editing, and equipment and software for 3D modeling, printing and fabrication.