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PSI is currently
assembling a bibliography and a glossary on the imagination, with
the help of its many participants. To contribute, please contact
us at psi@northwestern.edu
The resources compiled here may be of general interest to our
participants; of particular interest to specialists; and to students
and faculty working across disciplines here at Northwestern and
beyond to rethink the history and practice of the imagination.
Questions
Where can I go for basic computing and word
processing?
I'm a faculty member or a graduate student working
on multimedia projects. Where can I get DVDs transferred to VHS
and utilize other digital media services?
I'm a student interested in web design, music
technology and sound applications. Where can I find these computing
resources?
I'm a student or faculty member looking for
CD recordings and musical scores for study. Where can I locate
these resources?
I'm a student or faculty member interested in
viewing or obtaining slide reproductions of works of art. Where
can I go to browse the university's slide collection or have slides
made for my own projects?
What kinds of performing arts facilities are
available on campus?
What kinds of music festivals and performance
ensembles are available that pertain to the imagination?
Are there any programs in the Cognitive Sciences
at Northwestern?
Are there any non-western musical instruments
available for student use?
Resources
Where can I go for basic computing and word
processing?
General Computing
There are several general computing labs on campus available to
students. The Kresge Computing lab is on the ground floor of Kresge
Centennial Hall in Room 28. Equipped with 35 seats, this lab contains
Macintosh and PCs as well as Macintosh CD burners and scanners.
The Cresap Social Sciences Computing Lab is located at 2021 Sheridan
Road. This lab has 26 seats available. The University Library
also contains several general computing labs for student use.
Located on the library's lower level, this lab contains 20 seats.
Music students can make use of the Music MacLab located on the
second floor of the Music Administration Building at 711 Elgin
Road. Be sure to check the lab's availability as many music education
and technology classes are held during its operating hours. The
lab is equipped with Power Macintosh G3s and G4s as well as scanners,
CD burners and mixing equipment.
See http://www.at.northwestern.edu/ctg/labs/
for additional information and lab hours.
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I'm
a faculty member or a graduate student working on multimedia projects.
Where can I get DVDs transferred to VHS and utilize other digital
media services?
2East
The Northwestern University Information Technology Department
recently opened a new resource for students and faculty on the
second floor, East tower of University Library. 2East houses the
Collection Management, Digital Media Services, Academic Technologies
and the Sony Lab.
- Collection
Management: This central administrative office houses the Collection
Management Division, the Assistant University Librarian for
Collection Management, the Program Assistant and the Bibliographers'
Assistant. Bibliographers who select the Main Library's holdings
in humanities and social sciences are also housed in this office.
- Digital
Media Services: This area is a unit of the Marjorie I. Mitchell
Multimedia Center contained in the Main Library. Services for
faculty include slide and image scanning and digitization, video
digitization and streaming, resources for web site creation.
- Academic
Technologies: This unit supports Northwestern University faculty
in research computing including "Smart Classrooms",
computing labs, and videoconferencing. Academic Technologies
also provides training opportunities and consulting resources.
- Sony Lab:
Funded by Sony USA, this lab is equipped with VAIO laptops,
wireless networking, videoconferencing, and resources for faculty
seminars and summer research internships for graduate students.
See http://web.at.northwestern.edu
for hours of operation and additional information.
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I'm
a student interested in web design, music technology and sound
applications. Where can I find these computing resources?
Kresge Digital Media Lab
Located on the Ground Level of Kresge Centennial Hall, the Kresge
Digital Media lab is equipped with 24 MacOS CPUs, one Windows
2000 CPU, 2 MacOS printers, one multi-platform printer, and 4
MacOS color scanners. These 18 workstations are most frequently
used for courses in the Music Technology Department, Radio/TV/Film,
Journalism and other departments.
See http://database.at.northwestern.edu/p/Labs/LabPage.cfm?LocationID=2
for hours of operation and additional information.
Multimedia
Learning Center (MMLC)
The Multimedia Learning Center's administrative offices are located
on the Ground Level of Kresge Centennial Hall in Room 50. The
center's facilities contain an Audio Lab, a Teaching Lab (with
iMacs), a Video/ComputerTeaching lab (with iMacs), a "Smart
Classroom", and a Faculty Development Studio. Other services
include:
- Audio/Video
Collection: Audio and video cassettes available for viewing,
checkout or listening.
- General
Public Computing Facilities: An array of language software,
proofing tools, and word processing programs run on the most
up-to-date Macintosh software systems are open to the public
during general hours of operation.
- Faculty
Development Facilities: This quiet lab exists for faculty to
use computers and digital media tools to create projects, web
sites or teaching resources.
- Smart Classrooms:
These technologically advanced classrooms are designed and maintained
by the MMLC for multimedia instruction. The Tandberg audio lab
is available for traditional audio-visual use.
- Other services:
The MMLC also maintains a satellite television feed for researchers
to record international programming for scholarly or classroom
use. In addition, the MMLC contains resources for web development
and departmental or project web site hosting.
See http://web.mmlc.northwestern.edu
for hours of operation and additional information.
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I'm
a student or faculty member looking for CD recordings and musical
scores for study. Where can I locate these resources?
The
Northwestern University Music Library and Listening Center
Located on the second level in Deering Library adjacent to the
University Library
The Music Library Collection:
The Northwestern University Music Library is one of the country's
premiere academic music collections including scores, books, recordings,
manuscripts, periodical volumes and music periodical subscriptions.
The collection is most widely known for its 20th century holdings,
particularly most music published since 1945, as well as the complete
John Cage correspondence files. The Music Library's holdings can
be searched through NUcat, the Northwestern University library
on-line catalog.
Listening Center:
Students, faculty and guests may listen to the extensive recording
collection at the Northwestern University Music Library's Listening
Center. Carrels are provided with individual headphones and remote
controls; the recordings do not circulate for students. The recordings
are searchable through NUcat; however, LPs acquired before 1976
are listed by card catalog only. Some jazz and ethnic recordings
are part of the browsing collection and are not listed in either
catalog; jazz recordings are listed alphabetically by performer
and ethnic albums are arranged by geographical region. DAT recordings
of Northwestern University School of Music recitals and concerts
are also available for review. Recordings on reserve for School
of Music courses are listed in a binder at the front desk.
See http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/index.html
for hours of operation and additional information.
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I'm
a student or faculty member interested in viewing or obtaining
slide reproductions of works of art. Where can I go to browse
the university's slide collection or have slides made for my own
projects?
The
Art History Slide Library. Located at Kresge Hall (1859 Sheridan
Road), Room 277
PHONE (847) 491-8022; FAX (847) 467-1035. Open weekdays 8:30am
to 5pm.
Resources:
The Slide Library at Northwestern University consists of over
265,000 color and black & white slides chronicling the history
of the art and architecture of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and
Africa. The collection is particularly strong in Manuscripts,Chinese
Painting, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Surrealism,
African, and Precolumbian Art. Apart from the more traditional
sections documenting the history of Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative
Arts, the collection also is divided by categories such as Prints,
Drawings, Museology, Cinema, Book Arts, Conceptual Art, Numismatics,
Body Art, Computer Art, Simian Art, Children's Art, Maps, and
Theater.
Database:
Listings of the slide library holdings are available from the
NU Library homepage. Click on "Other Library Catalogs"
and select the "Art History Slide Library." This catalog
displays textual records of the slides we have acquired since
June of 2000, as well as holdings in Conceptual art, Migration
period art, Romanesque architecture, and French painting from
the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The cataloguing project
is on-going. Currently, there are roughly 15,000 records in the
database.
Slide Usage:
The Slide Library is open for use by:
- Art History Faculty
- Art History Graduate Students
- Other Northwestern Faculty
- Other Northwestern Graduate Students
- University College Instructors
- Institute For Learning in Retirement class leaders
- Undergraduate students, for class participation
(only three hour loan).
* The student's instructor is responsible for the
safe and prompt return of slides.
The loan period for non-Art History Department users is 24 hours.
For further information:
See http://www.arthistory.northwestern.edu/slidelib.html
for hours of operation and additional information.
Or contact:
Art History Slide Library
Julie Marchenko, Curator, 847/491-8023, j-marchenko@northwestern.edu
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What
kinds of performing arts facilities are available on campus?
Built
in 1975, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall is part of the Northwestern
University School of Music facilities and seats over 1,000 guests.
Pick-Staiger houses the University orchestras, concert offices,
professional recording capabilities, and a guest artist series.
Professional organizations that call Pick-Staiger their home include
the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Symphony II, Symphony of the Shores,
Chicago String Ensemble, and Performing Arts Chicago. See http://www.northwestern.edu/pick-staiger
for more information.
The Music Administration Building is the administrative
center to the six buildings that comprise the School of Music.
Built in 1874, MAB houses department offices, the department of
Academic Studies and Composition, classrooms, an Electronic Classroom
(MAB 125) supporting video projection, digitization and recording
capabilities, an Audio Media research lab featuring ProTools,
Kurzweil 2500, SGI Indigo II, Power Macs and G3 computers, and
practice rooms containing Yamaha pianos meticulously maintained
and replaced by new instruments each year.
See http://music.northwestern.edu/programs/musictechnology/facilities.htm
for more information.
Lutkin Hall, located directly behind MAB on University
Place, is a popular 400-seat recital hall featuring student solo
performances, choral concerts and guest artist appearances.
Regenstein Hall houses the Department of Performance Studies,
the wind, string and percussion faculty, dozens of practice rooms,
and a 200-seat master classroom and recital hall. Another performance
facility of note is Alice Millar Chapel prominently located on
Sheridan Road. This non-denominational chapel houses the 100-rank,
four-manual Aeolian Skinner organ as well as seven practice organs.
The Theater and Interpretation Center contains a 369-seat
proscenium theater, a 439-seat thrust theater, two black box theaters,
rehearsal rooms as well as production facilities. The theater
department also utilizes the Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Studio
with two large rehearsal classrooms. Cahn Auditorium, located
prominently on Sheridan Road, is a 1,000-seat proscenium theater
and houses productions by not only the theater department, but
also the music school's opera productions as well as summer light
opera performances.
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What
kinds of music festivals and performance ensembles are available
that pertain to the imagination?
The
Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival is given every
fall and includes not only performances by established groups
such as the Newberry Consort but also master classes, workshops,
panel discussions, scholarly paper presentations and keynote speakers.
The Modern Music Marathon, coordinated by music composition
Professor Amnon Wolman, is held at the Block Museum of Art and
has, in the past, featured groups such as the California EAR Unit,
the ensemble Accrochet Note, Pacifica String Quartet, eighth blackbird,
and established performers of modern music such as Northwestern
Professor Ursula Oppens and British cellist Anton Lukoszevieze.
Students interested in early music can audition for the Early
Music Ensemble directed by Newberry Consort founder Mary Springfels.
The ensemble performs several times throughout the school year,
often also taking part in festivals and performances outside the
university.
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Are
there any programs in the Cognitive Sciences at Northwestern?
The Northwestern
University Cognitive Sciences Program is an up and coming department
with branches in music cognition and undergraduate and graduate
studies as well. The program consists of associated faculty in
Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Learning
Sciences, Music, Communication Studies, Anthropology and many
others. In addition, Professor Richard Ashley in the school of
music heads the music cognition program and has established a
Music Cognition Laboratory for students to pursue their own projects
and research.
Visit http://www.cogsci.northwestern.edu
for more information.
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Are
there any non-western musical instruments available for student
use?
Instruments
are available for students enrolled in the appropriate courses
in the school of music. Professor Paul Berliner, an expert on
African Mbira music, allows students to borrow mbiras for practice
on a sign-out basis through the Academic Studies and Composition
department office. Professor Virginia Gorlinski specializes in
the music of Malaysian Borneo and has offered courses in sampe',
the Southeast Asian lute, its history and music. This is also
a course both in study and in practice of the particular instrument.
See http://music.northwestern.edu/faculty_profiles/fp_academics.html#musicology
for more information.
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