Proposal summary should include the nature of the
proposed project and how students will benefit.
Proposal Summary:
A few years ago, Art Department faculty and students could scan their photographic slide images in the Rasmuson Library's Instructional Media Room. There, they could convert images to a digital platform for storage and presentation. Since the 2002 closure and dissolution of the Library's Instructional Media Room, however, there has been no dependable system for high-volume scanning and conversion of photographic slides. This proposal plans for equipment that would allow students and faculty to transform their outmoded slides into digital images for artworks, reports, and teaching.
A slide-scanner and color ink-jet printer would accompany a computer. The equipment would be located in the Visual Resources Library (formerly Slide Library), room MUSIC 301. After a nomadic existence of many years, the Art Department's visual resources have settled into a permanent home in that location. Moved regularly from the Art Department Office to the Gallery Preparation Room to the basement of Bunnell and, now, to the newly-renovated Music wing room, the ten-thousand-item collection is being re-organized and stabilized. There is no computer in the room. A computer is required as a storage site in the Visual Resources Library as studio art and art history resources move increasingly into the innovative technology of the digital platform. All students in Art 200x , studio art courses, and art history courses would benefit from the ability to transform slides into digital images for artworks, reports, and teaching.
An additional innovation will be the Art Department's creation of a digital archive of past students' work. Currently, the Department has slides of work by past BFA and MFA students. A digital archive of works by students and faculty will streamline the department's needs related to promotion and publication.
BUDGET:
Please provide a summary budget: (NOTE that TAB funds personnel only in the most unusual circumstances. Supplies are normally considered to be an operating expense assumed by the department or college)
Please provide a detailed budget for hardware and software on page 3.
Budget detail:
Requested from
TAB
Provided by Unit
Summary
Personnel
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Contractual Services (Training)
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Supplies
$302.00
$0.00
$0.00
Equipment (Hardware
& software)
$5,817.00
$0.00
$0.00
TOTAL AMOUNT
REQUESTED
$6,119.00
$0.00
$0.00
Justification for any personnel or supplies requested:
Supplies for the initial usage will allow us to gauge how best to implement control over the printer and how to coordinate future expenses with lab fees from various courses.
Describe who will benefit in terms of numbers
of students and classes:
The equipment will benefit students who take studio classes where reports and artworks are constructed using digital media. Fifty students per semester might reasonably use the slide scanner, computer, and printer. In addition, many more students will benefit as they participate in lectures and discussions where Art Department faculty have prepared images utilizing the new equipment. A rough total of three-hundred students per semester might logically benefit.
How does your proposal fit into UAF strategic
goals and objectives?
The aim of providing "high quality undergraduate education for traditional and non-traditional students" will be achieved as the visual quality of digitally-scanned slides will be a noticeable improvement over dust-pocked and bleached images. In addition, the utilization of the written-word beside the visual images (as made possible by Power-Point presentations) will greatly enhance the students' learning and retention.
UAF aspires to "be an educational center for Alaska Natives" and to "be an academic gateway to the North Pacific and the Circumpolar North." As one of the only universities in the country to offer a program in Native Arts, UAF will benefit its students by developing a digital archive of Alaska Native arts.
Outline the implementation schedule and staff
responsible for the implementation and oversight:
I will oversee the installation of this equipment in the Art Department's Visual Resources Library as soon as it arrives. The part-time student assistant will be trained by Miho Aoki, the department's Computer Arts faculty, and will train others in turn.
Please provide a detailed budget and specific description
of equipment and software. Please note below and on the following page,
if necessary, manufacturer's cost or bid and any contingency for maintenance,
repair and replacement of parts and expendables, if applicable.
Description
# of Units
Unit Price
Total Price
Power Slide 3600 auto slide scanner
1
$650.00
$650.00
Shipping (estimated)
$40.00
$40.00
HP PSC 1350 ink jet All-in-One Printer, Scanner
1
$129.00
$129.00
Dual 2.5Ghz PowerPC G5 (Power Mac G5)
1
$2,999.00
$2,999.00
Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel)
1
$1,999.00
$1,999.00
Photo Paper (glossy 50-pack)
2
$36.99
$74.00
Ink Cartridges (2-packs of B&W and Color)
4
$57.00
$228.00
Total
$6,119.00
TAB evaluations and recommendations will be based primarily on the information provided in this form. If necessary
please include any additional material you think material to your proposal as an attachment. Attachments not in electronic form should be included
with the hard copy of the proposal provided to TAB.