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Digital Media Labs in Libraries

Amanda L. GoodmanLibrary Technology Reports 
The e-book edition and the print/e-book bundle of this title are also available separately.

Library Technology Reports, August/September 2014 (50:6)

Families share stories with each other and veterans reconnect with their comrades, while teens edit music videos and then upload them to the web: all this and more can happen in the digital media lab (DML), a gathering of equipment with which people create digital content or convert content that is in analog formats. Enabling community members to create digital content was identified by The Edge Initiative, a national coalition of leading library and local government organizations, as a library technology benchmark. Surveying academic and public libraries in a variety of settings and sharing a range of approaches to creating DMLs, this issue of Library Technology Reports points the way towards meeting that benchmark, showing

Chapter 1 - The Library Context for Digital Media Labs

What is a Digital Media Lab?

Criteria of a DML

DMLs as Whole-Library Efforts


DMLs of Different Sizes


Chapter 2 - Equipment and Software

Tracking Your Project




Converting Analog to Digital


Graphic Design and Animation


2-D Printing

3-D Printing

Screen Capture




Chapter 3 - Training and Policies


Patron Education

Policies and Liability

Questions to Consider


Chapter 4 - Library Digital Media Lab Profiles


Studio 300

The Bubbler

Studio i

Teen Media Lab


Amanda L. Goodman

 Copyright for Academic Librarians and Professionals Finding a Public Voice: Barbara Fister as a Case Study--print/e-book Bundle Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals: Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets--eEditions e-book