Pat McCurdy and the Pixie unit
We're going to see Pat McCurdy play tonight at Shank Hall. It will remind of college, when Paul and Don and everyone would go down and have a great time at the Celebrity Club. Shank Hall seems a little too big for my taste, and the parking is horrible - but I guess it was bad at the Celebrity Club too.
We're moving ahead with plans to add a permanent wireless handheld mic to the big lecture hall over the break - this will be in addition to the lavalier that is already installed. I made contact with Mike Palacek yesterday and I think he's going to be a big help in future AV projects. We're going to be trying our own home grown AV controls in rooms this year - there is a new product called the Pixie which controls the inputs via an IR sensor. It's basically like setting up your own programmable remote control. After talking with Mike, it looks like we'll be going in a new direction with amplifiers too - in the past we've used commercial receivers and we always wondered how best to switch the audio channels. However, now we're going to go with an amplifier that takes all input signals and puts them out on a single channel, so there is no switching involved. This will make the room setups much easier. I wish I would have thought of this 3 years ago.
Work is coming along on the Strategic Plan. Both for Library Council and for the Campus. It's amazing to see how the two planning processes are proceeding differently. We'll start having the public sessions next week, so that's when the feedback should start coming in.
We'll be starting two new outreach programs in the library next Fall - although we might get them going this Spring. One will be a literature lecture series in which we will bring in faculty (or others who are specialists or experts) from ours and other campuses to give a presentation relating to either an author or a specific work or even a genre that they have studied. These lectures will be followed by a question and answer session and are open to the community. The other series will be a fiction series in which authors will either read short stories or chapters of books they have written. These are in addition to the poetry and book discussion series that we currently run. I expect the addition of these new programs will help to increase community participation in our existing programs as well.
We're moving ahead with plans to add a permanent wireless handheld mic to the big lecture hall over the break - this will be in addition to the lavalier that is already installed. I made contact with Mike Palacek yesterday and I think he's going to be a big help in future AV projects. We're going to be trying our own home grown AV controls in rooms this year - there is a new product called the Pixie which controls the inputs via an IR sensor. It's basically like setting up your own programmable remote control. After talking with Mike, it looks like we'll be going in a new direction with amplifiers too - in the past we've used commercial receivers and we always wondered how best to switch the audio channels. However, now we're going to go with an amplifier that takes all input signals and puts them out on a single channel, so there is no switching involved. This will make the room setups much easier. I wish I would have thought of this 3 years ago.
Work is coming along on the Strategic Plan. Both for Library Council and for the Campus. It's amazing to see how the two planning processes are proceeding differently. We'll start having the public sessions next week, so that's when the feedback should start coming in.
We'll be starting two new outreach programs in the library next Fall - although we might get them going this Spring. One will be a literature lecture series in which we will bring in faculty (or others who are specialists or experts) from ours and other campuses to give a presentation relating to either an author or a specific work or even a genre that they have studied. These lectures will be followed by a question and answer session and are open to the community. The other series will be a fiction series in which authors will either read short stories or chapters of books they have written. These are in addition to the poetry and book discussion series that we currently run. I expect the addition of these new programs will help to increase community participation in our existing programs as well.
posted by Marc Boucher at
3:54 PM
2 Comments:
I first thought "Pat McCurdy and the Pixie Unit" was a new group Pat was playing in. I think it'd be a great name for a band. "Marc Boucher and the Pixie Unit."
Who the heck is 'Fante'?
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