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About the
Project Team
 

Core Team and Qualifications

We are five second-year School of Information (SI) students participating in SI 698 "The University Learning Environment" taught by Professors Maurita Peterson Holland and Valeda Dent. To accomplish our objectives, we will take advantage of our individual strengths. We will also work in teams to combine our skills and learn from each other.

Core Team
Javier Ascasibar
Constance Colthorp
Rosalie Ehrlich
 Alan Michelson
Kimberly Pandos

Advisor
Maurita Peterson Holland

Additional Support
Micha Mahr
Kristin Palm

We formed teams to complete the myriad of tasks involved in creating the web site. The people noted below will be primarily responsible for those areas. However, they may also be involved in completing tasks across the board.

Research - (Javier, Alan, Rosalie)
Content - (Alan, Rosalie)
Image Collection- (Rosalie, Alan)
Database Design - (Constance, Kim)
Web Programming - (Constance, Rosalie, Kim)
Teacher's Guide and Lesson Plans - (Kim, Constance)
Exhibit Team - (Rosalie, Alan, Javier, Kim)
Advisor - (Professor Holland)

 

Javier
Ascasibar

Javier is a University of Michigan School of Information student specializing in Library and Information Studies (LIS), and is an astute academic researcher with excellent bibliographic skills. Javier is a Residence Hall Librarian and Head Librarian of Bursley Hall. Javier created the categorical headings under which we will compile our research. Javier is also interested in researching the buildings and resources on the site and creating bibliographic records in HTML and helping with the selection and description.

Constance Colthorp

Constance is the web master for this project. She is tailoring her Master of Science in Information degree to incorporate her interests in information architecture, web design and database development. This project helps explore her interests in interactive technology, archives and digital libraries. She works as a University of Michigan Library Associate at the Knowledge Navigation Center in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. Constance earned her BA in History from Albion College. She also assisted with some of the editing and content development.

Rosalie
Ehrlich

Rosalie serves as the UMarch website project manager. She also coordinated the archival image research, digitization and copyright issues. Rosalie studied Visual Arts at Antioch College. She is now a student in the Archives and Records Management (ARM) specialization at the School of Information. Her interests lie in increasing access to primary source materials, as well as the relationship between documentary photography and collective memory. Rosalie has processed miscellaneous archival collections at the Bentley Historical Library and the Detroit Publishing Company photographs at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. This experience will be valuable to the UMarch project: research/culling of images appropriate for the web site, as well as procuring permissions to use specific images.

Alan
Michelson

Alan is a University of Michigan Library Associate at the Media Union Library. He holds a Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History from Stanford University and is completing his Master of Science in Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is now working on his Master of Science in Information, specializing in LIS. Alan is the primary intellectual source and the original visionary of our project. He has hosted our field trips and surveys of architecture. In addition to writing and researching our site's content, Alan will help ensure our work product is accurate and relevant.

Kimberly
Pandos

Kim serves as the UMarch Curriculum Coordinator, creating lesson plans and curriculum guides to help teachers and students explore architectural topics. She also works as the Assistant Web Producer for the UMarch project. Kim will complete her Master of Science in Information (MSI) degree with a focus in Educational Technology from The University of Michigan School of Information in April 2000. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English with a Minor in French from The College of New Jersey (formerly known as Trenton State College). Kim is the Head Residence Hall Librarian at the Oxford Housing Information Resource Center. She hopes to start a career as a School Media Specialist and continue to create technology tools for learning.

Additional Support

Maurita Peterson Holland
BM, AMLS, University of Michigan
Professor Holland is the instructor of our University Learning Environment course. We rely on her wisdom, guidance and consummate experience in academic outreach projects.

Micha Mahr
Micha is a furniture maker and designer lent his expertise to the design of the graphics and images for the Vocabulary section.

Kristin Palm
Kristin Palm is a freelance writer and editor completing a Master's of Urban Planning at Wayne State University. She is also a University of Michigan alumna where she served on the staff of the Michigan Daily. Her contributions can be found in Metropolis magazine anbd Detroit's Metro Times.