| AIMS gets new quarters as it makes way Three departments to
consolidate in Goodell Building, by Sarah R. Buchholz, Chronicle staff
The film- and video-loan portion of AIMS has become part of the Du Bois Library, where it continues to be operated by librarian II Marcia Burkavage (5-2458) in the Reserve Area on the third floor. AIMS Equipment Loan and Technology has moved to 204-205 Goodell, where it continues to be staffed by audio visual equipment technicians Richard Guerdon, Stephen Pielock, William Russell, and Donald Appleton. The loan staff can be reached at 5-5765 and technical support at 5-5768. Director John Stacey and AIMS Video Production Services are now located in the Photo Center, where they continue to provide educational media production and consultation and to oversee the UMATV television station and a video-conferencing classroom, both in Herter Hall. Stacey continues to direct both parts of AIMS, but the film and video loan program is now under the Libraries. "Physical Plant did a great job of renovating," Stacey said of work done at the Photo Center. "The space looks really nice. "We want to invite people to come see us at the Photo Center for taping, editing and related production services." AIMS has won six national awards for video production since 1995, he said. Video Production Services continue to include Christopher Golas, audio visual equipment technician (7-0701); Elizabeth Wilda, producer/director (5-2501); and Thomas Zimnowski, coordinator of media production (5-5767). Stacey can be reached at 5-3151. More information about AIMS is available online (www.umass.edu/aims). As the first domino in a row of moves planned to consolidate several departments, AIMS, which was undergoing reorganization, agreed to move to new quarters to allow for the other changes, according to Steinkamp. "Training and Development is taking their space," Steinkamp said of AIMS, "and [the vice chancellory for Research] is taking their space." Steinkamp said the impetus for the moves was two-fold: consolidating units that had been located in more than one building and creating more student-oriented space in Goodell. "What we were trying to do is consolidate all of the groups under the vice chancellor for Research," she said. "That was one of the driving forces. The other was to make Goodell a much more student-focused building, with more space for the Graduate School and Commonwealth College." Research area staff were scattered around Goodell and some were in Memorial Hall, which houses Development and Alumni Relations, she said. In turn, Development researchers were in Munson Hall, which houses Communications and Marketing (C&M). Photo Services, part of C&M, was located in the Photo Center. In a circular dance, as C&M moved to consolidate in Munson, space in the Photo Center was freed for AIMS, which opened space for Training and Development, which is creating space for Research, which will allow the Development staff housed in Munson to move in with their colleagues in Memorial Hall. The upshot is that Research, C&M, and Development are or soon will be consolidated, Steinkamp said, and Training and Development and AIMS Video Production Services are getting spiffed-up quarters. Parts of Goodell are being transformed as Research comes together on the fifth floor and space Research staff had occupied on the sixth floor now can be used for a student computer lounge and an expansion of Commonwealth College's Office of Community Service Learning, as well as continuing to house the Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Center. "We wanted
to use the sixth floor more effectively to serve students,"
Steinkamp said. |
requent users of Academic Instructional Media Services (AIMS) already
may have noted that the offices it formerly occupied on the third
floor of Goodell have been empty since Jan. 21. Training and Development
will occupy the space after some renovations, according to Judith
Stein-kamp, director of Space Management, who helped to design a
complex set of interconnected office moves that is taking place
during the next few months.