World Wide Web Site developed and supported in part by
     The Utah System of Higher Education
     Utah State Library Division

 Design and development of the CD-ROM funded by
      The Emma Eccles Jones Foundation
      R. Harold Burton Foundation
      Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation
      US West Foundation
      Utah Education Network
                        KULC, Utah's Learning Channel
                        UtahLINK
      Utah State Office of Education

WHAT IS UTAH COLLECTIONS ?
 The Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia is a continuing series of 
 CD-ROM volumes as well as an ever-expanding world wide web site whose 
 contributors include many institutions, organizations and agencies throughout 
 Utah. Utah Collections serves as a storehouse of multimedia items which 
 educators, professors and students can freely use in lesson plans, reports and 
 projects without fear of copyright infringement.

"The project, the first of its kind for a public television station, provides a valuable educational tool for students and teachers..." -- PBS K-12 Learning Services Newsletter

HOW DID THE PROJECT BEGIN?
Within the video archives of public television station KUED Channel 7 and its 
sister organization, KUED Media Solutions, were hours and hours of 
documentaries, telecourses, and video productions -- a gold mine of historical, 
cultural, social science and geographic footage about Utah and the Intermountain 
West.  KUED-TV and KUED Media Solutions wanted to be able to catalog and recycle these materials for further use. Coupled with an expressed need by Utah educators for easy access to resources and information about the state for use in the classroom, the idea for a multimedia encyclopedia was born. The resources available through UCME also address the objectives for Utah's social studies core curriculum.

WHO IS THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM?
 KUED Media Solutions, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, designed both the CD-ROM version and the web site and is responsible for the cataloging of media items and their conversion into digital formats. The production team has expertise in the areas of information processing, database organization, instructional design, multimedia programming and graphic design. The project has created an infrastructure which should allow the project to continue for many years.

AWARDS

• Utah State Historical Society's 1997 "Utah History Media Award"
• 38th Annual International CINDY Competition, 1997, Winner of Silver CINDY, K through 12, Interactive Multimedia category presented by the International Association of Audio Visual Communicators 
• Finalist and winner of a bronze Telly Award, 17th Annual Telly Awards, 1996 
• Western Regional winner, CINDY Gold Certificate Award, Education K-12 category, 1996

Project Director
Rosemary C. Tanner   rtanner@media.utah.edu

Web Programming
Chris Johnston   cejohn@uen.org

Multimedia Authoring and Programming
Marc Thompson
Kevin Wald 

Information Specialist and Graphic Designer 
Ciming Mei   cmei@media.utah.edu

Art Director 
Julie Easton, Easton Design Group

Production and Indexing Assistant
Pam Kontuly   pkontuly@media.utah.edu

Indexing Assistant 
Alf Seegert

WHAT IS KUED MEDIA SOLUTIONS?
Media Solutions is a full service production facility which serves University of Utah clients and state and federal agencies to produce video and multimedia educational materials.  For more information about creating your own multimedia project, video production/telecourse, web site or photographic project, please contact us at 801-581-6113 or visit our web site http://www.kued.org/mediasolutions/