Instructional Media Center

The Instructional Media Center (IMC) at Colby College is a collaborative hub for teaching, learning, and creative media production. Faculty can reserve our audio recording studio and green screen video studio, as well as access a wide range of instructional technologies, learning applications, and equipment to enhance their courses.

The IMC also provides other instructional support services, including large-format poster printing, document and image scanning, multimedia production assistance, and digital resource support for both faculty and students.

At the IMC you can find the following:

1. Poster Printing Services: printing large format posters for class projects and research projects. (Please click here for more information.)
2. Scanning Services: IMC has a up to 11×17 inch high quality scanner.
3. Digitization of video DVDs and audio CDs.
4. Multimedia Devices
   • Sound Booth
     • The Sound Booth is an isolation booth that allows you to reduce ambient noise and record high-quality audio. Student can use it to record podcasts, voice-overs, or even their own music.
   • Green Screen Studio
     • An easy to use recording video system that consists of a controllable camera, a microphone, lights and multiple colored backgrounds (including a green screen). It can be used for any video projects such as interviews or recording lectures.

Other services include:

• Conversion of Video tape to DVD
• Digitization of analog audio cassette tape to mp3 or other high quality audio formats
• Digitization of analog audio LP to mp3 or other high quality audio formats
• Creation of digital clips from Youtube or Spotify
• VHS format changes (PAL to NTSC)

Digitization services are provided in compliance with applicable copyright laws. Faculty members may be asked to identify the course for which materials are being digitized and provide the class roster to ensure access is limited to enrolled students. In some cases, the Libraries may require faculty to obtain permission from the copyright holder before materials can be digitized.

The IMC’s digitization services are intended exclusively to support academic teaching, learning, and research. We are unable to accommodate requests for personal projects.

The project request form is available here.