The Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center (DSCC), established in 2001 with a grant from The Keel Foundation, is located in the Technology Commons on the lower level of Shain Library (room A-29). Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship Lyndsay Bratton supports digital scholarship, including organizing, advising, and documenting digital research projects by faculty and students. You can view our online digital scholarship projects here. If you need to use the Center at a specific time, or need assistance with your project, contact Lyndsay.
The DSCC staff, along with the rest of the Research Support and Curricular Technology team, support the Diane Y. Williams '59 Visualization Wall, the Recording Studio (Shain 309), the Kaltura video hosting platform (including MediaSpace), and the evaluation and use of podcasting, ArcGIS mapping, wikis, web publishing in WordPress and Pressbooks, and other digital technologies for use in teaching and scholarship.
Instruction and support on the use of the equipment and technology in the DSCC and the Recording Studio is provided as needed throughout production. Email teachtech@conncoll.edu for support. Instructional Technologist Gerard Gadigian can provide in-class training for courses that will be using Audacity, iMovie, Adobe Premiere, or other audio/video editing software for course projects. Part-time DS student assistants may be available to work on digital scholarship and GIS projects for faculty during the academic year.
The following services are provided by the DSCC:
A/V Equipment
In addition to the Recording Studio (located in Shain 309), the following audio and video equipment can be borrowed by faculty for short-term use.
Cameras
- Meeting Owl Pro (external camera/mic for online meetings)
- Canon XA35 camcorder
- Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera
- Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens
- Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM wide angle lens
- Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 is II USM telephoto zoom lens
- GoPro HD Hero3 Camera and Go Pro 11 Cameras (2)
- Insta360 Camera
Microphones
- Blue Yeti multi-pattern USB microphone
- Zoom HD6 , HD4, & HD1 handheld audio recorders
- Lavalier mics (wired and wireless)
Lighting
- ARRI 300 Plus tungsten Fresnel spotlight
- Apurture MC multicolor LED
- Photoflex Starlite softbox light
- Photoflex MultiDisc 5-in-1 reflector
Accessories
- Osmo Mobile 2 mobile phone gimbal
- Monopod
- Tripods
Other Equipment
We also have some other equipment available to faculty for short-term use.
- Apple Mac & iOS adapters (power, video, Thunderbolt, USB-C, Mini-DVI, HDMI)
- Garmin Oregon 650t handheld GPS
- M-Audio KeyRig 49-key keyboard
- Wireless headphones for use at the Diane Y. Williams '59 Visualization Wall
Scanning & Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Our document scanning equipment can be used to create graphic files, PDFs, or editable text documents.
Scanning software
- Lasersoft SilverFast Ai Studio 9
- Epson Scan
OCR software
- ABBY FineReader (Macintosh)
PDF software
- Adobe Acrobat DC
- Evermap Autobookmark plugin (Windows)
Document scanners
- Epson Expression 10000 XL flatbed (11”x17”)
- Epson Perfection V850 Pro flatbed (8.5”x14”) (also supports 35mm film, 35mm slides, and some larger film formats)
- Epson ES-400 autofeed (8.5”x11”)
Video Digitizing & Editing
Our video equipment can be used to digitize copyright-free video content for any use, including burning it to DVD or Blu-ray disc.
Formats Supported
- DVDs
- Region 2 DVDs supported
- DVD burners available
- Blu-ray discs
- Bu-ray burner available
Video software
- Editing software
- Apple Final Cut Pro X
- Apple Compressor
- Apple Motion
- Apple iMovie
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Apple Final Cut Pro X
- Screen Capture software
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- Apple QuickTime X
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Telestream Screenflow
- Handbrake (video transcoder)
- Roxio Toast Titanium Pro 20 (optical disc burning)
Audio Editing
Audio software
- Digital Audio Workstaton (DAW) software
- Apple Logic X
- Adobe Audition
- Ableton Live Suite
- Audio plug-ins
- Apple MainStage
- Rogue Amoeba Fission
- Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack
- SuperMegaUltraGroovy Capo
Computer Workstations
We have 3 computer workstations in the DSCC. The iMac Pro is connected to an Epson Perfection V850 Pro flatbed document/film scanner, and the iMac running Windows is connected to our large flatbed scanner and document feed scanner. All have the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, Microsoft Office, as well as other applications for the devices connected to them.
- Mac Studio (2022) (64GB RAM) w/27" 4k display running macOS (video workstation)
- iMac Pro (32GB RAM) w/27” 4k display running macOS (audio/scanning workstation)
- iMac 5k 2019 27" (128GB RAM) dual boot Windows & macOS (scanning & Nvivo workstation)
Specialized Software
In addition to the scanning, video, and audio applications listed in the above sections, the following software is also available on the DSCC computer workstations: