Chosen through a yearly proposal process, ten to twelve faculty members per year participate as Fellows of this program, which offers both equipment and one year of intensive support for instructional technology projects in which science, engineering and humanities disciplines are represented. Somewhat surprisingly, the program has proven particularly popular with humanities faculty, intensely interested in enriching and enlivening their lectures with materials traditionally difficult to access or manage. Faculty bring to the project of archive-building a clear notion of their pedagogic goals. The collections must make or reinforce course-related points. Faculty control of the media objects that comprise the collection.
Most documentation resides in the heads of the collection owners.
The design of each site is a labor-intensive venture which is driven by a single faculty member's unique vision of how to give most eloquent voice to the source materials. This final design always seeks to overcome the perceived restraints imposed by the conventional media and the traditional modes of presentation and expression. Marion Roberts, a member of the Department of Art, is working on an archive of color photographs, designed for teachers, students and scholars as a visual supplement to books and articles published on Salisbury Cathedral. It serves as an essential resource for her undergraduate and graduate seminars on Salisbury. Kathryn Rohe of the Drama Department is building an archive of the department's collection of over one thousand antique clothing pieces.