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Digital Media Lab - Greensburg Campus

This guide highlights color and poster printing at the library and best practices for poster creation and presentation.

Currently the lab contains the following equipment:

  • Dell computers and iMacs with Greensburg campus software
  • HP Color LaserJet Printer
  • Korg M5061 Keyboard

The library loans:

  • Portable DVD players and external DVD drives
  • Sony and Canon video and digital cameras
  • Laptops
  • Tripods
  • Headphones

During the fall 2012 term the Millstein Library converted its computer lab into a digital media lab to provide students and faculty in any discipline with the necessary tools to work with digital media including video, audio, imaging and web publishing.  The lab provides both hardware and software tools for a variety of digital projects. The intent of the digital media lab is to support efforts in curricular innovation incorporating digital, global, interdisciplinary and experiential elements.  Our facility allows users to develop their skills in visual literacy enabling "an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use and create images and visual media," as mandated by the visual literacy standards of the Association of College and Research Libraries. 

The Digital Media Lab was conceived and developed with funding from the R.K. Mellon Grant and the Carl F. Poke Endowment Fund.  It is located on the first floor of the Millstein Library, room 162, and it is available to users during regular library hours

Creating Posters & Digital Projects

High-quality visual effects do not make up for a poor story!

When creating your digital project, do your homework first:

  • Do essential research using scholarly resources from Pitt's library system.
  • Write and rewrite. Consult a style manual like MLA as needed.
  • Check copyright on all your sources before any production.
  • Experiment, create, and revise! Cameras and laptops can be borrowed from the library. 
  • Repeat all these steps until you are satisfied with your production.