Hi All- Yes, the Harvard Judaica Collection is indeed collecting Judaica filmstrips. If you have filmstrips you are discarding, please let us know!
-Elizabeth Elizabeth Vernon, Judaica Division, Harvard Library 617-495-3335 / [email protected] On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Andrea Rapp <[email protected]> wrote: > So the verdict on filmstrips is to toss them--not surprisingly. > I used to love teaching w/ filmstrips, though. They allow the teacher to > narrate what s/he wants, at any pace, to linger over one slide, pass over > another. Can't do this w/ DVD's. > I don't think the content is outdated at all, for example, we have many > that show scenes from the lives of historical figures; right now I'm > looking at one I came across: Passover Art of the Middle Ages. > I taught a class about this last year and spent many hours putting > together a power point on it -- and here is all the material on a lovely > color filmstrip! > And no worries about the equipment shutting down, getting an error > message, having to re-boot, how do I get rid of that side bar, etc. > So I think it's too bad, not to mention wasteful and non-compliant with > "sustainablilty"-- that all this great material is going in the trash bin. > That's my $.02! > Andrea > PS: Thanks to Robbin Katzin, who informs me that Harvad's Judaica > collection at the Widener library does collect these filmstrips. > > > Andrea Rapp > Wise Temple, Cincinnati Ohio > ------------------------------ > > -- *********************************************************************************************** Elizabeth Vernon Lee M. Friedman Judaica Technical Services Librarian Widener Library Room M Judaica Division, Harvard College Library Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 USA 617-495-3335 (phone) / 617-496-9112 (fax)
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