[Videolib] [ALA Connect] Need new convener: Media Resources Discussion Group (ACRL - Association of College Research Libraries)
Good day. Just received this alert from ALA Connect thought I'd share it on the list: http://connect.ala.org/node/110406 Best, Cathy To: cmich...@ithaca.edu Subject: [ALA Connect] Need new convener (new) - Media Resources Discussion Group (ACRL - Association of College Research Libraries) Reply-To: ala.connect.re...@gmail.com ((( Reply ABOVE this LINE to POST a COMMENT ))) Greetings Catherine Michael, From Media Resources Discussion Group (ACRL - Association of College Research Libraries) New Post: Need new convener By Joe Clark -- ACRL is looking for a Convener for the Media Resources Discussion Group. If you are interested, contact Mary Jane Petrowski at: mpetrow...@ala.org You must be an ACRL member and attend midwinter (and ideally annual). Mary Jane would like someone in place by mid-Sept, 2010. To view this Post in Connect, go to http://connect.ala.org/node/ 110406. -- This is an automatic message from ALA Connect. To manage your email subscriptions (including unsubscribing), go to your Connect profile at http://connect.ala.org/user/33791/subscriptions . For further help, visit the Connect Help community at http://connect.ala.org/help or reply to this email. View original post: http://connect.ala.org/mailcomment/redirect/%3C33791.110406.0.1282663670 ... VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] IMDBPro
Has anyone had any success getting some kind of academic license for IMDBPro? They only advertise individual and corporate accounts. If so, do you have contact info? Thanks, Tom _ Tom Ipri, MS Head, Media and Computer Services Lied Library University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy Box 457035 Las Vegas, NV 89154-7035 702-895-2183 tom.i...@unlv.eduVIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] IMDBPro
I have tried several times without success. Nancy On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:22 PM, tom.i...@unlv.edu wrote: Has anyone had any success getting some kind of academic license for IMDBPro? They only advertise individual and corporate accounts. If so, do you have contact info? Thanks, Tom _ Tom Ipri, MS Head, Media and Computer Services Lied Library University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy Box 457035 Las Vegas, NV 89154-7035 702-895-2183 tom.i...@unlv.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. -- Nancy E. Friedland Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies Performing Arts Columbia University 206 Butler Library 535 West 114th Street New York, New York 10027 Phone: 212.854.7402 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] French film
Does anyone know where I might find L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise to purchase or rent? If it's on a compilation that's fine too. Rhonda Pancoe Media Acquisitions Coordinator Colgate University 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, NY 13346 315-228-7858 Phone 315-228-6227 Fax rpan...@colgate.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] Some survey results
Dear videlib universe As some of you noticed we recently did a survey asking some questions of our customers (hopefully you all ARE customers!) and some of the answers might be interesting. So far we received 76 responses. Of these: 1) 60% of you do NOT license streaming or download rights (40% do) 2) of those 82% license rights for more than one semester (one year term or longer) 3) so that is .82 x .40 = just 33% of you (?) license rights (for a year or more) 4) additionally, when you do license rights, 59% is from the distributor's web site, and 41% from your own or a local server. 5) broken down further: Of the 59% who do license rights from the distributor's web site, 12% do so as needed for a semester or one class, and 88% do so for a year or more Which, if my math and logic is correct(dicey) - that means that Only 59% of 82% of 40% of you a) license rights for a year or more AND b) access the digital files from the distributor's web site. Which is (Drum roll): only 19% of you actually need us to make available this sort of service? Interesting (?) results # 2: We asked what percentage of your media usage and expenditure is for online/streaming, vs. DVD purchases. Re usage: 85% of you said 20% or LESS 74% said 90% or MORE (44% said 100%!) Re expenditures: 81% said 20% or Less 78% said 90% or More I know it is a small and non-scientific sample. Maybe we should pretend it never happened. But - any thoughts on this? Thanks! Best, Jonathan Jonathan Miller President Icarus Films 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA tel 1.718.488.8900 fax 1.718.488.8642 www.IcarusFilms.com jmil...@icarusfilms.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] Media executable autoplay and computer security
Apologies for cross-postings. Greetings all, I just discovered that we have a number of DVD-ROMs in our media collection, many of which accompany books, that have executable autoplay applications on them. Over the summer our technology services team managing all of the non-staff/faculty computers on campus instituted some rather vigorous security settings on all the computers which prevent our DVD-ROMS from playing in any of the computers in the learning commons, computer labs, and at lectern/media stations in classrooms. We are at a bit of a loggerhead here between access and security; I am curious to know how other libraries deal with this issue. Thanks very much in advance. Regards, -lisa Hooper Music Media Librarian Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Tulane University lhoop...@tulane.edu 504.314.7822 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] FW: Some survey results
Sorry, this part was not clear perhaps: Interesting (?) results # 2: We asked what percentage of your media usage and expenditure is for online/streaming, vs. DVD purchases. Re usage: 85% of you said streaming/online is 20% or LESS of your media usage 74% said DVDs represent 90% or MORE (44% said 100%!) of your media usage Re expenditures: 81% said 20% or Less of your budget was spent on streaming/online content 78% said 90% or More of your budget was spent on DVD purchasing. Thanks! JM -Original Message- From: Jonathan Miller [mailto:jmil...@icarusfilms.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:31 PM To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu' Subject: Some survey results Dear videlib universe As some of you noticed we recently did a survey asking some questions of our customers (hopefully you all ARE customers!) and some of the answers might be interesting. So far we received 76 responses. Of these: 1) 60% of you do NOT license streaming or download rights (40% do) 2) of those 82% license rights for more than one semester (one year term or longer) 3) so that is .82 x .40 = just 33% of you (?) license rights (for a year or more) 4) additionally, when you do license rights, 59% is from the distributor's web site, and 41% from your own or a local server. 5) broken down further: Of the 59% who do license rights from the distributor's web site, 12% do so as needed for a semester or one class, and 88% do so for a year or more Which, if my math and logic is correct(dicey) - that means that Only 59% of 82% of 40% of you a) license rights for a year or more AND b) access the digital files from the distributor's web site. Which is (Drum roll): only 19% of you actually need us to make available this sort of service? Interesting (?) results # 2: We asked what percentage of your media usage and expenditure is for online/streaming, vs. DVD purchases. Re usage: 85% of you said 20% or LESS 74% said 90% or MORE (44% said 100%!) Re expenditures: 81% said 20% or Less 78% said 90% or More I know it is a small and non-scientific sample. Maybe we should pretend it never happened. But - any thoughts on this? Thanks! Best, Jonathan Jonathan Miller President Icarus Films 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA tel 1.718.488.8900 fax 1.718.488.8642 www.IcarusFilms.com jmil...@icarusfilms.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Some survey results
You want me to name names, Jon? Well, I am not nor have I ever been... I will venture my opinion that the model adopted by Alexander Street Press might be on the right track (up front buy-in (too high, I feel, in the case of ASP) and a yearly (low-ish) maintenance fee. The issue I have with ASP is their Curated Collections model, which forces one to take the whole database--including the good, the middling, and the never-to-be watched. My guess is that if the technology were shaken down adequately and the pricing made reasonable, the number of those putting their nickel on remote access (including me) would be considerably higher. There are only really a few compelling reasons to stream stuff from a local server (besides the distributor's inability to deliver): 1) The local ability to tweek the image, call the shots about formats/standards, and wrap the stuff in customized metadata and access tools) 2) possibly more robust network access. The most compelling reason to go local is one which seems to be the most contractually fuzzy: the ability to retain and deliver a title locally, even if the title drops out of a vendor's catalog. If DVDs eventually go the way of laserdiscs and other dead media, with streamed delivery being the only delivery form, we're definitely gonna have to figure something out. I have a feeling that our legal folk are going to get pickier and picker about signing licenses that don't have this kind of clause (as do many, if not most, commercial full-text databases) ...and, yeah, your conclusions sound like a reasonable description of the scene, August 2010. Dear Gary Well, yeah. And if we offered to give it away that would be even more popular. (well maybe, not so many of you took us up on that offer, actually) A) there may have been problems with how some of the questions in the survey were constructed, but not, I think, the ones I reference and report on the results of below. B) The main companies that are streaming from their servers to users now, as far as I know, are not charging extremely high prices. Who is offering streaming now at Exorbitant prices and any of the usage is from them? Or are you saying FMG and Ambrose and New Day are charging exhorbitant prices? Is Alexander Street? Please be specific. Also you don't respond to the figures we DID collect, however un scientific (or do you know of a better scientific source of such info/data? I don't). So, let's round it off and try it this way: half or less of you are currently streaming media (from our sites or your own) And about half of the videolib universe would like to stream, when they do stream, from our sites - and half of you would like to / will / are able to do it yourselves. Does that sound right to you? AND, of the current media usage by video lib people out there - only a small part of it is streaming or digital so far, and most of it (well over 75%) is still DVD Do you those three 'conclusions' sound reason able to you? Thanks! JM Jonathan Miller President Icarus Films 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA tel 1.718.488.8900 fax 1.718.488.8642 www.IcarusFilms.com jmil...@icarusfilms.com -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:04 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Some survey results Hey Jon Interesting (if inconclusive) stuff. There are some logical flaws in this survey (and your conclusion) I think. The survey responses are, of course, based on services, content, and technology currently available. They're also based on current pricing schemes. The real question to ask, I think, would be how many of you would opt for subscribing to remote (i.e. vendor-side) access if: 1) network delivery were relatively stable for multiple concurrent users 2) image resolution were sufficient for study-level access 3) continuing access to individual titles were relatively stable (i.e. we could be sure that the carpet wouldn't be whisked out from under us whenever distributor/filmmaker contracts expired 4) pricing was flexible enough to allow both single-semester and longer term-access And the real kicker: how many would get into this business more earnestly (either for the short or long haul) if currently unrealistic pricing structure for digital delivery (including the necessity of paying over and over for access to the same title) didn't preclude it. gary handman Dear videlib universe As some of you noticed we recently did a survey asking some questions of our customers (hopefully you all ARE customers!) and some of the answers might be interesting. So far we received 76 responses. Of these: 1) 60% of you do NOT license streaming or download rights (40% do) 2) of those 82% license rights for more than one semester (one
