Re: [Videolib] Film festival submissions?

2012-08-05 Thread Brewer, Michael
Dennis, I'm not disagreeing with you or Jessica that these most often should not make their way into libraries. It would be great to be able to work out an arrangement where they could be added to collections under certain conditions (under a contract), for in house, scholarly use (and

Re: [Videolib] Film festival submissions?

2012-08-05 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 8/4/12 10:08 AM, Brewer, Michael brew...@u.library.arizona.edu sent this: 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

Re: [Videolib] Film festival submissions?

2012-08-05 Thread Anthony Anderson
Rick raises a good point. In another list-serve which I belong to (Castrecl), the following is posted with each posting that is submitted: PLEASE!!! EDIT YOUR POST WHEN RESPONDING!! PLEASE DELETE THE CASTRECL INFO FROM THE BOTTOM OF YOUR REPLY BEFORE SENDING (it is added to every

Re: [Videolib] Film festival submissions?

2012-08-05 Thread Jessica Rosner
Michael, Most filmakers and I would venture all the rights holders/ sales agents who generally deal with festivals would NEVER want this and rightly so. For obvious reasons people want to be paid for their work and obviously having a festival donate screeners would I assure you be the end of at

Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 57, Issue 8

2012-08-05 Thread Maria Soares
I will be away from August 7 - 10. Please call 416-675-6622 ext. 4421 for immediate response. 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

[Videolib] Trimming the cruft

2012-08-05 Thread Deg Farrelly
I second Rick's comments, and have asked the same before myself. It takes just a moment or two to remove extraneous content. Having to wade through it all makes it particularly difficult to read this discussion list. I find it particularly annoying to wade through threads because I receive the