We also do not support Blu-ray at Fairfield University. We have one machine in
our 90-seat auditorium but no machines available to patrons within the library
to view films like we have VHS and DVD players. We bought a few combo packs
because I didn't want to wait months and months for the
I think Philip makes a great point here -- there are some films where
there is a marked difference in what you can see / perceive in many
shots -- you really are getting more information with Bluray in some
cases. Take a look at The Shining or 2001 (or any Kubrick film, for
that matter) for
I agree with everything said here. And just my thoughts after visiting four
colleges this week with our son...
I can see that Admissions is far more likely to talk about their professors
actually teaching courses and the breath of their offerings than the
quality of their AV department (though in
Ha, I hear you, Dennis! My daughter and I drove 2800 miles last week, seeing 8
campuses in 9 days! (Yes, I am STILL exhausted.)
I concur about the amount of time spent talking about a cappella groups,
although athletics weren't necessarily stressed at EACH of the places we
visited, and I was
I suspect that the lack of focus on media services in campus tours is as
much an issue of the * library's * focus on what matters.
It is well known that historically libraries have treated media as 2nd
class citizens (the red-haired stepchild as I call it). Collections get
short shrift in
Oh, now deg, you're twisting what I write into the truth. How dare you! ;-)
Dennis
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Deg Farrelly deg.farre...@asu.edu wrote:
I suspect that the lack of focus on media services in campus tours is as
much an issue of the * library's * focus on what matters.
It
Here at USC at the beginning of each new academic year I
make it a practice to offer certain incitements (bribes?) to
make sure that my colleagues handling library orientation
sessions always put in a nice plug about our most fabulous
video collection.;-)
Cheers!
Anthony
I interpreted what was said differently, I thought he was saying, visit
the LIBRARY on the campus tour. On my campus, the kids are shown the
rec center and other cool places but do not get a library tour. I
would take what you said about Media Centers in libraries and replace
media center with
