Hi Everyone, I am now working with our Theater Librarian and a Theater faculty member to improve discovery and collection development of instructional theater videos, with an emphasis on performance (for now). In terms of discovery, to supplement our general a/v guides, this will include the development of a guide with catalog links to various facets of performance videos (to increase discovery beyond the cataloging). Gary's guide provides a nice start on some classifications and a Theater grad. student staff/Theater Librarian will provide even more granularity. To assist in this process, can anyone recommend an exemplar Theater video guide with more sub-classes than the MRC?
Second, we would like to audit the collection in collaboration with the Theatre Dept. to determine if our video collection is meeting their needs and would like to provide suggestions to certain titles that we may not already own. Does anyone feel their theater instructional video collection is particularly distinctive and/or would cite one that is in terms of breadth and depth of performance videos (e.g., direction, technical how to, stage performance, international performance, famous performances, acting technique) from which to reconcile for consideration? To be clear, I am not looking for suggestions on any specific titles or streaming video packages at this point (please no vendor email), simply trying to audit this part of our collection and related services as a terrific engagement outreach opportunity. Thanks much, Scott -- Scott Spicer Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities 341 Walter Library spic0...@umn.edu 612.626.0629 Media Services: lib.umn.edu/media SMART Learning Commons: smart.umn.edu
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