Good afternoon,
We have approximately 2700 new, black CD/DVD cases that need a good home. They
feature a full wrap-around window and hold 1-3 CDs/DVDs The only cost is
shipping. If you are interested in these, please contact me off-list.
Thanks,
Gail
Gail B. Fedak
Director, Education Resource
#. For serial programs (Nova, Frontline, American
Experience, etc.) from which we purchased random titles, we assigned the next
number in line when the program arrived to be cataloged. We relied on the
on-line catalog to collate these programs by doing a series search.
Thanks,
Gail
Gail Fedak
.
Thanks,
Gail
Gail Fedak
Director, Education Resource Channel @ Middle Tennessee
COE 205
MTSU Box 208
Ph 615.898.2899
Fx 615.898.2530
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Meghann Matwichuk
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:28 AM
Ursula,
Oh, my! Many thanks for all you have done, and best wishes for your new
endeavor. We'll miss you!
Thanks,
Gail
Gail Fedak
Director, Education Resource Channel @ Middle Tennessee
COE 205
MTSU Box 208
Ph 615.898.2899
Fx 615.898.2530
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
The Online Audiovisual Catalogers Association (http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/ )
was a great help to us.
Good luck,
Gail
Gail Fedak
Director, Education Resource Channel @ Middle Tennessee
COE 205
MTSU Box 208
Ph 615.898.2899
Fx 615.898.2530
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
Good morning,
A resounding congratulations to Jessica for winning Best in Show at NMM for
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today! I'll echo her on the shock register.
Also, a tremendous thank you to all who made the NMM contest possible, to those
who so graciously sent congratulations, to Ursula for
. If they are kept somewhere on
campus, I know neither where nor by whom.
Thanks,
Gail
Gail Fedak
Director, Education Resource Channel @ Middle Tennessee
COE 205
MTSU Box 208
Ph 615.898.2899
Fx 615.898.2530
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf
Good afternoon,
A student group at MTSU wants to screen this title in October, but I'm having
trouble finding who licenses it. I've checked with Swank, MPLC, New Yorker,
Criterion, Facets, and GreenLight with no results. I've emailed MGM, but don't
know how long they will take to answer,
As long as PayPal will let us use our institutional credit card without having
an account (be a guest purchaser), we will continue to do so. We are a state
institution which means that we are prohibited by state law from providing
anyone a tie-in to our university's bank account. If other
- LCoA
Le Ballon Rouge
Guilty or Not Guilty
Theatre
Bertrand Russel - Time Life Films
With Eyes Wide Open: Richard Wawro, Artist - Creative Learning Environments
Thanks,
Gail
Gail Fedak
Director, Media Resources
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Ph 615.898.2899
gail.fe
Many thanks for the quick responses. All the films now have a home.
Gail
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Gail Fedak
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 3:19 PM
To: videolib
Subject: [Videolib] 16mm films
After Dennis' wonderful
Gary,
Even though the anticipation of our loss is palpable, here's to as illustrious
a second career as your first one!
Best wishes,
Gail
Gail B. Fedak
Director, Media Resources
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615.898.2899
gail.fe...@mtsu.edu
www.mtsu.edu/~imr
Ditto! I understand the need to weed collections and for a public library to be
responsive to its community, but operating primarily or solely based on so
narrow a criterion as circulation is dangerous. Unfortunately many library
boards and the general public, from whom they are drawn, seem to
Good morning,
Does anyone know if this series is still available for sale in DVD? We checked
with Ambrose, who said they no longer distribute it. It's a BBC production, but
they don't list it on their BBC America or main websites. Anyone know if a
secondary distributor has picked it up?
Thanks,
Good afternoon,
We've had a request to purchase Battlefield: The Battle of Normandy: Prelude to
Battle and ...The Battle in DVD. The original VHS were produced by La Mancha
Productions; a co-production with PolyGram Video International and were
originally distributed by Time Life Video. Does
Good afternoon,
We've had a request to purchase Battlefield: The Battle of Normandy: Prelude to
Battle and ...The Battle in DVD. The original VHS were produced by La Mancha
Productions; a co-production with PolyGram Video International and were
originally distributed by Time Life Video. Does
Becky,
I've received permission for public showings of copyrighted titles a few times
in the past from folks I did not expect to say yes. I found it very helpful to
volunteer to post Used by permission of... notices on site and to offer to
disseminate to potential customers relevant fliers that
Oh, no!!! You will be sorely missed! Thanks for the
mentoring you have given so many of us. Sounds like you have plenty of
interests waiting to take center stage. Enjoy them all!
Gail
On 4/2/2012 10:17 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
Nahum,
Unfortunately, there are no simple answers to your questions.
These are a few common ways for academic library patrons to access
streamed material:
1. The streamed title can be hosted by our library: access only by
faculty, students, and staff members who have a valid campus email
Gary,
Does this project have a proposed date to share its list of identified
materials?
Thanks,
Gail
On 2/23/2012 10:36 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
Hi Debra
Berkeley is a principle partner in this project (along with NYU). A
significant part of the project will be identifying
After checking my saved emails, I just realized I have not received any
videolib or videonews postings today (Friday, Nov. 11). Everything was
working fine for me yesterday (Thursday, Nov. 10). I've been working my
way through so many older ones today, I did not notice the lack of new
ones. :(
I just talked to NG, and the person I ended up talking to confirmed that
their DVD titled Australia's Aborigines is an updated version of
Australia's Twilight of the Dreamtime.
Hope this helps,
Gail
On 11/2/2011 10:56 AM, Jeanne Little wrote:
Anyone have any ideas?
I have been asked by a
Good morning,
I'm trying to find contact information for Concept Media, which seems to
have been purchased by Cengage Learning. I talked to someone at Cengage,
but they did not have all the replacement titles we need. The Cengage
rep gave me a phone number for Concept Media (1-502-254-2234),
?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Gail Fedak gfe...@mtsu.edu
mailto:gfe...@mtsu.edu wrote:
Jessica, Gary,
The prof who posed the question teaches a documentary filmmaking
class in the history department. Although the class is not taught
in the College of Mass Communication, its
Is an institution's licensed video streaming content covered by fair use
for said institution's students who want to use guideline compliant
portions of that content for fair use compliant purposes? I want to say
yes, but hesitate to do so without input from the collective wisdom. I
don't
Many thanks!
Gail
On 10/21/2011 3:57 PM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
Hey Gail
I'd say yeah, definitely, unless FU is trumped by specific contractual
language which forbids certain uses (I've haven't seen any such language
so far--at least in the licenses we've signed). Even if the
Jessica, Gary,
The prof who posed the question teaches a documentary filmmaking class
in the history department. Although the class is not taught in the
College of Mass Communication, its purpose is to teach students how to
create documentaries, the final class project being to create a short
A late post, but, ditto here.
I report to the Director of the Center for Educational Media in the
College of Education. Here's how:
We opened as part of a grand design in 1975 as the distribution
component of a Learning Resources Center that also featured creation and
production of academic
Jennifer,
We just purchased a DVD replacement of Methodology: The Psychologist and
the Experiment from CRM Learning. It does not come up on their website,
but, if this is the title you are looking for, contact them about it:
Nicole Taylor
800.421.0833
Good luck,
Gail
On 9/29/2011 10:09
actually have this written down as part of your collection
development/purchase policy if you have to explain yourself in
difficult situations?
Debra
From: Gail Fedak gfe...@mtsu.edu mailto:gfe...@mtsu.edu
Reply-To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib
Good afternoon,
I need to contact BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. to inquire about a PPR
license for this title. AE referred me to BBC. The BBC FAQs page does
not include PPR information Their contact us page provides an email
box, but the description of what we need and why exceeds their 1000
Debra,
I, too, dislike having to ask departments to contribute funds to a
purchase, but I do so under these circumstances: single title applicable
primarily to one discipline, =/$500; series (regardless of # of titles)
applicable primarily to one department, =/$750. I also dislike
purchasing
A library that offers duplication service for faculty can exercise some
control over how much of the title they own is clipped and used for the
stated purpose. They can also refuse to provide the service for titles
brought in by the requestor if legality of the requestor's copy cannot
be
The timeliness of this list never ceases to amaze me. In answer to two
threads currently running, we use video to refer to all formats of
moving images. Most of our folks assume DVD at this point, so we clarify
format either when asked or when the title in question is in VHS or
U-matic (rare).
Scott,
The best time for us is between mid-August and the end of January. Most
of our purchasing decisions are finished by early to mid-May. After that
we are out of money until July 1. Most of our faculty are not on campus
during the summer, so notifying us of new titles between July and
Matt,
This title is not listed on The Highlander Center website, but you might
call them and see what they know.
Good luck,
Gail
http://www.highlandercenter.org/r-b-videos.asp
On 7/21/2011 12:55 PM, Ball, James (jmb4aw) wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone know if /People of the Cumberland/ (1937)
I don't remember the last time a faculty member asked for a teacher's
guide, handouts, etc. to accompany a title in our collection. We try to
provide links to relevant information in our catalog. We have closed
stacks in compact shelving, so don't file guides, etc. with the media.
We rotate
MTSU's Media Library does not use wholesalers. Like others have stated,
we purchase directly from documentary distributors, filmmakers, Amazon,
Facets, etc. Insight is last on our go-to list.
Gail
On 6/14/2011 5:12 PM, Randal Baier wrote:
It's certainly not true for Eastern Michigan. We are
as a station from which it
is permissible to record. If it is, I do understand the convoluted
follow-up restrictions.
Thanks again,
Gail
On 5/27/2011 11:03 AM, Gail Fedak wrote:
A faculty member has requested that we tape off-air a 3 hour program
airing on MSNBC over this weekend. My first
We have been using hub labels for several years without any problems. We
print our library's name and the item's barcode # on them.
Hope this helps,
Gail
On 4/4/2011 10:46 AM, Seay, Jared Alexander wrote:
Thanks for the input. We know about the label rings. Our catalogers
are reluctant to
Farhad,
Two other sources of Appalachian titles are Appalshop (
http://appalshop.org/store/ ) and Highlander Research and Education
Center ( http://www.highlandercenter.org/r-b-videos.asp ). A couple of
titles may fit what you are looking for: Up the River (prisons built in
rural Appalachia
Chuck,
Our IT division developed the Faculty Instructional Technology Center (
http://www.mtsu.edu/itdacad/itc/index.shtml ), which faculty may use
with or without individual assistance.
Gail
On 3/30/2011 10:56 AM, Chuck McCann wrote:
Can anyone point me to any, worthy of emulating, high
Maureen,
Try this one: Where strangers become neighbors: The story of the
Collingwood Neighborhood House and the integration of immigrants in
Vancouver - National Film Board of Canada.
Gail
On 3/22/2011 8:33 PM, Maureen Tripp wrote:
I'd like to find some that deal with diverse individuals or
Rhonda,
Happy birthday!
In response to your questions:
1) The Media Library not duplicate anything. The TV studio (one of three
departments that includes the Media Library) will not accept duplication
requests without sending the requestor to me for verification of
permission. We will
We have already converted our VHS to DVD and have it in the collection
coded not to leave the library (Section 108). Didn't want this one to
get away.
Thanks,
Gail
On 2/16/2011 1:50 PM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
The film you want has to do with the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis
A year +/- before we opened our doors in 1975, the main library on
campus was cataloging our materials. Sometime during 1976, our director
got tired of telling faculty that the video we bought for them to use in
class could not be used yet (6+ months after arrival) because it was
still in the
Good afternoon,
We routinely check our VHS tapes on an RTI Tapechek, as well. We are
also evaluating the collection in call # order, approximately 1000-2000
titles per year, to determine which titles faculty want to keep and
which they do not. This is a high priority for us since the
Rhonda,
I notify potential users about new releases when I receive announcements
from videonews or directly from distributors. If we get requests to
purchase, we either do so or place the title(s) on a wish list. Once a
title is purchased, the requestor(s) and potential users are notified by
We may have to go that route. The closest thing to a pro big-ag piece I
can identify in our collection is a brief interview with Earl Butz in
King Corn.
Thanks,
Gail
On 1/4/2011 2:11 PM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
Well, that's gonna be a tough one. If it were me, I'd contact a big
In the early 90s we did a collection-wide conversion of our U-matics to
VHS based on whether we received permission from the copyright holders
to do so. Titles whose copyright holders outright said no or wanted a
license fee were not converted. Eventually, we were able to purchase or
duplicate
Chris,
We received permission to transfer our copy of True West from VHS to
DVD. We contacted Joan Candee, Executive Assistant to Harold A. Thau (
chredst...@aol.com ).
Hope this helps,
Gail
On 11/16/2010 8:49 AM, Chris McNevins wrote:
Has Sam Shepard's True West ever been released on
Since we are a state institution, we are prohibited from paying sales
tax. We have two options when a company can't/won't honor our tax exempt
status - 1. have a staff member or friend purchase the title(s)
personally and pay the tax, then donate the title(s) to our library; 2.
don't buy the
: rsa...@monm.edu
URL: http://department.monm.edu/library
*From:* videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *Gail Fedak
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:22 PM
*To:* videolib
*Subject:* [Videolib] American Production Company and John H
One of our faculty wants us to purchase an American Playhouse episode
-True West. All we have found available are used VHS tapes. I don't mind
purchasing one of the VHS tapes in this case since the production does
not seem to be available on DVD, but I would like to contact the
producer(s) to
Benjamin,
Middle Tennessee State University's responses:
1. Does your library still order DVDs primarily, or have you switched to
online collections?
We still purchase primarily DVDs. We have not ventured into Blue-Ray,
and our foray into streaming is limited. Our statewide university system
I'm watching one of their offerings and had a commercial pop up a couple
of minutes ago. Will watch out for more.
Gail
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
Isn't Snag still inserting commercials every 5 minutes?
Gary
I haven't used SnagFilms extensively, but it is linked to our
Good afternoon,
Our campus is undertaking an attempt to organize our libraries into a
cohesive structure. Currently we're under almost as many different
reporting structures as there are libraries. The route the IMR Media
Library took from where (administratively) we started 35+ years ago to
We have thus far amassed several hundred VHS cases as we weed our video
collection. Does anyone know if they can be recycled, and if so, who to
contact?
Thanks in advance,
Gail
--
Gail B. Fedak
Director, Media Resources
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Phone:
Sarah,
Depends on the subject. If its business, medicine, or science, the price
may not be out of line with similar programs from the same or similar
producers. However, this is the price break at which I ask the
requesting faculty member's department chair if the program is
sufficiently
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