Thanks for all who responded to my query re out o' business distributors. I'm informed that the Latin American Video Archive (LAVA) did, indeed, distribute some materials in their database, so I'll add these to the list.
In thinking thru which classes or varieties of material may have a high likelihood of being OP and unobtainable, it also occurred to me that besides the catalogs of defunct distributors, we may also want to think about PBS titles distributed before 2000 (seems to me that this is lamentable but true in a large number of cases) Titles purchased from associations, professional organizations, research organizations before 2000 Self-distributed, independently produced titles released before 2000 What am I leaving out? Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 [email protected] http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut 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.
