Hi everyone, So, we own many of the Alexander St. packages, and that is pretty much it for us. I'm not sure we are ready to jump in fully but I would like to at least be able to purchase digital licenses for those high use films that multiple faculty use, and for those 25-50 films that faculty put on physical reserve, digitize and load them onto a video server. Our campus currently doesn't have a video server, although they are looking at large, grand options for the whole campus, and I'm not sure what they will choose, how it will work for the library, etc.
Does anyone have documentation about how they proposed or justified a small start for their own library? Also, we have heard about Indiana University's "Variations" - which is a audio/video platform in a box sort of thing...is anyone using this? Any help is welcome! Rhonda Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media & Access Services William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 [email protected]| 310/338-4584| http://library.lmu.edu<http://library.lmu.edu/> "You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians." --Monty Python
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.
