Hi all, The Fair Use and Video Working Group is holding an informal open meeting in New Orleans to discuss our project to define community practices in fair use for media librarians. We'll review our intentions and methods and discuss our preliminary findings- where we found consensus in the community, where we did not. We'll also solicit feedback from the audience in order to hear more about media librarian behaviors and practices. It's an open committee meeting, but our intention is to speak to, and hear from, our target audience of VRT members. Date & Time: Friday, June 24, 2011, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Location: HIL-Port (Hilton Riverside)
For those who want more info, read on: For the last few years the VRT and ALA's Office of Information Technology Policy have been working on a statement of community practices in fair use for media librarians. It's been a challenging project: the issues are complex; the IP environment is shifting under our feet; and the task of organizing and conducting nationwide focus groups has been very time-intensive. At this point we have interviewed lots of media librarians; in fact, many of you reading this message have generously donated your time to our focus groups or in-person interviews. ALA has been deeply involved in this entire process, with Carrie Russell as our main contact and guide. A note of clarification of our objectives and target audience: we aim to create a statement of media librarian community practices. It's all about media librarians: the challenges they face balancing supply and demand, content and users, the requirements of their legal counsel and the behaviors of scholars. It's about how they cope with these pressures in the face of tremendous change in higher education. Other groups are exploring the symbiotic relationship between media librarians and the community of independent video producers (cf. last year's Higher Education Digital Video Summit led by the "Gang of Seven"). That, however, is not our charge. This effort is about defining media librarian needs, expectations and behaviors. Hope to see you in NOLA, --Judy Thomas, for the Fair Use Working Group Judith Thomas Director, Arts and Media Services University of Virginia Library 434.924.8814 / [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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.
