Gary's comments about study guides made me wonder how other libraries are dealing with the fact that so many are online only now. We have lots of them in print too, but many don't come with a printed guide any longer but the web site contains a pdf link to a guide. Since our collection is browseable, I wonder if people don't always know the guides exist. I wonder if any libraries put a link in the catalog to the guide's web site? Does anyone print them out and put them on the shelves with the videos?
Matthew Wright Head of Collection Development and Instructional Services William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 451080 Las Vegas, NV 89154-1080 (702) 895-2409; (702) 895-2410 (fax) From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: 07/07/2011 01:36 PM Subject: Re: [Videolib] Article on educational distribution Sent by: [email protected] very nice, Rachel! By the way, most higher ed faculty could care less about study guides, lesson guides, and other printed ancillary materials. We have shelves of the stuff gathering dust here. You neglected to include the important point about making it easy to order and pay for the stuff...Nothing drives an institutional buyer crazier than a stupid or confusing or ineffective web site...or a filmmaker who fumbles invoicing and fulfillment. gary > Technically this is geared towards filmmakers but I thought y'all might > find > it useful anyway.a second one goes live tomorrow and I'm working on a 3rd > about educational/training media usage online. > > > > http://blogs.indiewire.com/tedhope/archives/guest_post_rachel_gordon_tapping > _into_educational_distribution/ > > > > Best, > > Rachel > > > > Rachel Gordon > > Energized Films > > www.energizedfilms.com > > > > > > > > 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. > 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.
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.
