Hi No updates on this end.
It may go without saying, but...I'd definitely focus on non-fiction film first (maybe exclusively). When approaching feature (i.e. non-fiction), start with foreign language films first. There are certain distributors that are no longer in business: Films Incorporated Time-Life Film and Video Coronet Films (mostly) Carousel Films CRM Films National Latino Communications Center (NLCC) Drift Distribution International Film Bureau International Media Resource Exchange (IMRE) University of California Center for Media and Independent Learning (note: some titles in this catalog are still distributed by Berkeley Media LLC) Likely to be Out of Distribution PBS Home Video/PBS Video: films with release dates before 2000 Annenberg/CPB Project pre-2000 CPB New Yorker Film and Video (feature films) Anything distributed by a non-profit organizations, or academic institutions (e.g American Mathematical Assn.) pre-2000 Available for re-purchase on VHS only (and therefor not eligible for Section 108 copying) Roland Films on Art (many titles in this catalog only available on VHS) Lannan Foundation Video Library (available on VHS only) > Greetings, > > I'm beginning to plan a VHS holdings survey where our first step would be > to determine how many of our VHS collections might be unavailable on DVD. > I do have Gary's 8/11/11 "Berkely's 'VHS ONLY' list" . Are there > updates, compiled or other lists available in addition to Gary's? Also, > thoughts or words of advice for conducting VHS collection surveys would be > welcome---I'm just now beginning to plan. > > Thanks, > > Tyra Grant > > > > Tyra Grant > > Digital preservation and electronic media officer > > University of Kansas Libraries > > tgr...@ku.edu<mailto:tgr...@ku.edu> > > Phone: 785-864-8951 > 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 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu 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.
