Whether or not to focus on technology is a matter of opinion and means, both financial and technical, as well as what your focus is. Remember, not everyone is collecting for collecting's sake. We buy streams in support of classes, period. When classes no longer need them, we don't need the stream.
We purchase streams from most of the other vendors listed, too. And we love their content and doing business with them, too. However, the business model that Films on Demand has set up is the reason they are at the top of my list. With staffing tight, they take care of delivering the streams in addition to having a variety of good content, an easy purchase model, and reasonable prices not to mention an easy to shop catalog that comes with a method for sharing links on titles of potential intereste with faculty. Easy, easy, easy. Jo Ann Jo Ann Reynolds Reserve Services Coordinator University of Connecticut Libraries 369 Fairfield Road, Unit 2005RR Storrs, CT 06269-2005 jo_ann.reyno...@uconn.edu 860-486-1406 860-486-5636 (fax) http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/mediaresources -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Shelia D Owens (sowens) Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:39 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Your favorite streaming media vendor Ditto Gary & Deg, It does take a village of distributors to provide the variety of content we need in higher education. I have purchased digital rights for streaming content from AIT, Ambrose, California Newsreel, Chip Taylor, DER, Fanlight, FMG, Milestone, Mypheduh Film, New Day, PBS Video, and VEA. We've been pleased with the content and service. We stream everything ourselves with the exception of New Day and a portion of our FMG titles. Shelia D. Owens Distance Education 200 Brister Hall (901)678-2236 Office (901) 678-5112 Fax www.memphis.edu/ecampus -----Original Message----- From: Deg Farrelly [mailto:deg.farre...@asu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:54 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Your favorite streaming media vendor Thank you Gary for stating this so well. There is no one-stop shopping for media content... Especially quality media content. I'm at the National Media Market now, looking at the offerings from a wide assortment of video distributors for higher education. Here are some (but not all) of my favorites (In no particular order) Alexander Street Press - subject specific collections of high quality films, including the entire Filmakers Library catalog, in a rich interface that includes transcripts that track with the video stream. Hard copy sales also possible. Quickly expanding collection in the VAST collection Media Education Foundation - the best source for insightful deconstruction of mass media. Notable titles: Killing Us Softly, Codes of Gender, Dreamworlds, among many others Ambrose - THE source for BBC Shakespeare Plays... And classic titles: Ascent of Man, Shock of the New, etc. Icarus - Strong collection of social issue titles Bullfrog - Social issues and strong focus on environmental issues Cinefete - small company, but rich collection of documentaries.... A couple favorites: Chicken for Africa, Razor Wire Rodeo Films Media Group - broad-based large collection, well established deliver model, individually linkable segments. There are many others here at the Market.... Jus this is a quick answer. Most of these vendors can provide streaming rights, some stream themselves. But as with building any great collection, your content will have to come from many different sources. My $.02 -- deg farrelly Arizona State University P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, AZ 85287 Phone: 480.965.1403 Email: deg.farre...@asu.edu On 10/19/11 1:05 PM, "videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu> wrote: >The question you've asked is really not the correct one to ask, in my >opinion. Video vendors who offer digitral delivery aren't like Baker & >Taylor...they're generally not jobbers, they're distributors of >particular catalogs of materials which they've acquired from individual >(generally >independent) filmmakers. Films Media Group (aka Films for the >Humanities and Sciences) comes the closest to the Baker and Taylor >model of broad content distribution, but even they are a bit different than book jobbers. > >The real question to ask is: which distributors have the types of >content that is appropriate and needed for your institution. The >answer to this question may very well require that you deal with a >number of distributors, rather than one universal distributor of >content. It may also mean dealing with distributors that, at present, >don't offer digital delivery at all. > >It's always dangerous and wrong-headed, I think, focusing on technology >(how something can be delivered) and putting content second. Sometimes >there's an overlap between the two--content and delivery--but not, by >any means, always. > >Gary Handman 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.
