Do you mean more grains of sand than the Ganges ? I've danced on a thumbtack, 
but I have yet to dance on the head of the pin. 


Subject: Uta Hagen -- Notable virtual events 
In which Hagen explains to Balanchine the nature of speaking into a telephone 
onstage. 




By the way, all smarkalectness aside, I'd be very interested in seeing the 
results of your project, Scott. I could use help in that arena also. 


Randal Baier 



----- Original Message -----

From: "scott spicer" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 5:12:27 PM 
Subject: [Videolib] University Theatre instructional video collections support? 

Hi Everyone, 

I am now working with our Theater Librarian and a Theater faculty member to 
improve discovery and collection development of instructional theater videos, 
with an emphasis on performance (for now). In terms of discovery, to supplement 
our general a/v guides, this will include the development of a guide with 
catalog links to various facets of performance videos (to increase discovery 
beyond the cataloging). Gary's guide provides a nice start on some 
classifications and a Theater grad. student staff/Theater Librarian will 
provide even more granularity. To assist in this process, can anyone recommend 
an exemplar Theater video guide with more sub-classes than the MRC? 

Second, we would like to audit the collection in collaboration with the Theatre 
Dept. to determine if our video collection is meeting their needs and would 
like to provide suggestions to certain titles that we may not already own. Does 
anyone feel their theater instructional video collection is particularly 
distinctive and/or would cite one that is in terms of breadth and depth of 
performance videos (e.g., direction, technical how to, stage performance, 
international performance, famous performances, acting technique) from which to 
reconcile for consideration? 

To be clear, I am not looking for suggestions on any specific titles or 
streaming video packages at this point (please no vendor email), simply trying 
to audit this part of our collection and related services as a terrific 
engagement outreach opportunity. 

Thanks much, 
Scott 

-- 
Scott Spicer 
Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian 
University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities 
341 Walter Library 
[email protected] 612.626.0629 
Media Services: lib.umn.edu/media 
SMART Learning Commons: smart.umn.edu 


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preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
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