I just want to echo the same sentiments as Julie. After getting burned on the technical issues of the individual Rosetta Stone software titles, we looked into getting an electronic subscription. They gave us a quote of something like $200/subscription for 250 500 people in which 1 person = 1 subscription. And these are individual subscriptions, not simultaneous users so technically only 500 students/faculty/staff from our entire university population (21K+ worldwide) would be able to use the electronic subscription. Not worth $100,000. We ended up going with Mango Languages and our users really like it.
Jodie ________________________________________ Jodie L. Borgerding, M.L.S. Instruction and Liaison Librarian Emerson Library Webster University 470 E. Lockwood St. Louis, MO 63119 (314) 246-7819 [email protected] http://libguides.webster.edu/soc http://libguides.webster.edu/religion http://libguides.webster.edu/zombies -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Julie Evershed Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] Question about Rosetta Stone We too get many requests for Rosetta Stone. There are a variety of reason we don't purchase it, the primary one being the exorbitant cost (you cannot purchase the individual kits for circulation -it is too difficult technically to uninstall, reinstall...). However, we have tried out Tell Me More, and are currently piloting a subscription of Livemocha. Yabla is not as interactive, and offers fewer languages, but it a nice product as well. My patrons seem satisfied with these alternatives. Julie -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Julie Evershed, Director Language Resource Center University of Michigan North Quad 105 South State Street, #1195 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 phone: (734)764-0424 www.umich.edu/~langres/ On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Ball, James (jmb4aw) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Every now and then I get requests for Rosetta Stone language learning > products. Does anyone by that, and if so what are the pros and cons? I > usually buy Pimsleur, but students are telling me that like the interactive > part of Rosetta Stone. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matt > > > > ______________________________ > > Matt Ball > > Media and Collections Librarian > > Clemons Library > > University of Virginia > > [email protected] > > 434-924-3812 > > > > > 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. 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.
