I have fallen into becoming a Cinema Studies/Film librarian because of my literature background, passion and tenacity. Consequently, my passion creates more work and challenges as I am now pretty much responsible for guiding our nascent streaming programming as well (not for residents, but for credit bearing educational use in our Moodle LMS).
I have been struggling to create a set of best practices and to learn all I can (this list has been a boon to me several times!) So, now I have made the argument that I should be networking with more professionals in this area and I've gotten my boss to agree to send me to Charleston. But I am unclear on which is better: NMM or Charleston Conference? I hear that there might be a reciprocal agreement that if I pay for NMM I can go to Charleston Conference for one day, but I want to be sure I go to the one where I can learn the most from my esteemed colleagues. What do you think is better and why? Keep in mind that I am not the traditional "buyer" as we are a state school with very little funding. My entire budget for Cinema/Film is generally 3-5K and that is for both videos and monographs!! Rebecca 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.
