Colleagues! As a matter of curiosity, I was wondering just how much formal training did you receive in assuming your roles as media librarians? I ask the same question also for those who are not media librarians (like myself), but still do a fair amount of media work as part of their jobs. I assume many of you probably have degrees in film (or communications) studies, but did you ever take any media classes at library school. I know that many library schools offer courses in government documents, but does anyone know of any library schools offering video librarianship courses? Might there be any relatively recent books on the subject of video librarianship?
Or did many of you learn video librarianship from what you picked (or are picking up now) on the job? I pose these questions because the Video Round Table is considering the idea (among other proposals) of possibly holding at next summer's ALA a program entitled Video Librarianship 101: "a workshop for librarians just getting into video librarianship or for those librarians who are not exclusively 'media librarians' but have positions which entail having a fair amount of video responsibilities. Topics might include: * PPR/institutional rates * Tracking down PPR for a single campus or community showing * Working with faculty, other librarians, students, and public library users in building up and publicizing video collections * Streaming: opportunities and challenges. Hoopla? * Allowing video collections to fully circulate and displaying them "openly" (as opposed to keeping them behind the circulation desk)." Would any of you out there find such a program to be of any interest? Cheers! Anthony ******************************* Anthony E. Anderson Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (213) 740-1190 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> "Wind, regen, zon, of kou, Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou." ********************************
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.
