Thank you all for your responses to this. It's definitely not at crisis level with video, but we are encountering it more and more w/music recordings, even those distributed by big labels such as UMG. And I do see Dennis' point about preserving our 16mm and analog video heritage, something we are *trying* to do here. Speaking of which, is anyone using Internet Archive post their vintage or born-digital media online? We have a few online here: https://archive.org/details/uwlibraries
- John _________ John Vallier head, distributed media University of Washington Libraries, Seattle http://guides.lib.washington.edu/imls2014 http://guides.lib.washington.edu/vallier 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.
