Hi Everyone, Pardon the cross post. Thanks to you all for continuing to make the Digital Video Collections Guide (http://connect.ala.org/node/183711) an invaluable resource to the community! Feel free to forward this message on to your moving image colleagues that might be interested.
Though the Guide is continuing to go strong after 2 years, like any living document, it was in a need of a little TLC. Therefore, this morning I undertook an audit to determine if there were any issues with the resources (e.g., links no longer functioning/rerouting to another site, content no longer available, etc..). I also added a few more of the streaming resources the UMN Libraries have recently licensed. Most of these resources are still working great, though I discovered 3 sites that have new URL's (American Indian Film Gallery, Berkeley Online Media, and USDA Food Safety Videos); 2 sites that are no longer offering content and were therefore removed from the guide (Babelgum.com went out of business, LookNews no longer appears to offer access to their video archive); and 2 resources that have issues and are on watch, but have been retained (Museum of Broadcast Communications Archive moved to a new URL, but there is a message that the site is undergoing construction, and the biomaterialsvideos.org page is not rendering). For a complete listing of all changes, please consult this Google spreadsheet: http://z.umn.edu/updatedvideoguide. For questions/comments, please do not hesitate to contact me directly ( [email protected]) or in public forums. Also feel free to share with me how this resource has been useful in your practice. This feedback is useful for determining whether to continue this support, and potential future enhancements we might want to make to strengthen this resource. Best, Scott Spicer Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian Past Chair, Video Round Table University of Minnesota Libraries [email protected]
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.
