[Videolib] More info on SilverDocs (while you are attending ALA)

[Carleton Jackson]

Collective Wisdom

I've gotten some questions on what will happen at the conference that 
Friday, so I have a reply directly from the Conference Director. Note 
that for K-12 folks there is a module being advertised also as "School 
Docs." But programs for school teachers, school and university 
librarians, educators and educational filmmakers will be folded into 
that Friday and available together.


But one thing I forgot to mention before: "Early Bird" registration (and 
price) is through April 5th. So, like life for most media librarians, 
time for quick decisions.


Carleton

 Original Message 
Subject:SchoolDocs Early Bird
Date:   Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:36:56 -0400
From:   Diana Ingraham 
To: Carleton L. Jackson 
CC: Matt Boratenski 



Hi Carleton:  Here is a "Save the Date/Early Bird" announcement for 
educators/librarians/video club members  We've extended early bird 
until April 5 - is there any chance you can push this out to your 
constituency in the next couple of days?


I've pasted below and also attached as a word file.

Also -- would like to circle back and find out how the big summit on 
fair use and copyrights went in New York last week...do you think there 
will be some good content to share at Silverdocs?


cheers

di

***
*
*
*Subject Line:  FILM and EDUCATION at SILVERDOCS 2010*
* *
*Special announcement for all 21^st  Century educators and curriculum 
leaders:*

* *
Mark your calendar and tell your colleagues. Back by popular acclaim, 
AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs documentary festival (June 22 – 27) 
will again offer *SchoolDocs*, a strand of workshops, panel discussions 
and films investigating innovative practices in visual education. 

*Check out the 2009 SchoolDocs lineup at silverdocs.com.* The 2010 
edition promises to be bigger and better.


Expert presenters will engage educators on the following topics:

   * Creating model multi-media lessons
   * Best practices incorporating National Standards
   * Technology Trends in Today’s Classroom
   * Hands on instruction on clipping/use of film segments in the classroom
   * Youth Media extravaganza of screenings, workshops, panels and
 discussion
   * Discussions and Meet and Greet with award-winning documentary
 filmmakers
   * Engaging students of all grade levels by using film and filmmaking
 in all subject areas. 
   * ...and much more.


Silverdocs is pleased to present a special EARLY Registration fee of 
$135 available only to educators until April 5. Huge savings off the 
regular rate for 2010. This Educator Pass admits participants to all 
workshops and events during SchoolDocs and the concurrent International 
Documentary Conference and provides 10 vouchers that can be redeemed for 
tickets for one or multiple films throughout the Festival. For more 
information or to register go to www.silverdocs.com 
.
We invite you to take full advantage of as much of the Festival and 
Conference as you can.  But, if your time is limited, the must-attend 
workshops for educators are concentrated on June 24 and 25.


Questions? Please e-mail silvereducat...@afi.com 



Diana B. Ingraham
Managing Director, US Independents
Producer, AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs International Documentary 
Conference

301.897.5511 Office
301.437.2725 Mobile (only in US and Canada)
www.usindependents.com 
www.SILVERDOCS.com 



--
Carleton L. Jackson
Librarian, Nonprint Media Services Library
University of Maryland Libraries
0300 R. Lee Hornbake Library
College Park, Maryland 20742-7011
301-405-9226 voice / 301-314-9419 fax
carle...@umd.edu






Educator Save the date 3_31_10DIMB.doc
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Re: [Videolib] Recommended DVDs on environmental sustainabi lity?

[suzanne]

Just returned from watery Rhode Island, and saw this topic, how can I not
respond to this inquiry with a name like Green Planet Films!
I have many favorites, but here are 5 titles that are information packed,
and interesting to watch, even entertaining I'd say. Very popular with
schools and libraries.
Suzanne Harle


A CONVENIENT TRUTH: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil 
This informative, inspirational documentary is aimed at sharing ideas to
provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities
worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation,
recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, seasonal parks,
and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable
cities in the world.
55 mins
http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=464

GARBAGE! The Revolution Starts at Home 
With his first son just born, filmmaker Andrew Nisker is very concerned
with the state of our planet. As the
average household level of consumption
rises, so does the astronomical amount of waste we collectively create. Are
we turning the earth into one giant garbage can? Determined to understand
the damage we are doing, Nisker enlists the average urban family, the
McDonalds, to keep every scrap of garbage that they produce for three
months in their increasingly smelly garage. From organic waste to dirty
diapers, from plastic bottles to Christmas wrapping, the McDonald's
discover that for every action there is a reaction that affects them and
the entire planet.
70 mins
http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=534

SCRAPHOUSE: San Francisco 
ScrapHouse was a temporary demonstration home, built entirely of salvaged
material adjacent to San Francisco City Hall. Over the course of just six
weeks, a team of volunteers scoured Bay Area dumps and scrap yards. A group
of architects, landscape architects, lighting specialists, and metal
fabricators repurposed the materials, giving
them new life. ScrapHouse
illustrated the possibilities--as well as the challenges--of green
building, recycling, and reuse. 48 mins
http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=677

GREEN 
Multi award winning, IN FILM FESTIVALS NOW. Set in Indonesia. Meet Green,
an orangutan and victim of human impact. Follow the devastating journey as
her home is destroyed by logging, clearing for palm oil plantations, and
the choking haze of rainforest fires. Hauntingly poetic and without
narration, the film creatively depicts the effects of consumerism on
tropical rainforests as we are faced with our personal accountability in
the loss of the world's treasures. 45 mins
http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=682
watch online at link above now.

Note: there are disturbing images, but we must be witness to the reality
of what is happening to our rainforests as we in the Western world
methodically produce and shop for a multitude of consumer products. GREEN
recently
screened at the Smithsonian, the UN and Copenhagen.

FOR THE PRICE OF A CUP OF COFFEE 
What is the cost of convenience? Follow the life cycle of a paper cup and
the environmental repercussions of a society reliant on convenience. This
film is full of information that all consumers should know about the
products that we use everyday, and the steps we need to make towards a more
sustainable world. This very popular film was the thesis project for a
university film student. 15 mins
http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=560 

ORDER ONLINE at:
http://greenplanetfilms.org
Order by Phone at 415 377-5471
Order with Purchase Order by Fax: 415 383-0484
Order with Purchase Order by Email: sa...@greenplanetfilms.org

DOWNLOAD OUR 2009 CATALOG NOW (2010 in the works)
http://greenplanetfilms.org/information.php?info_id=100

READ OUR ENVIRONMENTAL FILM BLOG
http://www.greenplanetfilms.org/blog
 _
Suzanne Harle
Founder/Executive Director
GREEN PLANET
FILMS
nature & environmental DVDs
PO Box 247
Corte Madera, CA 94976
USA
415 377 5471
www.greenplanetfilms.org
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[Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Beth Traylor]

Hello All,

We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that 
our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the 
classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD 
equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they 
are more reliable etc.". 

They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS 
tapes that faculty use to DVD.
They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its 
for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As 
far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.

Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our 
Media collection).

Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this 
thread but could not find it in the archives.

Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the 
list too if you would like.


Beth Traylor
Media Librarian
UW-Milwaukee



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Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Stockwell, Patricia]

Beth that is a lot of VHS tapes, what is the proper disposal for that
many tapes?   Can you throw them in the trash or do you have to do
something environmentally safe with that many tapes? 

Patricia Stockwell
Head of Technical Services / College Archivist
Pikes Peak Community College
5675 S. Academy Blvd.  Box 7
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
719-502-3238

patricia.stockw...@ppcc.edu


"I like good things - BUT - I prefer God things"


-Original Message-
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Beth Traylor
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:11 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

Hello All,

We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that 
our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the 
classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD 
equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they

are more reliable etc.". 

They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS

tapes that faculty use to DVD.
They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its 
for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As 
far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.

Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our 
Media collection).

Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this 
thread but could not find it in the archives.

Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the 
list too if you would like.


Beth Traylor
Media Librarian
UW-Milwaukee



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control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve
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of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
producers and distributors.

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Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[ghandman]

Where to start?  So much stupidity, so little time to vent...

First of all, as you have wisely pointed out, they'd very likely be
breaking copyright.  A unit such as the one you're talking about really
doesn't meet the requirements of Section 108 (regarding duplication of
physically-at-risk and/or unobtainable materials)...so there's absolutely
NO wiggle room or legs to stand on.

Secondly (and this has become one of my major bugaboos):  Content and user
needs should drive collection building and service NOT the technology that
delivers the stuff, nor should convenience of acquisition and access
shouldn't be the driving sole force behind media collections and services.
 The kind of myopia you're describing has some really nasty implications
for the future, I'm afraid...viz.:  only providing access to titles which
are available as streamed video.  The situation you've described is, I'm
afraid, what happens when tech people are the ones calling the shots and
not librarians.




> Hello All,
>
> We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that
> our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the
> classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD
> equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they
> are more reliable etc.".
>
> They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS
> tapes that faculty use to DVD.
> They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its
> for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As
> far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.
>
> Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our
> Media collection).
>
> Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this
> thread but could not find it in the archives.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the
> list too if you would like.
>
>
> Beth Traylor
> Media Librarian
> UW-Milwaukee
>
>
>
> 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.
>


Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
--Francois Truffaut


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Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Shoaf,Judith P]

Hmm--so it is going to be easier to convert 5000 VHS tapes to DVD than to keep 
VHS players in working order? What will the resulting DVDs be like? I suspect 
that digitizing and constructing a useful and reliable DVD will be more 
expensive than buying a commercial one.

I recall a thread (this list? A different one?) about the relative usefulness 
in the classroom of a cued-up VHS tape vs. a DVD with its scenes menu. Behind 
the whole clips-compilation exception is the fact that instructors do not want 
to waste valuable class time finding the right place on a videorecording of a 
movie. 

A DVD with no scenes menu, etc. will be less useful even than a tape. A DVD 
with a scenes menu requires a lot of work by someone who knows something about 
that movie.

Setting aside the principle as Gary enunciates it and the flagrant illegality, 
the practicality of the undertaking is pretty fuzzy.

Judy Shoaf

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Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Brewer, Michael]

If you can't get your tech staff to reconsider, I would suggest looking into 
circulating smaller VHS players to instructors who book films for class 
screenings.  

mb

Michael Brewer
Team Leader for Instructional Services
University of Arizona Library 
brew...@u.library.arizona.edu


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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Shoaf,Judith P
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:00 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS


Hmm--so it is going to be easier to convert 5000 VHS tapes to DVD than to keep 
VHS players in working order? What will the resulting DVDs be like? I suspect 
that digitizing and constructing a useful and reliable DVD will be more 
expensive than buying a commercial one.

I recall a thread (this list? A different one?) about the relative usefulness 
in the classroom of a cued-up VHS tape vs. a DVD with its scenes menu. Behind 
the whole clips-compilation exception is the fact that instructors do not want 
to waste valuable class time finding the right place on a videorecording of a 
movie. 

A DVD with no scenes menu, etc. will be less useful even than a tape. A DVD 
with a scenes menu requires a lot of work by someone who knows something about 
that movie.

Setting aside the principle as Gary enunciates it and the flagrant illegality, 
the practicality of the undertaking is pretty fuzzy.

Judy Shoaf

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distributors.

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preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
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distributors.

Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Hannah Lee]

I sympathize with Beth, because it's the exact situation that we're
going through right now. I'm very new to the library, and apparently
there's a long history with the weeding of our VHS collection. The IT
department made the decision not to service VHS players, and they were
also under the mistaken impression that they could just make DVD
copies of all of the VHS tapes we own. For the past couple of years,
we've been slowly examining the VHS tapes we own (about 3,000) and
finding suitable DVD or streaming media replacements. The process has
been good in some ways, in the sense that we're updating our
collection (some of the VHS tapes are 30 years old) with newer and
more relevant content. Because some of the faculty members raised a
lot of fuss about the library withdrawing these films, we've allowed
them to come to the library and take any withdrawn VHS to add to their
own personal collections. This way they can still show the VHS tapes
if they want. The rest, we plan on selling at the book sale that's
coming up.

Thanks,
Hannah Lee
Harper College Library

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Shoaf,Judith P  wrote:
>
> Hmm--so it is going to be easier to convert 5000 VHS tapes to DVD than to 
> keep VHS players in working order? What will the resulting DVDs be like? I 
> suspect that digitizing and constructing a useful and reliable DVD will be 
> more expensive than buying a commercial one.
>
> I recall a thread (this list? A different one?) about the relative usefulness 
> in the classroom of a cued-up VHS tape vs. a DVD with its scenes menu. Behind 
> the whole clips-compilation exception is the fact that instructors do not 
> want to waste valuable class time finding the right place on a videorecording 
> of a movie.
>
> A DVD with no scenes menu, etc. will be less useful even than a tape. A DVD 
> with a scenes menu requires a lot of work by someone who knows something 
> about that movie.
>
> Setting aside the principle as Gary enunciates it and the flagrant 
> illegality, the practicality of the undertaking is pretty fuzzy.
>
> Judy Shoaf
>
> 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.
>

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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.

Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Jane Sloan]

The most important group to be consulted here is the faculty using the 
tapes -- if they were not, it's not too late to engage them in using the 
power they have to demand the services they need to teach. 
That means not only the collections libraries have, but the equipment to 
view.  If there's faculty backlash, it's best used to support everyone, 
not just the few who want to take the tape and deal with the problem on 
their own.  Depends upon the size of your institution, but here there 
would be many in line to use some of our irreplaceable tapes.  
At Rutgers, our equipment support is talking about phasing out vcrs, but 
I have expectations that faculty needs will come first, and it will be 
done in some coordinated fashion.  Not that that is what will happen. . 
.  It might be our job to pick up the pieces in the end, but it's good 
to at least try to demand other units be accountable for necessary 
services. 
Maybe a little cost analysis will get you somewhere. .  or at least 
delay the process, which might be as effective as anything.  How many 
tapes are being used by how many faculty? What is the cost of replacing 
with available commercial dvd?  How many do not have a dvd equivalent?  
must be more. . .  Jane

Hannah Lee wrote:
> I sympathize with Beth, because it's the exact situation that we're
> going through right now. I'm very new to the library, and apparently
> there's a long history with the weeding of our VHS collection. The IT
> department made the decision not to service VHS players, and they were
> also under the mistaken impression that they could just make DVD
> copies of all of the VHS tapes we own. For the past couple of years,
> we've been slowly examining the VHS tapes we own (about 3,000) and
> finding suitable DVD or streaming media replacements. The process has
> been good in some ways, in the sense that we're updating our
> collection (some of the VHS tapes are 30 years old) with newer and
> more relevant content. Because some of the faculty members raised a
> lot of fuss about the library withdrawing these films, we've allowed
> them to come to the library and take any withdrawn VHS to add to their
> own personal collections. This way they can still show the VHS tapes
> if they want. The rest, we plan on selling at the book sale that's
> coming up.
>
> Thanks,
> Hannah Lee
> Harper College Library
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Shoaf,Judith P  wrote:
>   
>> Hmm--so it is going to be easier to convert 5000 VHS tapes to DVD than to 
>> keep VHS players in working order? What will the resulting DVDs be like? I 
>> suspect that digitizing and constructing a useful and reliable DVD will be 
>> more expensive than buying a commercial one.
>>
>> I recall a thread (this list? A different one?) about the relative 
>> usefulness in the classroom of a cued-up VHS tape vs. a DVD with its scenes 
>> menu. Behind the whole clips-compilation exception is the fact that 
>> instructors do not want to waste valuable class time finding the right place 
>> on a videorecording of a movie.
>>
>> A DVD with no scenes menu, etc. will be less useful even than a tape. A DVD 
>> with a scenes menu requires a lot of work by someone who knows something 
>> about that movie.
>>
>> Setting aside the principle as Gary enunciates it and the flagrant 
>> illegality, the practicality of the undertaking is pretty fuzzy.
>>
>> Judy Shoaf
>>
>> 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, 
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> between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
> distributors.
>   


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Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Jeanne Little]

Beth,

I cannot believe in an academic or educational setting, that technology 
staff are not educated in the ways of copyright! It boggles my mind. But 
then, quite a few things do...


We went through a similar experience back in 2000 when our IT department 
decided not to mess with this any longer and gave our library every 8mm, 
16mm, beta, umatic, and vhs copy they had. (Then stopped supplying 
viewing equipment to classrooms). Guess who got the task of sorting this 
mess out?


I will give our IT department credit, they have come up to speed over 
the last decade and know they cannot convert anything from a 
library-owned title when it is brought in by a faculty, staff, or 
student without our library's permission. What is done with personal 
items, I don't know.


Maybe it's late in the day, and my office is 82 degrees and rising, and 
I can't even open a window, but I am feeling pretty testy with those who 
think just because they can, they can.


Good luck A crash course in copyright for all sounds like just the ticket.

Jeanne Little

Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

On 4/1/2010 2:10 PM, Beth Traylor wrote:

Hello All,

We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that
our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the
classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD
equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they
are more reliable etc.".

They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS
tapes that faculty use to DVD.
They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its
for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As
far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.

Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our
Media collection).

Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this
thread but could not find it in the archives.

Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the
list too if you would like.


Beth Traylor
Media Librarian
UW-Milwaukee



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Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[John Streepy]

A little off topic, but in academia have you noticed that IT departments can 
unilaterally make decisions and do what ever they want, no questions asked, 
ever, no matter what the impact.  But if the Library makes a decision, all 
faculty (whether or not the decision impacts them or not) go into conniption 
mode and act like the Librarians are complete morons rather than information 
professionals.  I know a vast generalization, but how many have been impacted 
by a similar situation. 

jhs  


John H. Streepy
Media Services Supervisor
Library-Media Circulation
James E. Brooks Library
Central Washington University
400 East University Way
Ellensburg, WA  98926-7548

(509) 963-2861
http://www.lib.cwu.edu/media

"Hand to hand combat just goes with the territory.
All part of being a librarian" -- James Turner "Rex Libris"

Transitus profusum est nocens!




>>> Jeanne Little  4/1/2010 2:32 PM >>>
Beth,

I cannot believe in an academic or educational setting, that technology
staff are not educated in the ways of copyright! It boggles my mind. But
then, quite a few things do...

We went through a similar experience back in 2000 when our IT department
decided not to mess with this any longer and gave our library every 8mm,
16mm, beta, umatic, and vhs copy they had. (Then stopped supplying
viewing equipment to classrooms). Guess who got the task of sorting this
mess out?

I will give our IT department credit, they have come up to speed over
the last decade and know they cannot convert anything from a
library-owned title when it is brought in by a faculty, staff, or
student without our library's permission. What is done with personal
items, I don't know.

Maybe it's late in the day, and my office is 82 degrees and rising, and
I can't even open a window, but I am feeling pretty testy with those who
think just because they can, they can.

Good luck A crash course in copyright for all sounds like just the ticket.

Jeanne Little

Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

On 4/1/2010 2:10 PM, Beth Traylor wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that
> our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the
> classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD
> equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they
> are more reliable etc.".
>
> They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS
> tapes that faculty use to DVD.
> They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its
> for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As
> far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.
>
> Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our
> Media collection).
>
> Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this
> thread but could not find it in the archives.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the
> list too if you would like.
>
>
> Beth Traylor
> Media Librarian
> UW-Milwaukee
>
>
>
> 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.

Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Emily E. Albarillo]

Hi Beth -

We're converting obsolete older media (U-Matic, Betamax, SVHS) under 
108c, but only after an extensive search to make sure they're not 
available for sale (including contacting publishers etc). 

Across-the-board conversion of an entire VHS collection to DVD is very 
problematic because of copyright law.

Emily Albarillo
Digital Media Specialist
Sinclair Library
University of Hawaii at Manoa


Beth Traylor wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that 
> our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the 
> classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD 
> equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they 
> are more reliable etc.". 
>
> They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS 
> tapes that faculty use to DVD.
> They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its 
> for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As 
> far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.
>
> Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our 
> Media collection).
>
> Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this 
> thread but could not find it in the archives.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the 
> list too if you would like.
>
>
> Beth Traylor
> Media Librarian
> UW-Milwaukee
>
>
>
> 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.
>   


-- 
Emily E. Albarillo
Digital Media Specialist
Sinclair Library
University of Hawai'i at Manoa


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distributors.

Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[Christopher Drake]

My campus is having the exact same problem!  I used to be in charge of
both the campus AV support (meaning I installed and maintained all the
equipment that we used to play our collection) and our VHS tapes, audio
cassettes, CDs, and DVDs.  A few years ago our IT department demanded
control of the classroom support and they got it.  Now they are refusing
to support VHS in classrooms even though 80 percent of our collection
still in use is on VHS.  Our IT people seem to think it's perfectly fine
to illegally copy (and they know it's illegal because I and the print
Librarians here have told them so repeatedly) any VHS title for
"convenience."  They also want to convert everything so that it can be on
a server.

The main problem with this is the profound lack of communication between
our IT department, the campus, and us here at the Library!  I constantly
hear from professors that IT never asks them when huge decisions are made
as to what will be installed in classes and what would make it easier and
better for them to teach.  We tell our IT people again and again that they
need to support as many mediums as possible but it's like we're screaming
down a bottomless pit since VCRs and even DVD players get pulled from
classrooms in favor of IP phones and PCs that are also able to play DVDs
and CDs.  Every professor I talked to (and it was a lot at the time) said
they would rather that money used for IP phones had gone toward actual
classroom AV support.

While I am in favor of improved and improving technology I also believe in
supporting what our professors and contract teachers need and want!  Since
a DVD/VCR combo unit can be purchased for $60-$80 and will last for
several years of continued use I think it really isn't that "expensive" to
maintain VHS technology in classrooms and even build up a supply of extra
units that can be switched out if there is a problem with an in class
unit.  But I'm still yelling down the bottomless pit and our professors
are stuck having to borrow VCRs from their friends or bringing them from
home to try and hook up to the in class projectors themselves just to show
the videos they want to show for their classes.  Where possible they buy
the old VHS titles on DVD but most of them are either not available or are
far too expensive to purchase in the DVD format--especially when I make
certain our VHS cassettes are well cared for and working before they're
checked out!

So you aren't alone, Beth!  It seems to be happening to rather a lot of
us.  Unfortunately I don't have any great wisdom to impart on how to fix
the problem except to have a gaggle of professors complain to the higher
ups that they aren't being supported by the people who are supposed to be
supporting them!

Best of luck!

Chris

> Hello All,
>
> We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that
> our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the
> classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD
> equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they
> are more reliable etc.".
>
> They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS
> tapes that faculty use to DVD.
> They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its
> for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As
> far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.
>
> Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our
> Media collection).
>
> Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this
> thread but could not find it in the archives.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the
> list too if you would like.
>
>
> Beth Traylor
> Media Librarian
> UW-Milwaukee
>
>
>
> 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.
>



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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] Help finding a films on various aspects of literature

[Marynelle Chew]

Greetings all,

I'm not a film librarian (if I can't find anything on Google, I'm stuck) and
could use the assistance of your knowledge and expertise to identify films
that might meet these criteria (5 different requests in all).

#1 Is there a film about Blake's "Song's of Innocence and Experience" that
might include discussion, analysis, dramatic readings and also discuss the
importance of the illuminated marginalia as well as display it?

#2 Is there a film that discusses science fiction and speculative fiction in
terms of history of the genre, the connection to myth? Something that would
be a sort of capstone type of lecture.

#3 Is there a US-distributed version of "We" by Yvegeni Zamyatin? We found
Wir (made for TV in 1981) and it's undoubtedly in German. The professor
prefers English, with subtitles as a second choice.

#4 Crime & Punishment - the Complete Miniseries (1980) (WEA 2003?) is
currently available on Amazon as a download. I found a physical copy on
buy.com, but it's also sold out. Suggestions for obtaining a used physical
copy?

#5. I'll include the instructor's request below for your consideration.

I'd also like to show a movie to my [junior-level English] class (Dostoevsky
and Tolstoy). I'd like it to be interesting and educational, but also low
stress and more celebratory than challenging. 

The class is about the moral aspects, or the moral imperative in these
authors. Do you or any of your film librarian friends know of any film that
would be a nice closing act for the end of the class? 

It could talk about the relevance of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to today's world
issues, or popular expressions of their works and ideas, something for the
"and now what" factor that's always lingering after an intensive class. 

It could also be nice to see if there were some discussions of their
contribution to moral philosophy or social consciousness. Maybe it's another
case of, "I need to make the movie..." but it's worth investigation surely,
since these are established authors with a worldwide following.

This was a lot to ask and on behalf of my professor and myself, we are most
grateful for any assistance you may be able to render.
 
Marynelle
 
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Marynelle Chew
Head, Technical Services
Joseph F. Smith Library
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
55-220 Kulanui St. #1966
Laie, HI  96762
 
Ph: (808) 675-3863  
Fax: (808) 675-3877 
ch...@byuh.edu



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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 
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between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

Re: [Videolib] Help finding a films on various aspects of literature

[ghandman]

Hi

Check out www.films.com (Films Media Group).  I notice there's a DVD on
Blake and Songs of Innocence.  If your instructor is brave, there's also a
wild and wooly video of Allen Ginsberg singing (well, sort of) Songs of
Innocence. (http://www.thinairvideo.com/210_Ginsberg-Blake.html)

Films.com also has a sci fi doc which might work: Brave New Worlds: The
Science Fiction Phenomenon

Gary Handman


> Greetings all,
>
> I'm not a film librarian (if I can't find anything on Google, I'm stuck)
> and
> could use the assistance of your knowledge and expertise to identify films
> that might meet these criteria (5 different requests in all).
>
> #1 Is there a film about Blake's "Song's of Innocence and Experience" that
> might include discussion, analysis, dramatic readings and also discuss the
> importance of the illuminated marginalia as well as display it?
>
> #2 Is there a film that discusses science fiction and speculative fiction
> in
> terms of history of the genre, the connection to myth? Something that
> would
> be a sort of capstone type of lecture.
>
> #3 Is there a US-distributed version of "We" by Yvegeni Zamyatin? We found
> Wir (made for TV in 1981) and it's undoubtedly in German. The professor
> prefers English, with subtitles as a second choice.
>
> #4 Crime & Punishment - the Complete Miniseries (1980) (WEA 2003?) is
> currently available on Amazon as a download. I found a physical copy on
> buy.com, but it's also sold out. Suggestions for obtaining a used physical
> copy?
>
> #5. I'll include the instructor's request below for your consideration.
>
> I'd also like to show a movie to my [junior-level English] class
> (Dostoevsky
> and Tolstoy). I'd like it to be interesting and educational, but also low
> stress and more celebratory than challenging.
>
> The class is about the moral aspects, or the moral imperative in these
> authors. Do you or any of your film librarian friends know of any film
> that
> would be a nice closing act for the end of the class?
>
> It could talk about the relevance of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to today's
> world
> issues, or popular expressions of their works and ideas, something for the
> "and now what" factor that's always lingering after an intensive class.
>
> It could also be nice to see if there were some discussions of their
> contribution to moral philosophy or social consciousness. Maybe it's
> another
> case of, "I need to make the movie..." but it's worth investigation
> surely,
> since these are established authors with a worldwide following.
>
> This was a lot to ask and on behalf of my professor and myself, we are
> most
> grateful for any assistance you may be able to render.
> ��
> Marynelle
> ��
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
> Marynelle Chew
> Head, Technical Services
> Joseph F. Smith Library
> Brigham Young University-Hawaii
> 55-220 Kulanui St. #1966
> Laie, HI�� 96762
> ��
> Ph: (808) 675-3863��
> Fax: (808) 675-3877
> ch...@byuh.edu
>
>
>
> 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.
>


Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
--Francois Truffaut


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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.

Re: [Videolib] Help finding a films on various aspects of literature

[Randal Baier]

Love that video. Saw him perform this in Cambridge, (uh, that would be 
Boston) ca. 1978, at the Cafe Phoenix? Even better is when Allen does 
ANY performance with "Aboriginal rhythm sticks." gets out there a bit. 
Ginsberg made Blake alive for me -- I'd read and seen his work for years 
as a liberal arts "all those kids from NYC read Blake" kind of small 
arts college student but WOW -- what a difference when a poet sings a 
poet! I walked by William Blake's house in London last year -- it was 
near Burberry flagship store -- how strange. Little lambs made into 
pocketbooks. :(


Be brave, the times are calling us again.

Gary, thanks for pointing out these performances!! Open voice Berkeley 
checks in again. :)


Randal Baier




Check out www.films.com (Films Media Group).  I notice there's a DVD on
Blake and Songs of Innocence.  If your instructor is brave, there's also a
wild and wooly video of Allen Ginsberg singing (well, sort of) Songs of
Innocence. (http://www.thinairvideo.com/210_Ginsberg-Blake.html)

Films.com also has a sci fi doc which might work: Brave New Worlds: The
Science Fiction Phenomenon

Gary Handman


  

Greetings all,

I'm not a film librarian (if I can't find anything on Google, I'm stuck)
and
could use the assistance of your knowledge and expertise to identify films
that might meet these criteria (5 different requests in all).

#1 Is there a film about Blake's "Song's of Innocence and Experience" that
might include discussion, analysis, dramatic readings and also discuss the
importance of the illuminated marginalia as well as display it?

#2 Is there a film that discusses science fiction and speculative fiction
in
terms of history of the genre, the connection to myth? Something that
would
be a sort of capstone type of lecture.

#3 Is there a US-distributed version of "We" by Yvegeni Zamyatin? We found
Wir (made for TV in 1981) and it's undoubtedly in German. The professor
prefers English, with subtitles as a second choice.

#4 Crime & Punishment - the Complete Miniseries (1980) (WEA 2003?) is
currently available on Amazon as a download. I found a physical copy on
buy.com, but it's also sold out. Suggestions for obtaining a used physical
copy?

#5. I'll include the instructor's request below for your consideration.

I'd also like to show a movie to my [junior-level English] class
(Dostoevsky
and Tolstoy). I'd like it to be interesting and educational, but also low
stress and more celebratory than challenging.

The class is about the moral aspects, or the moral imperative in these
authors. Do you or any of your film librarian friends know of any film
that
would be a nice closing act for the end of the class?

It could talk about the relevance of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to today's
world
issues, or popular expressions of their works and ideas, something for the
"and now what" factor that's always lingering after an intensive class.

It could also be nice to see if there were some discussions of their
contribution to moral philosophy or social consciousness. Maybe it's
another
case of, "I need to make the movie..." but it's worth investigation
surely,
since these are established authors with a worldwide following.

This was a lot to ask and on behalf of my professor and myself, we are
most
grateful for any assistance you may be able to render.
 
Marynelle
 
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Marynelle Chew
Head, Technical Services
Joseph F. Smith Library
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
55-220 Kulanui St. #1966
Laie, HI  96762
 
Ph: (808) 675-3863 
Fax: (808) 675-3877

ch...@byuh.edu



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.





Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
--Francois Truffaut


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.
  


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preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
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Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

[CROWLEY, CHRISTINE]

And are they going to do the legwork to get the legal rights to do these
conversions "for a price"?

Christine Crowley
Dean of Learning Resources
Northwest Vista College
3535 N. Ellison Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78251
210.486.4572 voice
210.486.4504 fax
NEW NAME AND email--ccrowl...@alamo.edu


-Original Message-
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Beth Traylor
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 2:11 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

Hello All,

We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that 
our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the 
classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because "DVD 
equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they

are more reliable etc.". 

They also advertised in that same article that they will convert all VHS

tapes that faculty use to DVD.
They never mentioned anything about copyright - just that "because its 
for educational use then its ok to do the conversion (for a price)." As 
far as I can tell they never talked to campus legal either.

Needless to say we were surprised (we have over 5000 VHS tapes in our 
Media collection).

Has any other Media unit dealt with this?  I seem to remember this 
thread but could not find it in the archives.

Any help would be appreciated.  Please feel free to contact me off the 
list too if you would like.


Beth Traylor
Media Librarian
UW-Milwaukee



VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
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control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve
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of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
producers and distributors.

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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.