Re: [Videolib] re Your pricing policies

[Jessica Rosner]

Nahum,
Let me give you some perspective from the distributor point  of view. You
have nothing to worry about with public libraries re streaming or copying
material. They are sticklers for copyright and I have never had any problem
with any public library. They also would never show a film to an audience
unless they had purchased the rights to do so. Technically a teacher could
borrow a film and use it in a class but it is not very likely by simple
logistics. First the teacher would have to find it, be a member of that
library system and make sure they could get it for the day needed. I again
have never had an issue with this in  20 years of distribution but it is
important to understand that under US copyright law any legal copy can be
used in a class.

Also I don't know any serious distributor that does not give prices, there
are issues with multi-tiered pricing for different uses but it is common
but no prices from  distributor would be highly unusual.

Good luck

Jessica

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:39 AM, nahum laufer wrote:

> Gary , Vicki & Elizabeth
>
> Thanks for your remarks
>
> Selling by e-marketing is first of all trusting people, as Gary bought out
> the issue of our price policies wording, I would like his opinion on the
> following: "Public Libraries , lending for Home use only". Does that mean a
> school teacher can borrow a film screen it in a face to face situation?***
> *
>
> Second I have no problem with a library system with a number of branches
> buying one copy and sending to a branch according to demands, but it is a
> serious breach of copyright if you make copies or stream it to the branches.
> 
>
> As to the price, we at "Docs for Education" are offering award winning,
> quality documentary  films, after a round of Film Festivals,  The way to
> expose them to wide publics is through Libraries, especially those that
> have film series.
>
> Many distributers don’t put a selling price at their web-site, and will
> quote only after you ask them, My experience that quoting a price shows
> reliability, I don't know what would be a fair price for : "Public
> Libraries , lending for Home use only".
>
> So I'll act as a vendor at Colba Market – Mumbai "Memsahib give me your
> good price". 
>
> Have a happy Easter or Pesach
>
> www.docsforeducation.com
>
> Nahum Laufer
>
> Sales
>
> Docs for Education
>
> Erez Laufer Films
>
> Holland st 10 
>
> Afulla 18371
>
> Israel
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:
> videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *elizabeth mcmahon
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 01, 2012 1:00 AM
> *To:* videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Videolib] re Your pricing policies
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks, Vicki, for seeing my perspective. I'd like to take this
> opportunity to make a crucial amendment to what I said, now bolded and
> underlined: Potentially, you could be looking at one copy *each* for a
> system of say, 10 federated libraries, or a really large system of 90
> branches. And hopefully, the subject matter is compelling enough that it
> circs more than once or twice. That's where collection development and
> knowledge of the community and its library collections' usage is paramount.
> We want statistics, afterall, everyone's bread and butter!
>
>  
>
> Elizabeth
>
> *From:* Vicki Nesting 
> *To:* videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:38 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Videolib] re Your pricing policies
>
>
> I want to second what Elizabeth is saying.  Not all public libraries do
> public screenings and if they do, it may be a one time thing, in which
> case they will request public performance rights.  At least 99% of the
> dvd use in our medium-sized public library is home use.  And, as
> Elizabeth points out, we cannot plunk down $100+ for a dvd that's for
> home use only and may only check out once or twice.  It's just not a
> reasonable cost for us.
>
> Vicki Nesting
> St. Charles Parish Library
> Louisiana
>
>
>
>
> elizabeth mcmahon wrote:
>
> > Nahum,
> >
> > That may very well be true; I cannot speak for all public
> > libraries/systems. That's also not to say just because there is a
> > public meeting room or even an auditorium that it is used for
> > screenings also. Many libraries do not bother with film programming,
> > regrettably. But there is a big difference between a public library
> > doing public programming (for which titles would necessarily need
> > PPR) and patrons browsing open stacks (and still in this day and age,
> > browsing cards that represent titles kept in closed stacks for
> > security reasons) and picking up a few things to take home to
> > watch. That is what is termed home use only and strictly copyright
> > protected. Public libraries cannot plunk down $100+ for a dvd that's
> > home use only. Won't/cannot happen. Thus the price adjustment
> > downwards by an increasing amount of 

Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[Randal Baier]

That was excellent.. I had just returned from a weekend conference and just 
passed it along. Completely taken in. 

Hopefully it will go viral and justice Kennedy will take it on as public 
advocacy.

- Reply message -
From: "Sarah E. McCleskey" 
To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" 
Subject: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on  educational 
streaming
Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 11:33 pm




good one!

Sarah McCleskey
sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu

From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] 
On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly [deg.farre...@asu.edu]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 8:12 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational  
streaming

FYI

Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?

-deg

deg farrelly
ASU Libraries
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 871006
Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
480.965.1403


Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
To: Deg Farrelly

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
-

Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video

In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational use of 
commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the face-to-face 
teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.  Based on arguments in 
the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides educational institutions 
permission to digitize and stream videos from any source, provided those 
materials were legally acquired.

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Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[Dennis Doros]

Gee, and I heard that in the same session that the Supreme Court has
decided that all publicly-funded institutions goes against the original
founders promise of freedom from government intervention (the little known
first and a half amendment) and that they are all being turned over to
private investors. From now all, all public colleges will be known as Jobs
University (The Fighting Macs) and libraries will be called The Donald's
Place of Things we Don't Read.

Oh. I'm sorry, is it the 2nd already?

Dennis

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Deg Farrelly  wrote:

> FYI
>
> Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?
>
> -deg
>
> deg farrelly
> ASU Libraries
> Arizona State University
> P.O. Box 871006
> Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
> 480.965.1403
>
> 
> Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
> To: Deg Farrelly
>
> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
> -
>
> Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video
>
> In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational use
> of commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the
> face-to-face teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.  Based
> on arguments in the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides educational
> institutions permission to digitize and stream videos from any source,
> provided those materials were legally acquired.
>
> Read More:
> http://tinyurl.com/nytimes-supreme-court-on-video
>
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>



-- 
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Phone: 201-767-3117
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email: milefi...@gmail.com
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Re: [Videolib] re Your pricing policies

[Susan Albrecht]

And not just publics.  I purchase films for an academic library, and the vast 
majority of our checkouts are for personal home (or dorm or frat...) use or for 
faculty showing a film in a face-to-face teaching situation.  For any public 
screening, we make sure we've purchased PPR.  So I disagree with the idea that 
there's no reason to license for "lending only."  That's most of what we do!

Yes, for documentaries, I do often pay a higher price because PPR is that's all 
that's offered -- and since it's a fine work, I'm willing to pay it, hoping 
someone WILL come along and use it in a film series or special event 
screening... but unfortunately, the vast majority of the ones for which I've 
paid PPR never do get screened publicly.  Thus I have been appreciative of Kino 
Lorber's offering 3 options:  home use, institutional, and institutional with 
PPR.  That way, if I suspect something will be likely to be screened, I can go 
ahead & pay more for the "with PPR" option; but if I doubt it, I can get it for 
~$100 less and have it ready for those "lending only" situations.  This frees 
up more budget to buy more films.

That's a long way of saying I agree with the notion of "institutional without 
PPR" and "institutional with PPR" options, priced appropriately.  I believe it 
would help your sales.

Susan Albrecht at Wabash College


From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of nahum laufer
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 1:40 PM
To: 'elizabeth mcmahon'; videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] re Your pricing policies

Hi Elizabeth
Thanks for your remarks.
Of course I distribute to Public libraries, but to best of my knowledge most 
libraries today have a  screening room, nearly all also have film series/clubs, 
so no point in licensing only for "lending only", yet when a small community 
library applied to me I gave a discount.
Also a big county library with 20 branches wants say 10 copies one for each 
branch also will receive a discount.
Please let me know in which library you serve.
Best
Nahum Laufer
Sales
Docs for Education
Erez Laufer Films
Holland st 10
Afulla 18371
Israel



From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of elizabeth mcmahon
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 9:27 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] re Your pricing policies

>From a public library standpoint, would not "library lending rights" be 
>analogous to the accepted term home use only? Or does you company not sell, or 
>seek to sell, to public libraries? $175 is prohibitive at best, and is more in 
>line for a title with the cost for PPR. Are you not interested in selling 
>freely circulating copies that can be borrowed by the public to enjoy in the 
>confines of their own home? More and more top drawer distributors recognize 
>they are missing out on considerable sales by not doing so, and therefore, 
>changing their pricing models.

Elizabeth McMahon


From: "ghand...@library.berkeley.edu" 
mailto:ghand...@library.berkeley.edu>>
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Videolib] re Your pricing policies

Thanks

There's still a problem, I'm afraid.  Screening films/videos in a
classroom in the service of regular curricula does not require separate
rights in this country.  The copyright laws of the US have a specific
provision for allowing such use in face-to-face teaching.

It would be more accurate (and honest) to simply charge two prices:

One for use in classrooms and libraries, and one for public performance.

As to your question:  An opening screening (i.e. an extra-curricular
screening) generally requires performance rights, even if a professor
gives a spiel before the show, and even if no admittance fees are charged.

Berkeley would be interested in joining your growing customer base, but
not with the terms currently stated on your web site.

Shalom,

Gary

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Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[ghandman]

This sounds completely bogus...the case hasn't even made it thru appellate
court yet...

gary


> FYI
>
> Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?
>
> -deg
>
> deg farrelly
> ASU Libraries
> Arizona State University
> P.O. Box 871006
> Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
> 480.965.1403
>
> 
> Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
> To: Deg Farrelly
>
> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
> -
>
> Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video
>
> In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational use
> of commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the
> face-to-face teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.
> Based on arguments in the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides
> educational institutions permission to digitize and stream videos from any
> source, provided those materials were legally acquired.
>
> Read More:
> http://tinyurl.com/nytimes-supreme-court-on-video
>
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> producers and distributors.
>


Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
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Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[Junior Tidal]

The URL explains the case really well. Thanks to Deg for sharing this important 
information! 

Best,
Junior

Junior Tidal
Web Services and Multimedia Librarian
CUNY New York City College of Technology
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718.260.5481
>>>  04/02/12 11:11 AM >>>
This sounds completely bogus...the case hasn't even made it thru appellate
court yet...

gary


> FYI
>
> Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?
>
> -deg
>
> deg farrelly
> ASU Libraries
> Arizona State University
> P.O. Box 871006
> Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
> 480.965.1403
>
> 
> Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
> To: Deg Farrelly
>
> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
> -
>
> Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video
>
> In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational use
> of commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the
> face-to-face teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.
> Based on arguments in the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides
> educational institutions permission to digitize and stream videos from any
> source, provided those materials were legally acquired.
>
> Read More:
> http://tinyurl.com/nytimes-supreme-court-on-video
>
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>


Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

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Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[Dennis Doros]

Gary, you should really check out deg's link.

DD

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM,  wrote:

> This sounds completely bogus...the case hasn't even made it thru appellate
> court yet...
>
> gary
>
>
> > FYI
> >
> > Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?
> >
> > -deg
> >
> > deg farrelly
> > ASU Libraries
> > Arizona State University
> > P.O. Box 871006
> > Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
> > 480.965.1403
> >
> > 
> > Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
> > To: Deg Farrelly
> >
> > Breaking News Alert
> > The New York Times
> > Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
> > -
> >
> > Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video
> >
> > In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational
> use
> > of commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the
> > face-to-face teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.
> > Based on arguments in the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides
> > educational institutions permission to digitize and stream videos from
> any
> > source, provided those materials were legally acquired.
> >
> > Read More:
> > http://tinyurl.com/nytimes-supreme-court-on-video
> >
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> 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
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>
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-- 
Best regards,
Dennis Doros
Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero
PO Box 128
Harrington Park, NJ 07640
Phone: 201-767-3117
Fax: 201-767-3035
email: milefi...@gmail.com
www.milestonefilms.com
www.comebackafrica.com
www.yougottomove.com
www.ontheboweryfilm.com
www.arayafilm.com
www.exilesfilm.com
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www.killerofsheep.com

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[Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[ghandman]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).  
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn
depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).  
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook. 
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything
having to do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight. 
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




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.

Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[ghandman]

Fool, that's me!

g



> Gary, you should really check out deg's link.
>
> DD
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM,  wrote:
>
>> This sounds completely bogus...the case hasn't even made it thru
>> appellate
>> court yet...
>>
>> gary
>>
>>
>> > FYI
>> >
>> > Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?
>> >
>> > -deg
>> >
>> > deg farrelly
>> > ASU Libraries
>> > Arizona State University
>> > P.O. Box 871006
>> > Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
>> > 480.965.1403
>> >
>> > 
>> > Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
>> > To: Deg Farrelly
>> >
>> > Breaking News Alert
>> > The New York Times
>> > Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
>> > -
>> >
>> > Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video
>> >
>> > In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational
>> use
>> > of commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the
>> > face-to-face teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.
>> > Based on arguments in the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides
>> > educational institutions permission to digitize and stream videos from
>> any
>> > source, provided those materials were legally acquired.
>> >
>> > Read More:
>> > http://tinyurl.com/nytimes-supreme-court-on-video
>> >
>> > About This E-Mail
>> > You received this message because you are signed up to receive
>> breaking
>> > news
>> > alerts from NYTimes.com.
>> >
>> > To unsubscribe, change your e-mail address or to sign up for daily
>> > headlines
>> > or other newsletters, go to:
>> > http://www.nytimes.com/email
>> >
>> > NYTimes.com
>> > 260 Seventh Ave.
>> > New York, NY 10016
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Dennis Doros
> Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero
> PO Box 128
> Harrington Park, NJ 07640
> Phone: 201-767-3117
> Fax: 201-767-3035
> email: milefi...@gmail.com
> www.milestonefilms.com
> www.comebackafrica.com
> www.yougottomove.com
> www.ontheboweryfilm.com
> www.arayafilm.com
> www.exilesfilm.com
> www.wordisoutmovie.com
> www.killerofsheep.com
> 
> Join "Milestone Film" on Facebook and Twitter!
> and the
> Association of Moving Image Archivists !
>
>
> Follow Milestone on Twitter! 
> 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.

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Dennis Doros]

Dear Gary,

Well, thank god you didn't send this out yesterday! But then again, I wish
it was April Fools...

Thank you from one of the distributors -- you've blessed us with many
lively discussions, encouragement, admonishments when needed, and strangely
enough, sanity. Amy and I look forward to the Gary Handman 2013 World Banjo
Tour and promise to bring AV groupies.

As for Gisele, thank her for volunteering and tell her that child rearing
is excellent practice for running the listserv! ;-)


-- 
Fondest regards,
Dennis
Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero
PO Box 128
Harrington Park, NJ 07640
Phone: 201-767-3117
Fax: 201-767-3035
email: milefi...@gmail.com
www.milestonefilms.com
www.comebackafrica.com
www.yougottomove.com
www.ontheboweryfilm.com
www.arayafilm.com
www.exilesfilm.com
www.wordisoutmovie.com
www.killerofsheep.com

Join "Milestone Film" on Facebook and Twitter!
and the
Association of Moving Image Archivists !


Follow Milestone on Twitter! 
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] Good Night and Good Luck

[John Streepy]

Gary, 
speaking for a all the newbies who have graced this list; I want to give
a very big thank you for assisting us grow beyond being newbies.  You
have been a source of helpful information and I became a better public
servant with the help you provided.  Enjoy the next phase of your life. 
regards 
jhs 


John H. Streepy

Library-Government Publications
James E. Brooks Library
Central Washington University
400 East University Way
Ellensburg, WA  98926-7548

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

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

Transitus profusum est nocens!





>>>  4/2/2012 8:17 AM >>>
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my
36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me). 
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my
murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as
much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the
fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn
of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m
bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of
video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue
teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want
to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to
freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center*  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too
damn
depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that
she’s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!). 
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on
Facebook.
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything
having to do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good
fight.
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




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 Truf

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Rosen, Rhonda J.]

Thanks, Gary for all your great insight, advice and humor throughout the years. 
 You will be missed.
Rhonda
Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media & Access Services
William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University
One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659
rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu| 310/338-4584|
http://library.lmu.edu
 "You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people 
sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing 
wild animals as librarians."
--Monty Python
 

 



-Original Message-
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:17 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).  
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn
depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).  
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook. 
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything
having to do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight. 
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.

Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[Bob Norris]

Well it is clear Gary did not research the link thoroughly. I think he should.

Bob

On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:21 AM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote:

> 
>   1. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu)
>   2. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (Junior Tidal)
>   3. Good Night and Good Luck (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu)
>   4. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (Dennis Doros)
>   5. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu)
> 
> From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
> Date: April 2, 2012 10:05:39 AM CDT
> To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational 
> streaming
> Reply-To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
> 
> 
> This sounds completely bogus...the case hasn't even made it thru appellate
> court yet...
> 
> gary
> 
> 
>> FYI
>> 
>> Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?
>> 
>> -deg
>> 
>> deg farrelly
>> ASU Libraries
>> Arizona State University
>> P.O. Box 871006
>> Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
>> 480.965.1403
>> 
>> 
>> Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
>> To: Deg Farrelly
>> 
>> Breaking News Alert
>> The New York Times
>> Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
>> -
>> 
>> Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video
>> 
>> In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational use
>> of commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the
>> face-to-face teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.
>> Based on arguments in the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides
>> educational institutions permission to digitize and stream videos from any
>> source, provided those materials were legally acquired.
>> 
>> Read More:
>> http://tinyurl.com/nytimes-supreme-court-on-video
>> 
>> About This E-Mail
>> You received this message because you are signed up to receive breaking
>> news
>> alerts from NYTimes.com.
>> 
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>> or other newsletters, go to:
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>> 
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>> 260 Seventh Ave.
>> New York, NY 10016
>> 
>> 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] Good Night and Good Luck

[Gail Fedak]

Oh, no!!! You will be sorely missed! Thanks for the 
mentoring you have given so many of us. Sounds like you have plenty of 
interests waiting to take center stage. Enjoy them all!

Gail


On 4/2/2012 10:17 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn
depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook.
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything
having to do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight.
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




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

Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational streaming

[Jessica Rosner]

Well I did not even click on it as I knew what it was though not how it
would look.

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Bob Norris  wrote:

> Well it is clear Gary did not research the link thoroughly. I think he
> should.
>
> Bob
>
> On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:21 AM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote:
>
>
>   1. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu)
>   2. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (Junior Tidal)
>   3. Good Night and Good Luck (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu)
>   4. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (Dennis Doros)
>   5. Re: FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on educational
>  streaming (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu)
>
> *From: *ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
> *Date: *April 2, 2012 10:05:39 AM CDT
> *To: *videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
> *Subject: **Re: [Videolib] FW: News Alert: Supreme Court rules on
> educational streaming*
> *Reply-To: *videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
>
>
> This sounds completely bogus...the case hasn't even made it thru appellate
> court yet...
>
> gary
>
>
> FYI
>
>
> Anyone else receive this or hear anything about this ruling?
>
>
> -deg
>
>
> deg farrelly
>
> ASU Libraries
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> Arizona State University
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>
> 
>
> Sent:   Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:45 AM
>
> To: Deg Farrelly
>
>
> Breaking News Alert
>
> The New York Times
>
> Sunday, April 1, 2012 -- 12:31 PM EDT
>
> -
>
>
> Supreme Court rules on copyright for educational video
>
>
> In a surprise ruling the Supreme Court has determined that educational use
>
> of commercial video by means of streaming services falls within the
>
> face-to-face teaching exemption (Section 110) of U.S. copyright law.
>
> Based on arguments in the AIME v UCLA lawsuit, this ruling provides
>
> educational institutions permission to digitize and stream videos from any
>
> source, provided those materials were legally acquired.
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preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
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working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication 
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Helen P. Mack]

Gary, while I wish you well in your retirement, I will personally mourn 
the loss of your experience, knowledge, good sense, and humor.  Have a 
wonderful rest-of-your-life!  You have certainly earned it after leaving 
an indelible mark on our profession.

  Like you, I have been around "forever" and have tentatively chosen 
12/31/13 as my retirement date.  I am already at the point, however, 
where I threaten to go earlier if presented with an assignment that I 
truly dread!  No one believes me though ... at least not yet.

On 4/2/2012 11:17 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
>
> It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
> relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
> California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
> Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
> as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).
> I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
> there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
> a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
> such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
> anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
> position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.
>
> In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
> appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
> years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
> the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
> hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
> out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
> production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
> again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
> collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
> tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
> scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
> it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.
>
> I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
> those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
> up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
> kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
> get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
> heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
> have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
> gloomy about prospects for the future.
>
> Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
> film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
> write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
> short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
> to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
> cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
> accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.
>
> As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
> the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
> completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
> future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
> best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn
> depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
> words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
> it.
>
> For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
> will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
> administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
> going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
> so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).
> Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
> wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
> after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook.
> I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything
> having to do with copyright or fair use).
>
> Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight.
> It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
> Salud!
>
> Gary Handman
>
>
>
>
> 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 t

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Bonnie Brown]

Dear Gary,

Now I am officially depressed. Happy for you, of course, but sad for all of
us who will miss your wisdom and guidance.

Best wishes to you, Gary. You will be so very missed!

-Bonnie Brown
Avery Fisher Center
E.H. Bobst Library
New York University

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Helen P. Mack  wrote:

> Gary, while I wish you well in your retirement, I will personally mourn
> the loss of your experience, knowledge, good sense, and humor.  Have a
> wonderful rest-of-your-life!  You have certainly earned it after leaving
> an indelible mark on our profession.
>
>  Like you, I have been around "forever" and have tentatively chosen
> 12/31/13 as my retirement date.  I am already at the point, however,
> where I threaten to go earlier if presented with an assignment that I
> truly dread!  No one believes me though ... at least not yet.
>
> On 4/2/2012 11:17 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
> > Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
> >
> > It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
> > relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
> > California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
> > Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my
> 36th
> > as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).
> > I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
> > there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my
> murmuring
> > a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
> > such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
> > anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
> > position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.
> >
> > In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the
> fiery
> > appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
> > years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
> > the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
> > hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
> > out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of
> video
> > production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
> > again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
> > collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
> > tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
> > scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
> > it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.
> >
> > I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
> > those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
> > up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
> > kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
> > get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
> > heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
> > have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
> > gloomy about prospects for the future.
> >
> > Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue
> teaching
> > film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want
> to
> > write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
> > short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
> > to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
> > cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
> > accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.
> >
> > As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
> > the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
> > completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
> > future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
> > best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too
> damn
> > depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
> > words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
> > it.
> >
> > For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
> > will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
> > administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
> > going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
> > so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).
> > Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
> > wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
> > after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on
> Facebook.
> > I’d love to stay in

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Susan Weber]

Gary:
I'm glad you left some time for all of the accolades to fall your way - 
you are

so deserved of them.
I've learned so much from you. I've gained so much from your knowledge,
from the Media Resources website, from the stimulating commentaries you've
made.  I've giggled at your humour, and saved some of your outstanding 
statements
on multi-tier pricing, on streaming media, and other topics that I know 
will arise

for me in my work. I wish I could be as erudite as you are.

Thank you for your numerous contributions to media librarianship, to film,
to copyright analysis.  Thank you for Videolib and Videonews. Please don't
leave the list with no moderator - say it isn't so.

I'm sure this will not be "The End" but rather the start of new things.
May you enjoy the next phase, chapter, movement, ...Act 2.

Regards,
Susan Weber

On 02/04/2012 8:17 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).  
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and

there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn
depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).  
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and

wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook. 
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything

having to do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight. 
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.

Salud!

Gary Handman




Gary H

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[S Urwiler]

Hi Gary -
Thank you for all your help, and good luck in your retirement!  We will miss 
you 
tremendously!

Sheila Urwiler
Director
Starke County Public Library
Knox, IN
 
 





From: John Streepy 
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Sent: Mon, April 2, 2012 11:07:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

 
Gary, 
speaking for a all the newbies who have graced this list; I want to give a very 
big thank you for assisting us grow beyond being newbies.  You have been a 
source of helpful information and I became a better public servant with the 
help 
you provided.  Enjoy the next phase of your life. 

regards 
jhs 


John H. Streepy

Library-Government Publications
James E. Brooks Library
Central Washington University
400 East University Way
Ellensburg, WA  98926-7548

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

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

Transitus profusum est nocens!





>>>  4/2/2012 8:17 AM >>>
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me). 
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn
depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!). 
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook.
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything
having to do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrade

[Videolib] DVD approval plans

[nahum laufer]

Hello Anthony

I'm a distributor of documentary quality films.

Your university has already purchased one of our films "The Darien Dilemma".

I see no point in a somebody else distributing our films , that will raise
the price and the filmmaker will not get more.

Yet I have sold a few copies through suppliers that take a commission from
the university, I got our asking price.

See our catalogue www.docsforeducation.com

Cheers

Nahum Laufer

Sales

Docs for Education

Erez Laufer Films

Holland st 10 

Afulla 18371

Israel

 

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] Good Night and Good Luck

[Linda Duchin]

Best of luck dear Gary!  I am sure you have a wonderful time but I, one
among many, will miss you.  Cheers, Linda


On 4/2/12 11:17 AM, "ghand...@library.berkeley.edu"
 wrote:

> Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy,
> ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming
> retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources
> Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University,
> and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little
> surreal to me).  
I¹ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those
> years, and
there hasn¹t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my
> murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble
> into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think
> of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position
> in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some
> sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance
> of Halley¹s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I
> began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age
> (or the ³Video Revolution² as it was often
hyperbolically called in the
> library literature at the time).  I¹m bowing
out of the business at a time
> when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and
> the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along
> with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound
> to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I¹m not sure whether I¹m
> leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in
> any case
it¹s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next
> decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly,
> both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I
> grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you¹ve become
> a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the
> obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.
> I¹m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues
> who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me
> less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I¹m going
> to do next:  I¹d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off;
> I¹m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all
> the national cinemas I¹ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in
> more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to
> get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I¹m aiming
> at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café
> personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources CenterŠ  In
> light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is
> almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.
> The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky,
> at
best.  I can¹t really think about all of this too much; it¹s just too
> damn
depressing to ponder, and I¹ve got other things on my mind. In
> other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there¹s not a damn thing I can do
> about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations
> Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep
> an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that
> she¹s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of
> September,
so you¹re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).
> 
Gisele¹s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I¹ll be around and
wrapping
> things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is
> going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I¹m also on Facebook. 
I¹d love to stay
> in touch (but please don¹t contact me about anything
having to do with
> copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue
> fighting the good fight. 
It really has been an honor and a delight working
> with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources
> Center
Moffitt Library
UC
> Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.e
> du/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

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Frederiksen, Linda J]

Ditto on everything everyone else has already said.  And - PS - thanks for your 
Cranberry-Ginger Chutney recipe - it is (like you) totally awesome!

--Linda

Linda Frederiksen
Head of Access Services
Washington State University Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue
Vancouver, WA  98686
Email: lfrederik...@vancouver.wsu.edu
Phone: 360.546.9683
Fax: 360.546.9039

-Original Message-
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:17 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast relief 
that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of California 
Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th as a 
librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).  
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and there 
hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring a little 
thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another position in 
which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery 
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74 years 
later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of the home 
video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often hyperbolically called in 
the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing out of the business at a time 
when the technologies and economics of video production and distribution, and 
the video content universe itself are again in a state of radical flux.  Along 
with these changes, video collections and service in libraries are also bound 
to experience major tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m 
leaving the scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any 
case it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both those on 
the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew up with a 
number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a kind of extended 
workaday family, complete with the obstreperous get-togethers, occasional 
bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also heartened by the number of young, 
creative, and energetic colleagues who have hopped on board in more recent 
times.  Definitely makes me less gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching film 
somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to write a 
bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given short-shrift to over 
the years; want to log in more gym time; would like to hone my banjo and 
ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance cartooning and 
illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an accomplished and 
well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of the 
dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost completely 
unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The future of the 
redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at best.  I can’t really 
think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn depressing to ponder, and 
I’ve got other things on my mind. In other words, après moi, le deluge, and 
there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina, will 
look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an administrative 
eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s going out on 
maternity leave from May until around the end of September, so you’re pretty 
much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).  
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and wrapping 
things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address after June is 
going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook. 
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything having to 
do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight. 
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




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 Truffau

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Deg Farrelly]

Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkG6pnr7-g

:(

-deg




Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:17:07 -0700
From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.

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] Good Night and Good Luck

[Steven Matthew]

Gary,

Thank you very much for shepherding us through so many ups and downs in this 
profession.  I can't begin to tell you how much you have helped me 
professionally. 

Enjoy the next phase of your life.

Steven

Steven C. Matthew

-Original Message-
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:17 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast relief 
that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of California 
Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th as a 
librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).  
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and there 
hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring a little 
thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another position in 
which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery 
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74 years 
later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of the home 
video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often hyperbolically called in 
the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing out of the business at a time 
when the technologies and economics of video production and distribution, and 
the video content universe itself are again in a state of radical flux.  Along 
with these changes, video collections and service in libraries are also bound 
to experience major tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m 
leaving the scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any 
case it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both those on 
the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew up with a 
number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a kind of extended 
workaday family, complete with the obstreperous get-togethers, occasional 
bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also heartened by the number of young, 
creative, and energetic colleagues who have hopped on board in more recent 
times.  Definitely makes me less gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching film 
somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to write a 
bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given short-shrift to over 
the years; want to log in more gym time; would like to hone my banjo and 
ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance cartooning and 
illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an accomplished and 
well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of the 
dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost completely 
unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The future of the 
redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at best.  I can’t really 
think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn depressing to ponder, and 
I’ve got other things on my mind. In other words, après moi, le deluge, and 
there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina, will 
look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an administrative 
eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s going out on 
maternity leave from May until around the end of September, so you’re pretty 
much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).  
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and wrapping 
things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address after June is 
going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook. 
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything having to 
do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight. 
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




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

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[ghandman]

Damn it, deg, now you're gonna make ME cry!

gary


> Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkG6pnr7-g
>
> :(
>
> -deg
>
>
> 
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:17:07 -0700
> From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
> Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
>
> It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
> relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
> California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
>
> 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.

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Wochna, Lorraine]

Gary,
I'm just a piker in video land, but you will be missed - you have helped me 
many times.  

But will you and Jessica still 'debate' copyright issues?  :)  

Best of luck in whatever you do and wherever you go!

lorraine
Ohio U


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] Good Night and Good Luck

[Merle J. Slyhoff]

Gary,

What a shock to read your email.  With the elegance, panache, quiet humor and 
himility that I've always considered to be a major part of your character, you 
summed up the profession over the years and paved the way for the future.  But 
you failed to note what a key and vital role you have played in the growth and 
understanding of media in libraries.

When I first entered the foray of media I had to turn to ALA for advice as law 
libraries were just at the very beginning of using media and I had no 
colleagues to turn to.  You were one of the first people I met (possibly at the 
Dallas ALA which was my first ALA conference - there was a media workshop that 
year) and have since then have turned to you for advice on a number of 
occasions.  I have emails from you that I often refer to when a particular 
issues rears its ugly head.  Just earlier today I had a lively discussion about 
copyright and fair use with some not-so-by-the-books folks and wished you could 
have been there to help set these people on the right track.  

I wish you luck in your next phase of life.  I can't say to relax and enjoy it 
- I can only say enjoy it... it looks like you'll have little time to relax.  I 
look forward to seeing and hearing more from you - in the form of writing, 
cartoons, and banjo cds.

A long and prosperous life...

Merle 

***
Merle J. SlyhoffV: 215-898-9013
Collection Development &  F: 215-898-6619
Document Delivery Services Librarian E: mslyh...@law.upenn.edu
Biddle Law Library
University of Pennsylvania
3460 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3406

From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] 
On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu [ghand...@library.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:17 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtab

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Randy Pitman]

Gary,

What a long strange trip it’s been! The profession owes you a deep debt of 
gratitude for being—excuse the sexist gender label--the Founding Father in 
the Good Fight to bring legitimacy to the video format in libraries, 
tirelessly slogging through a serious uphill battle from the mid-to-late 
‘80s through the end of the millennium. Whether they know it or not, today’s 
young video librarians stand on the shoulders of a giant. As a mentor, 
colleague, and friend, you will indeed be sorely missed (and miserably 
envied, of course, in your retirement). Aargh, this is worse than Mister 
Rogers signing off—but well-deserved, well-deserved.

Best,

Randy

Randy Pitman
Publisher/Editor
Video Librarian
3435 Nine Boulder Dr.
Poulsbo, WA 98370
Tel: (360) 626-1259
Fax (360) 626-1260
E-mail: vid...@videolibrarian.com
Web: www.videolibrarian.com
-Original Message- 
From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:17 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th
as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and
there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring
a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another
position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74
years later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of
the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often
hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing
out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video
production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are
again in a state of radical flux.  Along with these changes, video
collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major
tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the
scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case
it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew
up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a
kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous
get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also
heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
have hopped on board in more recent times.  Definitely makes me less
gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching
film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to
write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given
short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like
to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance
cartooning and illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an
accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of
the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost
completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The
future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at
best.  I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn
depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other
words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about
it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina,
will look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an
administrative eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s
going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September,
so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and
wrapping things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address
after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook.
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything
having to do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue f

Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Tatar, Becky]

AS I said last month - thank you for all you've done for us.  On the other hand 
- more time to watch all your favorite movies, and all that!

Becky Tatar
Periodicals/Audiovisuals
Aurora Public Library
1 E. Benton Street
Aurora, IL   60505
Phone: 630-264-4100
FAX: 630-896-3209
blt...@aurora.lib.il.us
www.aurorapubliclibrary.org

-Original Message-
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 10:17 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast relief 
that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of California 
Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.
Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th as a 
librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me).  
I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and there 
hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring a little 
thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into
such a cool and personally rewarding gig.   I simply cannot think of
anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another position in 
which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much.

In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery 
appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74 years 
later.  I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of the home 
video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often hyperbolically called in 
the library literature at the time).  I’m bowing out of the business at a time 
when the technologies and economics of video production and distribution, and 
the video content universe itself are again in a state of radical flux.  Along 
with these changes, video collections and service in libraries are also bound 
to experience major tremors and evolutionary shifts.  I’m not sure whether I’m 
leaving the scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any 
case it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade.

I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both those on 
the library side and the distributor side of the fence.  I grew up with a 
number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a kind of extended 
workaday family, complete with the obstreperous get-togethers, occasional 
bickering, and comforting sympathy.  I’m also heartened by the number of young, 
creative, and energetic colleagues who have hopped on board in more recent 
times.  Definitely makes me less gloomy about prospects for the future.

Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next:  I’d like to continue teaching film 
somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to write a 
bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given short-shrift to over 
the years; want to log in more gym time; would like to hone my banjo and 
ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance cartooning and 
illustration.  At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an accomplished and 
well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality.

As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center…  In light of the 
dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost completely 
unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon.  The future of the 
redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at best.  I can’t really 
think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn depressing to ponder, and 
I’ve got other things on my mind. In other words, après moi, le deluge, and 
there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.

For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina, will 
look after the shop.  She has also graciously agreed to keep an administrative 
eye on videolib and videonews.  (Note, however, that she’s going out on 
maternity leave from May until around the end of September, so you’re pretty 
much on your own during that hiatus.  Play nice!).  
Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu.  I’ll be around and wrapping 
things up for the next few months.  My civilian email address after June is 
going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook. 
I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything having to 
do with copyright or fair use).

Best of luck for the future, comrades!  Continue fighting the good fight. 
It really has been an honor and a delight working with you all.
Salud!

Gary Handman




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Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
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[Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

[Nellhaus, Tobin]

Gary,

Thanks for all you've given us on this list -- your knowledge, insights, and 
sometimes much-needed doses of humor or forcefulness.  Thanks also for our 
occasional separate exchanges.  I'll join the others in missing you.  Enjoy 
retirement!

Best wishes,

Tobin Nellhaus
Librarian for Performing Arts, Media and Philosophy
Coordinator for Humanities Collection Development
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
Tel: 203/432-8212   Fax: 203/432-8527
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between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

Re: [Videolib] posting PPR info

[Gail Fedak]

Nahum,
Unfortunately, there are no simple answers to your questions.
These are a few common ways for academic library patrons to access 
streamed material:
1. The streamed title can be hosted by our library: access only by 
faculty, students, and staff members who have a valid campus email 
address and unique university password or guests who use a guest 
password that is valid only inside the library building.
2. The streamed title can be hosted by a university's streaming server 
that is accessible only through a course management system. This 
arrangement means that a faculty member and the students in his/her 
class(es) who are assigned to view the title are given access to it 
through a password to information for a specific class. The downside to 
this arrangement is that students and faculty members who may want/need 
to use such a title have to rely on word of mouth to know that it is 
available. This arrangement can also be very cumbersome for university 
personnel to manage.
3. The streamed title can be hosted by the distributor with access as 
described in either situation1 or 2 above.
4. The streamed title can hosted by the distributor with individual 
students paying for their own license to access the title. This seems to 
be a very cumbersome arrangement for the distributor since the company 
has to keep up with individual students' payments, access rights and 
problems, etc.


Any of these arrangements can feature various permutations on length of use:
1. Term limits: by the week(s), month(s), semester(s), or year(s)
2. In perpetuity;

And number of users:
1. Individual students;
2. Specific class(es);
3. Number of potential users (based on the total enrollment or full-time 
equivalency, FTE, enrollment).


From my perspective, the less complicated and less restrictive the 
terms of the license, the more likely we are to look favorably at 
licensing streamed content. I prefer to purchase a DVD to be housed in 
the library and pay some extra for streaming rights either at the time I 
purchase the DVD or later when requested by a faculty member. Vendors 
sell streaming licenses as stand-alone purchases, in conjunction with a 
DVD purchase, or separately at whatever time the customer needs it after 
the DVD purchase. I suggest that you look at the websites of other 
documentary distributors to assess how they construct the terms of their 
streaming licenses. At this time there appears to be no standard method 
of selling streaming licenses.

Hope this helps,
Gail

On 3/31/2012 11:14 AM, nahum laufer wrote:


Thanks Sarah Andrews

For your information. I would like to get your and other librarians 
opinion on streaming


As streaming Films is a new way to distribute films, and I would like 
to have our films also streamed and in the future also start 
streaming, as a distributer I would like to understand some points:


1)What do you mean by a password protected server,

2)Who gets the password and can use the server? Only Students & 
faculty, or also Alumni, or anybody that asked your library for a 
password


3)Did the distributer that sold you public screening rights ask extra 
for a license with streaming rights?


Best from

http://docsforeducation.com/index.php

Nahum Laufer

Sales

Docs for Education

Erez Laufer Films

Holland st 10

Afulla 18371

Israel

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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *Andrews, 
Sarah E

*Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:26 PM
*To:* videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
*Subject:* [Videolib] posting PPR info

Our libraries put the public performance rights, streaming rights etc. 
in the 540 field.  It is searchable in our catalog.


Here is an example from  Boyhood Shadows:

"Includes public performance rights, including video streaming rights 
on University of Iowa password protected server. IaU "


We also include a paper copy of the license agreement in the box 
whenever possible---helps the end users see what we have agreed to.


At least some of our librarians promote this use to student 
groups---especially underfunded ones that need programming ideas.


Sarah Andrews



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[Videolib] Rights issue

[Susan Weber]

Here's what's rough about living in Canada:


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On 02/04/2012 11:49 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:

Damn it, deg, now you're gonna make ME cry!

gary


  

Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkG6pnr7-g

:(

-deg




Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:17:07 -0700
From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast
relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of
California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012.

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between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
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Re: [Videolib] GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK

[Lawrence Daressa]

Dear Gary,

On behalf of everyone at Newsreel, I want to congratulate you on your upcoming 
retirement. I can think of no one who has done more for the educational media 
community over the years than you. Videolib has become as important a part of 
our lives as our morning coffee - and sometimes as astringent. What will wake 
us up now!

The loss of one of our most loyal and discerning clients is only compensated by 
the thought of how rewarding your retirement years will prove. In particular, 
for the reason you cite, I can't help but suspect you are leaving the field at 
an opportune moment; après vous le deluge! 

Newsreel is especially delighted to learn that you'll be staying in the Bay 
Area where we can join you in café society ourselves. Indeed, I can think of 
several areas where Newsreel could make good use of your encyclopedic knowledge 
of film history and use - if you can take time off from your leisurely jaunts 
around the world. We too will  follow in your footsteps into the sunset (or is 
it dawn?) shortly. 

Sincere Good Wishes,

Larry and the Crew at Newsreel.
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Gary,

Thanks for all you've given us on this list -- your knowledge, insights, and 
sometimes much-needed doses of humor or forcefulness.  Thanks also for our 
occasional separate exchanges.  I'll join the others in missing you.  Enjoy 
retirement!

Best wishes,

Tobin Nellhaus
Librarian for Performing Arts, Media and Philosophy
Coordinator for Humanities Collection Development
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
Tel: 203/432-8212   Fax: 203/432-8527
tobin.nellh...@yale.edu





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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:31:41 -0500
From: Gail Fedak 
Subject: Re: [Videolib] posting PPR info
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
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Nahum,
Unfortunately, there are no simple answers to your questions.
These are a few common ways for academic library patrons to access 
streamed material:
1. The streamed title can be hosted by our library: access only by 
faculty, students, and staff members who have a valid campus email 
address and unique university password or guests who use a guest 
password that is valid only inside the library building.
2. The streamed title can be hosted by a university's streaming server 
that is accessible only through a course management system. This 
arrangement means that a faculty member and the students in his/her 
class(es) who are assigned to view the title are given access to it 
through a password to information for a specific class. The downside to 
this arrangement is that students and faculty members who may want/need 
to use such a title have to rely on word of mouth to know that it is 
available. This arrangement can also be very cumbersome for university 
personnel to manage.
3. The streamed title can be hosted by the distributor with access as 
described in either situation1 or 2 above.
4. The streamed title can hosted by the distributor with individual 
students paying for their own license to access the title. This seems to 
be a very cumbersome arrangement for the distributor since the company 
has to keep up with individual students' payments, access rights and 
problems, etc.

Any of these arrangements can feature various permutations on length of use:
1. Term limits: by the week(s), month(s), semester(s), or year(s)
2. In perpetuity;

And number of users:
1. Individual students;
2. Specific class(es);
3. Number of potential users (based on the total enrollment or full-time 
equivalency, FTE, enrollment).

 From my perspective, the less complicated and less restrictive the 
terms of the lice

[Videolib] FW: pricing

[nahum laufer]

 

 

From: nahum laufer [mailto:lauf...@netvision.net.il] 
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:11 PM
To: 'f1b8e9be1c318848bec07a8bd721d6169...@ex2010mailstore.wabash.main'
Cc: 'albbre...@wabash.edu'
Subject: pricing

 

Susan Thanks for your remarks.

See our web-site www.docsfofeducation.com

You can see we give different price for PPR and library & classroom use, as
a distributer I can't offer a lending only option to Colleges & Universities
for according to the legal info I got a face to face situation screening is
allowed because it will be a legal copy, but possible to public library, but
I still don't have enough info as how to price it and my primer mission is
getting the filmmaker a good return.

But I have a query for all, as some universities have started to stream
films is it legal to state  "PPR without streaming rights" & "PPR with
streaming rights" with $100 extra for streaming rights

Cheers

  Nahum Laufer

Sales

Docs for Education

Erez Laufer Films

Holland st 10 

Afulla 18371

Israel

 

 

 

 

And not just publics.  I purchase films for an academic library, and the
vast majority of our checkouts are for personal home (or dorm or frat...)
use or for faculty showing a film in a face-to-face teaching situation.  For
any public screening, we make sure we've purchased PPR.  So I disagree with
the idea that there's no reason to license for "lending only."  That's most
of what we do!

 

Yes, for documentaries, I do often pay a higher price because PPR is that's
all that's offered -- and since it's a fine work, I'm willing to pay it,
hoping someone WILL come along and use it in a film series or special event
screening... but unfortunately, the vast majority of the ones for which I've
paid PPR never do get screened publicly.  Thus I have been appreciative of
Kino Lorber's offering 3 options:  home use, institutional, and
institutional with PPR.  That way, if I suspect something will be likely to
be screened, I can go ahead & pay more for the "with PPR" option; but if I
doubt it, I can get it for ~$100 less and have it ready for those "lending
only" situations.  This frees up more budget to buy more films.

 

That's a long way of saying I agree with the notion of "institutional
without PPR" and "institutional with PPR" options, priced appropriately.  I
believe it would help your sales.

 

Susan Albrecht at Wabash College

 

 

 

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