Re: [Videolib] nurses in film

[Anthony Anderson]

Another suggestion would be Fred Zinnemann's classic film *The Nun's 
Story*, which is

about a nun who is in a nursing order.

Best,
Anthony

***
Anthony E. Anderson
Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
(213) 740-1190antho...@usc.edu
"Wind, regen, zon, of kou,
Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou."








*From:*videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *Widzinski, 
Lori

*Sent:* Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:02 PM
*To:* 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu'
*Subject:* [Videolib] nurses in film

Anyone have suggestions for films that portray nurses, both good and 
bad?  A faculty member is looking for films for undergraduate nursing 
students to "compare and contrast core values, professionalism, and 
comportment with representations of nurses/nursing in film media."  I 
think she's interested in both feature films and documentaries. Your 
help is greatly appreciated.  I'd be happy to post the resulting list 
if anyone's interested. THANKS.


Lori

Lori Widzinski

Head, Multimedia Collections and Services

University Libraries

University at Buffalo

State University of New York

Ph: 716-829-5744

Abbott Hall Rm 102

3435 Main St Bldg 28

Buffalo, NY 14214-3002

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[Videolib] more on World Cat

[nahum laufer]

Thanks Anthony, Jessica and others that answered my mail It doesn't help
much so:

Dear Dorcas Haller
Rhode Island Community College
My slogan is I trust you, trust me.
Is it your library that received 500 DVDs from RIFF including 2 titles from
us 'The Darien Dilemma" & "Rafting to Bombay"?
I don't see the logic in your answer. 
Yes I sell mainly to libraries, 
I don't want to sell for private use for it is not worthwhile yet I make
exceptions.*
Why I don't see the logic is. 
If you can resell the DVD (or donate) Why not donate PPR, why not sell the
DVD to your next door cinema hall screening to a fee paying public ? or
maybe to your favorite channel TV?
In my logic there is no difference, on every private sale invoice is stated
for "private personal Home Use". So selling or donating to a library is a
break of trust, and we loose $200-$250 the difference from first sale to
library sale.
The issue of Previews is even less understood by me, we have to send
previews otherwise who will know us.
I don't send unsolicited DVD previews, when I send I always state I'm
sending you a preview.
Our film "One Day After Peace" has already been screened at 60 film
festivals (more coming up) and a very special screening at United Nations
Headquarters in New-York, to reach such number of festivals  I have sent
submissions to over 150 festivals, each received 1-3 previews, it seems I
trust people to much, I can find a lawyer that will write a long statement
yet I'm sure that Rhode Island International Film Festival will find a
loophole and give away the DVDs,
Today I received a request to submit to this festival it went straight into
the dustbin.  
Festivals are important for us, No Library will buy a Doco-film that hasn't
been accepted by no Festival and didn't get any prizes. 
In my Logic  DVDs are not books, Libraries and private people buy books at
the same price but for Films there is a tier system of prices, for we are
selling is not 1 dollar empty DVD but a film, not a piece of metal but
screening rights .that justifies the tier system.
* With "The Darien Dilemma" I make exceptions, this week a man from Hungary
told me his Grandparents & mother were "passengers" on the Darien, A person
from England his father was in the Kindertransport, but his grandparents
perished in Kladovo, another person's father was a sailor on the Darien all
wanted to know the saga so I sold them a private copy, or Yehuda Arazi from
California grandson of the original Yehuda Arazi depicted in the film I sent
him a present DVD. I did not get requests from private people not connected
with the Darien Saga. www.thedariendilemma.com/
So you see I'm not complaining I just don't understand the logic , I will
continue to sell to libraries even to private people for I believe 99.9% are
trustworthy and respect copyrights as we do. 
 
Cheers
Nahum Laufer
http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php
http://docsforeducation.com/ 
Sales
Docs for Education
Erez Laufer Films
Holland st 10 
Afulla 18371
Israel


 Did you sell it? (Do you *only* sell to libraries?) Once you've sold it,
the owner (buyer) can do what s/he wants with it -- keep it, give  it away,
or discard it. If I buy a book, it is *my* property. I can keep it, I can
donate it to a library, I can give it to a friend, I can throw it away.
Even if you only sell your films to libraries, a library may decide at  a
later date to withdraw the film from its collection.  It is  conceivable
that the library may ask if another library is interested in having it
before getting rid of it completely.
I don't see how you can expect to control your product once you have  sold
it. The only way you can do that is not to sell it.

> Dorcas Haller
> Librarian/Professor/Department Chair
> Community College of Rhode Island Library One Hilton Street, 
> Providence, RI 02905 dhal...@ccri.edu
> Phone: 401-455-6085
> Fax: 401-455-6087
>

--

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:57:59 -0700
From: Anthony Anderson 
Subject: Re: [Videolib] World Cat
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Message-ID: <519d2347.3010...@usc.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Nahum! Assuming that the gift DVD is "legitimate" (and not a bootleg
copy) then--yes,
I very much believe that a library can accept it. The gift DVD can be
allowed to circulate as part of the collection and can be shown in the
context of a formal classroom presentation.
However, if--say--a campus group wished to show the DVD at one of their
meetings it would be very much incumbent upon that group to secure (and pay
for) public performance rights.

This scenario has yet to happen here at USC, but were our library to receive
a "pricey" documentary as a gift, I would immediately contact the DVD's
distributor and try to negoiate life-time public rights for the DVD.

Other university and college libraries may have different policies, I don't
know.

What I do know is that many libraries accept books all the

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Re: [Videolib] more on World Cat

[Jessica Rosner]

Nahum,
There are two different issues. Dorcas responded to the idea that the copy
in question had been sold to someone or some place. As such it subject to
the "right of first sale" and buyer can donate the copy wherever they wish,
HOWEVER neither streaming nor public performance rights could be included.
Those are special rights which only the rights holder can sell. That is
American Copyright law.

It gets more complicated with copies sent to festivals or others as
screeners. In the old days libraries did generally reject such donations
and you certainly can appeal to the library that appears to have gotten a
copy that way that it was a screener you were never paid for and they are
taking advantage of independent distributor but that is a question of
ethics not law. If you want to avoid this in the future than you need to
have a contract with those you send screeners to explicitly forbidding them
from donating them. It would be advisable to require them to return them
though that is a lot of work. You can't just do this by stating it on the
screener, the easiest way would be to require those you send a screners to,
to send an email explicitly stating they won't donate or give the copy to
any other party. This is a contract and could be enforced.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, nahum laufer wrote:

> Thanks Anthony, Jessica and others that answered my mail It doesn't help
> much so:
>
> Dear Dorcas Haller
> Rhode Island Community College
> My slogan is I trust you, trust me.
> Is it your library that received 500 DVDs from RIFF including 2 titles from
> us 'The Darien Dilemma" & "Rafting to Bombay"?
> I don't see the logic in your answer.
> Yes I sell mainly to libraries,
> I don't want to sell for private use for it is not worthwhile yet I make
> exceptions.*
> Why I don't see the logic is.
> If you can resell the DVD (or donate) Why not donate PPR, why not sell the
> DVD to your next door cinema hall screening to a fee paying public ? or
> maybe to your favorite channel TV?
> In my logic there is no difference, on every private sale invoice is stated
> for "private personal Home Use". So selling or donating to a library is a
> break of trust, and we loose $200-$250 the difference from first sale to
> library sale.
> The issue of Previews is even less understood by me, we have to send
> previews otherwise who will know us.
> I don't send unsolicited DVD previews, when I send I always state I'm
> sending you a preview.
> Our film "One Day After Peace" has already been screened at 60 film
> festivals (more coming up) and a very special screening at United Nations
> Headquarters in New-York, to reach such number of festivals  I have sent
> submissions to over 150 festivals, each received 1-3 previews, it seems I
> trust people to much, I can find a lawyer that will write a long statement
> yet I'm sure that Rhode Island International Film Festival will find a
> loophole and give away the DVDs,
> Today I received a request to submit to this festival it went straight into
> the dustbin.
> Festivals are important for us, No Library will buy a Doco-film that hasn't
> been accepted by no Festival and didn't get any prizes.
> In my Logic  DVDs are not books, Libraries and private people buy books at
> the same price but for Films there is a tier system of prices, for we are
> selling is not 1 dollar empty DVD but a film, not a piece of metal but
> screening rights .that justifies the tier system.
> * With "The Darien Dilemma" I make exceptions, this week a man from Hungary
> told me his Grandparents & mother were "passengers" on the Darien, A person
> from England his father was in the Kindertransport, but his grandparents
> perished in Kladovo, another person's father was a sailor on the Darien all
> wanted to know the saga so I sold them a private copy, or Yehuda Arazi from
> California grandson of the original Yehuda Arazi depicted in the film I
> sent
> him a present DVD. I did not get requests from private people not connected
> with the Darien Saga. www.thedariendilemma.com/
> So you see I'm not complaining I just don't understand the logic , I will
> continue to sell to libraries even to private people for I believe 99.9%
> are
> trustworthy and respect copyrights as we do.
>
> Cheers
> Nahum Laufer
> http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php
> http://docsforeducation.com/
> Sales
> Docs for Education
> Erez Laufer Films
> Holland st 10
> Afulla 18371
> Israel
>
>
>  Did you sell it? (Do you *only* sell to libraries?) Once you've sold it,
> the owner (buyer) can do what s/he wants with it -- keep it, give  it away,
> or discard it. If I buy a book, it is *my* property. I can keep it, I can
> donate it to a library, I can give it to a friend, I can throw it away.
> Even if you only sell your films to libraries, a library may decide at  a
> later date to withdraw the film from its collection.  It is  conceivable
> that the library may ask if another library is interested in having it
> before getting rid of 

Re: [Videolib] more on World Cat

[Shoaf,Judith P]

Nahum, 

I misspoke when I summarized the law.

When you sell a copy, your right to control how the buyer disposes of that 
particular copy is exhausted. However, other rights remain with you.

The buyer does *not* get the right to make copies of the DVD, show it in public 
or on TV, or adapt it in some way. You control those rights. 

If you licensed PPR with the DVD, that license should specify whether the 
license is transferable or not. If it is not transferable, it cannot be given 
away or resold etc.  It is a contract to which, presumably, the purchasing 
institution or individual agreed at the time of sale. 

The physical DVD can be given away or loaned.  You can slap all the labels you 
want on it that say "for private home use only" but it is still subject to 
first sale (including loans or even rentals) and fair use.

The buyer and any subsequent legal owner, have rights  of fair use. For 
example, they could quote a bit of dialogue in a written review, or refer to 
factual material contained in the film, citing the source. If the DVD is not 
copy-protected, they could rip an image or a brief segment for purposes of 
illustration.  Also, they could show the entire film to a class. 

I realize you are frustrated because you believe very deeply that you ought to 
have the right to charge more to an institution which will allow many people to 
borrow the DVD and watch it at home, or watch it in a group in a class. 
However, American law allows libraries to lend any legally made copy they 
acquire, and schools to show any legally made copy in the classroom. They do 
not need any kind of license to do these things, and the right to do them is 
not changed by your saying that you want them to pay more for them. 

The tiered pricing system does not have to do with a difference between books 
and DVDs; in fact, there is a tiered pricing system for scholarly journals, 
which charge libraries a lot more for a subscription. The difference is between 
media that can make a lot of money by selling lots of copies for a smaller 
profit, and media that has a small market and needs to make a good profit on 
each sale.  A Hollywood film may cost $200,000,000 to make, but when it becomes 
available on DVD the library can buy a copy for $25, just like everybody else. 
Your film may have cost much less to make but your budget model depends on 
being able to sell X number of copies for $250 each to libraries, so the 
libraries have to include that amount in their budgets if they want to buy your 
films. 

And of course the library would probably have your film than 10 Spiderman films 
at $25 each.

But you can't blame a librarian for being delighted to have some expensive 
documentaries donated to the library.

As Jessica pointed out, if you keep track of the copies you send for previews, 
and arrange to have them returned, you will know those copies are not being 
used in ways you don't intend. 

Judy Shoaf 


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relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, 
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective 
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication 
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

Re: [Videolib] more on World Cat

[Jessica Rosner]

FYI Nahum a short follow up.
It really is not that complicated nor will you need a lawyer to protect
your films but you will need to put in some more work. Since your market is
exclusively festivals and institutions it should be worth it.
When you send a screener to a festival, potential buyer or whoever you
would send them to, insist on an email (or if possible a fax) from someone
in authority ( programmer, head, NOT intern) stating something like "We
agree to return or physically this copy of X after we have viewed/
programmed it" It will not leave or physical control and it will not be
given, sold or transferred to any other party."
If a festival or potential buyer has a problem with that then I would not
send them a screener. I would also recommend significantly watermarked
copies when you sent screeners. It may not protect you legally but most
libraries would not want them and would know very clearly that this copy
was not intended for library use.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, nahum laufer wrote:

> Thanks Anthony, Jessica and others that answered my mail It doesn't help
> much so:
>
> Dear Dorcas Haller
> Rhode Island Community College
> My slogan is I trust you, trust me.
> Is it your library that received 500 DVDs from RIFF including 2 titles from
> us 'The Darien Dilemma" & "Rafting to Bombay"?
> I don't see the logic in your answer.
> Yes I sell mainly to libraries,
> I don't want to sell for private use for it is not worthwhile yet I make
> exceptions.*
> Why I don't see the logic is.
> If you can resell the DVD (or donate) Why not donate PPR, why not sell the
> DVD to your next door cinema hall screening to a fee paying public ? or
> maybe to your favorite channel TV?
> In my logic there is no difference, on every private sale invoice is stated
> for "private personal Home Use". So selling or donating to a library is a
> break of trust, and we loose $200-$250 the difference from first sale to
> library sale.
> The issue of Previews is even less understood by me, we have to send
> previews otherwise who will know us.
> I don't send unsolicited DVD previews, when I send I always state I'm
> sending you a preview.
> Our film "One Day After Peace" has already been screened at 60 film
> festivals (more coming up) and a very special screening at United Nations
> Headquarters in New-York, to reach such number of festivals  I have sent
> submissions to over 150 festivals, each received 1-3 previews, it seems I
> trust people to much, I can find a lawyer that will write a long statement
> yet I'm sure that Rhode Island International Film Festival will find a
> loophole and give away the DVDs,
> Today I received a request to submit to this festival it went straight into
> the dustbin.
> Festivals are important for us, No Library will buy a Doco-film that hasn't
> been accepted by no Festival and didn't get any prizes.
> In my Logic  DVDs are not books, Libraries and private people buy books at
> the same price but for Films there is a tier system of prices, for we are
> selling is not 1 dollar empty DVD but a film, not a piece of metal but
> screening rights .that justifies the tier system.
> * With "The Darien Dilemma" I make exceptions, this week a man from Hungary
> told me his Grandparents & mother were "passengers" on the Darien, A person
> from England his father was in the Kindertransport, but his grandparents
> perished in Kladovo, another person's father was a sailor on the Darien all
> wanted to know the saga so I sold them a private copy, or Yehuda Arazi from
> California grandson of the original Yehuda Arazi depicted in the film I
> sent
> him a present DVD. I did not get requests from private people not connected
> with the Darien Saga. www.thedariendilemma.com/
> So you see I'm not complaining I just don't understand the logic , I will
> continue to sell to libraries even to private people for I believe 99.9%
> are
> trustworthy and respect copyrights as we do.
>
> Cheers
> Nahum Laufer
> http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php
> http://docsforeducation.com/
> Sales
> Docs for Education
> Erez Laufer Films
> Holland st 10
> Afulla 18371
> Israel
>
>
>  Did you sell it? (Do you *only* sell to libraries?) Once you've sold it,
> the owner (buyer) can do what s/he wants with it -- keep it, give  it away,
> or discard it. If I buy a book, it is *my* property. I can keep it, I can
> donate it to a library, I can give it to a friend, I can throw it away.
> Even if you only sell your films to libraries, a library may decide at  a
> later date to withdraw the film from its collection.  It is  conceivable
> that the library may ask if another library is interested in having it
> before getting rid of it completely.
> I don't see how you can expect to control your product once you have  sold
> it. The only way you can do that is not to sell it.
>
> > Dorcas Haller
> > Librarian/Professor/Department Chair
> > Community College of Rhode Island Library One Hilton Street,
> > Providence, RI 02905 dha

[Videolib] Bibliotheca RFID

[Tatar, Becky]

Hi, all,

We are starting to use Bibliotheca disc dispensers for our DVDs.  The question 
we have, if any of you use this, is how do the dispensers work for multiple 
disc titles?  We have heard that they don't do well with titles with more than 
2 discs, and that multiple disc titles, such as tv shows, are fine.  If you 
have a story to tell, inquiring minds and all that.  Thanks in advance, and 
sorry about any cross duplication.

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




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relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, 
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective 
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication 
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

Re: [Videolib] more on World Cat

[Haller, Dorcas W.]

Dear Nahum,

Rhode Island may be a little state but we do have more than one institution of 
higher education. Granted, they all have similar names. I work at the Community 
College of Rhode Island (CCRI). The University of Rhode Island (URI) was the 
library that received the large donation of films from RIIFF (Rhode Island 
International Film Festival). While URI may have received your two films in 
that donation, I can tell you they do not appear in the library's catalog, and 
are probably not available for borrowing or showing publicly.

You say your slogan is "I trust you, trust me", but apparently you don't really 
mean it, if you spend time checking up on who has a copy of your films via 
WorldCat. Perhaps, like Reagan, your motto is really "Trust but verify"?

You ask a good question about the transfer of the PPR. If one library has 
bought a film from you, with PPR, and then withdraws that film from its 
collection and transfers it to another library -- this could happen in a 
library consortium, for example -- do the performance rights transfer, too? 
They have been paid for, haven't they? I don't know the answer to this, I'm  
just speculating. Perhaps it would be necessary to state in the sales agreement 
that the PPR are not transferable?

Furthermore, you say, "... on every private sale invoice is stated for "private 
personal Home Use".  So selling or donating to a library is a break of 
trust...". Here at CCRI (and, no doubt, other libraries), we have a few 
thousand films on DVD and VHS, both feature films and documentaries. We lend 
them, including the ones that have been donated,  "for private personal Home 
Use".  We do not lend them to movie theatres, or to student groups for parties. 
If someone wants to borrow one of our films to show to publicly, we advise them 
about securing performance rights.  I'm not sure I understand your belief that 
libraries are lending out their films for public performance. 

Surely, if you want to make sure your preview films aren't donated to libraries 
(or private persons) after a film festival, all you have to do is request that 
the films in question be returned to you after the festival? 

Dusty Haller

Dorcas Haller
Librarian/Professor/Department Chair
Community College of Rhode Island Library
One Hilton Street, Providence, RI 02905
dhal...@ccri.edu
Phone: 401-455-6085 
Fax: 401-455-6087

-Original Message-
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of nahum laufer
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:31 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] more on World Cat

Thanks Anthony, Jessica and others that answered my mail It doesn't help much 
so:

Dear Dorcas Haller
Rhode Island Community College
My slogan is I trust you, trust me.
Is it your library that received 500 DVDs from RIFF including 2 titles from us 
'The Darien Dilemma" & "Rafting to Bombay"?
I don't see the logic in your answer. 
Yes I sell mainly to libraries,
I don't want to sell for private use for it is not worthwhile yet I make
exceptions.*
Why I don't see the logic is. 
If you can resell the DVD (or donate) Why not donate PPR, why not sell the DVD 
to your next door cinema hall screening to a fee paying public ? or maybe to 
your favorite channel TV?
In my logic there is no difference, on every private sale invoice is stated for 
"private personal Home Use". So selling or donating to a library is a break of 
trust, and we loose $200-$250 the difference from first sale to library sale.
The issue of Previews is even less understood by me, we have to send previews 
otherwise who will know us.
I don't send unsolicited DVD previews, when I send I always state I'm sending 
you a preview.
Our film "One Day After Peace" has already been screened at 60 film festivals 
(more coming up) and a very special screening at United Nations Headquarters in 
New-York, to reach such number of festivals  I have sent submissions to over 
150 festivals, each received 1-3 previews, it seems I trust people to much, I 
can find a lawyer that will write a long statement yet I'm sure that Rhode 
Island International Film Festival will find a loophole and give away the DVDs, 
Today I received a request to submit to this festival it went straight into the 
dustbin.  
Festivals are important for us, No Library will buy a Doco-film that hasn't 
been accepted by no Festival and didn't get any prizes. 
In my Logic  DVDs are not books, Libraries and private people buy books at the 
same price but for Films there is a tier system of prices, for we are selling 
is not 1 dollar empty DVD but a film, not a piece of metal but screening rights 
.that justifies the tier system.
* With "The Darien Dilemma" I make exceptions, this week a man from Hungary 
told me his Grandparents & mother were "passengers" on the Darien, A person 
from England his father was in the Kindertransport, but his grandparents 
perished in Kladovo, another person's father was a sa

[Videolib] FW: nurses in film

[Elizabeth Stanley]

>From Bullfrog Films, several documentaries that include nurses/nursing in the 
>US and in other countries:

The Great Health Service Swindle DVD
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/l5ghss.html
Reversing the brain drain in doctors and nurses from developing countries.

Money and Medicine DVD
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/monme2.html
An investigation of the dangers the nation faces from runaway health care 
spending as well as the dangers patients face from over-diagnosis and 
over-treatment.

The Waiting Room DVD
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/wait.html
A day in the life of a public hospital's ER waiting room captures what it means 
for millions of Americans to live without health insurance.

Grace Under Fire DVD (Life 8 Series)
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/l8guf.html
Dr. Grace Kodindo explores what help is available for the people, particularly 
women, affected by the ongoing and bloody conflict in North Kivu, Democratic 
Republic of Congo.

Dead Mums Don't Cry DVD
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dmdc.html
Grace Kodindo's heroic efforts in Chad to lower the rate of maternal mortality, 
one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Elizabeth Stanley
Bullfrog Films

From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Widzinski, Lori
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:02 PM
To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu'
Subject: [Videolib] nurses in film

Anyone have suggestions for films that portray nurses, both good and bad?  A 
faculty member is looking for films for undergraduate nursing students to 
"compare and contrast core values, professionalism, and comportment with 
representations of nurses/nursing in film media."  I think she's interested in 
both feature films and documentaries. Your help is greatly appreciated.  I'd be 
happy to post the resulting list if anyone's interested. THANKS.
Lori
Lori Widzinski
Head, Multimedia Collections and Services
University Libraries
University at Buffalo
State University of New York
Ph: 716-829-5744

Abbott Hall Rm 102
3435 Main St Bldg 28
Buffalo, NY 14214-3002



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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 
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