Rebecca The NMM will be a great venue for you to network with other media librarians, tho not necessarily *Film Studies* librarians (tho there are many who attend.
It is a market where media librarians preview and select the best content for their collections, and strike deals that, in my experience more than covers the cost of attending, in savings realized. There are also a few professional development sessions dedicated to media issues. This year will include (what I understand to be) the first formal presentation of the Videos at Risk project, funded by Mellon. The Charleston Conference is more a traditional conference with plenary and concurrent sessions where mostly acquisitions librarians present and discuss emerging trends, new initiatives, and the state of collection developments across all formats. I attend both regularly, and have presented at both. Since the events are occurring back to back in the same town this year you shouldn't have to choose one or the other, but can attend both. The Charleston Conference is expensive, but there is a single day registration option for NMM registrants. And the NMM hotel is significantly cheaper than most of the hotels for the Charleston Conference. Come for NMM, stay for Charleston! deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 --- http://tinyurl.com/AboutNMM To market, to market, to find some fresh filmŠ I'm attending the 2013 National Media Market, November 3-7 In Charleston, South Carolina. See you there? On 7/18/13 10:28 AM, "videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu> wrote: >So, now I have made the argument that I should be networking with more >professionals in this area and I've gotten my boss to agree to send me to >Charleston. But I am unclear on which is better: NMM or Charleston >Conference? I hear that there might be a reciprocal agreement that if I >pay for NMM I can go to Charleston Conference for one day, but I want to >be sure I go to the one where I can learn the most from my esteemed >colleagues. > >What do you think is better and why? Keep in mind that I am not the >traditional "buyer" as we are a state school with very little funding. >My entire budget for Cinema/Film is generally 3-5K and that is for both >videos and monographs!! > >Rebecca 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.
