Any recommendations for music venues in KC?
At 08:46 AM 9/24/2010, you wrote:
If you are a history buff and thinking about going to the Truman
Presidential Library, you should also consider the WW I museum. It
is the only one in the US and highly recommended by one of the new
NMM exhibitors,
A perennial question, but a good one to revisit to from time to time:
Are you purchasing Blu-Ray titles for your library, or are you holding
off? (I'm especially interested in hearing from college and university
libraries, since we're in the same boat.)
If you're purchasing, what criteria do
If you are going to NMM, and you have never seen Alejandro GO!
Here is some more information.
Alejandro Escovedo (http://www.alejandroescovedo.com/) will be at
http://www.knuckleheadskc.com/ on the 24th.
From Wikipedia: The son of Mexican
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicanimmigrants to
Texas
I¹ll be there representing New Day Films at the National Media Market and,
as a lifelong resident of KC, would be happy to provide information and
directions to some of the better attractions. The WWI museum is great, as is
the Nelson-Atkins. If you¹re looking for a more offbeat but really
This follow-up was posted on the ALA blog at
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/green-your-library/all-things-corn#comment-1073.
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Additional links citing sources
Here are two links citing the 1999 FDA Total Diet Study where popcorn is listed
as one of the top ten polluted foods with
Not to piss Gary or anyone off, but as I've mentioned before, DVD sales are
way down and the journalists are much more interested in covering bluray.
Add to that my films usually start with $10,000 to $50, film transfers
done at 2K, that our reputation is based on quality, that I tend to move
Thanks, Bob. You are right, this one is a definite also!
rhonda
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Norris
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 5:47 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Introducing new exhibitors
Check back with me in five years, Dennis...
Bluray = BetaMax
gary
Not to piss Gary or anyone off, but as I've mentioned before, DVD sales
are
way down and the journalists are much more interested in covering bluray.
Add to that my films usually start with $10,000 to $50, film
We are purchasing Blu-rays here at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and
my approach to selection is in line with Meghann’s; film studies kinds of
films, stuff like Planet earth, and a few like Avatar that I know patrons will
want. Blu-ray circulation is surprisingly strong. We have one HD
Gary,
Agreed. Not really an argument.
But DVD = VHS.
DD
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:49 PM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
Check back with me in five years, Dennis...
Bluray = BetaMax
gary
Not to piss Gary or anyone off, but as I've mentioned before, DVD sales
are
way down
Gary,
I agree with your assessment of the streaming vs. Blu-ray argument,
particularly when it has to do with the question of non-commercial
vs. academic use. If the user is simply concerned with content
access, streaming will do, but areas like Film Studies are usually
concerned with the
I've been buying Blu-rays for my medium-sized public library for almost two
years, and they circulate well. We have one Blu-ray viewing station, too.
Rather than replacing DVDs, the Blu-rays compliment or supplement our DVDs.
Generally I buy Blu-rays when we have 15 or more patron requests for
Dennis, as much as I like DVDs, I can easily see why you (Milestone) might
choose to go Blu-ray only with DVD-Rs created on demand. The decline in the DVD
market is very real. The major studios staved off the stagnation in the DVD
market temporarily by flooding the market with TV series on DVD,
I bought 51 Blu-rays back in March, in part because I'd gotten several requests
to purchase some, in part because I wanted to conduct a small trial. Part of
the way I justified trying out Blu-ray was that I bought also bought regular
DVDs of anything that I bought in Blu-ray. So if a student
Hi Benjamin,
At UVA the selection and purchase of videos is primarily the responsibility of
the media librarian and are purchased from a central media budget. If subject
librarians get requests from their faculty for media items they usually forward
them to me. Our CJK librarian will
Wonder what our biggest seller -- Killing Us Softly, 700+ student views
per year -- would generate as a box office extravaganza! I mean, that's
our equivalent, other than BitTorrent StarWars and Matt Damon downloads.
Deg Farrelly wrote:
FYI
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60652
re: Rocky Horror. Time for guerrilla action.
Did anyone in our group ever steal /Steal This Book/ by Abbie Hoffman?
I got out the door but took it back.
Kinda like that super grade B biker movie from the 60s with Peter Honda
where they steal into Vegas, rob the place in a fantastic sting, and
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