We experience similar kinds of scenarios as Gary cited: Faculty are not always
good about reserving stuff in advance for classroom use and students (sometimes
faculty) aren't particularly good about returning things on time.
We have also found that faculty members will require that their entire
I understand that this was announced at ALA MidWinter last week, but didn't see
anything posted about it here. I've been off the list for a while, so
apologies is this has already been posted or discussed here.
Information Today, Inc. had an article on Thursday about Alexander Street
Press's
I also think this news is a mixed bag at best. I've never been crazy about the
quality of Filmakers Library DVD-Rs, but even so streamed video simply cannot
match the technical specifications of DVDs at this point. Alexander Street's
streaming video is better quality than some other vendors,
