Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread CROWLEY, CHRISTINE
Admittedly, we are a community college and don't have the demand for higher level resources on a regular basis, but I bought both the Dance and Theatre collections from ASP and the faculty are very happy with them. Of course, the collections don't include everything, but we also have FMG's academic

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread Jonathan Miller
Dear Gary I have a side question about what you wrote - does your Anthro Librarian buy DVDs? Ie, did the Antho librarian purchasing the ASP Ethno (DER) collection (outright? Or subscription?) represent new AV purchasing (money) and a new customer/buyer - or is this instead of either the Anthro li

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread ghandman
Hi The Anthro librarian came into a huge chunk of unrestricted donation money and is looking for ways to spend it intelligently. I've bought stuff selectively for that department for years (they tend to be very focused in what they use, even more so since the demise of the visual anthropology spe

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread ghandman
Do you run statistics on use of these things? In my experience, anecdotal evidence (or unsolicited individual testimonials)are not really sufficient to justify the acquisition of expensive curated collections. gary > Admittedly, we are a community college and don't have the demand for > higher

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread Jonathan Miller
Thanks, no I was more interested in what trend it may or may not represent re what is happening to AV purchasing - ie are new people buying/licensing material w/ the new media options, and/or are they buying w/ new money Ie is ASP additive to our business (potentially), or frightful competition?

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread ghandman
Hey Jon With all due respects to ASP, it is my opinion that the stuff they're vending is in no way competitive to what the Icaruses, Bullfrogs, WMMs and New Days of the world are selling. Unless...librarians get really stupid (or cowed)and decide that they're going to begin buying because the del

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread Corbett, Lauren E.
I'm interested in products that are streaming because I don't have the money to replace the same titles every time the next greatest format comes along. We would still like to replace some VHS and laserdisc. Also to support distance programs we need more online products and interest in video t

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread Jaeschke, Myles
Lauren, What makes you think that just because you have a title "streaming" doesn't mean you won't have to buy it again? Computers go out of date, "this file system is no longer supported", new editions of the same title come out-or a higher def format is now available. In an ideal world yes,

[Videolib] [Fwd: From Stephen at Alexander Street re: streaming justification]

2011-02-15 Thread ghandman
Original Message Subject: From Stephen at Alexander Street re: [Videolib] streaming justification From: "Meg Keller" Date: Tue, February 15, 2011 12:46 pm To: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu --

[Videolib] Criterion films on Hulu plus

2011-02-15 Thread Kathleen DeLaurenti
FYI: http://consumerist.com/2011/02/criterion-collection-may-give-film-buffs-a-rea son-to-pay-for-hulu-plus.html Kathleen DeLaurenti Reference & Instruction Librarian Cascadia Community College University of Washington Bothell 18225 Campus Way NE Bothell, WA 98011-8245 425-352-365

[Videolib] Would you like to watch the 25th Goya Awards nominees for Best Fictional Short Film?

2011-02-15 Thread Alonso-Regalado, Jesus
Dear colleagues, As you may know, the Goya Awards, known in Spanish as "los Premios Goya", are Spain's main national film awards. This year was its 25th anniversary. I just included a link to all the nominees for Best Fictional Short Film and embedded the winner in my guide on Latin American &

[Videolib] Statistics on streaming video

2011-02-15 Thread Deg Farrelly
Actually, we do run statistics. I don't have access to all of them, but I do have access to the stats for FMGs, Films on Demand. Ours is a shared subscription by the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, and Arizona State University. We were pioneers in advancing the subscriptio

Re: [Videolib] Statistics on streaming video

2011-02-15 Thread Jonathan Miller
Dear Deg Very cool. Thanks! Question: how are the license fees you pay allocated amongst the titles, or is that done soley by FMG on their side? (I ask as we are looking at models for doing this now!) Best, Jonathan Jonathan Miller President Icarus Films 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Br

[Videolib] Thoughts on 5 sources for DVD/Blu-ray reviews?

2011-02-15 Thread Rob Hoffman
Hi everyone, My name is Rob Hoffman and I'm a MIS student at the University of Michigan''s School of Information. Myself, Sarah Lemre, Sara Veltri and Jessie Mannisto are part of a four-member group in Karen Markey's "Collection Development" class. Our semester-long project is the Askwith

[Videolib] Statistics on Streaming Video

2011-02-15 Thread Lawrence Daressa
Dear deg, I want to second Jonathan's thanks for the information. Very useful for distributor like Newsreel and Icarus getting into the digital delivery world. I do have some related questions. Do you have any statistics on the total combined annual usage in minutes? Do you know the average annual

Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 39, Issue 50

2011-02-15 Thread Deg Farrelly
Jonathan That's all determined by FMG on their side. -deg > Very cool. Thanks! > > Question: how are the license fees you pay allocated amongst the titles, or > is that done soley by FMG on their side? (I ask as we are looking at models > for doing this now!) VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage

Re: [Videolib] streaming justification

2011-02-15 Thread Bergman, Barbara J
Although I agree with Gary about not wanting to give up collection development decisions wholesale, I decided best thing to do about streamed video was to jump in big, so we're starting with some of the Alexander Street dbs. Packages were selected based on: anticipated interest and therefore like