[Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Mary Lou Neighbour
This is a shout out to all of you video/media/audiovisual librarians... Could you please tell me what you call your library or area of the library or college? The background is this - since the College's existence in 1964, we have been called the Audiovisual or AV Library. I am the

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Maureen Tripp
How about Media Resources? From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Lou Neighbour Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 11:15 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] What is in a name?! This is a shout out to all of you

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Brian Boling
Both libraries where I've worked have called the area Media Services...but the first one's full title was Government Information and Media Services. Talk about turning the sexy factor up a notch! It had previously been the Microform Media Center. Maybe Media Center would deviate just enough

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Steven Matthew
Mary Lou, our section is called the Media Center. Other names, Media Library Media Resources Multimedia Library Multimedia Resources, Multimedia Center Steven Steven C. Matthew Head of Access Services S.E. Wimberly Library Florida Atlantic University matt...@fau.edumailto:matt...@fau.edu

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Patti Berky
We have a Media and Technology Support Services, MediaTech for short. And in our Arts Humanities Library, we have a Music and Media Center. - Original Message - | From: Mary Lou Neighbour mneig...@mc3.edu | To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu | Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 11:15:04 AM |

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Walt Lessun
At Gogebic we are called the Learning Resources and Instructional Technology Centers. . No one knows where we are now that we have moved location!! So, what’s the downside? the administrators … think that Audiovisual is a dated term. They would prefer something sexy…Sexy? They want sexy!

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Randal Baier
At a community college where I once worked, the muckety-mucks were all hepped up on restructuring, so I attempted to get our boring Learning Technologies media crew renamed and redressed. (Wait, the crew were not boring, the label was!) Of course, techies love all black outfits rather than

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Elena Rossi-Snook
Hello all, I've contacted Mary Lou off-list but am now thinking that everyone enjoying this thread may find it of interest: I touched on this very topic in my chapter in Learning With the Lights Off

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?! an XLR by any other name sounds just as grounded

2013-05-10 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
There's a smallish teaching media library which grew out of the old Audiovisual dept. which maintained both projectors and films. It was the Film Library, and then the Media Library. Now it has come under the control of Film Studies and they renamed it FMR (that's what's on the door, with no

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?!

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Vollmar-Grone
Back before my department was merged into Adult Services during the great econonomic melt-down, I changed the name from Audiovisual Services to Digital Media Services. And to prove my full geek, the initals were binary on the sign. Digital 01000100 Media 01001101 Services 01010011

[Videolib] Thanks for Name Change Suggestions!

2013-05-10 Thread Mary Lou Neighbour
As this Friday draws to a close, I want to thank the many people who responded to my plea! You have given our AV staff many possibilities to consider. This is the greatest list!! Thank you all. ML Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340

Re: [Videolib] Hollywood's stereotypes of Arab women

2013-05-10 Thread Rosen, Rhonda
Hi Nell, Have you looked at Valentino's Ghost? Valentino's Ghost takes viewers on a chronological journey through more than a century of images of Muslims, Arabs and Islam in the U.S. media, from the early 20th-century fantasies of romantic sheiks to today's damaging stereotypes as evil

Re: [Videolib] Hollywood's stereotypes of Arab women

2013-05-10 Thread Nellie J Chenault
Thanks for the suggestion of docs. Please suggest features! Have a great weekend! Nell On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Anthony Anderson antho...@usc.edu wrote: ** I would also suggest the excellent documentary *Reel Bad Arabs*, which shows how Hollywood has treated both Arab men and

Re: [Videolib] Hollywood's stereotypes of Arab women

2013-05-10 Thread Elizabeth Stanley
Nell, Here is the link to Valentino's Ghost from Bullfrog Films, with a trailer/clip: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/vghosp.html Available on DVD and digital streaming license. Thanks! Elizabeth Stanley Bullfrog Films From: