Hi all, Roger Weisberg, a producer/director who also is a Wes alum, donated a bunch of his DVDs to the library. All of them are perfectly ordinary DVDs...except one.
He's given us what looks to me like a DVD he's created. The top of the disc reads "The Main Stream with Roy Blount, Jr. / PBS Packaged Version / Running Time -01:56:46." The bottom of the disc has his name, address, phone number, and email. It clearly isn't a copy that PBS produced. Ordinarily, I'd say we can't add it since it appears to be a copy of a PBS program, neither an official PBS product nor from Docurama or New Video (who distributed it). But if the producer & director has created it and given it to us...does that make it okay??? Yours in dismayed confusion, MM Margery L. May Acquisitions Administrator Wesleyan University Library Acquisitions Department Olin Memorial Library 252 Church Street Middletown, CT 06459 860-685-3834 [email protected]
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