Sent along by Catherine Stimac at Oregon Public Broadcasting, who is coordinating the American Archive Pilot Project. On this thoroughly entertaining short film, she sez "We owe a lot to the archivists, researchers, producers, preservationists, and all of you! Check out this NPR story. Brilliant!"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/02/find_me_a_photo_of_jesus_an d_o.html ......... And also from this week's edition of On the Media, a great story celebrating librarians! Brooke Gladstone's interview called "Librarians Gone Wild http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/02/19/08 February 19, 2010 "In her new book, author Marilyn Johnson argues that, even in the Google age, human beings, namely librarians, are still the best resource for accurate answers. In fact, Johnson says librarians are more important now then ever before. Plus, they're fascinating! They compete in dance competitions and blog about the quirky and downright disgusting behavior of patrons." Personally, the Book Cart Drill Team competitions had me falling off my chair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpFf1i1_g5I Go team! Nan Rubin Nan Rubin, Project Director Preserving Digital Public Television Thirteen 450 W. 33rd St. New York, NY 10001 212-560-2925 (direct line) 212-560-2833 fax [email protected] www.ptvdigitalarchive.o VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
