For the past 15 years, we've been cataloging for several educational media distributors. I'll add my two-bits to this strain, in case it's useful info. for some of you.
Several BARR Film titles are now distributed by Lucerne Media. Rainbow Education, AIMS (Multi)Media, CLEARVUE & SVE, and United Learning are now distributed by Discovery Education. The Altshuhl Group (AGC) including older titles by Perennial Education etc. went to United Learning (then to Discovery?--I'm not sure if Discovery has rights to all the older AGC titles, but I could check on this if there is interest). Cerebellum Corp. has taken over the distribution of titles by Teacher's Media, and Sunburst Visual Learning (Media). There was a progression where hard copy versions of Teacher's and Sunburst were distributed by AIM Ed., but these hard copy versions are now distributed by Cerebellum. (We're still cataloging for Cerebellum Corp., so they can't be an out-of-business distributor, unless I'm confusing corporate names) ...there's no better way to keep up on this than to have to change distributor names or add new distributor names to existing MARC records. It's a headache. I could get into all the rules on this vs. the client demands, but I'll spare you the details... The main reason why hard copy sales have changed hands so much lately, is because the future seems to be in streaming rather than hard copy sales. In most cases, that doesn't mean the hard copy versions are not available. (note I'm talking mainly K-12 titles, but Education faculties need these as well, don't they?) Lorraine. Lorraine Knight marc4media 1-800-799-3988 480-998-0283 www.marc4media.com -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Brigid Duffy Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:45 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] More re out of distribution stuff More out-of-business distributors: AGC United Learning Blackhawk Films Brandon Films Cerebellum Company Encyclopedia Brittanica Educational Corporation Film Images Grove Press Harper and Row Publishers Home Vision Learning Corporation of America Macmillan Films Menninger Video Productions Multifocus International Mystic Fire Video Serious Business Company Tamarelle's International Films Television Licensing Center The Voyager Company Wishing Well Distributing CRM Films is now CRM Learning, a management training video distributor; it is still in business. Brigid Duffy Academic Technology San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:00 AM, <ghand...@library.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Thanks for all who responded to my query re out o' business > distributors. > I'm informed that the Latin American Video Archive (LAVA) did, indeed, > distribute some materials in their database, so I'll add these to the > list. > > In thinking thru which classes or varieties of material may have a > high likelihood of being OP and unobtainable, it also occurred to me > that besides the catalogs of defunct distributors, we may also want to > think about > > PBS titles distributed before 2000 (seems to me that this is > lamentable but true in a large number of cases) > > Titles purchased from associations, professional organizations, > research organizations before 2000 > > Self-distributed, independently produced titles released before 2000 > > What am I leaving out? > > > > > Gary Handman > Director > Media Resources Center > Moffitt Library > UC Berkeley > > 510-643-8566 > ghand...@library.berkeley.edu > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC > > "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." > --Francois Truffaut > > > 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. 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. 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.
