Re: [Videolib] Video Selection: Subject Selector or Media Specialist?

[Susan Weber]

Media librarians do the media selection, along with faculty requests. All librarians do print in their subject areas. Only media librarians do media and print. Therefore, print liaison librarians refer media questions and issues and requests to the media librarian designated for their subject area. It was attempted that subject librarians do both print and media. It was unsuccessful, as media knowledge is a specialty that not all had the time or inclination to acquire. Let the specialists do their job. Susan Weber Benjamin Turner wrote: Dear Colleagues,   At your institutions, is DVD and Video selection the responsibility of subject specialists, or primarily the responsibility of a media specialist? Or is the responsibility shared?   Thank you very much for your feedback.   Benjamin Turner Assistant Professor, Instructional Services St. John's University Libraries turn...@stjohns.edu 718.990.5562   -- Susan Weber, Librarian Langara College, 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 2Z6 Tel. 604-323-5533 email: swe...@langara.bc.ca

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.