Blu-What? Look...what exactly is the point? Does the university intend to install Blu-ray machines (or HD projectors) in classrooms? Hell, they can barely get it together to put in shades on the windows. Is the media center going to install 42" HD monitors at individual or group viewing stations??? I don't THINK so...
Not to mention: In the past three years, I've spent maybe 10 to 15 grand on replacing VHS titles with garden-variety DVDs...no way I can justify rebuying the collection again for the sake of sweeter eye-candy. gary handman > A perennial question, but a good one to revisit to from time to time: > > Are you purchasing Blu-Ray titles for your library, or are you holding > off? (I'm especially interested in hearing from college and university > libraries, since we're in the same boat.) > > If you're purchasing, what criteria do you use? Do you re-purchase titles > you have on DVD, or only new titles? > > Having just about completed switching the collection from VHS to DVD, the > thought of moving next to Blu-Ray makes me want to lie down and go to > sleep, for about 45 years. And, the cost would be prohibitive. > > Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if libraries could go straight from DVD > to streaming video, at Blu-Ray image quality? For feature films, not just > educational and documentary titles? Oh well, a girl can dream. > ______________ > Pamela Bristah, Collections Librarian, Wellesley College, 106 Central > Street, Wellesley MA 02481 > phone 781-283-2076, fax 781-283-2869, pbris...@wellesley.edu > > > 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. > 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.
