Gary and Jessica: Here's a question for you: In a hypothetical U.S. situation where an institution has, say, Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film on laserdisc, must they look for and purchase a used set on VHS, since this will likely never be released in a digital format, or can that step be skipped and 108 applied.
Just curious in Montreal on a beautiful sunny day. Oksana Concordia University At 02:28 PM 21/09/2011, you wrote: >Yeah...dearly departed. I don't think even Jessica would argue (well, >then again...we'll see) > >We've converted a number of ours (e.g. the spectacular Eadweard Muybridge >disc from Voyage...unfortunately not as cool without the defunct hypercard >interface software for Mac that it was born with). > > >gary > > > Greetings, group; > > > > At this point can laserdisc be considered a dead format? > > > > Not looking to convert any of our LD's at the moment, but just in case > > our players start dying... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brigid Duffy > > Academic Technology > > San Francisco State University > > San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 > > E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.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. 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.
