My media person and I are meeting with the AV consultants for a new building this afternoon. I need your collective wisdom.
Our college is a small, two-year technical college. The library purchases very few non-technical media. We mainly purchase industrial training or health related media. We still have many VHS tapes. We are systematically updating them, but we refuse and cannot afford to purchase a DVD that is the same the same as the VHS tape. For example: Ohms Law has not changed in that last several hundred years. We have also subscribed to some streaming media such as the Health Collection from Films On Demand. Our AV consultant spec'd out a Blu-Ray/VCR combo, but it is no longer available. They have proposed just a Blu-Ray player with a no VHS. We are thinking that a DVD/VHS unit with several Blu-Ray players that can use an input on the Extron controller would be more appropriate for our use. But we want to be forward thinking. We keep telling the AV consultant to design for the future. For example, we had to fight for HDMI. Do you see our type of training media going to Blu-Ray in the near future? Thanks for your input. Jane Jane Blume Director, Library and Media Services Bellingham Technical College 3028 Lindbergh Ave. Bellingham, WA 98225 360-752-8472 - phone 360-752-7272 - fax mailto:jbl...@btc.ctc.edu
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