Hi You misread my note, I think.
Focusing on the best way to deliver content is the absolutely wrong way to look at media in educational contexts. First: consider which content is most effective for teaching, learning, and research. Second: determine the most effective way possible to deliver this content. Best content and most convenient delivery aren't always synonymous. In other words, one should not select materials based on whether they're available online (an increasingly common and disturbing trend, I'm afraid). gary > This is not an issue of choosing one format over another. I am searching > for the best way to deliver content for our online students. > > Maria > > > > From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu > To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu > Date: 10/19/2011 03:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Your favorite streaming media vendor > Sent by: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu > > > > Hello Jo Ann > > The question you've asked is really not the correct one to ask, in my > opinion. Video vendors who offer digitral delivery aren't like Baker & > Taylor...they're generally not jobbers, they're distributors of particular > catalogs of materials which they've acquired from individual (generally > independent) filmmakers. Films Media Group (aka Films for the Humanities > and Sciences) comes the closest to the Baker and Taylor model of broad > content distribution, but even they are a bit different than book jobbers. > > The real question to ask is: which distributors have the types of content > that is appropriate and needed for your institution. The answer to this > question may very well require that you deal with a number of > distributors, rather than one universal distributor of content. It may > also mean dealing with distributors that, at present, don't offer digital > delivery at all. > > It's always dangerous and wrong-headed, I think, focusing on technology > (how something can be delivered) and putting content second. Sometimes > there's an overlap between the two--content and delivery--but not, by any > means, always. > > Gary Handman > > > >> >> >> >> From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu >> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Maria Deptula >> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:46 PM >> To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu >> Subject: [Videolib] Your favorite streaming media vendor >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> Could you please share which one is your favorite instructional media >> vendor and why ? >> >> Do you use Intelecom and what your opinion about this service? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Maria >> ------------------------------------------------ >> Maria J. Deptula >> Director, Paramus Campus Library >> Berkeley College >> 64 E. Midland Avenue >> Paramus, NJ 07652 >> m...@berkeleycollege.edu >> 201-967-9667 Ext.1764 >> >> >> >> 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. > 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.
