Hi Deg, As the author of that piece I wanted to thank you for agreeing with most of the article (we have that in common), and for also addressing educational aspects as part of the WHOLE media discussion - it is certainly an integral part of the picture, was considered as such, and will hopefully result in future coverage. Frankly, in this format, there was way too much to talk about. My research took many more factors into consideration and along those lines I easily could've added 5k more words of coverage, this, plus the fact that the topic is/was so much "in active development" due to constantly changing "this just in" information it often felt as though i was reporting on where a clock's second hand has been 5 minutes ago. So you go with what you can and attempt to put it and its context into perspective as best you can - even though there is always the fear that such live information might leap directly from your monitor into a bin of irrelevancy. The intent of this piece was more for, as you mentioned, entertainment purposes with a mind towards establishing base level education of how things work so that we might encourage and nurture elaboration on many different levels. This wasn't to slight. I'm pushing to get more of, well, EVERYTHING going on the topic (discussion, dialogue, camaraderie, support, interest, understanding, representation, conference presentations [physical and virtual], etc.) and i hope attention given to and stemming from works like this will help to do so. Let's keep it going. Thanks - Ben
-----Original Message----- From: Deg Farrelly <deg.farre...@asu.edu> To: videolib <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 3:47 pm Subject: [Videolib] Long article on streaming video on Library Journal online Here: http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/newsletters/newsletterbucketljxpress/892497-441/still_loading__av_spotlight.html.csp I don't disagree with much of the article, but the focus is almost entirely on ntertainment. I wrote a long, rambling comment, but so far I am the only one…. Join the fray! -deg - eg farrelly rizona State University .O. Box 871006 empe, AZ 85287 hone: 480.965.1403 mail: deg.farre...@asu.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues elating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, reservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and elated institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective orking tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between ibraries,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.
