Dear Bob,
Newsreel's position on this has always been that a producer (the
copyright holder) grants us the right to makes copies of his or her work
or to grant others that right only during the term of our contract
(distribution agreement.) We will continue to grant the right to copy
(migrate) files licensed by us at no charge for as long as we have that
right (i.e. during the life of our contract with the producer.) Not
all distributors may choose to do so. Once Newsreel's contract expires,,
the purchaser of a file or a local streaming license would need to ask
the copyright holder's permission to make additional files.
As with DVDs, the purchaser of a file or local streaming license from
Newsreel has the right to "play" or stream that file in perpetuity.
Apple must have obtained digital rights "in perpetuity" though they
have never asked for them from Newsreel nor would or could we grant
them. I hope this clarifies rather than complicates this issue.
Larry
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From: Bob Norris <b...@filmideas.com>
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I hate to bring up a copyright issue again but...
There was recently a discussion if it is acceptable for a distributor to
grant Lifetime streaming rights. There was a faction that argued it is
acceptable as long as you limit the rights to a single digital format
and do not allow the buyer to transcode the file to a new format. They
could use the original file as long as it plays on their streaming
service just like they could use a DVD as long as it works. The analogy
was made to a download in the consumer market not having a time
restriction.
I was recently discussing this with an institution that wants to stream
in perpetuity in any format. I said Apple does not permit that and she
asked if that was through a technical limitation/DRM or the Terms and
Conditions agreement. I had to admit I did not know. So I reviewed the
terms (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#SERVICE) and can
see no restriction about copying files to a new format. They only limit
playback to 5 iTunes approved devices and do not allow iTunes video to
be burned, which I think means to disc. Then I transcoded a m4a file to
an ACC file and played it back no problem. So it looks like Apple is
selling the right to play back in any digital format in perpetuity.
Am I missing something?
Bob
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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 11:42:33 -0700
From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 53, Issue 15
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;-{)} That's me...Mr. Drip
g
> Exactly - Gary is going in to drip irrigation!
> JM
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of nahum laufer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 2:09 PM
> To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 53, Issue 15
>
> Dear Gary
> I just arrived at your Video lib this week, and you won't be around.
> Thanks for all your help
> My advice as one pensioner to another, don't sit around doing nothing
find
> something interesting something differant, I myself was an expert on
drip
> irrigation joined my son to make and distribute films.
> Nahum Laufer
>>
>> At 11:17 AM 02/04/2012, you wrote:
>>>Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls It is with a mix of melancholy,
>>>ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast relief that I announce my
>>>forthcoming retirement from the University of California Berkeley and
>>>the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012. Today marks my 33rd
>>>anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th as a librarian
>>>(a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me). I???ve been
>>>director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and there
>>>hasn???t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my
murmuring
>>>a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble
into
>>>such a cool and
>>>personally rewarding gig. I simply cannot
>>>think of anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or
>>>another position in which I would have grown and learned and
>>>contributed as much. In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who
>>>was born during the fiery appearance of Halley???s Comet, and who
went
>>>out with its reappearance, 74 years later. I began my career in
media
>>>in the early 80s, at the dawn of the home video age (or the ???Video
>>>Revolution??? as it was often hyperbolically called in the library
>>>literature at the time). I???m bowing out of the business at a time
>>>when the technologies and economics of video production and
>>>distribution, and the video content universe itself are again in a
>>>state of radical flux. Along with these changes, video collections
>>>and service in libraries are also bound to experience major tremors
>>>and evolutionary shifts. I???m not sure whether I???m leaving the
>>>scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any
>>>case it???s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging
next
>>>decade. I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals
>>>profoundly, both those on the library side and the distributor side
of
>>>the fence. I grew up with a number of you in this field, and along
>>>the way you???ve become a kind of extended workaday family, complete
>>>with the obstreperous get-togethers, occasional bickering, and
>>>comforting sympathy. I???m also heartened by the number of young,
>>>creative, and energetic colleagues who have hopped on board in more
>>>recent times. Definitely makes me less gloomy about prospects for
the
>>>future. Not sure exactly what I???m going to do next: I???d like to
>>>continue teaching film somewhere on campus or off; I???m up for grabs
>>>as a consultant; want to write a bit; gotta catch up on all the
>>>national cinemas I???ve given short-shrift to over the years; want to
>>>log in more gym time; would like to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing
>>>chops; want to get back to freelance cartooning and illustration. At
>>>very least, I???m aiming at becoming an accomplished and well-known
>>>Berkeley fl??neur and caf?? personality. As for the fate of the UC
>>>Berkeley Media Resources Center? In light of the dire econommic
>>>straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost completely
>>>unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon. The future
of
>>>the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at best. I
>>>can???t really think about all of this too much; it???s just too damn
>>>depressing to ponder, and I???ve got other things on my mind.
>>>In other words, apr??s moi, le deluge, and there???s not a damn thing
>>>I can do about it.
>>>For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations
>>>Czarina, will look after the shop. She has also graciously agreed to
>>>keep an administrative eye on videolib and videonews. (Note,
however,
>>>that she???s going out on maternity leave from May until around the
>>>end of September, so you???re pretty much on your own during that
>>>hiatus. Play nice!). Gisele???s email is
>>>gtana...@library.berkeley.edu. I???ll be around and wrapping things
>>>up for the next few months. My civilian email address after June is
>>>going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I???m also on Facebook. I???d
>>>love to stay in touch (but please don???t contact me about anything
>>>having to do with copyright or fair use). Best of luck for the
future,
>>>comrades! Continue fighting the good fight. It really has been an
>>>honor and a delight working with you all. Salud! Gary Handman 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.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:20:38 -0400
> From: "Mandel, Debra" <d.man...@neu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck
> To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
> Message-ID: <cba0a496.1c6fe%d.man...@neu.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
>
>
> On the heels of all these wonderful tributes, here's another.
>
> Gary, I have had a respectful professional crush on you these many
years.
> As another old timer, I can admit that I've stuck it out this long
knowing
> you were out there, keeping us well-humored, informed and centered.
> Continuing in these tranches without you will be a lonlier experience.
> What will sustain me is the passion you have given to our profession
and
> your commitment to doing the right thing.
>
> Debra Mandel
>
>
> On 4/3/12 12:38 PM, "Oksana Dykyj" <oks...@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>
>>Dear Gary,
>>
>>It wasn't until early this morning that it hit me and then all the
>>analogies began streaming in.
>>Your timing for "retirement" does comes at the end of an era/beginning
>>of a new one. The main analogy is that for people like you and I, who
>>grew up during the analog era, the last 15-20 years have been
>>essentially comparable to the first 15-20 years of the advent of
moving
>>images.
>>I'm equating the birth of film to the birth of the internet. The
>>internet arrived, access to information was at the tips of one's
typing
>>fingers and a new system for the distribution of all kinds of
>>information was available to everyone (more or less). In 1895 after
>>several years of experimentation, motion pictures were being shown in
>>many parts of the world and provided access to worlds beyond anyone's
>>imagination. In 1995, we were making decisions about whether we liked
>>Mosaic or Netscape better as browsers. I liked Mosaic (but then I
liked
>>betamax over VHS). Roughly 17 years later, around 1912, motion
pictures
>>came into their own and serious feature-length films were becoming
>>standard fare, attached to film directors whose development of film
>>style left a lasting mark. In 2012, content distribution is taking a
>>serious turn to streaming and leaving its mark about how we think
about
>>owning digital files of images - moving or still, and sounds - music
or
>>spoken content. Content itself is becoming more physically intangible.
>>We can personally own books, films, music, but they do not reside on
>>shelves, rather they reside somewhere Out There and we need devices to
>>access them and to pay to "store" them. So, you are leaving us at a
>>time where we have crossed the threshold to the next phase of
>>technology.
>>
>>I remember when I first met you in person, as opposed to online. It
was
>>in Austin in 1995 at the Summer Institute at U of T at Austin
entitled,
>>Video, CD-ROM and Beyond. I remember giving a paper about film
>>preservation and making some off the cuff remark about video on
demand.
>>Be careful what you wish for, I guess. Here we are with access to more
>>things than we thought were even possible 17 years ago.
>>
>>Now about you and what you have done for us: I started my career at a
>>time when correspondence meant writing memos and letters. Retrieving
>>one's phone messages meant rewinding the audio-cassette on the
>>answering machine attached to one's analog phone (and prior to that,
>>calling into one's answering service and talking to someone who gave
>>you your messages). Then modems and clunky e-mail and the internet
>>arrived. And then Gary gave us videolib and a new way of professional
>>communication. In the old days the easiest way to find a distributor
>>for a film was to contact someone who might know. Information was
>>passed along verbally by those who knew or who knew someone who would
>>know. Many reference books tended to be out of date by the time they
>>were published and so after a few years on the job, a media librarian
>>finally had the training to get the job done in a timely manner based
>>on he or she knew. Listservs arrived and continued the wonderful
>>personal contact that we all felt during a conference where we could
>>discuss topics without physical or temporal borders. Listservs changed
>>everything and for media librarianship Gary's helming of this
>>invaluable professional resource is undeniably one of the most
>>important developments in the field in the last 15 years.
>>Videolib has truly changed the face of the media librarian profession.
>>Thank you Gary. Thank you for your vision, for your guidance, for your
>>patience and persistence, and for your sense of humor. You are indeed
>>important to the archeology of media librarianship.
>>
>>May I suggest that we all compile an essential screening list for
Gary,
>>so that he could occupy his time appropriately later this summer?
>>
>>My contribution is the final episode of the second season of Twilight
>>Zone. The Obsolete Man (episode 65) was originally broadcast June 2,
>>1961 and starred Burgess Meredith as a librarian, who, in a future
>>totalitarian state, is judged obsolete and sentenced to death. It's
>>pretty powerful, particularly the totalitarian stuff but in no way
>>reflects current individuals on this listserv.
>>
>>Who knows, maybe Gary will helm the next iteration of communication,
>>this time between retired (obsolete) media professionals.
>>
>>Oksana
>>who will have to watch deg's clip when she crosses the border to the
U.S.
>>
>>Concordia University
>>Montreal, Canada
>>
>>
>>
>>At 11:17 AM 02/04/2012, you wrote:
>>>Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls It is with a mix of melancholy,
>>>ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast relief that I announce my
>>>forthcoming retirement from the University of California Berkeley and
>>>the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012. Today marks my 33rd
>>>anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th as a librarian
>>>(a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me). I???ve been
>>>director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and there
>>>hasn???t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my
murmuring
>>>a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble
into
>>>such a cool and
>>>personally rewarding gig. I simply cannot
>>>think of anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or
>>>another position in which I would have grown and learned and
>>>contributed as much. In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who
>>>was born during the fiery appearance of Halley???s Comet, and who
went
>>>out with its reappearance, 74 years later. I began my career in
media
>>>in the early 80s, at the dawn of the home video age (or the ???Video
>>>Revolution??? as it was often hyperbolically called in the library
>>>literature at the time). I???m bowing out of the business at a time
>>>when the technologies and economics of video production and
>>>distribution, and the video content universe itself are again in a
>>>state of radical flux. Along with these changes, video collections
>>>and service in libraries are also bound to experience major tremors
>>>and evolutionary shifts. I???m not sure whether I???m leaving the
>>>scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any
>>>case it???s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging
next
>>>decade. I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals
>>>profoundly, both those on the library side and the distributor side
of
>>>the fence. I grew up with a number of you in this field, and along
>>>the way you???ve become a kind of extended workaday family, complete
>>>with the obstreperous get-togethers, occasional bickering, and
>>>comforting sympathy. I???m also heartened by the number of young,
>>>creative, and energetic colleagues who have hopped on board in more
>>>recent times. Definitely makes me less gloomy about prospects for
the
>>>future. Not sure exactly what I???m going to do next: I???d like to
>>>continue teaching film somewhere on campus or off; I???m up for grabs
>>>as a consultant; want to write a bit; gotta catch up on all the
>>>national cinemas I???ve given short-shrift to over the years; want to
>>>log in more gym time; would like to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing
>>>chops; want to get back to freelance cartooning and illustration. At
>>>very least, I???m aiming at becoming an accomplished and well-known
>>>Berkeley fl??neur and caf?? personality. As for the fate of the UC
>>>Berkeley Media Resources Center? In light of the dire econommic
>>>straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost completely
>>>unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon. The future
of
>>>the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at best. I
>>>can???t really think about all of this too much; it???s just too damn
>>>depressing to ponder, and I???ve got other things on my mind.
>>>In other words, apr??s moi, le deluge, and there???s not a damn thing
>>>I can do about it.
>>>For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations
>>>Czarina, will look after the shop. She has also graciously agreed to
>>>keep an administrative eye on videolib and videonews. (Note,
however,
>>>that she???s going out on maternity leave from May until around the
>>>end of September, so you???re pretty much on your own during that
>>>hiatus. Play nice!). Gisele???s email is
>>>gtana...@library.berkeley.edu. I???ll be around and wrapping things
>>>up for the next few months. My civilian email address after June is
>>>going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I???m also on Facebook. I???d
>>>love to stay in touch (but please don???t contact me about anything
>>>having to do with copyright or fair use). Best of luck for the
future,
>>>comrades! Continue fighting the good fight. It really has been an
>>>honor and a delight working with you all. Salud! Gary Handman 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.
>
>
> End of videolib Digest, Vol 53, Issue 15
> ****************************************
>
>
> 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
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:15:59 -0400
From: Dennis Doros <milefi...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Message-ID:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
Wow, Oksana, that was wonderful. Does that make you Constance Talmadge
and
Gary, John Gilbert?
Dennis
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Oksana Dykyj
<oks...@alcor.concordia.ca>wrote:
> Dear Gary,
>
> It wasn't until early this morning that it hit me
> and then all the analogies began streaming in.
> Your timing for "retirement" does comes at the
> end of an era/beginning of a new one. The main
> analogy is that for people like you and I, who
> grew up during the analog era, the last 15-20
> years have been essentially comparable to the
> first 15-20 years of the advent of moving images.
> I'm equating the birth of film to the birth of
> the internet. The internet arrived, access to
> information was at the tips of one's typing
> fingers and a new system for the distribution of
> all kinds of information was available to
> everyone (more or less). In 1895 after several
> years of experimentation, motion pictures were
> being shown in many parts of the world and
> provided access to worlds beyond anyone's
> imagination. In 1995, we were making decisions
> about whether we liked Mosaic or Netscape better
> as browsers. I liked Mosaic (but then I liked
> betamax over VHS). Roughly 17 years later, around
> 1912, motion pictures came into their own and
> serious feature-length films were becoming
> standard fare, attached to film directors whose
> development of film style left a lasting mark. In
> 2012, content distribution is taking a serious
> turn to streaming and leaving its mark about how
> we think about owning digital files of images -
> moving or still, and sounds - music or spoken
> content. Content itself is becoming more
> physically intangible. We can personally own
> books, films, music, but they do not reside on
> shelves, rather they reside somewhere Out There
> and we need devices to access them and to pay to
> "store" them. So, you are leaving us at a time
> where we have crossed the threshold to the next phase of technology.
>
> I remember when I first met you in person, as
> opposed to online. It was in Austin in 1995 at
> the Summer Institute at U of T at Austin
> entitled, Video, CD-ROM and Beyond. I remember
> giving a paper about film preservation and making
> some off the cuff remark about video on demand.
> Be careful what you wish for, I guess. Here we
> are with access to more things than we thought
> were even possible 17 years ago.
>
> Now about you and what you have done for us: I
> started my career at a time when correspondence
> meant writing memos and letters. Retrieving one's
> phone messages meant rewinding the audio-cassette
> on the answering machine attached to one's analog
> phone (and prior to that, calling into one's
> answering service and talking to someone who gave
> you your messages). Then modems and clunky e-mail
> and the internet arrived. And then Gary gave us
> videolib and a new way of professional
> communication. In the old days the easiest way to
> find a distributor for a film was to contact
> someone who might know. Information was passed
> along verbally by those who knew or who knew
> someone who would know. Many reference books
> tended to be out of date by the time they were
> published and so after a few years on the job, a
> media librarian finally had the training to get
> the job done in a timely manner based on he or
> she knew. Listservs arrived and continued the
> wonderful personal contact that we all felt
> during a conference where we could discuss topics
> without physical or temporal borders. Listservs
> changed everything and for media librarianship
> Gary's helming of this invaluable professional
> resource is undeniably one of the most important
> developments in the field in the last 15 years.
> Videolib has truly changed the face of the media
> librarian profession. Thank you Gary. Thank you
> for your vision, for your guidance, for your
> patience and persistence, and for your sense of
> humor. You are indeed important to the archeology of media
librarianship.
>
> May I suggest that we all compile an essential
> screening list for Gary, so that he could occupy
> his time appropriately later this summer?
>
> My contribution is the final episode of the
> second season of Twilight Zone. The Obsolete Man
> (episode 65) was originally broadcast June 2,
> 1961 and starred Burgess Meredith as a librarian,
> who, in a future totalitarian state, is judged
> obsolete and sentenced to death. It's pretty
> powerful, particularly the totalitarian stuff but
> in no way reflects current individuals on this listserv.
>
> Who knows, maybe Gary will helm the next
> iteration of communication, this time between
> retired (obsolete) media professionals.
>
> Oksana
> who will have to watch deg's clip when she crosses the border to the
U.S.
>
> Concordia University
> Montreal, Canada
>
>
>
> At 11:17 AM 02/04/2012, you wrote:
> >Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls It is with
> >a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight
> >trepidation, and vast relief that I announce my
> >forthcoming retirement from the University of
> >California Berkeley and the Media Resources
> >Center on June 28, 2012. Today marks my 33rd
> >anniversary with the University, and this year
> >my 36th as a librarian (a fact which seems more
> >than a little surreal to me). I???ve been
> >director of the Media Center for about 28 of
> >those years, and there hasn???t been week, good
> >or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring a
> >little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that
> >allowed me to stumble into such a cool and
> >personally rewarding gig. I simply cannot
> >think of anywhere that I would have been happier
> >professionally, or another position in which I
> >would have grown and learned and contributed as
> >much. In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark
> >Twain, who was born during the fiery appearance
> >of Halley???s Comet, and who went out with its
> >reappearance, 74 years later. I began my career
> >in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of the
> >home video age (or the ???Video Revolution?? as
> >it was often hyperbolically called in the
> >library literature at the time). I???m bowing
> >out of the business at a time when the
> >technologies and economics of video production
> >and distribution, and the video content universe
> >itself are again in a state of radical
> >flux. Along with these changes, video
> >collections and service in libraries are also
> >bound to experience major tremors and
> >evolutionary shifts. I???m not sure whether
> >I???m leaving the scene feeling sanguine or
> >pessimistic about this future, but in any case
> >it???s definitely going to be an interesting and
> >challenging next decade. I am going to miss all
> >my long-time professional pals profoundly, both
> >those on the library side and the distributor
> >side of the fence. I grew up with a number of
> >you in this field, and along the way you???ve
> >become a kind of extended workaday family,
> >complete with the obstreperous get-togethers,
> >occasional bickering, and comforting
> >sympathy. I???m also heartened by the number of
> >young, creative, and energetic colleagues who
> >have hopped on board in more recent
> >times. Definitely makes me less gloomy about
> >prospects for the future. Not sure exactly what
> >I???m going to do next: I???d like to continue
> >teaching film somewhere on campus or off; I???m
> >up for grabs as a consultant; want to write a
> >bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas
> >I???ve given short-shrift to over the years;
> >want to log in more gym time; would like to hone
> >my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get
> >back to freelance cartooning and
> >illustration. At very least, I???m aiming at
> >becoming an accomplished and well-known Berkeley
> >fl??neur and caf?? personality. As for the fate
> >of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center? In
> >light of the dire econommic straits into which
> >UC has been shoved, it is almost completely
> >unlikely that my position will be filled any
> >time soon. The future of the redoubtable MRC
> >collection and website remains murky, at
> >best. I can???t really think about all of this
> >too much; it???s just too damn depressing to
> >ponder, and I???ve got other things on my mind.
> >In other words, apr??s moi, le deluge, and
> >there???s not a damn thing I can do about it.
> >For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack
> >MRC Operations Czarina, will look after the
> >shop. She has also graciously agreed to keep an
> >administrative eye on videolib and
> >videonews. (Note, however, that she???s going
> >out on maternity leave from May until around the
> >end of September, so you???re pretty much on
> >your own during that hiatus. Play
> >nice!). Gisele???s email is
> >gtana...@library.berkeley.edu. I???ll be around
> >and wrapping things up for the next few
> >months. My civilian email address after June is
> >going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I???m also
> >on Facebook. I???d love to stay in touch (but
> >please don???t contact me about anything having
> >to do with copyright or fair use). Best of luck
> >for the future, comrades! Continue fighting the
> >good fight. It really has been an honor and a
> >delight working with you all. Salud! Gary
> >Handman 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.
>
--
Best regards,
Dennis Doros
Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero
PO Box 128
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Phone: 201-767-3117
Fax: 201-767-3035
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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
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