I wish Judy et al had vetted this survey via this list--one would assume a prime target. I'll admit to a rapidly failing memory, but I don't recall being asked to take this survey...
The answers you get in a survey such as this MUST be assessed in light of who's doing the responding (i.e. the defined "community"). Given the rather insane and continuing paucity of professionals devoted either in significant part or whole to overseeing media collection development and management in academic libraries, and given the likely cloudy or incomplete understanding of current market and legal issues by those not directly involved in the practice, I think you gotta take such results with several grains of salt. Using community practice as the basis of best practice when the community surveyed is largely clueless ain't a particularly good way to go. Gary > Well, deg's right that it'll probably cause some consternation among "my" > people -- it's definitely inflammatory in its descriptions of distributors > and the us versus them rhetoric and who "owns" the copyright law. I do > appreciate the line near the end "Not a single librarian revealed herself > as being either cavalier about the law or dismissive of the market" and > know it to be the case among most but it would be nice to have some of the > discussions we've had here about the balancing the needs of education > versus the sustainability of producing new content. The lack thereof makes > me want to set up fishing dates with Gary. :-) > > Dennis > > > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Deg Farrelly <deg.farre...@asu.edu> wrote: > >> At the risk of launching a messy can 'o worms.... >> >> I came across this today. I don't recall seeing it posted or announced >> anywhere else, even on this list... >> >> >> http://www.infodocket.com/2012/04/30/new-from-ala-community-practices-in-the-fair-use-of-video-in-libraries/ >> >> Link to the full document (as a web page): >> http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Fair_Use_and_Video/ >> >> Before all hell breaks loose, I have not read the whole document >> carefully >> from beginning to end. But from my cursory read, it does not appear to >> be >> "Code of Best Practices" document. Instead, it reads to me as a report >> on >> what a study determined where the practices that librarians are using. >> >> I recall being interviewed for the project some time back. >> >> deg farrelly >> ASU Libraries >> Arizona State University >> P.O. Box 871006 >> Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 >> 480.965.1403 >> >> >> 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 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 > Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: milefi...@gmail.com > Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com > Visit our other websites! www.comebackafrica.com www.yougottomove.com > www.ontheboweryfilm.com www.arayafilm.com www.exilesfilm.com > www.wordisoutmovie.com www.killerofsheep.com > <http://www.killerofsheep.com/> > Support "Milestone Film" on > Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> > and Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! > See the website: Association of Moving Image > Archivists<http://www.amianet.org/> and > like them on > Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-of-Moving-Image-Archivists/86854559717> > > AMIA 2012 Conference, Seattle, WA, December > 4-7!<http://www.amiaconference.com/> > 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.
