Both libraries where I've worked have called the area Media Services...but the first one's full title was Government Information and Media Services. Talk about turning the sexy factor up a notch! It had previously been the Microform Media Center.
Maybe Media Center would deviate just enough to deflect the bad reputation of your school's Media Services? Brian Boling Media Services Librarian Temple University Libraries brian.bol...@temple.edu On May 10, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Mary Lou Neighbour wrote: > This is a shout out to all of you video/media/audiovisual librarians… Could > you please tell me what you call your library or area of the library or > college? > > The background is this – since the College’s existence in 1964, we have been > called the Audiovisual or AV Library. I am the Audiovisual Librarian and we > have an Audiovisual Administrative Assistant. However, we have just had a > renovation of the entire library, and the Audiovisual Library has been left > off of the new signage – we are not in directories, and there are no > individual signs. No one knows where we are now that we have moved > location!! > > The reason seems to be that the administrators of the College think that > Audiovisual is a dated term. They would prefer something sexy, evidently, > but they don’t know what. Actually, I think that the administration would be > happiest if we went entirely to streaming!! We in the library still have a > number of video tapes, cds, and many dvds which are heavily used by faculty > and students. And we have viewing equipment. > > One proposal is Media Services – tho that has a bad connotation here on > campus, as that used to be the department creating media productions and > delivering equipment on campus. It had a poor reputation. Multimedia > Services is taken by our IT department. I personally would like to keep > Audiovisual Library but I don’t think that our Library Director is going to > go with that. Could you please tell me what you are called, or if you have > any ideas for sexy, forward-thinking titles? > > Thanks so much!! > > Mary Lou Neighbour > AV Librarian/Assistant Professor > Montgomery County Community College > 340 DeKalb Pike > Blue Bell, PA 19422 > mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 > > > > > > > Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving > the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. > 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. Brian Boling Media Services and Digital Production Librarian Temple University Libraries brian.bol...@temple.edu 215-204-4911
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.
