At a community college where I once worked, the muckety-mucks were all hepped up on "restructuring," so I attempted to get our boring "Learning Technologies" media crew renamed and redressed. (Wait, the crew were not boring, the label was!)
Of course, techies love all black outfits rather than Lands End "Team Audio" preppy polos, and a certain cool factor, so I tried "Media Ninjas" with some kind of dynamic XLR looking weapon across the back of the t-shirts. It was looked at askance, but .... nothing ventured, nothing gained. And of course, since ninjas are basically out to kill the shogun, I guess there was a certain metaphorical inconsistency with the imaginary. oh, well, "Media Services" seems so staid -- keeps reminding me of filmstrip repair ... what's a digital junkie to do? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti Berky" <p...@psu.edu> To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 11:46:54 AM Subject: Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?! We have a Media and Technology Support Services, "MediaTech" for short. And in our Arts & Humanities Library, we have a Music and Media Center. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Lou Neighbour" <mneig...@mc3.edu> To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 11:15:04 AM Subject: [Videolib] What is in a name?! 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. -- Patti Berky Audiovisual Acquisitions The Pennsylvania State University 126 Paterno Library University Park, PA 16802-1808 <p...@psu.edu> Tel: 814-865-1858 Fax: 814-863-7293 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.
