I would most respectfully wish to disagree with fellini49"s assessment
of Alexander
Street Press. Here at USC we have several of their products (Including
*Theatre in Video*
and *Dance in Video)*,and we couldn't be more pleased with them.
Content, ease in
accessibility, and customer service are all superlative.
Cheers!
Anthony
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Anthony E. Anderson
Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
(213) 740-1190antho...@usc.edu
"Wind, regen, zon, of kou,
Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou."
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On 5/14/2013 2:10 PM, fellin...@aol.com wrote:
a word to the wise--please test the databases first--like Alexander
Street Press---which is simply horrendous to use--remember the old
phrase about being sold the Brooklyn Bridge...
-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Baker <bak...@acu.edu>
To: videolib <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tue, May 14, 2013 2:35 pm
Subject: [Videolib] physical vs. streaming collection development policies
Our library is considering subscribing to some kind of streaming video
database. For of those of you who already do this, did subscribing to
such a database cut down on the number of physical CDs/DVDs you have
to purchase for your faculty?
Secondly, does anyone have a policy that describes what AV content the
library will use its money to provide (through a subscribed streaming
package) and what the faculty will need to use their own department's
funds to supply?
Laura Baker
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Laura Baker
Librarian -- Digital Research and Learning
Abilene Christian University Library
221 Brown Library / ACU Box 29208
Abilene, TX 79699-9208
bak...@acu.edu <mailto:bak...@acu.edu>
phone: (325) 674-2477
fax: (325) 674-2202
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
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working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
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