VRT (Video Round Table) RoundTable
VRT Now Showing@ALA Screenings
by Gisele Tanasse on Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 02:33 pm
Annual is right around the corner! VRT is sponsoring an inspiring and timely slate of Now Showing @ALA film screenings, from protest movements and radical video makers to accounts of American poverty from the inside:
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM (Film Screening)
Now Showing @ ALA: Agents of Change (2016)
Location: McCormick Place, W181c
Directed by Frank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg, 66 mins, co-sponsor California Newsreel
With Special Guest Speaker, Roderick Ferguson
Prof. of African American and Gender & Women’s Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Agents of Change examines the untold story of the racial conditions on college campuses across the country that led to college protests during the 1960s. Reveals how unprepared these institutions were when confronted by demands for black studies programs, safer housing, fairer judicial proceedings, and changes to democratize the institutions. The film's characters were at the crossroads of change and controversy at a pivotal time in America's history.
Post screening Q&A with Roderick A. Ferguson, Professor of American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago and author of We Demand: The University and Student Protests published by UC Press.
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 11:30AM - 1PM (Film Screening)
Now Showing @ ALA: Here Come the Videofreex! (2015)
Location: McCormick Place, W181c
Directed by Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin, 78 mins, co-sponsor Cinema Guild
Here Come the Videofreex! gives a first-hand account of a little known group of innovators, the Videofreex, a group of passionate young men and women in the 1960s who changed the nature of journalism through the power of portable video, forging a legacy that has evolved to become today's all-access media environment. Don’t forget to get your evening tickets for the VRT Gala, Tuned In, Turned On! Videofreex Tape the World Not an ALA member? Make an account here to buy tickets OR if already registered for Annual, use the link in your confirmation email to add a ticket.
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1:30PM - 2:30 PM (Film Screening)
Now Showing @ALA: Long Story Short (2016)
Location: McCormick Place, W181c
Directed by Natalie Bookchin, 45 mins, co-sponsor Icarus Films
Long Story Short reminds all of us that living in poverty is a real issue for thousands of Americans. Over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area in Northern California discuss their experiences of poverty: why they are poor, how it feels, and what they think should be done about American poverty and homelessness today. Numerous interviews are stitched together to form a polyphonic account of American poverty told from the inside. MacArthur Grantee Natalie Bookchin, an artist whose work has been shown at the Pompidou Centre, the Whitney Museum and the Tate, uses the film to amplify the voices of the displaced and dispossessed. LONG STORY SHORT is included on the ALA VRT 2017 Notable Videos for Adults list.
Don’t miss the event of the season: VRT Gala!
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM; Location: Off Site, Gene Siskel Film Center
VRT Gala: Tuned In, Turned On! Videofreex Tape the World
***Tickets are limited: please order soon!***
Ticketed Event: Advance Purchase $20; Day of Member $25; Day of Non-Member $30
Join VRT for drinks and hors d'oeuvres followed by a presentation from Tom Colley, Archive and Collection Manager at Video Data Bank, a collection of over 1,400 tapes created by members of the Videofreex, one of the country's earliest radical video collectives. In conjunction with this event, all ticket holders will be invited to preview the feature length documentary "Here Come the Videofreex!" online, courtesy of Cinema Guild. This event coincides with the VRT and Cinema Guild co-sponsored "Now Showing @ALA" program screening of the feature length documentary "Here Come the Videofreex!" on Sunday, June 25th at 11:00 am in room 181c in the West Building of the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
To buy tickets after registering, use the link in your conference registration email. Not attending ALA or not a member? Make an account here to buy tickets.
Can’t wait to see you this summer!
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VRT 2016 Annual Executive Board Meeting Minutes
by Leigh Rockey on Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 02:09 pm
Video Round Table (VRT) Membership and Executive Board Meeting
ALA Annual Convention
June 27, 2016
Orlando, Florida
Present: Brian Boling, Andy Horbal, Lowell Lybarger, Steven Milewski, Nell Chenault, Laine
Thielstrom, Michele McKenzie, Phil Hallman, Lorraine Wochna, Laura Jenemann, Rachel King,
Leigh Rockey (UVA-incoming secretary), Erin Miller (Univ of North Texas), Carlton Jackson
(Univ of Maryland), Howard Besser (later).
I. Call to Order
President Brian Boling called the meeting to order at 8:50 am.
II. Roll Call
All the participants introduced themselves. We welcomed new VRT Secretary-elect Lee Rocky
and new participant Erin Miller.
III. Report from ALA Executive Board Liaison
The representative from ALA was not present at this time.
IV. Approval of ALA Midwinter 2015 minutes
Deferred to the August VRT Board meeting.
V. Member Reports
A. Treasurer report - Lowell Lybarger
$22,034 to begin
$2,002 from dues
$339 in expenses from April
$23,697 end total
Discussion:
There is a real need to create public awareness of ALA in order to sustain it and grow into the
future. The attendees numbers for the conference are down: 22,00 attendees in SF, only
16,000 in Orlando. The roundtables are doing well for ALA and that is one area of potential growth and
development in order to increase new participation. There are a lot of new ones so there will be
some interest in seeing if they continue to do as well. New programs and salary increases for workers are some new challenges faced by the
organization.
B. Website Report - Andy Horbal
Andy reported that Maureen Cropper will take over as the VRT webmaster as he begins the
duties of Vice Chair-elect. Maureen has been part of the Communications Committee for some
time and has been involved with the web previously so he is confident that this transition will be
a smooth one.
Discussion:
Michele suggested that a good point of comparison might be to take a look at the Asia Pacific
Libraries Association Roundtable/Division (APALA) site. This is not so much a hosting inquiry
but more for the design/structure that they might use as a point of inspiration. We might want to
find out why they choose what they did and how it’s working? At this point we have a bunch of pages, so using another host would allow us to delete the pages and maintain it more easily and update more frequently.
Question to explore: Can it be searchable on the ALA page?
So questions will have to be asked before going forward. These conversations will take place
throughout the year at the monthly meetings.
C. Communications Committee - Rachel King
It appears that Rachel and Maureen are both rotating off. They have been asked to do
interviews with some of the previous VRT members in order to provide an historical perspective.
Rachel has just posted an interview she did recently with Gary Handman.
Discussion:
Nell has information regarding past chairs and galas and can offer that if it can be of help.
Rachel has not been able to get any photos. Nell said she has some photos from past galas
and can provide those too if needed. She has a VRT Box of information but will send it back.
Any current information should be sent to it. She also has some personal photos.
Laura suggested getting additional interviews from past members and that the History page on
the website might be a place for this.
Freedom to View is a previous session that we can be proud of and show how the group has
affected change in the past.
Lowell suggested we might want to promote how the group’s positions and activities can be very
positive. Since he joined, he has done things differently and participation and awareness of
how others do things has impacted him and his work positively.
Carlton suggest that he documents from public libraries might be useful for jogging memory of
past events. There were videos shot of previous Chairs although he has no knowledge of what
may have happened to them.
Michele suggests that doing a history is in order for the upcoming year. Perhaps looking in
American Libraries for previous information. There may be advertisements for Gala events.
Any selfies for this year’s mixer might be culled.
D. Membership Committee—Brian on behalf of Matthew Windsor
Matthew cannot continue due to job constraints. We will need to find a replacement.
Membership numbers appear to be down.
Discussion:
Nell suggested that the membership chair be part of the ALA New Members Round Table.
Michele reminded us that we should be reaching out to a more diverse group of membership
including Spectrum scholars and LGBT and that the various ALA programs are a way to reach
out.
Nell—we used to have more YOUSA (sp?) members. Also Maker Spaces members might be a
good target area for growth.
E. Program Committee—Laine Thielstrom & Steven Milewski
Laine and Steven reported that the programs offered by VRT during Annual went very well.
PARS went well and the instructional program was packed and they needed more chairs
Attendance number estimates breakdown:
43—B Movies
45—Section 108
83—Streaming Survey
140—Video Production
26—Publishing
Discussion:
It it clear that co-sponsorship is a good way to go in order to secure attendees and to make
people more aware of VRT and how it might relate to them, even if they didn’t think it might
initially.
Laine said she and Steven learned a lot during this process. One area in particular that can be
improved in communication with presenters regarding how they do their presentations and how
proposals are accepted. We need a better form for the proposal process and make suggestions
that presenters make more use of visuals during presentations. Perhaps a meeting should be
held prior to the session in order to discuss what we can expect and to strongly suggest that the
presenter use some kind of visual aids?
They will need to put out a call for new members.
Michele added that she did Now Screenings this year and is interested in possibly tying them
into the program committee. It’s not hard to do but it would be helpful to have this be an
ongoing part of the programming committee. Perhaps do three films per year on a regular
basis.
She added that Now Showing is an ALA sponsored event. You have to approach them and
suggest titles. But now that she has done it once, we know who to talk to, contacts, etc.
That can be included in the governance part and then passed on to the programming
committee. Perhaps it could be part of notables? Or at the very least one title from the
notables list might be included at Annual.
Brian asked: perhaps Michele could continue for the next year and help to shepherd them?
It was noted that about 65 people attended in total for the two screenings.
Michele suggests working with local filmmakers in order to avoid some of the costs associated
with ALA registration.
Lorraine—do the screenings have to be in the daytime?
Nell—we did have evening screenings previously.
Michele—will check and see if this is an option.
Brian—The Citizen Four screening with guest Glenn Greenwald was a successful
screening/programming tie-in
Michele—It is VERY expensive to do this kind of thing, particularly with skyping. ALA costs are
much higher than if one were to do this a one’s own institution.
Officially you are supposed to go through conference services and pay for this kind of service.
Andy—he was able to use google hangout for Scott’s involvement in the publishing presentation
and that worked out well. Something to consider.
F. Gala Committee Report - Lorraine Wochna
Lorraine began by indicating that she will need volunteers. She already has Julia Churchill,
Monique and Andy (who as vice-chair is automatically part of the committee). She does not have venue yet. She will start sending out “save the dates” soon. She is working with Video Data Bank. They are beyond excited to be working with us.
Video Data Bank is preserving the Videofreex collection so this might be a good tie-in. One of Howard’s students did her thesis on the Videofreex which lead to the preservation of this collection. Videofreexs were artists who took up video portapacks when this technology was first available. They moved to Lansdale, NY and got license for a local television station. They lived in a house communally and went out during the day and shot footage and then showed their stuff on local television.
Michele would like to do a Chicago focus. She has pitched a program called: A City of Broad Shoulders which is a focus on artists with Chicago focus.
SRRT—possible ACRL Arts and two possible cross-promotion and co-sponsoring partners is
another option.
They also suggested an archiving/preservation program as a second program.
So this could work as a Gala/Programming/Now Showing collaboration.
Museum of the Contemporary Art is a possible venue option. They do have in-house catering
and ease of use but it is higher cost.
The old main library (Cultural Center) and the Chicago Film Archive are possible venue.s
$3400 for the MCAC space.
Discussion:
Brian asked to begin an open discussion on ticket prices.
How would people feel about raising $5.00 prices?
SF expenses were almost $7,000.
Michele—perhaps change up the model which would really try to fill up a theater for the
programming rather than use this a “feed people” event. This includes two tickets that don’t
expire for the museum.
Video Data Bank can possibly take care of any honorariums for their artists.
We need to be clear on the number of comp tickets. Since this is a larger venue, this is less of
an issue. It can accomodate walk ups and comps. The comps were for sponsors and dvd
donations. This has not always been the case. Previously they were simply mentioned not
comped.
Lorraine would like to be finished with a proposal by the end of July.
Brian—let’s shoot for the August business meeting call.
G Notables - Brian on behalf of Linda Fredericksen
At this time, there are about 20 nominees. Please submit ideas if you have some suggestions.
The deadline is generally in late November/early December. The decisions are made at the
Midwinter meeting.
H. Nominations - Laura Jenemann
Nothing at this time because the positions are filled.
I. IFLA - Michael Miller or Deb B.
Nothing from either of them at this time.
VI. Ten Minute Break
VII. Old Business
A. Kino Scholarship
Only two applicants have applied for the Kino scholarship at this point.
There were some problems with the forms and some difficulties receiving materials from the
candidates.
B. VRT Publications
Andy believes that there is a specific need to produce materials intended for and to represent
media librarianship. One that is opened both for peer review and non-peer reviewed articles and
information. Andy is suggesting a kind of hybrid approach.
Discussion:
Rachel—it would be great to have something that we can call our own.
Consensus is this would have to be open access and multi modal
ALA has been encouraging publications so Andy is suggesting that we circle back and see what
guidance they can offer us is we are willing to go forward. Perhaps Matthew Windsor has a
contact?
Andy is willing to take this us as a vice-Chair project.
Nell—we did newsletters previously so maybe it could be a blend of this kind of thing.
Andy—maybe instead of occasional, it could be an annual.
Laine—pointed out the In Transition—the Society of Cinema and Media Studies approach.
VIII. New Business
A. Codifying rules for VRT/Vendor Relationships
Michele had proposed this discussion topic and since she had to leave, Brian is suggesting that
we delay this to the August meeting.
Nell—there is a vendor relations roundtable. Perhaps we can look at their website to see if
there is anything that might be helpful.
Nell—there has been separate membership fees for vendors.
B. Discussion of Copyright Office 108 meetings - Laura Jenemann
Laura asked if the group would like to submit comments on behalf of the upcoming
recommendations that are being suggested for discussion?
Discussion:
Andy--Should we wait to see what the recommendation are first? Carrie Russell has said that they
may have already made up their minds
July 7 is the deadline so there is very little time to respond.
Howard—the current commissioner of copyright has said that during her term, she wants to
rewrite section 108. ALA’s response has been that we don’t want this to happen during this
commissioner and during this current Congress.
The feeling is that we will likely lose ground rather than gain.
Much of the discussions have been private so there are a lots of suspicions and they very well
may have decided what they are going to do and the sessions are more or less a pro forma.
Nell—she spoke with Carrie Russell and she thinks we should submit but that they may want to trick us.
Carrie would not be submitting these and not through Carrie.
Nell spoke with Kathleen Delorenta from the Music Library Association (MLA) and she has many
similar concerns. They are planning on submitting a comment.
Laura—need to state something that is consistent with ALA.
Howard—in ten days, there is no way that we can come up with a proper consensus.
We might be able to come up with something related to the 3 copy rule.
Older video formats are automatically by their nature deteriorating.
In general, 108 has worked for us. We are concerned with the opening up of this section.
Andy—let’s go ahead and develop a statement for the next round
Laura—she would like to try and work on this and develop an end goal. She can offer a hard
number of unique vhs based on her study.
Andy--We agree with the Alliance that 108 works for us.
Nell—Use the VRT listserv as a platform for sending out a statement and see if we can can
support and assistance from members not a the meeting.
Laura—she likes the statement of support issue.
While we have issues with it, in general 108 has worked and we would continue to work on
clarifying where it doesn’t work
Howard—since there is so little time to do a really adequate job, perhaps we could suggest that
the statement is it’s on behalf of the board rather than the overall membership?
Nell—proposed that we put together a working group to develop a statement for the future and
that we contact the ALA to let them know that what we are doing. And not put this on the
website.
Laura—maybe work with AMIA as well as VRT membership?
Howard—as a founding member of AMIA’s copyright group, they have not supported an official
stance on this because of studio members.
Laura—would like to become involved if someone wants to head the committee.
Kathleen from the Music Library Association joined the meeting at 11:26 am
She presented a brief overview of MLA’s involvement with this issue:
MLA has already requested a meeting and has a phone meeting on July 12. On the meeting
request form, there is a comment form and they are encouraging individuals to add comments
about the lack of transparency and to push for a contractual override. That is something that
everyone agrees on. They are going to make sure they don’t lose access to fair use.
The upcoming deadline is not necessarily a deadline to submit changes but rather it is a
deadline to be able to request a meeting.
Discussion:
We need to parrot what the bigger ALA statements have been up until now.
They are turning to the content industry to see how the laws might be changed rather than the
library world.
They think that we don’t care and we need to make that clear that this not the case.
Faculty should be contacted.
Proposal—Send personal comments and Endorse the previously LCA proposed statement
would be at the least we could do.
Also--it would be helpful for us to make suggestion concerning what people say in the
comments box is helpful.
Howard—Motion
Task someone to write an email to the VRT membership list.
Include links to the previous email that went out.
Include statement that there is a lack of transparency on this issue.
Encourage that individuals write comments and send to them.
Encourage that we include statements that can help on the comments section.
Clarification: who is willing to do this?
Nell is willing to draft this and Howard will help.
Second motion by Andy
We are not available to meet at this time but that we endorse the previous letter of LCA support
We unanimously agree on the support.
Steve seconds motion.
Approved.
This will be an Adhoc committee for now.
C. New Business item
Howard informed the group that a digital content committee met and suggested that it extend
their charge to include discussion about audio visual materials. Digital content working group
has been working on ebooks for some time. There have been meeting with publishers to tell
them to get them to sell to us, opening them up so they can be read on different devices. Also
have model contracts.
This group looks like it might be willing to take on a common user interface.
What is on the table:
Extend deg & Jane’s study about how this material is used;
Some type of analysis of what our membership really wants;
Muscling the vendors;
Looking at the Netflix and Amazon streaming models and opening them up for library purchase
Working towards guidelines of streaming contracts.
Howard suggests that we form an adhoc committee to work on discussing some of these issues.
If we wait until Jim Neel becomes ALA President, then we lose time.
Discussion:
Good idea? Bad Idea? Priority?
Nell—suggested w look to journals for some licensing models.
Loraine—maybe get input from serials and collections people?
Brian—voiced concern is that same members who generally get involved in VRT activities will
also get involved in this so it would be helpful to seek out new, differentvoices. Perhaps get
some more student involvement?
The MLA rep asked: is there some way of collaborating?
Try to make a bigger broadbase voice.
Howard—if we can get a couple of people from this group to help with this to try and get a group
together.
Brian is willing to be the person as past chair.
Others voiced approval that we put a call to the membership on this topic.
Brian moves, Lorrain seconds the approval of Howard’s adhoc committee formation.
IX. Announcements
No new announcements at this time.
X. Adjournment
Brian thanked everyone for their contributions.
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VRT Gala Tickets Going Fast!
by Gisele Tanasse on Wed, May 17, 2017 at 01:37 am
VRT Gala: Tuned In, Turned On! Videofreex Tape the World
Evening Ticketed Event:
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM; Location: Off Site, Gene Siskel Film Center
***Tickets are limited: please order soon!***
Ticketed Event: Member $25; Non-Member $30
Join VRT for drinks and hors d'oeuvres followed by a presentation from Tom Colley, Archive and Collection Manager at Video Data Bank, a collection of over 1,400 tapes created by members of the Videofreex, one of the country's earliest radical video collectives. In conjunction with this event, all ticket holders will be invited to preview the feature length documentary "Here Come the Videofreex!" online, courtesy of Cinema Guild. This event coincides with the VRT and Cinema Guild co-sponsored "Now Showing @ALA" program screening of the feature length documentary "Here Come the Videofreex!" on Sunday, June 25th at 11:00 am in room 181c in the West Building of the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
For more info: http://2017.alaannual.org/ticketed-events
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=257947
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VRT's Great Lineup of Video-Related Programs at ALA Annual: now with room assignments!
by Gisele Tanasse on Wed, May 17, 2017 at 01:19 am
ALA Annual in Chicago is rapidly approaching: don’t miss these great ALA Video Round Table programs, running June 24th-25th... now with room assignments!
Evening Ticketed Event:
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM; Location: Off Site, Gene Siskel Film Center
VRT Gala: Tuned In, Turned On! Videofreex Tape the World
***Tickets are limited: please order soon!***
Ticketed Event: Member $25; Non-Member $30
Join VRT for drinks and hors d'oeuvres followed by a presentation from Tom Colley, Archive and Collection Manager at Video Data Bank, a collection of over 1,400 tapes created by members of the Videofreex, one of the country's earliest radical video collectives. In conjunction with this event, all ticket holders will be invited to preview the feature length documentary "Here Come the Videofreex!" online, courtesy of Cinema Guild. This event coincides with the VRT and Cinema Guild co-sponsored "Now Showing @ALA" program screening of the feature length documentary "Here Come the Videofreex!" on Sunday, June 25th at 11:00 am in room 181c in the West Building of the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
For more info: http://2017.alaannual.org/ticketed-events
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=257947
Daytime Programs:
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Video as Research Data: Challenges & Solutions in Video Data Preservation
(Co-sponsored by ACRL ANSS, ACRL DCIG and ALCTS Digital Preservation Group)
Location: McCormick Place, W175a
Videos are often taken as a part of scholarly research projects, yet this presents challenges for librarians who advise researchers on federally-mandated data sharing and storage. Participants will learn workflows they can assess against needs at their home institution. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=261261
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1:00 PM - 2:30PM
Filming Our Future: Growing a Video Production Niche in the Ak-Chin Indian Community
(LITA Program, co-sponsored by VRT);
Location: McCormick Place, W185bc
For the past seven years the Ak-Chin Indian Community Library has found a niche in the community using the power of film and in 2016, the library’s Movie Club program was selected as one of YALSA’s Top Ten Summer Learning Programs. Learn how to make a positive impact in your community using film and creativity. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=257863
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Community Partnerships and Digital Literacy through Public Service Announcements
(Co-sponsored by PLA, YALSA)
Location: McCormick Place, W175c
Libraries are increasingly finding ways to help their school-age patrons to communicate creatively and make a positive impact in their communities through video projects. Representatives from the Carson City Library and School District share tips from their experiences helping high school freshmen create 60-second PSAs that raise awareness of social issues at their school. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=261259
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Rocking the Small Screen (Without Losing Your Mind): Planning and Managing Library Promotional Videos
(Co-sponsored by PLA, ACRL LMOIG)
Location: McCormick Place, W175a
Video on the web is one of today's hottest social networking trends, but what can online videos do to promote your library? A public library and a university library will both share what they have learned and how realistic expectations can bring success. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=261260
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
How Are Our Instructors Truly Using Media? A Multifaceted Approach to Developing Departmental Course Media Use Profiles
Location: McCormick Place, W175b
One of the greatest challenges for librarians working with media collections is deeply understanding the use of these materials in course context. This program will describe a multifaceted approach to this challenge that combines mining large corpora of departmental syllabi using NVIVO text analysis software with reserves, survey, and interpersonal correspondence data to build departmental media resource use profiles. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=261258
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Preservation Showdown: Audiovisual Edition!
(ALCTS Program, co-sponsored by VRT)
Location: McCormick Place, W184d
Two teams will go head to head to debate the statement "The preservation of analog audiovisual media is the single most important preservation issue facing libraries (and archives and museums) in 2017." Teams will include members from the Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) and the Video Round Table (VRT), bringing their different perspectives to each side of the issue. Audience members will be expected to ask questions during the debate, and the debate will be followed by an open discussion. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=257918
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Create, Communicate, Captivate: Inspiring Media Production in Your Library
(Co-sponsored by LITA)
Location: McCormick Place, W175c
Learn how academic, school and public libraries can spark creativity and transform users from passive consumers of media into content creators and active participants in their information environment. Join us as we guide you through key aspects of creating a thriving video production space and coaching users effectively to create amazing multi-modal works which can be showcased to promote and inspire more participation and increase support for high-impact programs. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=260897
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM;
AMIA@ALA Distributing Archives: Preservation, Restoration, and Access
(Co-sponsored by AMIA, The Association of Moving Image Archivists)
Location: McCormick Place, W181c
Panel will discuss organizations acting as both archives and distributors of moving image materials. Attendees will learn about the challenges for media content providers that are also caretakers of their holdings; the difference between preservation and restoration of moving images; and the importance of preserving motion picture film and the projection experience. For more info:
https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=260895
Now Showing @ALA:
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 11:30AM - 1PM (Film Screening)
Now Showing @ ALA: Here Come the Videofreex! (2015)
Location: McCormick Place, W181c
Directed by Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin, 78 mins, co-sponsor Cinema Guild
Here Come the Videofreex! gives a first-hand account of a little known group of innovators, the Videofreex, a group of passionate young men and women in the 1960s who changed the nature of journalism through the power of portable video, forging a legacy that has evolved to become today's all-access media environment. Don’t forget to get your evening tickets for the VRT Gala, “Tuned In, Turned On! Videofreex Tape the World” http://2017.alaannual.org/ticketed-events
For more info on other film screenings at ALA Annual 2017, including Agents of Change and Long Story Short, check out the complete Now Showing@ALA schedule.
Can’t wait to see you this summer!
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Digital Video Collections Guide
by Scott Spicer on Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 01:37 pm
Digital Video Collections Guide |
Below is a curated bibliography, mirrored from the University of Minnesota Digital Video Collections Guide, consisting of quality licensed and open digital video collections that has been inspired largely with support from Arizona State University (deg farrely) and some resources culled from various institutions in the LibGuides Community. This resource is being shared on ALA Connect as an Online Doc with the hope that a community of media interested professionals will contribute further links/descriptions of quality licensed or open digital video collections, and repurposed as they see fit to meet the needs of their constituents. Attribution is greatly appreciated, but please repurpose regardless.
Considerations for adding a resource:
Please add links only to legal digital video collections and those that you feel represent high quality content that would be of value to various constituencies. This guide is currently academic focused, but as the Video Round Table represents diverse media needs, video for k-12, public libraries, special libraries, museums, etc.. are certainly appropriate. Please do not include links to other video bibliographies unless the character of said resource is unique (e.g., Berkeley's MRC Guide). When adding a link to a digital video collections, please submit the URL specifically to the video search page and/or sub-collection of video clips, not the primary homepage of the collections' sponsor (unless they are the same). Accordingly, multiple links to sub-collections (e.g., LOC digital video collections) are acceptable. Finally, the licensed resources below are for the licensed collections at the University of Minnesota. If your institution subscribes to these collections, you will need to update the links for your own configurations.
To Contribute New Resources: first, login (top right hand corner. Non-ALA Members register here free). Then, feel free to add exemplar digital video collections, create new subject areas, clean up descriptions, revise links, and of course, repurpose for your audience! The goal of this guide is to promote digital video collections of content, not necessarily single titles. Please do not include links to websites in the promotion of a single title.
I will try to maintain this site on an annual basis to insure the links are up to date and these collections are still active. To assist with this process, the links below are referred through the UMN Libdata system, but feel free to add links directly to digital collections. If you have any questions/comments please feel free to leave a comment below or contact me directly Scott Spicer (spic0016@umn.edu).
Update: I created a couple of prototype Google Custom Search Engines to search a) licensed and selected freely available streaming video collections and b) select freely available streaming resources inspired from the list below. See Connect posting for more details: http://connect.ala.org/node/237479
Many Licensed and Popular Educational Media Streaming Sites
http://z.umn.edu/isitstreaming
Open Streaming Video Resources
http://z.umn.edu/openvideoresources
Sincerely,
Scott Spicer
Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian
Past Chair, Video Round Table
University of Minnesota Libraries
spic0016@umn.edu
Table of Contents:
| Licensed Streaming Video Collections These are amazing collections of streaming video titles the UMN Libraries have licensed. These collections are restricted to University affiliates (requiring .x500 for off campus access).
Open Video Collection Websites
Acknowledgements:
Disclaimer:
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Recording & Slides of When Text Isn't Enough: An Exploration into the World of Multimodal Scholarship in the Digital Arts, Sciences and Humanities
by Scott Spicer on Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:28 am
Hi Everyone,
The recording and slides from our 2015 ALA Annual presentation (co-sponsored by VRT and ACRL DH Interest Group), is now available through the following channels:
Title:
"When Text Isn't Enough: An Exploration into the World of Multimodal Scholarship in the Digital Arts, Sciences and Humanities"
Date:
June 27th, 2015
Speakers:
Speaker: Deborah Boudewyns
Speaker: Denise Hattwig, Curator, Digital Collections & Services, UW Bothell Library, University of Washington Libraries
Speaker: Justin Schell, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Arts Sciences + Humanities, University of Minnesota Libraries
Speaker: Scott Spicer, Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities
Recording and slide deck access:
Video Recording: https://youtu.be/JqbkdyGZZGc
- See YouTube description to skip to video chapters
PowerPoint slide deck: http://z.umn.edu/multimodalpresentation
- Available as attachment on this ALA Connect site
- Available on the 2015 ALA conference site (for attendees)
Please Note: The Community Voices section recording/slides has been removed per presenter request.
Best,
Scott Spicer
When Text Isn't Enough: An Exploration into the World of Multimodal Scholarship in the Digital Arts, Sciences and Humanities - See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/239606#sthash.q81jDL7d.dpuf
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Streaming Video Custom Search Engines
by Scott Spicer on Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 02:39 pm
Hi Everyone,
Do you ever get frustrated trying to figure out which educational media vendor(s) or service(s) might be hosting a specific video title? I do.
Do you ever get tired of having to dig through a thicket of freely available, high quality sources to find a decent video clip on a specific facet or title (well, perhaps not since you are likely a librarian/media professional)... still maybe a boost of carefully curated, quality open resources would help, eh?
I created the following 2 Google Custom Search Engines, inspired by the Digital Video Collections Guide, to help refine these search types. Note: I have dabbled just a little bit on this project, so it is by no means perfect (or comprehensive). That said, though maybe not the most ideal for federated streaming search, I have found these tools useful for my purposes, maybe you will as well. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below or let me know directly.
Google Search 101 Tips: 1) For specific title searching you may want to use "". I do this by default now. 2) Depending on the facet, YouTube often [unfairly] dominates the results (go figure!), so to surface other amazing resources (like CultureUnplugged or SNAGFilms), go ahead and delimit YouTube (-YouTube). In addition, you can now further refine through faceting of some of the general subject areas I added (inspired by Lowell Lybarger at Arkansas Tech). 3) I added CanIstreamit? to the license search. The results are very spotty, so no promises (but sometimes it's nice know if a title is available via a popular PayPerView/free streaming service or a cable provider).
This is still very alpha. The specific sites used in these CSE's are listed below. I reserve the right to add or change these filtered resources at anytime, and will likely continue to tweak. I may also create additional CSE's or link to those created by others. If I do so, this page will be updated to reflect changes.
Best,
Scott Spicer
Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian
Past Chair, Video Round Table
University of Minnesota Libraries
spic0016@umn.edu
Many Licensed and Popular Educational Media Streaming Sites
http://z.umn.edu/isitstreaming
Open Streaming Video Resources
http://z.umn.edu/openvideoresources
Specific Resources Included:
Many Licensed and Popular Educational Media Streaming Sites
Open Streaming Video Resources
Acknowledgements:
Much of the open content collections and compilation has been reproduced with permission, from the Arizona State University "Internet Sites for Streaming Video" Guide: http://libguides.asu.edu/content.php?pid=90855&sid=676587. Many thanks to ASU media librarian, deg farrelly, for his willingness to share this amazing bibliography! Many additional selections and resource descriptions were culled from the LibGuides Community or contributions from VRT membership and media professionals as part of a comprehensive project to identify exemplar digital video collections.
Disclaimers:
This is a prototype I created for my own institutional work, no promises for long term maintenance of this tool.
UMN Libraries is not responsible for any of the content linked from these sites. We cannot guarantee availability of the content they provide, nor assume responsibility for the functionality of these sites. Copyright use understanding is the responsibility of the patron - see the UMN copyright site for more information: http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/
These Google Custom Search Engines were created using the free (ad supported) version. Your search queries will be captured by Google and quite possibly related partners (e.g., Tinyurl, etc..). With my limited search engine development experience, it appears that I only have access to the total number, date, and most popular search queries entered (Google Analytics appears to be limited to those developers who are using the product for their own sites). As a community good, I may at some point share out general usage stats. and top queries, but will anonymize any identifiable info. (if said info. should become accessible). I have not turned on AdSense and will receive no payment from your use of this search engine. If anything changes, I will make note of it in this section.
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Missed the #videofairuse tweetchat and want info on fair use and copyright?
by Laura Jenemann (non-member) on Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:47 pm
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Tweetchat: Fair use and video in libraries, 2/25 3pm EST
by Laura Jenemann (non-member) on Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 09:04 pm
As part of Fair Use Week, legal expert Brandon Butler will be hosting a Tweetchat on fair use, audiovisual media, and libraries on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST.
The tweetchat will address concerns like the following:
- Can I make a digital copy of this video?
- When is a public performance public?
- When can I break digital rights technology on DVDs?
- Is the auditorium a classroom?
- How can libraries preserve born-digital works acquired via a license agreement?
- What about YouTube? What can we do with YouTube?
Ask Brandon Butler your media question. Participate in the Twitter tweetchat by using #videofairuse.
For more information:
- Check out ALA District Dispatch’s blogpost about the tweetchat
- Check out the ALA tweetchat last year on copyright, which included media related questions
…And learn more about Fair Use Week 2015!
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Notable Videos for Adults on Democracy Now!
by Laura Jenemann (non-member) on Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:53 am
VRT's Notable Videos for Adults 2015 was mentioned on Democracy Now! on March 6, 2015. Many of this year's Notables directors have been interviewed on Democracy Now! Check out a compilation of these interview here.
Congratulations to the Notables Committee for putting together an excellent list!
For more information about the Notables Committee, and how to get involved, check out the Notable Videos for Adults website or contact the Chair, Wendy Highby.
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