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[padg] Video Round Table/ACRL Media Resources DG program at Annual: the death of VHS?
Title: Video Round Table/ACRL Media Resources DG program
at Annua
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The ALA Video Round Table and ACRL Media Resources Discussion
Group are pleased to announce a joint program at the American Library
Association Annual Conference 2008 in Anaheim, CA:
Ding Dong the V(HS)itch is Dead ... or is it?
Date and time: Sunday, 6/29/2008, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
**NOTE NEW LOCATION: Marriott Anaheim Salon A-D**
Librarians working with media are preparing for the looming
obsolescence of VHS and a switch to digital television and high
definition formats. Many libraries house sizable VHS collections, even
as they collect new titles on DVD and prepare for high def and digital
delivery. Librarians are grappling with difficult format transition
questions, and many VHS titles may be impossible to re-acquire as
DVDs. What preservation and access reformatting will U.S. copyright
law allow? As library users upgrade their personal equipment to
prepare for the February 17, 2009 switch to all digital over-the-air
television transmission (DTV), what will be the impact on library
services and collections?
Speakers will discuss the work of the Section 108 Study Group
(final report here: <http://www.section108.gov/>), strategies for
evaluating existing collections, briefly discuss video and moving
image preservation and reformatting and the transition to digital
formats, and provide an overview of the DTV transition and library
voucher programs.
Speakers:
James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and
University Librarian, Columbia University and a member of the Section
108 Study Group
Howard Besser, Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New
York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program
(MIAP)
Carrie Lowe, Director, Program on Networks, American Library
Association Office of Information Technology Policy
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M. Claire Stewart
Head, Digital Collections
Northwestern University Library
(847) 467-1437
claire-stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://hdl.handle.net/2166/claire