This 110 second "commercial" gives library users tips on how to handle library materials carefully to preserve them for future use.
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(This is a lower quality QuickTime 7 version. If you experience playback problems, download the high quality version below to your desktop and play it from there.)
To save a high quality version right click HERE and "save target as". This 400MB Quicktime 7 version will take some time to download, but will then be saved locally, may be used repeatedly, and could be burned to a DVD.
We encourage you to share it widely with others, particularly if you teach classes in libraries. It's a great way to start a class or take a quick "commercial break" in the middle to keep things lively. If you use the piece for educational purposes, please send us an email so we'll get some sense of its usefulness. jwatson@middlebury.edu
We realize that there is much more to cover on this topic than we have in this piece, but we wanted to keep it as short as possible. We have highlighted the issues of most concern to the Middlebury College Library specifically, but strived to keep it generically useful in any library setting. We hope that it will be used in classes like Information Literacy classes taught by librarians to first year college students.
Produced by Joseph Watson, Preservation & Processing Manager, Library & Information Services, Middlebury College. jwatson@middlebury.edu It's an "amateur" production in that the producer is not a professional writer, videographer, editor, etc.
Thanks very much to Farhan of the group MIB (Made in Bangladesh) for the music, to Mary for her narration, to Judd, Ben, Joanne, Emily and Josh for appearing, to Michele for sharing "Satch" the puppy, to Joe, Mack, and their crew of tutors Waylon, Aaron, Luisa, and Vlad in the Wilson Media Development Lab, to Dean and Charlie of Media Services, and to Jason at the IT Help Desk. We couldn't have done it without your patient assistance.
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