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Welcome to Multimedia Librarian. Multimedia Librarian is aimed at librarians and information professionals who work with multimedia formats. It is a forum for collecting resources relevant to the library and information science profession as it relates to audio-visual materials. These include, but are not limited to, digital media (Web-delivered formats, DVDs, CDs, etc.), and instructional technologies comprised of more than solely print content. Multimedia Librarian aims to recognize audio-visual resources as invaluable to the profession of librarianship and the propagation of information.

Topics may include:

1. Practical issues of multimedia cost, selection, acquisition, use, format transference, storage, replacement, and obsolescence
2. Recommended genre resources (e.g. film titles/synopses) used by information professionals
3. Multimedia industry developments affecting the library and information profession
4. Collected professional associations that have as their focus media formats
5. Copyright law, including discussion of how digital media and its delivery (streaming/dwnloadable audio/video) has forced reconsideration of the Copyright Act
6. U.S. Code Title 17 - Copyrights
7. Fair Use; The Teach Act; Public Domain
8. Digital rights management (DRM)
9. Gaming and other virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life)
10. The science of multimedia as a learning tool
11. Information literacy through non-print media
12. Discussion of the future of multimedia as it relates to libraries and information centers

Contents 1 DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) 2 DIGITAL LIBRARIES 3 FILM, MUSIC, & ART MEDIA PRESERVATION 4 TOOLS FOR INTEROPERABILITY & DELIVERY OF MEDIA 5 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & ASSOCIATIONS 6 LISTSERVS 7 MULTIMEDIA LITERACY 8 FILM INDUSTRY NEWS 9 CRITICAL REVIEWS OF FILM & MUSIC 10 FILM DATABASE AND RESOURCES 11 RESEARCH CENTERS 12 PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES 13 BLOGS

[edit] DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM)

• A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes Law (http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000854)

[edit] DIGITAL LIBRARIES

• Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/)
• NYPL Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm)
• Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php)
  • The Open Library (http://demo.openlibrary.org/)
• Digital Librarian (http://www.digital-librarian.com/audio.html)

[edit] FILM, MUSIC, & ART MEDIA PRESERVATION

• National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress) (http://www.loc.gov/film/)
• Independent Media Arts Preservation [IMAP] (http://www.imappreserve.org/)
• National Film Preservation Foundation (http://www.filmpreservation.org/)

[edit] TOOLS FOR INTEROPERABILITY & DELIVERY OF MEDIA

• The Information Technology Laboratory (http://www.itl.nist.gov)
• Council on Library and Information Resources (http://www.clir.org/)
• Coalition for Networked Information [CNI] (http://www.cni.org/)
• Video Development Initiative [ViDe] (http://www.vide.net/)
• 16 mm Film Resources
• Providers of Multimedia Presentations & Tours

[edit] PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & ASSOCIATIONS

• ALA Video Round Table (http://www.ala.org/ala/vrt/vrt.htm)
• The Association of Moving Image Archivists (http://www.amianet.org/)
• Library and Information Technology Association (http://www.lita.org/)
• Society for Cinema & Media Studies (http://www.cmstudies.org/)

[edit] LISTSERVS

• MEMORIAV: Preserving the Audiovisual Heritage (http://en.memoriav.ch/av/links/mailinglist.aspx)
• VIDEOLIB & VIDEONEWS listservs (administered by UC Berkeley)

[edit] MULTIMEDIA LITERACY

• Wikipedia entry: Multimedia Literacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_literacy)
• Wikipedia entry: Library 2.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0)
• Wikipedia entry: Digital library (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library)
• Rules for the Revolution: The Podcast (http://www.rulesfortherevolution.com/)

[edit] FILM INDUSTRY NEWS

• indieWIRE (http://www.indiewire.com/)

[edit] CRITICAL REVIEWS OF FILM & MUSIC

• Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies (http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/index.html)
• Music Critic (http://www.music-critic.com/)
• Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/)
• Songlines, the World Music Magazine (http://www.songlines.co.uk/)
• Movie Review Query Engine (http://www.mrqe.com/) - Web site that aggregates film reviews from publications as diverse as |The New York Times to |BBC Films to |The Village Voice
• AllMusic.com (http://www.allmusic.com/)
• Educational Media Reviews Online (http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/search.asp)

[edit] FILM DATABASE AND RESOURCES

• AllMovie.com (http://www.allmovie.com/)
• The Internet Movie Database [IMDb] (http://www.imdb.com/)
• Find Any Film (http://www.findanyfilm.com/)

[edit] RESEARCH CENTERS

• Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center (Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division) (http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/)
• Library of Congress Virtual Programs & Services (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/)

[edit] PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

• WebJunction (http://webjunction.org/do/Home)
• College of Dupage Press (http://www.dupagepress.com/COD/index.php?id=183)
• Online Programming for All Libraries [OPAL] (http://www.opal-online.org/)
• Library of Congress Virtual Programs & Services (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/)
• MrCUTE Moodle Repository System (http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute)

[edit] BLOGS

• (c)ollectanea (http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/) "Collected perspectives on copyright." An offering of the University of Maryland University College's Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) (http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/cip.shtml)
• Lessig Blog (http://www.lessig.org/blog/)
• LITA Blog: Library and Information Technology Association (http://litablog.org/)
• Don Wood: Library 2.0 (http://donwood.alablog.org/)
• O'Reilly Radar (http://radar.oreilly.com/)