CCUMC: The Consortium of College and University Media Centers

College & University Media Review:
A Look at Practices, Trends & Research
Spring 2002 Volume 8, Number 2

• Through the editor's lens
  Beverly Teach, Indiana University
• CCUMC policy statement on the value of preserving film as an important document of our culture
  CCUMC guidelines for the care and deposition of film collections
• Film preservation at the Library of Congress,
  Mike Mashon, Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division

  The Library of Congress has assumed an awesome responsibility for the preservation of a sizable majority of this country's motion picture and television heritage. This article provides an overview of the approach taken to film preservation by the Library of Congress. It also addresses the Library's plans for dealing with rapidly evolving standards in a digital future.

• Vinegar syndrome: A case study,
  Linda Sarigol, University of Maryland

  Sixteen millimeter film collections react in special ways when faced with unfavorable environmental conditions.  What are some of these manifestations?  What can be done to correct them?  The following article discusses Nonprint Media Services at the University of Maryland College Park Libraries, their collections, and how they have attempted to address the problems confronting 16mm film today.

• Regional audiovisual archives: Places & prospects,
  Karan Sheldon, Northeast Historic Film

  Media preservation, and regional content as a selection mandate for media collections within colleges and universities, is the topic of this piece. I will explore how geographical focus may be relevant to national moving image preservation goals, look at resource demands of such collections, share some examples of regional collections, and offer some future directions as seen from my vantage point as a regional moving-image archivist.

• Center Focus: Distance Education and Instructional Support at the University of South Carolina,
  Steve Adams, University of South Carolina
• Resources for legal issues in educational film archives,
  Martha Day, University of Vermont

  This article documents the different steps and strategies needed to legally archive and preserve educational films and media prints. Through a question and answer format, it addresses archiving a film and creating a derivative, circulating copy; determining out-of-print titles; determining if a film is unique or an orphan film; and determining if a film is in the public domain.

• Educational film preservation bibliography: "Old images never die, they simply fade away",
  Martha Day, University of Vermont

  A comprehensive bibliography on the preservation of educational films (used inclusively to include all types of educational media formats). Significant Web meta-sites are listed first followed by the individual research organized by the following major subject areas film preservation, film archives, and legal issues.

• Review: Licensing digital content: A practical guide for librarians,
  Reviewed by Rosalind Tedford, Wake Forest University

  Harris, Lesley Ellen. (2002). Licensing Digital Content : A Practical Guide for Librarians. Chicago: ALA Editions.