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Be In the Know -- May 2015
Change is the One Constant in the Media World
A few weeks ago I finally - with great nostalgia - removed all the videos from our DVD film collection. I know this culling was overdue. I put it off because I know that many of these videos never made it into the DVD format. Moving from video to DVD/digital often requires renegotiating rights to the footage/images and narration in addition to the great expense of commercial conversion to digital. Many great films never move beyond the video format because of these obstacles. Nevertheless, I had to say goodbye to many videos, videos I knew to contain excellent content. It was hard to do.
Also, consider that the newest laptops don't even include DVD drives. With this in mind I had to search for options.
Enter Films on Demand, a film streaming service representing a wide range of subjects. This product includes sectioning so one can focus on just the content needed. Transcripts also provide quick access to content. A streaming collection like this doesn't take the place of a custom collection based on teacher requests, but it can provide quick access to a wide range of academic subjects. Look for Films on Demand coming next Fall.
Fun Fact
What is the most dangerous animal in the world? According to The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong, it's the mosquito. "Half the human beings who have ever died (45 billion people) have been killed by female mosquitoes. The males only bite plants.
This is not a contest!
You should know this: what web service gives you immediate news, sometimes within a few minutes of an event?
Contest Winners
Is there a Museum of Bad Art? The answer is yes. It is not MOMA it is MOBA. There were no "new" winners. What's a "new" winner? It's someone who has not already won once this year. So the rest of you passed up the easiest quiz question all year!
Biblioburro
CNN 2010: "Soriano, 38, is a primary school teacher who spends his free time operating a "biblioburro," a mobile library on donkeys that offers reading education for hundreds of children living in what he describes as "abandoned regions" in the Colombian state of Magdalena."
Seattle Academy Library
Email: kjohnson@seattleacademy.org
Website: www.seattleacademy.org
Location: 1201 E Union St, Seattle, WA, United States
Phone: 296 676-6825
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Twitter: @simkathy
Students: You already have a SAAS library card.
Your student ID card doubles as your library card. And, if everything goes as planned and we move to self-checkout next year, you will have to know your ID! So get ready.