1 DOCUMENT RESUME ED 104 387 IR 001 789 AUTHOR if Lourea, Lee Oliviei, TITLE CVRP Patch Panel. The Newsletter of the California VideO Resource Project, Number One. INSTITUTION S'an Francisco Public Library, Calif. Video Task 'Force. PUB DATE Dec 74 NOTE 21p. 'AVALVABLE FROM CVRPPatch Panel,,San Francisco Public Library,Civic Center,'San Francisco, California 94102 (Annual .subscription; $10.00, individual; $20.00 J Institutions) 016 EDRS PRICE MF-40.76,HC-$1.58 PLUS POSTAGE -DESCRIPTORS Audiovisual Aids; Book Reviews; CableTelevision; Clearinghouses; Film Libraries; Information Centers; Interlibrary Loans;Library Collections;*Iibraiy Cooperation; iibraryNetworks; Library Services; *Newsletters; Public Libraries; *Resource Centers;-: *Video Equipment ; . *Video Tape Recordings / IDENTIFIERS California Video-Resource Project; Video Tape_ Libraries; Video Tape ReiziewS ABSTRACT Begun-as a two year project in Fall1974, the California Video Resource Project (CVRP)will serve as the California video exchange and clearinghouse forlibrary video information. CVRP will experiment with the library use ofvideo as:z (1) a medium for ..- incrvidual learning, (2) a medium for audienceprograming, (3) a media community development, and 14y a medium forexpanded y service. This newsletter,'the first of a series, is intended to provide information aboutthe project's development. I4cludedin this issue are a description ofthe.CVRP programs, articles on the . staff associated with theproject,andinotes,and contents on books and videotapes. (DGC) Pm' 1)J co'SWF PMIT 1*.rThe Newsletter of the California Video Resourte Project -4" NUMBER 1 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, 1974 uJ CALIFORNIA VIDEO RESOURCE OROJECT....Who? I O Welcome to the new videosphere of the California VideoResource Project, the California video exchange and clearinghouse for library video information. During the next two years the CVRP will_ experiment with the library use of video: - as a mediumfor imdividuaZizad teaming US DEPARTMENTOF HEALTH. EDUCATION L WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION - as a medium for audience progilmaingc, T1.1,c DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO Om-CED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM "4 PE RSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN A T.T.G I I po.NTS OF WE : OR OPINIONS as a medium for communitydeveZopment sTA:t0 DO NOT NECESSARILY ,REPRE SENT 011 ICIA1 NATIONAL INSTITUTE Or EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY - and as a mediwnifor expanded Zibrary Service. We'll undertake experimentation int TABLE OF CONTENTS: the use of video for ILL with select California libraries. We'll report Page on our activities, contacts and even our mistakes, hoping they will Editorial 2 be'helpful to other librarians.Well describe other video projects in - Telebrary Experiment 3 the state, giving case histories of individual library activities, and Meet Bonnie Miller 5 ( provide free information to any . z-- California library that asks us. CVRP Programs / 6 Reviews of originally prodUced video- tapes and an updated catalog bf the CLA and ALA.Meeting 7 CVRP collection will be included in every bi -monthly newsletter. Please Techno-sphere 10 contact us with your qUestions and problems. Weihave resource people SF Art Festival 14 in the following areas: Book Reviews 17 VIDEO EQUIPMEWI'AND PRODUCTION' Video Evaluation 18 CABLE TV REGULATION AND LEGIS- LATION Videotape Reviews' 19 VIDEOTAPE DISTRIBUTION VIDEO COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT Order Form 20 LIBRARY USE OF VIDEO AND CABLE Next Month 20 0 1, ( ti EDITORIAL -THANKS TO THEGANG: jhis is the first issue ortheCVRP Editor: Lee Olivier Lourea Patch Panel. It will be published every other month, fori total of Assistant Editor: Stewart Holland .ten issues. A ten-issug-o-subscription V is available to institutions for- Roberto Esteves $20.00; to individuals for $10.00.* Contributors: ° Bonnie Miller An order form is provided on the Peggy Pavelski back for your convenience. Craig .Schiller We will In including such regular fea- Graphic Arts: David Lourea tures as: Special Contributors: Video and cable experiences ofCali- Sue Williams, Consumne's fornia libraries. River College Videotape reviews (community and Dawn Panasenko, Sacramento commercial) - City- County Library Up-dated catalog of the CVRP's video 'Major H. MacUla; Ret. exchange Collection. Technidal Operations Equipment information, hints, and reviews. Address all correspondence to: National video and cable newsrelated to libraries. CVRP PATCH PANEL San Francisco Public Library Book reviews. Civic Center' San Francisco, CA 94102. ,Feedback will be an important partof the Patch Panel. We would like'lno, need!) your comments, criticisms praise, Reproduction.is permissable provided scorn....whatever. Also write us full credit is given ,to both the T with flour questions, and if wethink our author and the CVRP Patch Panel. exchange would be valuable to ourother readers, we will print it. Hope to hear . from you. -The activity which is the subject of this report was supported in whole or N in part by the U,.4.%Officeof Education, Any Califsrrnia library eligible. to Department ofHealth, Education, and apply for LSCA fundingor presently in- Welfare. However, the opinions ex- volved in an LSCA project, may re- pressed herein do notnecessarily re- . available) sub- flect the position or policy of the quest a free (only 500 . scription by writing on official stat- U.S. Office of. Education; and no official endorsement by the U.'S. ionery to: , CVRP. Patch Panel OffiCe oflducation should be in- San Francisco Public Library ferred. San Francisco, CA 94102 1' CAN YOURtIBRA§Y-BECOME, (Dawn Panasenko provides more insight A 'COMMUNITY COLLEGE? into the reasons for success'and fail- ures some librarieshaim experienced by Susie Williams in " Telebrary in SacramentoCounty," the next article.) Bbt no matterlhe In Northern California ten public level of success, all librarieshave libraries are functioning as outreach been very supportive andenthusiastic. sites for Cosumnes River College's Willa Comstock; Auburn-PlacerCounty- community Service programming. Co- Librarian, speaks of Telebrary and . sumnes is providing the hardware (video seems to echo the sentimentsof all cassette pllayback.unitS and television project librarians: "It is' a new and monitors) and the software (45 half- vital resource center, for us.People hour television prograins of-interest who aren't able .to read bookshave to :the elderly) and the libraries are ' We are' pleased providing the neighborhood setting - access, to .information. with ,this new dimension to thepublit, It is a natbral and the viewers. library....the community college part- partnership. nership ushers us into a twentieth '4. This,unique-outreach.project is called century medium." Telebrary. It.was conceived by Co- lh spite of the problems encountered. along,the way,, Iam overwhelmed by . sumnes River College and funded by I expecte' many more Title I of the Higher Educition Act our success. of 1965: it has been operating since., problems and a much higher rate of. March, 1974. failure. The type of cooperation be- tween community colleges and public The ten libraries involved.with the libraries which the project requires, project have had the video cassette had never been tried anywhere. Video playback units and the television pro- cassette equipment had never been used gramming for-four montht. In that in exactly the same manner as we have - time approximately 3,000 people have used it. Most ofkthe project libraries 4 viewed Telebrary programs. Although had never worked with a mediated in- this year's t t audience has been formation delivery system.' Given this the eider140,weaye found that peo- backdrop--the lack-of precedent, the ple of all ages aye gone to their lack of previous experiehce to turn to local llbraries,;tó view such programs for advice geared up for the pos- as Social SecuOity, Bunko; Consumerism, sibility that the experiment might fail. Health dare, Gardening and many others. We might have proved librartes could Future programming plans will broadep not act as outreach centers for comr ' the interest range and include pro- unity colleges. grams for women, minorities, consumers and 'parents. Amazingly, just the opposite havbeen . shOwn. We have established 4 working; Although a tremendous amounthas been viable system which never existed before. done during the ten months the project We have provided the community with has been operating, it has not all beeh valuable'programming, the response to easy aid each of us has learned a whrch has been overwhelmingly positive. great-deal while implementing the Ws haye brought both community colleges Telebrary system. We have found that- and libraries'into the foreground as not every library is suitable for leaders in innovative'outreach program- Telebrary./ Those libraries which ming. In so doing we havecatised other. function as-established community ten- institutions to become similarh6 in- ters tend to be much more successful vOlved. \We have shown to both library than those libraries which function and community college institutions that primarily as free-loan book centers. mediated information' delivery is not 2 ; a only possible but highly'effectiVe. izen interests, but'also showcase loc-: Most importantly, we have done all of al residentsbr local experts. In, this cooperatively, While crossing a the new series on indoor-outdOor gar- great number of jurisdictional bound- dening we are getting many requests aries. The ten.project libraries , for the prOgram on vegetable garden- spread across' eight counties (from ing. Much of this information