[Frameworks] Rally for The Donnell Media Center Wednesday: Accurate Information

[Erica Titkemeyer]

Of course Elena has an agenda, the exact same one you have, which is to
keep this system alive and kicking. Yes, the Reserve Film and Video
Collection exists partly as a legacy project - as in it works towards
acquiring, storing, preserving, and providing ACCESS to underrepresented
16mm films that would otherwise not be available for your viewing. But
Instead of rallying around the death of a collection that still exists,
maybe people should actually GO to the Library of Performing Arts as
patrons. Recognize that the media materials are still available - waiting
for you (pretty sure that's all Elena was trying to get at).

Inject some energy into the institution, it is an important resource - lack
of use is the epic tragedy.

Btw, Pooh and friends haven't been trashed either. They're on view at 42nd
St.

Erica


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:53 PM, elizabeth mcmahon <elizmcmahon at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Yeah, the Media Center staff also went from having a staff of over 20,
> comprising professionals, clerical, and pages, to 3 people. Budgets for
> lines for films, dvds, cds, books, periodicals, and electroncs, evaporated.
> It's a legacy project, not a living department. And btw, when it was at
> Donnell, it was considered a unit. It was one of many. Donneel Media
> Center, contrary to Ms. Ross-Snook's assertion, was one of the many beating
> hearts of the Donnell Library Center. No one who "got" what the library was
> about would ever deign to separate on from the whole.
>
> Like I said. It's gone from over 20 staff, to* 3*.
>
> Need I say more.
>
> Elena has an agenda, and axe to grind.
>
> Please support this cause, to save the NY Libraries system (there are
> three). They are all up for sale.
>
>
> Happening now, and close to ending, but nevertheless important and
> enduringly substantive, *Monday, April 15, Noon to 1:00*
> *Rally for Mid-Manhattan and SIBIL Libraries, both slated to be sold off*
> *Meet in front of 42st Central Reference Library at corner of 40th Street
> and 5th Avenue*
> For more info
> http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138054
> *Wednesday, April 17, Noon to 1:00*
> *Rally for Donnell Library*, An Epic Tradegy
> 20 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, (meet at 40 West 53rd
> St)
> Home of Winnie The Pooh, rare music CDs, and documentaries
> Sold off to a developer in 2008 and still no promised replacement
> Come say *We Remember and Never Again!*
> For more info
> http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138060
>
>
> Elizabeth
>
>    *From:* Elena Rossi-Snook <elenarossisnook at nypl.org>
> *To:* frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2013 1:06 PM
> *Subject:* [Frameworks] Rally for The Donnell Media Center Wednesday:
> Accurate Information
>
> While I encourage public support of our library systems, I'd like to make
> it explicitly clear that the collections of the Donnell Media Center
> (please note here the difference between Donnell *Library* Center and
> Donnell *Media* Center which was a department of that branch) are not in
> jeopardy.  The "reserve" videos and DVDs which while at Donnell had to be
> requested in advance from Media Center staff as well as the entire
> collection of 16mm films can be accessed from the Reserve Film and Video
> Collection at the Library for the Performing Arts.  This department is
> staffed by media specialists from Donnell and we still supply reference
> services, a private screening room, video and DVD playback and allow the
> majority of these materials to be borrowed for home use with a library
> card.  If there are any questions regarding access to these materials,
> their transfer from Donnell or their future within The New York Public
> Library, please e-mail me at elenarossisnook at nypl.org
>
> Elena Rossi-Snook
> Archivist
> Reserve Film and Video Collection
> The New York Public Library
>
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