Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President Eileen Lawrence, VP Sales and Marketing 22nd ALA Customer Appreciation Breakfast
Mar 27, 2015
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President Eileen Lawrence, VP Sales and Marketing
22nd ALA Customer Appreciation Breakfast
• Archival and book collections
– Completed 5 collections, 3 major new collections in development
• Video
– Launched VAST: Academic Video Online
– New pricing options for individual video titles
– New video collections
• Music
– Reached 750,000 tracks including 50,000 tracks from EMI
– American Song and Jazz collections reached 100,000 tracks each
• Platform
– Fourfold increase in system speed
– Metadata repository—our content is now in all the major discovery services
News highlights
FRONT LIST
FORTHCOMING
GLTC
Anthropology Online
Classical Scores Library: Volume II
Classical Music in Video
The March of Time VAST: Academic Video Online
Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture
The Video Journal of Counseling and
Therapy
Rehabilitation Therapy in Video
Anthropology Online
• Ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, contemporary studies
• Major names—Boaz, Benedict, Mead, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Radcliffe-Brown, MacDougall, Rabinow, Malinowski… and many others
• 100,000 pages• Archival materials—targeting the Human
Studies Film Archive and individualsReleased
Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture
• Landmark collection• Based around key events in LGBT
movement—Stonewall Riots, Act-Up Aids, Marriage Equality and more.
• 100,000 pages • Archival material • Targeted independent presses such as
Alyson Books, Firebrand • Essential to LGBT studies programs as
well as cultural studies, women’s studies, political science, American studies, social theory, and sociology
• English-language focus
Summer 2012
The March of Time
•The full run (125 hours) of the most important US weekly newsreel •Unique approach:
• Confrontational journalism and docudrama
• Inform and dazzle with “pictorial journalism”
•Required 75 people and1,000 hours work per episode—3 times the standard!•Digitally remastered by HBO•Exclusively through Alexander Street•Broad relevance—history, journalism, and performance
Classical Scores Library: Volume II
• 200,000 pages of classical scores• More in-copyright material• Launched end of 2011 with 17,000 pages• Contemporary compositions• Unpublished works from individual
composers such as Mark Isaacs, Andrew
Schultz, Mary Finsterer, Nicholas Vines• Full run of The Symphony 1720-1840
from the Brook CenterReleased
Classical Music in Video• 1,000 hours of classical
• performances• masterclasses• interviews • documentaries
• Example rehearsals—Pierre Boulez, (Vienna Philharmonic, 1988); Valery Gergiev, Rotterdam Philharmonic, 1996
• Example ensembles—BBC Philharmonic,
Royal Opera• Example artists—Sir Geraint Evans, Maxim
Vengerov
March 2012
Exclusive Content
Students can be taught by the world’s masters
•Maxim Vengerov—Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25•Stephen Kovacevich—Schubert impromptus •Yuri Bashmet—Shostakovich Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 147•Evelyn Glennie—percussion•Joan Rodgers—voice •Håkan Hardenberger—trumpet
VAST: Academic Video Online
• 12,000 titles currently• 20,000 by 2013• 22 disciplines • One stop to deliver video across
the academy• $5k - $35k annual subscription• Ownership credits for collections
purchased• Transcripts and full functionality
Available
Estimated # of titles in VAST by subject
5,2007,500
Individual Video Titles
• 1,500 titles currently• More than 5,000 by 2013• New pricing options:
• Buy any DVD and get a free 1-year stream• Subscribe to a 3-year stream @ 50% of the
DVD price• Buy a perpetual stream @ 2 times the DVD
price• Special offer: 75% off the price of selected
packages of 5-10 DVDs
• http://academicvideostore.com
• 250 hours—approximately 175 feature films• 80% of the films were made after 2000• Global coverage• Licensed from major independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement
• Available for purchase and subscription • Leading directors• Award winning films
World Cinema in Video
Coming Summer 2012
MediaScribe
A free tool that lets academics annotate music and video synchronously
• What can you do with it? Show scores alongside performances Make and show multiple translations Add commentary on directing, acting, cinematography Create your own captions Add a dictionary of difficult terms or concepts Provide links to external reference sites Illustrate topics discussed in an interview
Studio
Introducing Lynn Novick