Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President
Eileen Lawrence, VP Sales and Marketing
22nd ALA Customer Appreciation Breakfast
News highlights
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Archival and book collections
– Completed 5 collections, 3 major new collections in development
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Video
– Launched VAST: Academic Video Online
– New pricing options for individual video titles
– New video collections
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Music
– Reached 750,000 tracks including 50,000 tracks from EMI
– American Song and Jazz collections reached 100,000 tracks each
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Platform
– Fourfold increase in system speed
– Metadata repository—our content is now in all the major discovery
services
FRONT LIST
Anthropology
Online
Classical Scores
Library: Volume II
Classical Music in
Video
FORTHCOMING
GLTC
Gay and Lesbian
Thought and Culture
The Video Journal of
Counseling and
Therapy
Rehabilitation
Therapy in Video
The March of Time
VAST: Academic Video
Online
Anthropology Online
Released
• 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 individuals
Gay and Lesbian Thought and
Culture
Summer 2012
• 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
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
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Released
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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 Center
Classical Music in Video
March 2012
• 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
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
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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
5,200
7,500
Estimated # of titles in VAST by subject
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
World Cinema in Video
• 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
Coming Summer 2012
MediaScribe
A free tool that lets academics annotate music and video
synchronously
• What can you do with it?
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Show scores alongside performances
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Make and show multiple translations
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Add commentary on directing, acting, cinematography
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Create your own captions
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Add a dictionary of difficult terms or concepts
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Provide links to external reference sites
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Illustrate topics discussed in an interview
Studio
Introducing Lynn Novick