Whoops, sorry! I forgot to add the TIMEZONE to my previous message: the
Winter Meeting and Lighting Round will be on Thursday, December 1, *4 to 5
pm ET (1 to 2 pm PT).* I edited the posting in the forum to reflect that,
but for those of you receiving email notifications, I want you to get this
update as well!

Dear friends and colleagues,

On October 27 the Canada Chapter Executive Committee sent a message to the Vancouver Art Gallery Executive Director and Chief Operation Officer in support of the Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library. You can view the message at…[Read more]

Hi all, next week we’re really looking forward to talking to Christina Drummond and Lucy Montgomery to discuss the OAeBU Usage Data project and the new developments the work will take over the coming years:

Wednesday 9th November, 1pm GMT, ‘Open Access Usage Data: Present Knowledge, Future Developments’: Sign up here!

@courtneyahunt Thanks Courtney. I appreciate your feedback. Super helpful!

Hi all, join us for an OA Week event on climate justice and open access books on Tuesday next week:

25th October, 3pm BST, ‘Lowering the Barriers to Climate Research: Climate Change and OA Books’: during Open Access Week, we’ll bring together a panel including authors, publishers and campaigners to discuss the impact of open access books relat…[Read more]

Thanks Jessica!

We also subscribe and like it. I echo the feelings already expressed in wishing more of the full catalog was available, but we subscribed specifically on the request of faculty who wished to expand the streaming offerings for video art and underrepresented video artists. Everyone seems happy with it.

We subscribe also and are happy with it. There is a lot of content that isn’t available elsewhere and I also love the related archival documents and resources that are often included alongside the videos. My only complaint is that the site navigation takes a little getting used to and it’s easy to end up searching the full catalog vs what is ava…[Read more]

@gianaricci @jillchisnell Thank you. this info is very helpful, including knowing that not all the titles are available right now.

Hi Cindy, we also subscribe to EAI Educational Streaming at NYU Libraries. The students are always very excited when I demo it during instruction sessions. In my opinion, it is very easy to use. Only streaming access though, no download capabilities, which is understandable. I’ll echo Jill and say the only drawback is that it doesn’t contain all…[Read more]

Hi Cindy — We subscribe to EAI Educational Streaming. I have been pretty pleased with the product. It’s easy to use and the cost is pretty affordable especially compared to other resources. One thing to keep in mind is that the Educational Streaming Service does not include EVERY EAI title. There have been several titles we have had to license…[Read more]

Hi all,

I have attached notes from the ALD August open forum if you’re interested in taking a look at what was discussed.

Thanks to everyone who attended – we had really great attendance & discussion and are looking forward to the next one!

Your moderators,

Shoshana & Claire