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Vol. 3, No. 2 Spring 2006
Digital Media Developments
Philip Fryer, Media Services, Dept. Head
Charles Lockwood, Technology Support, Dept. Head
The Library is continuing in its quest to provide digital content to its students and faculty wherever
and whenever they wish to see it. The Library's Digital Access Team, in partnership with Loyola College's
Event Services Department, has produced a sample digital clip from the February Humanities Symposium
lecture delivered by Terry Waite, who served as a negotiator for the release of hostages in Iran and
Libya in 1980, and was himself taken hostage while on a similar mission in Lebanon in 1987. This clip
can be accessed by the campus community at:
http://ezp.lndlibrary.org/login?url=http://www.lndlibrary.org/Ingram/WaiteFlash1.htm
If you are coming from an off-campus computer you will have to provide your last name and barcode. Those
who are from outside the campus communities can view this clip at the Library. Other February Loyola
Humanities Symposium lectures will be linked shortly.
Previous experiments with progressive downloading of video samples for class use have received mixed
reviews from participating faculty. Viewing a variety of digital video formats often required
long waits for downloads and opening the right media player applications on the user's PC or Mac. Now
the Library can encode digital video using the latest Flash 8 codec, which allows no-waiting streaming access
over simple http, the friendliest delivery protocol for Web content. The Library has
just acquired the latest encoding application from On2 technologies to facilitate this process.
Faculty who wish to consider video digitization for their classes should contact Philip Fryer
(410-617-6871; pdf@loyola.edu; pfryer@ndm.edu). He will help you assess your options within copyright
rules and will assist with facilitating permissions. Once permissions are in place, the Library Digital
Access Team will work with faculty to provide Web-based video links that can be used in controlled-access
settings such as Blackboard. A sample clip for Professor Joseph Schaub's College of Notre Dame History
of Film course can be seen by campus users at:
http://tinyurl.com/la7qo
On another front, the Library is in the process of placing titles from Films Media Group, one of the
major producers of educational videos, on its own media server. Sample titles being made available include
"Child Abuse: We Can All Work Against It"; "Big Mac under Attack"; and "Human Life: From Evolution to
Self-Evolution." This means that campus users will not have to come to the library to view these videos,
but can have them streamed to their computers at their convenience. On March 3, representatives from Films
Media Group visited the Library to demonstrate this capability to a sizable audience of interested faculty
members.
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