Because media are so closely tied to the pursuits of the instructional faculty, the Media Selector will purchase most of the faculty requests that fall within the parameters of this collection development policy. Every effort is made to acquire the best materials available. All purchases are subject to approval by the Media Selector, who reserves the right to have returned to a distributor any item that does not fulfill our expectations with regard to content or quality. Presently, because of the easy availabity of VCRs on campus, VHS is the preferred format for feature films. Laserdisk and DVDs are and will be purchased to a lesser extent, although recent interest in DVD suggests that this situation may be changing.
Feature films support the curriculum.
Occasionally lesser-renown films will be added that contribute to the teaching and scholarship in disciplines other than film studies including history, sociology, American studies, anthropology, and comparitive American cultures. Our foreign feature films are used by foreign language classes in the teaching of languages. Although current, popular feature films generally are not purchased, the Media Selector encourages the instructional faculty to recommend titles for this collection. After all, today s feature is tomorrow s classic. Reflecting both the instructional needs and the research interests of our faculty and students, it is acknowledged that some directors and genres are collected more comprehensively than others.