The Brain Education Library houses the types and formats of media items appropriate for the training of teachers including curriculum materials, software, other media. Purchasing considerations for these collections are offered in the Education Collection Development Policy . Although items for individual branch campus courses will not generally be purchased, media materials with universal appeal are added when funding is available and sometimes purchased jointly with branch campus departments and libraries. She is assisted in this important endeavor by the Media Assistant II who fields faculty requests from the service desk, researches price and distributor information for all potential purchases, and conducts the preview program. 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.