Non-print equipment & resources: Equipment resources

Cabecceiras, James. The multimedia library: materials selection and use. 3rd ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1991.

infoCom: International Communications Industrial Association Inc. AV products.
http://catalogs.infocommiq.com/AVCat/CTL1642/index.cfm

Media & Methods Magazine Online: 2003 Buyers’ Guide & Reference Dictionary
http://www.media-methods.com/bg/index.php

Post, Richard. “Life-span Obsolescence, and Depreciation in the Management of Educational Technology.”
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m0t1x54008n1k501/
Article reprinted from Tech Trends, Sept. 1999 (Vol. 43, No. 4) Contains table of predicted obsolescence of a variety of equipment based on survey of 12 Ohio universities.

School Executive Magazine Online: 2000 Buyers’ Guide http://web.archive.org/web/20030803205308/http://www.schoolexec.com/bg1.html

Also search EBSCOHost for relevant articles.

Dealer Web Sites
Inland AV
http://www.inland-av.com/
Canadian dealer.

Winnipeg Audio-Visual
Local dealer

Listservs
Edtech
http://www.h-net.org/~edweb/
Topics include – notable educational hardware and software, as well as junk one should avoid.

LM Net
http://askeric.org/lm_net/
Dedicated to school library media specialists worldwide, and to people involved with the school library media field. Archives searchable at http://www.eduref.org/

Media-L
http://listserv.binghamton.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MEDIA-L
Focuses on media literacy. Serves as a network for people in the media services profession to ask questions and discuss new procedures or services.