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Law librarians and law faculty often search for video programming addressing particular topics and issues. PBS and independent film distributors do provide access to documentaries on such topics as immigration, domestic violence, and prisons. Using such materials, however, requires extensive librarian or faculty preview for gleaning relevant content.
What would it take to produce a legal research video or a documentary addressing specific legal principles?
This program will review key considerations for producing polished instructional videos and documentaries in-house-including filming in libraries, court rooms, and prisons, as well as personnel and infrastructure costs and highlight a unique course of documentary filmmaking in law school as a model for legal curricula.
Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
University at Buffalo faculty profile
AV Librarian and Head of Koren Center, Charles B. Sears Law Library, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Terrence McCormack is the Head of the M. Robert Koren Center for Clinical Legal Education and AV Librarian at the Charles B. Sears Law Library, State University of New York Buffalo. He manages audiovisual and computer equipment services; production services; a microform collection of over 200,000 volumes; and a large multi-media audiovisual collection. Mr. McCormack was a critical team member in the development of SUNY Buffalo's electronic classroom, which incorporated state-of-the-art audiovisual and multimedia technologies.
He has been a member of AALL and the Micrographics/AV SIS since 1986. Mr. McCormack has given several AALL presentations on educational technology and micrographics, most recently co-presenting "Mandatory Digital TV and the Evolution of Library DVD Collections," at the 2008 Annual Meeting, and coordinating and moderating "Preservation of Digital Information: Global Trends in Digital and Analog Archiving," at the 2006 Annual Meeting.
The opening segment of the Encountering Attica documentary produced by Professor Miller.
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