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Volume III, Issue 7 |
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In addition to the wealth of information you can find on this page for your audiovisual collection, be sure to check out the Lists to the Side on ipage®. There, you will find the fruits of our labors with new release lists for both videos and audiobooks. Find more helpful thematic lists on the Collection Development tab.
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Standing Order Program Updates and Title News
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Continuations Program Updates and Title News
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Audiovisual Program Updates and Title News |
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| Important Information for Fans of Anime: |
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With all the hype generated by the studios and distributors surrounding anime, you would think there would be plenty to support a standing order program. However, most anime series are one or two seasons long—between 13 and 26 episodes. With four-to-six episodes on each DVD and releasing in quick succession, these series move to release too fast to effectively include on a standing order program. For that reason, Ingram is integrating the handful of long-running anime series into the Children’s & Young Adult Video Series Standing Order Program (C&YASTOP). For your convenience, Ingram will continue to use a separate PO, and the series titles will continue to be separated on your order report. These will now appear in the C&YASTOP with (ANIME) next to the series. We will add long-running series to the program as the studios license these, and we will continue to highlight popular and critically acclaimed series and single release titles through Video Standing Order Program News and Further Developments. In addition to Ingram’s ongoing Coming Soon: Anime on Lists to the Side on ipage, we also recommend Anime News Network as an excellent resource for comprehensive information on anime releases. Remember: Ingram is ready to supply any anime available on DVD or VHS.
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Monthly selections of materials for children, nonfiction, new release blockbusters, and anime are collected here to help you find what you need as quickly as possible.
Kids PICKS this month includes a new edition of Toy Story packed with extras, The Muppets Wizard of Oz with Queen Latifah, That’s So Raven, and The Koala Brothers from the land down under.
Heads Up! Blockbusters for families include The Polar Express, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Robots.
New to DVD for Children is Robert Cormier’s classic I am the Cheese.
Upcoming Anime includes Gumdam Seed, Evangelion, and those fascinating neighbors, The Yamadas.
Nonfiction Picks includes the riveting Life in the FDNY and Chain Camera.
NEW on DVD are several classics for your collection, including a 25th anniversary edition of the award-winning Coal Miner’s Daughter, plus The Jerk, Johnny Tremain, The Rainmaker, and many more.
TV on DVD is all about the amphibians this time, featuring Wind in the Willows and the fourth season of The Muppet Show.
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| Video Series Standing Order Program Additions |
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Click for descriptions, frequencies, and price points of the new series available through this program.
- Case Closed
- Flame of Recca
- Gatchaman
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Max & Ruby
- MegaMan NT Warrior
- Saint Seiya
- Urusei Yatsura TV
To add any of these to your profile, click Video Series Standing Order Program Additions.
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Studio News
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A&E DVD Archives
In the largest release program in its history, A&E is releasing 200 of its most requested and hard-to-find A&E, The History Channel, and Biography programming throughout the year. Fifty new-to-DVD titles will be released every quarter. In light of this very heavy release schedule, we will offer a comprehensive, current hotlist of these titles via ipage® and will continue to offer only the new releases through our standing order program. If your library doesn’t have access to ipage, click to find out how to sign up for your free subscription.
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| THE HEARD WORD |
| Auditor’s Picks--Review by Ellen Myrick |
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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
By Simon Winchester
Read by the Author
Not all great authors are great readers of their own work. There are a few whose voices have become as familiar to us as the words they have written. Frank McCourt is one (his fans should note that his next memoir, Teacher Man is coming this autumn), and Simon Winchester is another. Ever since he first read to us the beguiling story of The Professor and the Madman, Winchester’s warm and measured “Britishness” has led us on adventures both historical and personal. This recording of his 1985 book of the same name revisits the notion of the British Empire from within the context of its most outlying possessions. This abridgment should not prejudice completists entirely because Winchester smartly chooses the route of excising entire colonies (good-bye Hong Kong) in favor of retaining the remainder in their entirety. Therefore, the whole saga of attempting to discover whether the Buff-Orpington chickens kept by the population of Diego Garcia before their 1960s forcible expulsion really do still exist is given in all its detail. This story sticks with the listeners the most, making them wonder why they’ve never heard of this outpost of the British Empire in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Winchester’s “outing” by the British officials on the island as a—gasp—journalist is both ludicrous and tragic, as rendered by the author/reader. This is as much travelogue as history, however, and Winchester’s facility at rendering both interesting is given full voice in his performance.
Please note: An unabridged version CD version of The Professor and the Madman recorded by Simon Winchester will be available in the October along with the forthcoming Crack in the Edge of the World.
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