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getting courses out of uni labs/libraries

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Topic: getting courses out of uni labs/libraries
Posted By: onebir
Subject: getting courses out of uni labs/libraries
Date Posted: 12 December 2006 at 7:33am
Many university libraries/language labs contain original FSI courses.
(see http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=194)

Sometimes, if you just ask university staff if you can have access to already digitized materials, they seem quite prepared to provide them.
(see http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=225 - fingers crossed).

But many materials linger undigitized and dusty in the echoing halls of these hallowed institutions :(

It seems there are forum members who can take them out and digitize them, and i've thought of a way that could help encourage some of them (ie of the people who aren't doing this already) to do this.

It just involved posting a matrix of course access.  As yet undigitized courses down the left, members across the top, with 1's for courses they have access to underneath their names.  Then other members interested in a course they can't get could look across, and find members who have access to them.  Then there's a possibility for some kind of bilateral - or even trilateral - deal.

Adding self interest to the core of altruism that's got this website to its current state could help take it even further.

If you think this would work, perhaps you could suggest refinements &/ an efficient way to implement it.  If you think this wouldn't work, feel free to explain why. 



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Posted By: Poetry
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 8:35pm
Hi onebir,
 
Yes, that's exactly what some of us are doing.  I did a lookup at my University library for the FSI material.  I'm a staff member, so I get double bonus points of being able to check material out for one entire year (!!!) unless it's requested by another person.  Then I'd get a month to return it back.
 
I found several FSI courses on the shelves that are exotics.  These are the older ones, but some of the exotics were never updated anyway.  Plus, I've found some of the tapes for the books.  They aren't in our library, and aren't close.  I'm trying to figure out how to work a deal with the University 3 hours away that has all of the tapes to let me digitize them.  It would be best if I could check them out and bring them home because I have a taping station set up here.  But we'll see. 
 
--Poetry



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