Hello MRCers and welcome back.

Lots of things have been moving and shaking in the Media Center since we shut in December for the long winter's nap.  Ann Moen, long-time MRC operations supervisor, left the library to pursue other wild and wacky pursuits.  We are very pleased to announce the arrival of a new op supe:  Giselle Herrmann.  Giselle formerly worked in the library's technical services department, and she brings with her a great wealth of knowledge about library technologies and operations (plus being a movie fan, of course).  Drop by and say HELLO!

Rooms with a View

Although most of the viewing that goes on in MRC is done at individual viewing carrels, MRC also has facilities for larger group viewing.  Faculty or GSIs may book one of three group viewing rooms in advance for limited-session screening of materials in the MRC collection (the rooms are not intended to serve as general assignment classrooms, or for regularly/frequently occurring events).  Two of the group rooms are in MRC:  Group Room A (up to 15 viewers) and Group Room B (up to 20 viewers).  There is also a larger room (150D Moffitt) in the southwest corner of Moffitt's first floor that can be booked for screenings for groups up to 49 individuals.

Groups of three or more students engaged in course-related viewing may also book group viewing rooms (MRC group rooms A and B only)

For more information about the use of these rooms, See http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mediacommons.html

Movie Talk 

A Moffitt colleague of ours recently turned us on to Professor Michael Eidenmuller's fabulous Movie Speeches site (part of the larger, even more fabulous American Rhetoric site): "Full text, audio and video database of over 160 Hollywood movie speeches, as selected by the audiences of American Rhetoric.  A new movie speech is added every three weeks.  Included are military movie speeches, sports-oriented movie speeches, forensic movie speeches, and social-political movie speeches, among others."  Definitely worth checking out!