VALE’s Digital Video Licensing Committee has exciting news for VALE members. As you know VALE members have been taking advantage of Film Media Group’s (FMG) consortium licensing program since 2006. The program is still available for members to license any FMG title. See http://www.fmgondemand.com/vale for details. Beginning this fall, the Digital Video Licensing Committee, approved by the VALE Executive Committee, is pleased to recommend 3 additional companies. Participating member institutions will gain the ability to integrate video content “anywhere, anytime” by providing a digital solution for faculty, staff and students. The companies are INTELECOM, BioMedia Associates and Ambrose Video Publishing. This is an exciting new opportunity for our VALE members. The discounts are deep and even deeper if more institutions sign on. All information is available on the VALE website (http://www.valenj.org/ ) under VALE News and repeated under the Digital Video Licensing Committee’s webpage. Following is brief information about the offerings:

The 2009 VALE Users'/ACRL-NJ/NJLA-CUS Conference - marking the VALE consortium's 10th Anniversary - will be held on Friday, January 9, 2009, at the Busch Campus Center on the Piscataway Campus of Rutgers University. This year's theme is "Ten Years of Experience, A Future of Possibilities."  Registration information will be posted in November.

The VALE member libraries are pleased that the New Jersey State Library’s (NJSL) commitment to the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative (NJKI) remains strong and continues to include an active role for New Jersey’s academic libraries. For more information on the current status of NJKI please refer to the documentation posted at the VALE website -- http://valenj.org/.

The planning committee for the 2009 VALE Users'/ACRL-NJ/NJLA-CUS Conference - marking the VALE consortium's 10th Anniversary - is pleased to announce our initial call for breakout and poster session proposals. The Conference will be held on Friday, January 9, 2009, at the Busch Campus Center on the Piscataway Campus of Rutgers University.