Hi

The important thing in open media is search engines.

I mean the algoritms and boly algoritms that your site programmer uses is important.

Bests,.

Mahdi Lotfi Panah.

The library of Brunel University, Uxbridge- Middlesex (in Greater London) is one of the best I ever visited. Well-informed staffs seek advice from specialists about books, journals …etc. in order to select the best. They used to have a floor for video cassettes with monitors to watch. Assume you want information about rice, then all the details are given from plantation to care to harvesting to polishing to bagging to delivery to selling and then to some kitchen recipes being implemented. You will put the headphones for, e.g. one hour to receive a colorful lecture.

Later on, a number of universities adopted the dvd library in which one browses the list of available educational movies together with summaries of contents & runtimes.

I followed the innovations of that library to find that they have now e-books, e-journals …etc. that are accessed by staff & students only, unfortunately "since I am not allowed or any outsider". However, they have this "Education Subject Guide" on the internet which is worth visiting:

http://libguides.brunel.ac.uk/education

I am strongly agreed with the answers of Dr. Nizar Matar.

Dear Dr. Lilian Moldovan, in my experience and evidence, an open media library catalog would be efficient and easy to use by means of a linguistic storm, which is a controlled vocabulary matrix. We know that sometimes users are unable to communicate their necessities because of lack of vocabulary; so, users may go confused becasuse catalogues are written based on indexed terms,< medical> subject headings, and the like. I proposed this issue and wrote a conference paper called: Linguistic storm: an essential information retrieval tool to update researchers. It is available within my profile. I sincerely hope this would be useful to you.