curious about selection tools for audio visual materials,

[Jennie Ver Steeg <C60JEV1@WPO.CSO.NIU.EDU>]

I am asked more and more to purchase videos, audiotapes, CDs, etc., and
I don't feel like I know enough about the selection tools that might be
available to me. Aside from the Gale publication, Booklist, Choice,
Library Journal, etc., what other tools are there that evaluate or make
you aware of these materials? Are there any good websites? Do any of you
have criteria established you use to guide selection of these materials?
I have a friend who just landed in her first public library and she
seems even more panicked than I am about these decisions, so any and all
help for either of us would be terrific---on a sunny day with the lilacs
blooming--

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