Video Trust

Video Trust is a 40-year-old nonprofit corporation that used to go by the name of National Media Market. Once an annual conference and trade show for film distributors and librarians, it became unsustainable as library budgets decreased. Over the decades, however, it formed an enduring, active and informal community of mutual support. Last year, in an attempt to continue to serve that community, the board elected to convert to a 501c3 and hold online webinars about topics connected to film and video collections in libraries in schools, colleges and in the public sector. The webinars have become successful in a short time, so now we’re expanding into publishing a quarterly journal of reviews, profiles, technology and scholarly articles. We maintain this website, publish a monthly newsletter, and run a cooperative online repository for digital films no longer available through distribution.