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Wimberley Village Library hesitated for seven years to offer entertainment videos until we asked ourselves in a brainstorming session, what are the reasons someone might check out a new entertainment video, after a waiting list, rather than rent it? When one of our answers was "because I might not be able to easily afford to rent it" , I changed my mind- I buy small in quantity, I buy after the curve and even shop Walmart very selectively, I try to buy quality in the same way we buy fiction, we chop up the boxes ruthlessly and repackage them in clear double sleeve videocases from Library Store for .85 each in such a way that the cases can be reused should the videotape need to be withdrawn. This is a pain and takes us about 10 - 20 minutes each. If the video store in your community also buys small and after the curve, then the perhaps the library should refrain from offering the same titles. But then, why not compete-- in a friendly sort of way? Doesn't that just make us all better? By the way, do you offer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deanna Frazee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 5:04 PM Subject: RE: Video storage > This is a message from CTLS-L. > Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Clara, you are absolutely right. Keeping things checked out is the best > sign of success for us; we do videos on a 3-week checkout, same as books, > for that very reason. And I loved the reminder about dusting shelves! > > > Deanna Frazee > Director of Library Services > 205 E. Church Ave. > Killeen, TX 76541 > (254) 501-8995 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mounce, Clara B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:34 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Video storage > > > This is a message from CTLS-L. > Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Check out your videos for one week and don't limit the number of videos a > person can borrow at any one time and you will have more space for housing > them. There will be a few weeks/months where some grumbling will occur > about not having any videos left! But the grumblers will go away in time. > > You can always change your rules if it gets really bad and you really don't > have enough videos to go around. > > I certainly don't feel libraries are in competition with video stores. If > anything, we help them by providing titles that folks watch and then go out > and buy for themselves. And certainly we probably have instructional > videos, performing arts and documentaries that some video stores don't > stock. They make their money on the latest movies! You would probably want > to build a classic film collection of Academy Award winners--you couldn't go > wrong there. There is a list of 100 important feature films that would give > a library a good place to start. > > I really recommend that you let folks check out as many videos as they want > to--for at least one week. Your circulation will go up and empty shelves > are a sign of success in the library business. Just be sure the empty > shelves are not dusty, of course. > > Clara B. Mounce > Community Librarian > Bryan+College Station Public Library System > 979-209-5611 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Deanna Frazee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:12 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Video storage > > > This is a message from CTLS-L. > Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Not that anyone asked me to, but I'd like to comment on what Judith said > about not circulating videos because there was a business in her community > that rents them. We have used similar reasoning in Killeen to explain why > we don't carry the most current popular videos. Instead, we concentrate on > nonfiction videos or older movies that are not easily obtained in our video > rental outlets. We're beginning to move away from that kind of thinking, > although current popular movies are not likely to become a priority with us. > > So, basically, we don't carry current popular movies because they are easily > obtained for purchase or rental at many local vendors. But we don't use > that reasoning for books. We have Grisham and LaHaye and all the others out > just as quick as the book stores. And we never think twice about businesses > in our community that make their living by selling books. > > I'm just wondering how many of librarians have allowed this reasoning to > direct the way they develop their collections. And in a smaller town, it's > probably a more valid reason than it is in bigger communities. I'd like to > know what others think about this. > > > Deanna Frazee > Director of Library Services > 205 E. Church Ave. > Killeen, TX 76541 > (254) 501-8995 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nellie Pederson City Library [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Video storage > > > This is a message from CTLS-L. > Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. > --------------------------------------------------------- > > We do not own or circulate videos feeling that since a bussiness in the > community makes its living renting them out we won't infringe on their turf > and this way we don't have to mess with the problems associated with > circulating a video collection. We do circulate Audios and purchased cases > from Recorded Books for many of those that have battered cardboard > containers and hope to replace more in the future as then all will be > uniform in height and shape. Judith Anne Merritt Nellie Pederson Civic > Library Clifton, TX > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/02 10:16 AM >>> > This is a message from CTLS-L. > Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. > --------------------------------------------------------- > > How do you display and store videos? Does anyone keep their video tapes in > the original packaging? We are out of storage area for the tapes and are > wondering what to do. > > Sue Lilley > Lampasas Public Library > > > > --------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l > > For information on CTLS-L please visit: > http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm > > > --------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l > > For information on CTLS-L please visit: > http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm > > > --------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l > > For information on CTLS-L please visit: > http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm > > > --------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l > > For information on CTLS-L please visit: > http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm > > > --------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l > > For information on CTLS-L please visit: > http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm --------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l For information on CTLS-L please visit: http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm
