Re: [Videolib] How many checkouts before a video starts giving problems?
I don't think there's a rule of thumb here except that DVD-Rs are the most susceptible to damage. We have many DVDs that have circulated 150x and are still going without complaint. On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Foster, Jennifer fost...@uhv.edu wrote: I have been in this position for just under three years, and recently, I have started seeing more DVDs give out (skip, hang up, etc.) after fewer checkouts. Right now I have 2 different videos that have been checked out 16 and 17 times respectively. Both have issues that make them unwatchable. We visually check every DVD when it comes back, and if it looks like it might be scratched, we clean it and watch it to see if it works. What are others’ experiences in this regard? This is a non-scientific survey, but I am sure I am going to start being questioned so I’d like to know what others see. Thanks! Jennifer Foster Media Librarian Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library 361.570.4195 http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. -- Chris Lewis Media Librarian American University Library 202.885.3257 For latest Media Services News: Blog: http://aulibmedia.blogspot.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/76uk7vr Twitter: http://twitter.com/aulibmedia and checkout our New Media Center promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87N5wrcTHqc Please think twice before printing this e-mail. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] How many checkouts before a video starts giving problems?
I don't think there's a rule of thumb here except that DVD-Rs are the most susceptible to damage. We have many DVDs that have circulated 150x and are still going without complaint. Chris' assesssment agrees with my experience with DVDs, and, for that matter, other spinnin' shiny disc media. A significant difference between VHS tapes and DVDs is that a relatively minor flaw can absolutely disable a DVD whereas a VHS tape could be spliced, or stretched-out parts played through a good many times before breaking. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
I'll just second what Dennis said - as a long-standing member of AMIA and frequent conference attendee, AMIA is definitely the community to connect with regarding your 16mm collections. Also, If some of the prints that need homes are experimental or documentary shorts, let me know. I might be able to help. Cheers, Carolyn -- Carolyn Faber Film and Media Technician Flaxman Library School of the Art Institute of Chicago 312-629-1341 16mm Film Study Collection http://libraryguides.saic.edu/16mm On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Dennis Doros milefi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, this is why membership in AMIA and attending the conference (Hi, Kim, Stephen and Francis!) and participating on its listserv is invaluable because these problems and issues -- the importance of small gauge films and their preservation -- are discussed as frequently as public performance is discussed here. And as Gary has mentioned frequently, many of these 16mm prints at institutions are the *only* copies in existence and there are NO video copies of many of them either. What we're facing here at institutions is the filmic equivalent of Fahrenheit 451. The only trained film archivist performing restorations and preservation at a public library in the country -- that I know of -- is the wonderful Elena Rossi-Snook at the New York Public Library Reserve Film Video Collection, Library for the Performing Arts. Her blog is herehttp://www.nypl.org/blog/author/318 and she is one of the best authorities on 16mm print collections along with independents Rick Prelinger, Geoff Alexander and a few others. She's also on the Board of Directors at AMIA. I'm hoping she'll chime in on the discussion. *That said, if anybody has 16mm copies of any of Shirley Clarke's films (I can send a list) or IN THE LAND OF THE WAR CANOES they want to deliver to a good home (and we are the rights holders), please contact me! These would be for a very important project.* Dennis Doros Milestone Film Video milefi...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca wrote: ** I'm doing the very same thing, Barb. At least I still have some film fans in town, and I've passed the list to a couple of universities, who are taking about a total of 150 of our films. Some film Depts. want film for practising their editing. That still leaves 4,000 more to find homes. If only 16mm wasn't so heavy, and shipping so costly - I'm not about to ship to Boston or Chicago. Susan On 08/12/2011 2:59 PM, Bergman, Barbara J wrote: I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) ** ** Do you have archives or other places you’d suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? ** ** (I’ve sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard’s, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) ** ** Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu ** ** -- VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] Looking for Yo Ho Ho
Hi All, Does anyone know if Yo Ho Ho by Zako Heskija has ever been released on video? There's no record for it in Worldcat. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278827/ Cheers, Matt __ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.eduhttps://mail.eservices.virginia.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=f9bb9e66e0cb45eb9c98da126198ad7eURL=mailto%3amattball%40virginia.edu 434-924-3812 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Looking for Yo Ho Ho
Hmm a Bulgarian drama from 30 years ago that is not out on video/dvd? You do get some funky requests. I know faculty and students have a hard time accepting this but it is important for them to understand that only the tiniest fraction of films made outside the US have been released here and even if you add in LEGAL releases in other countries with English titles it is still a tiny percentage. The number of US produced films available in the US is of course far higher but still only a fraction of all films made in the US and if you add in movies made for TV it gets even lower. I guess they have to ask so long as they accept that the answer is usually sorry not available. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Ball, James (jmb4aw) jmb...@eservices.virginia.edu wrote: Hi All, ** ** Does anyone know if *Yo Ho Ho* by Zako Heskija has ever been released on video? There’s no record for it in Worldcat. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278827/ ** ** Cheers, ** ** Matt ** ** __ ** ** Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.eduhttps://mail.eservices.virginia.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=f9bb9e66e0cb45eb9c98da126198ad7eURL=mailto%3amattball%40virginia.edu 434-924-3812 ** ** VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) jessicapros...@gmail.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
We have a copy of Skyscraper; can't vouch for the color quality, though. Brigid Duffy Academic Technology San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu On Dec 9, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Dennis Doros wrote: Well, this is why membership in AMIA and attending the conference (Hi, Kim, Stephen and Francis!) and participating on its listserv is invaluable because these problems and issues -- the importance of small gauge films and their preservation -- are discussed as frequently as public performance is discussed here. And as Gary has mentioned frequently, many of these 16mm prints at institutions are the only copies in existence and there are NO video copies of many of them either. What we're facing here at institutions is the filmic equivalent of Fahrenheit 451. The only trained film archivist performing restorations and preservation at a public library in the country -- that I know of -- is the wonderful Elena Rossi-Snook at the New York Public Library Reserve Film Video Collection, Library for the Performing Arts. Her blog is here and she is one of the best authorities on 16mm print collections along with independents Rick Prelinger, Geoff Alexander and a few others. She's also on the Board of Directors at AMIA. I'm hoping she'll chime in on the discussion. That said, if anybody has 16mm copies of any of Shirley Clarke's films (I can send a list) or IN THE LAND OF THE WAR CANOES they want to deliver to a good home (and we are the rights holders), please contact me! These would be for a very important project. Dennis Doros Milestone Film Video milefi...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca wrote: I'm doing the very same thing, Barb. At least I still have some film fans in town, and I've passed the list to a couple of universities, who are taking about a total of 150 of our films. Some film Depts. want film for practising their editing. That still leaves 4,000 more to find homes. If only 16mm wasn't so heavy, and shipping so costly - I'm not about to ship to Boston or Chicago. Susan On 08/12/2011 2:59 PM, Bergman, Barbara J wrote: I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) Do you have archives or other places you’d suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? (I’ve sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard’s, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu -- VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
We (by which I mean a grad student who had no choice) spent a year going through our list to see which 16mm films were available in other formats and if we had last copy. When it gets down to the final reels that must be sadly recycled, I'm thinking that the Art department might had a few ideas... Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] justify budget increases
I would like to start a conversation with my superiors about increasing the Media budget here at our University's library. I would like to get some statistics on the increase in cost of DVDs and CDs over the past 10 years or so. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could access that information? Many thanks, Philip Philip Bahr Reference Media Librarian DiMenna-Nyselius Library Fairfield University 1073 North Benson Road Fairfield, CT 06824 203-254-4044 x4206 pb...@fairfield.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] justify budget increases
I don't think the cost of discs themselves has increased, in fact they have largely decreased BUT the available material has jumped by leaps and bounds. I think the argument would be how much more there is out there that you need for the collection. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Bahr, Philip pb...@fairfield.edu wrote: I would like to start a conversation with my superiors about increasing the Media budget here at our University's library. I would like to get some statistics on the increase in cost of DVDs and CDs over the past 10 years or so. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could access that information? Many thanks, Philip Philip Bahr Reference Media Librarian DiMenna-Nyselius Library Fairfield University 1073 North Benson Road Fairfield, CT 06824 203-254-4044 x4206 pb...@fairfield.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) jessicapros...@gmail.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] 16mm response from Elena Rossi-Snook
Elena is just subscribing to Videolib, but asked me to post this for her. --Dennis Maureen, Barbara et al: My first reaction is to challenge the need to weed. Here at The New York Public Library we've seen an increase in the use of the 16mm film collection over the last few years and at Pratt Institute (which has its own 16mm teaching collection), my film history students have indicated in an informal poll that they prefer an integration of film projection with other formats (even when those film prints are in poor condition). The prints in your collections, which admittedly can be a physical nuisance, may yet be valuable teaching aids; at the threat of sounding sanctimonious, how in the world is an American History instructor going to teach the '70s (or contextualize current events!) without showing once-popular acquisitions like *Red Squad* or *Attica* or *Profile On a Peace Parade*, none of which are available in any other format than film? If advocating for use of your collection is something that sounds appealing but requires guidance or confirmation of being worthwhile, do check out the AMIA listserv thread from November 2011 entitled Film in the Classroom Still Relevant? There are some refreshing perspectives challenging the obsolescence of teaching with film. If promoting the use of your collection is too arduous or unwelcome a task, I recommend to do exactly as you have. Kudos for seeking out those archives already mentioned in this thread. I can't promise that I will be able to accept any prints, but if you have a title list, feel free to e-mail it to me at elenarossisn...@nypl.org. It's a long shot but perhaps UC San Diego can help as well ( http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/arts/resources/find-film-video/film-video-collection-profile.html). And Rick Prelinger is a good resource if you haven't contacted him already. Sincerely, Elena Rossi-Snook Archivist Reserve Film and Video Collection The New York Public Library VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] Chicago Film Archives joins Internet Archive
FYI Chicago Film Archives is joining the collections of moving images at the Internet Archive, where they can be either streamed or downloaded and where they are sure to find a wider audience. Only a handful of titles have been included in the archive so far, but who gets tired of watching footage from the 1933 World’s Fairhttp://www.archive.org/details/ChicagoWorldsFair1933 (love that cable car footage), anyway? We did enjoy the gauzy Christmas tale, The Fairy Princesshttp://www.archive.org/details/FairyPrincess, an earnest 1950s companion piece to the ubiquitous paean to Midwestern winter holiday longing that is A Christmas Storyhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/. Amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely uses stop-motion and live action to tell her story and won a number of awards for the finished product. http://infodocket.com/2011/12/06/chicago-film-archives-joins-internet-archive/ -- deg farrelly Arizona State University P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, AZ 85287 Phone: 480.965.1403 Email: deg.farre...@asu.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
