[Videolib] Need PPR for I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory episode
Hello everyone, I usually don't end up needing to do this since we normally rent videos for showings with public performance rights but I have a colleague who wants to show an I Love Lucy episode for her church group and she wants to obtain the proper permissions (which I applaud and so I'm happy to help in any way I can!) I'm searching through quite a few sources at the moment but I wanted to start here and see if anyone can point me in the right direction of either a vendor who sells/rents either boxed sets or streaming of individual Lucy episodes (and I warned my colleague that such videos will normally come with a high price tag) with PPR or even the current rights holder of whom my colleague might attempt to ask permission to show the video. I have not had much luck finding I Love Lucy episodes with PPR, at least yet. Thanks so much for any help that can be offered! Either responding here or off list is fine with me. Chris 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] Need PPR for I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory episode
Thanks Jessica! It has been a difficult search and I'm not used to coming up with so little (nothing so far, actually.) Thank you so much for the help and I'll see what I can find out from Criterion and/or Paramount! Chris On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Jessica Rosner jessicapros...@gmail.com wrote: As noted before getting PPR for TV shows is often difficult if not impossible because the original contracts under which they were produced did not include public shows and would require a rights holder to go back and get potentially dozens of people or their estates to sign new contracts. I assume the rights holder is Paramount since they bought Desilu so you should try to reach someone in their legal department. Criterion Pictures USA just took on their collection for non theatrical and though I doubt they can license it they may be able to help you get through to Paramount Good luck On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Chris Drake cdr...@lasierra.edu wrote: Hello everyone, I usually don't end up needing to do this since we normally rent videos for showings with public performance rights but I have a colleague who wants to show an I Love Lucy episode for her church group and she wants to obtain the proper permissions (which I applaud and so I'm happy to help in any way I can!) I'm searching through quite a few sources at the moment but I wanted to start here and see if anyone can point me in the right direction of either a vendor who sells/rents either boxed sets or streaming of individual Lucy episodes (and I warned my colleague that such videos will normally come with a high price tag) with PPR or even the current rights holder of whom my colleague might attempt to ask permission to show the video. I have not had much luck finding I Love Lucy episodes with PPR, at least yet. Thanks so much for any help that can be offered! Either responding here or off list is fine with me. Chris 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 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] Need PPR for I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory episode
Excellent! Thanks again, Jessica! Chris On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Jessica Rosner maddux2...@gmail.com wrote: OOPS a little more googling and CBS owned it not Desilu which produced it so try to reach someone at CBS and alas Criterion USA can't help but they are clearly the owner. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Chris Drake cdr...@lasierra.edu wrote: Thanks Jessica! It has been a difficult search and I'm not used to coming up with so little (nothing so far, actually.) Thank you so much for the help and I'll see what I can find out from Criterion and/or Paramount! Chris On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Jessica Rosner jessicapros...@gmail.com wrote: As noted before getting PPR for TV shows is often difficult if not impossible because the original contracts under which they were produced did not include public shows and would require a rights holder to go back and get potentially dozens of people or their estates to sign new contracts. I assume the rights holder is Paramount since they bought Desilu so you should try to reach someone in their legal department. Criterion Pictures USA just took on their collection for non theatrical and though I doubt they can license it they may be able to help you get through to Paramount Good luck On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Chris Drake cdr...@lasierra.edu wrote: Hello everyone, I usually don't end up needing to do this since we normally rent videos for showings with public performance rights but I have a colleague who wants to show an I Love Lucy episode for her church group and she wants to obtain the proper permissions (which I applaud and so I'm happy to help in any way I can!) I'm searching through quite a few sources at the moment but I wanted to start here and see if anyone can point me in the right direction of either a vendor who sells/rents either boxed sets or streaming of individual Lucy episodes (and I warned my colleague that such videos will normally come with a high price tag) with PPR or even the current rights holder of whom my colleague might attempt to ask permission to show the video. I have not had much luck finding I Love Lucy episodes with PPR, at least yet. Thanks so much for any help that can be offered! Either responding here or off list is fine with me. Chris 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 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 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] Help! Need Murderball ASAP
There does appear to be a version illegally on YouTube. I know, icky. Short term solution, certainly, but might solve the immediate problem. It appears to have subtitles but I do believe it is the actual film (I did not get a chance to watch more than a few seconds here and there.) The teacher and students will have to deal with the usual psychotic comments in that section. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScwK1PWQwnE I do not condone using an illegally uploaded video but I often have to point professors to versions like this when they need something yesterday and it is incredibly hard to borrow locally or even not available. I do everything possible to locate a proper version right after that but it's sometimes very difficult to procure some titles. Choose carefully whether you want to take this route as it might set a dangerous precedent with some professors! Hopefully Jessica can locate who has the rights! On another note, if the rights-holder is found someone might want to report the copyright violation on YouTube! Best of luck! Chris On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Jessica Rosner maddux2...@gmail.com wrote: OK calm down good news. It is Paramount and Swank lost that to Criterion Pictures USA. Frankly it is totally unprofessional of them not to tell you this. Here is contact for someone at Criterion USA who I am sure will get you help (they do lurk here but might not immediately recognize the title but it is on their web ca...@criterionpicusa.co On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Oling, Rebecca rebecca.ol...@purchase.edu wrote: So I secured Murderball for one year through Swank and it was supposed to be mounted today for an accelerated online course. I just heard from Swank that they lost the rights to this and can't get it for me. I'm desperate! Does anyone have a connection that can get me hooked up with Murderball ASAP? RebeccaWhoIsPanicking Sent from my iPhone 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 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] Blu ray questions
Hi Jessica, Best of luck on your cryptic endeavor! As we're a relatively small University (around 3,000 students at capacity) we are at the mercy of our IT department when it comes to what is available in classrooms and they are currently only partially supporting DVD and are talking about removing that support by 2015 for some as yet unnamed technology, possibly something having to do with streaming but they don't throw much information my way and tend to ignore me when I ask. Most of our classrooms have a data projector with an empty wall plate and the teachers are required to bring their own laptop or player (which was not the case when I was in charge of AV for the campus--I inherited both the Media Librarian and AV support role from someone else and then IT grabbed control of the AV support a few years back.) Individual departments sometimes spring for players or PCs for the classrooms that are in their particular buildings. Currently we have only about two or three Blu Ray titles in our collection and two of them were combo packs with a DVD version available. We have a Blu Ray player at our Media Carrels for students to view our Blu Rays (and their own or outside disks) and we have another Blu Ray in our large meeting room. As far as I know the rest of the campus is still using DVD (where available) and we actually still have quite a few teachers who use only VHS! Those teachers who use VHS have classrooms that are only for their department and have a say in what technology is installed and they usually have DVD/VHS combo decks. I honestly have nothing at all against Blu Ray and I would be installing decks all over campus if I had a say since they are no longer terribly expensive and they will play DVDs just fine and can provide for the excellent quality of Blu Ray when titles are available on that format. Most independent titles that teachers like are only released on DVDR but I have specifically tried them on one of our Blu Ray decks (just out of curiosity) and have never come across a problem. I think a lot of the opposition to installing Blu Ray players across campuses is due to the constantly changing technologies and the belief that something new will soon appear to make Blu Ray obsolete and the money spent will have been wasted. We're about at the time where any DVD players that are still installed on campus will be wearing down and if I was still in charge of AV support I would recommend replacing them with Blu Ray where possible (save for the combo decks that I would try to replace with same for certain teachers) and we would then have the ability to play both DVD and Blu Ray and we would be spending per deck around the same amount of money we had paid for the original DVD decks back when they were the big up and coming super technology of a new generation. Blu Ray is actually great and I love it and I would recommend it for across campus use if I was holding the purse strings. In a somewhat related sense I'm noticing that a lot of the newer cameras teachers are using for archival video, student projects, and distance learning will only film in the AVCHD (I believe that's what it is) format, which will only play on Blu Ray decks. That tells me that Blu Ray is an important technology that will be around for a good deal of time and, since it can play DVD already, can play our substantial DVD collection with no problems and make way for all the newer titles that may only be available on Blu Ray (big studio titles, obviously, but maybe some independent filmmakers will film in AVCHD.) I have recommended to Library administration that we purchase a third Blu Ray deck for checkout to teachers but I've been told repeatedly that such a thing would be IT's responsibility--which I understand but they won't do it. We also do not have enough Blu Ray titles in our collection to warrant such an action, so I've been told (although I'm the person who hears all the complaints from teachers who can't play videos because IT refuses to install anything that will allow them to play what they want and I just want to be helpful dang it!) Many people also remember the days when I nearly killed myself to get them anything and everything they needed for classroom support so they hope I can do something, which I really can't anymore. So the main problem I have with Blu Ray is that those who are in charge of our smart rooms on campus have no faith in it (or in anything save for a non existent technology that may or may not come to fruition within two years' time.) I would prefer to concentrate on an existing technology that is proven and will play our collection NOW so that our teachers can have all the media they need for their classes so, if given the choice, I would love to have Blu Ray players replace our aging DVD players that are still installed in our older smart rooms--and I would try to put them in the rooms that currently have nothing but a wall plate! That would still give us many years
Re: [Videolib] Inter-Library Loan and VHS tapes
Hi Heidi, We originally did not circulate any visual media materials but a few years back we decided to open our VHS collection to both out of the library checkout to students and checkout via ILL and Link+. Our VHS collection is not getting any younger and want to get as much out of it before we have to start retiring titles. We've checked out quite a few tapes the past several years and there have been no problems! Oddly, the titles that never get any use here at our campus are the ones that get checked out the most via ILL! Even if they were damaged I doubt there would be any tears shed...although I'm sure fines would be issued if necessary! We do not circulate our DVD collection as the majority of the titles are in constant use by our professors and need to be available here. I also have around twenty VHS titles that are considered restricted, meaning they need to be on hand for use by our professors and not out of the county on inter library loan (we also do not check these VHS titles out of the library to students.) So, yes, we definitely circulate VHS tapes via ILL and have had good luck with that practice--and have even gotten some mileage out of tapes we would otherwise have weeded long ago! Best of luck! Chris On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Heidi Busch hbhbu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a question...do your libraries circulate VHS tapes through Inter-Library Loan? Thanks, Heidi Heidi S. Busch Media and Catalog Librarian Unviersity of Tennessee at Martin 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] Does your library have a theatre?
Hi Lisa, Our Library has three rooms that can be used for group viewing. The first is an actual thirty two person classroom that is normally used for Library Instruction classes but we regularly host video sessions for the University's professors (mainly because we are one of only two smart rooms on campus that still have a VCR!) The second is our Media Studio that can be rearranged to accommodate up to twenty five people for group viewing when it is not being used to shoot videos. I also loan this room out to student groups who want to practice presentations with a data projector. Third is one of our larger open access rooms that has a built in smart television and Blu Ray deck. This room has been used for many board meetings as the smart TV can easily connect to laptops. The room is normally for student studying although the TV is set to show CNN during our business hours (albeit with the sound down and captions on.) All three rooms serve multiple purposes and that is the best recommendation I can give: don't tie the space down to only being a theater or only being a classroom. If you kit the room out as a smart room (projector, screen, speakers, computer, wall plates for external laptop connection, lighting dimmers or banked on off options, and an appropriate amount of chairs) it can serve as a theater and a classroom and a space for students to practice their presentations in a closed setting. You'll need to put some thought into what kind of chairs you want to put in there but there are many options that are comfortable, space saving, and still useful as classroom furniture. So, yes, we do have several theater options but not one of them as a dedicated group viewing room! Best of luck! Chris On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Hooper, Lisa K lhoop...@tulane.edu wrote: Happy Friday everyone. ** ** We’re beginning to think about strategic planning at our institution and space is big on the agenda. I’ve had a couple faculty express a longing for the library to have an actual theatre which is an intriguing idea to me so I wanted to take a very informal poll – How many of you have a theatre in your library and what is that space used for? ** ** I look forward to your responses! Best, -lisa H. ** ** Music Media Librarian Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Tulane University 504.314.7822 ** ** 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] Confronting a campus wide VHS DEATH Deadline
Hi Jared, We've been dealing with that problem for the past seven years! We got a new IT director a while back who bought a limited term license that he believed granted him blanket permission to copy and transfer all media anywhere. Of course that wasn't the case once I tracked down what the license actually granted permission for but even then he insisted it granted such permission and demanded that I digitize the entire VHS collection. I thankfully had several copyright experts help me explain to our IT director and the campus that such a thing was not legal nor was it going to happen and IT grudgingly agreed to continue its support of VHS. With a new IT director coming in a couple years back we suddenly noticed that all VHS players were not only not being installed in new classrooms but removed from older classrooms! Teachers who used the VHS titles that we could not replace with DVD or which could not be streamed had difficulties because our IT department was continually saying that they would support VHS! So we had somewhat of a back alley IT revolt against VHS, which I was expecting since IT personnel were constantly stopping by and suggesting that I just digitize the whole thing because VHS is so old and dumb. We continue to support VHS at our Media stations here in the Library and we do have a Library classroom with a DVD/VCR so, in a pinch, we can offer most teachers a way to view VHS titles (albeit with a class move over for one day!) I try to keep a single VHS deck for loan out should teachers need it but IT has countered that by no longer installing wall plates with easy access for RCA composite attachment. So with us it's been a silent war against VHS. The only thing I can do is recommend the replacement of VHS titles with DVDs (where available) and make certain we have the ability to play our rather large VHS collection both for classes and students. I understand that many Libraries would not have access to an actual classroom but most of us have a few viewing stations and teachers can put VHS titles on reserve as viewing assignments where necessary. Most of our teachers have switched over to DVD but there are some who either refuse or who simply can't find some of those obscure titles in any other format! For them we do our best to help, all the while shaking our heads when IT says they will continue to support VHS in classrooms in public (and I actually got an IT guy to admit that they are really, truly no longer supporting VHS the other day so I had a small victory in the silent service!) Hopefully you'll be able to keep some VHS viewing stations available and work with teachers to either switch over or send their students to you to view those titles as reserve assignments. That won't be their preferred method of viewing as nothing replaces viewing something as a class but all we can do is offer alternatives! If you can, I'd recommend asking your IT people if you can take possession of those combo units they are getting rid of just to have them on hand (either for checkout or for setup in your viewing stations!) Best of luck and I feel your pain! At least you had an announcement and a deadline! Chris On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Seay, Jared Alexander se...@cofc.eduwrote: Greetings, ** ** I have an issue of which I would like some advice. Recently, our IT department (bless ‘em) for our university announced that as of May 6 of next year it would be pulling *all *VHS VCR players out of *all*classrooms, including dual (DVD/VHS) players and would no longer be supplying or supporting any of these players. DVD could still be played on the existing classroom instructor’s computer of course. The bombshell was dropped on the faculty. ** ** To be sure, we have long been living with the long, slow death of VHS, and we (or at least I) have expected this death to be a lingering one as far as the library is concerned anyway. We have a significant collection of VHS tapes still and have about a dozen players in the library to play them. We have been slowly replacing the collection with DVD (no Blu-Ray), but still have some heavily used VHS titles. I certainly understand the IT department’s point of view, especially considering our cash-strapped state of late. They are looking for ways to not pay for or maintain “unnecessary” equipment. VHS is a likely target. ** ** However, you can imagine the effect this announcement has had on our faculty when they were suddenly told that that *“**i**f you have VHS tapes that you show in your classes, you will need to find replacements by May 6, 2013.” ** *IT also mentioned the coming “analog sunset, “which has evoked memories of the dreaded Y2K of earlier times (remember that apocalypse?). VHS death went from a lingering, gradual one (to which we seem to be slowly adapting) to a quick bullet to the head. Actually, it’s more like a bomb tossed into a crowd at the moment.
Re: [Videolib] African immigrants in US
Might seem a bit odd but the Navy Corpsman in Battle: Los Angeles was a Ugandan immigrant who joined the Navy for citizenship. Just thought I'd cover the fleeting side--though I would argue that he was a really neat character! Chris On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:09 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi folks Looking for US theatrical films that feature--either centrally or fleetingly--contemporary immigrants from Africa in the US. I've got The Visitor. Jim Sheridan's In America doesn't count (I discovered to my surprise that it was made in the UK). And pls no Eddie Murphy Coming to America... gary Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. --Francois Truffaut 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] Censorship from Discovery ?
I'm not sure I like the phrase Americans are skeptical of climate change. Lumping us all into one basket is as ignorant as, I don't know, refusing to air part of a documentary that deals with climate change? :p I guess Discovery took a look at who their largest viewing demographic was and decided they didn't want to cause anyone to think outside of the bubble. Sad, but I've noticed a decline in the quality of Discovery shows in the past while so it doesn't surprise me they wouldn't look to challenge deeply held beliefs with scientific observation. I live in Southern California where we once actually had seasons and regular precipitation and it would snow in the mountains (and a couple times in the valleys!) Now we just have heat all year long with very little rainfall. That's climate change in action in my local area that I can observe and it's happening at an alarming rate all over the world! We'll all be gone in December of 2012 anyway, right? :p I think I saw a documentary on that on some channel or other :p Chris Drake Supervisor of Library Media Services La Sierra University On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jessica Rosner jessicapros...@gmail.comwrote: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/discovery_channel_passes_on_climate_change_documen.php?ref=fpblg -- 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 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] Who do you report to?
I report to Public Services...although our Public Services director moved on to another position at the University so until that position is filled I report to the Director of the Library. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Widzinski, Lori w...@buffalo.edu wrote: Greetings, I see by the Videolib Archives that this question hasn’t been asked in a while, and so I’ll pose it to the group this morning. To those of you in media centers in academic libraries, to whom do you report? Public Services? Library Director? Collections? ** ** Thanks! Lori Widzinski Head, Multimedia Collections and Services University at Buffalo Libraries State University of New York ** ** 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] Reserve situation with Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
I've had an interesting situation arise with a reserve video this quarter. Our usual policy is that we do not accept copies (meaning someone burned their own copy of a commercial video) of copyrighted material just as we also do not accept rental videos for placement on reserve. A professor just gave us his own DVD copy of Karl Hess: Toward Liberty which he had made from a VHS which was a film transfer of the original film. I've checked around and can not find any copies of the film available on VHS or DVD (and since our IT department took over all the AV campus support from me they threw out all the film projectors) so I would say that he is somewhat covered to use the video in class himself but I'm still very iffy about putting the copied DVD on reserve. Anyone have advice on this? My gut tells me not to do it but I honestly am not sure since the title is not available in any other format that we could reasonably be expected to attempt to use...though I think that protection is only for classroom use (thought I might be wrong and that's why I'm asking.) Thanks so much! Chris Drake La Sierra University Library Media Services 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] Reserve situation with Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
Thanks so much for the advice Gary and Jessica! The whole thing seemed wrong to me in the first place but I hadn't even considered that the professor didn't own the original film to make the VHS transfer to begin with--I'll check with him on that. I made sure to tell him yesterday that we aren't in the habit of placing copies with no written permission from the copyright holder on reserve so he's already aware that we more than likely won't be putting this on reserve. I'll also see if I can contact the copyright holder regarding this--maybe they'd want the content to get out there, you never know! Well, actually, I made a general search yesterday and found the film on YouTube--where it had been removed several times for copyright infringement--so I wouldn't tend to doubt they'd rather people obtain the film and permission to transfer it legally. Thanks again for the help! Chris 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.
