Re: [Videolib] Title Search
Would it be Pierre of the Plains? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035190/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Sheila Urwiler Director, Starke County Public Library From: Tatar, Becky blt...@aurora.lib.il.us To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 10:26 AM Subject: [Videolib] Title Search Hi, all A patron is asking about a movie, and the usual suspects are yielding no results. It's a 1942 movie called Pierre of the Plane. It may be Pierre Off the Plane, but nothing came up on IMDB, or a general Google search. Thanks in advance. Becky Tatar Periodicals/Audiovisuals Aurora Public Library 1 E. Benton Street Aurora, IL 60505 Phone: 630-264-4100 FAX: 630-896-3209 blt...@aurora.lib.il.us www.aurorapubliclibrary.org 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] Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries
I was wondering the same thing! Sheila Urwiler Director Starke County Public Library System Knox, IN From: Griest, Bryan bgri...@ci.glendale.ca.us To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Sat, May 5, 2012 11:40:54 AM Subject: Re: [Videolib] Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries Hi all! Does anyone know if any *public* librarians were contacted/consulted for this? Our concerns and usages are quite different, after all . . . Bryan Griest Glendale Public Library From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, May 4, 2012 11:47:03 AM Subject: Re: [Videolib] Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries Hi all Well...as my screed yesterday demonstrates, it's never too late to be stupid. As my friend Judy Thomas reminded me (tactfully offline), I was, indeed, surveyed for this project. I owe an apology to Judy and her hard-working crew, as well as thanks for attempting to bring at least a bit of clarity to these knotty and often maddeningly obtuse issues. I think my lashing out stems from a general and continuing frustration with the fact that, in all too many cases, policy and practice and advocacy in the areas of video copyright and licensing, fair use, etc. are often being made in the library and academic worlds by individuals and groups who have very little knowledge of or stake in either the worlds of video production and distribution, or the on-going process of video collection development and management. The direct relationship between the economic health and viability of content producers/distributors and the building of useful and diverse collections is something about which those of us actually doing media know a great deal. Not so much the pundits at ARL... My rather snarky note yesterday was penned with an apparently ill-founded fear that the right people weren't being queried, and that these misinformed responses would form the basis of best practice... In any case...I hope Judy and her team will forgive my late-career lapse in judgment. Gary Handman Dear Colleagues, The Fair Use and Video Project has posted online its document titled Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries, http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Fair_Use_and_Video/. For an introduction to the document, please see Carrie's Russell's blog post on ALA'S District Dispatch at http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/04/introducing-community-practices-in-the-fair-use-of-video-in-libraries/ / . To those of you who contributed your time and effort to answer our surveys, attend our focus groups, or comment on our drafts, we offer you our sincere thanks. This project began as an attempt by the Video Roundtable to establish a recommended body of practice in the fair use of video for educational purposes. A team of six librarians, with advice and guidance from ALA’s Office of Information Technology Policy, coordinated the process of gathering input from the media librarian community and then created a document describing our findings. We decided to focus on documenting our community practices, i.e. how librarians routinely and responsibly fulfill their mission to preserve and provide access to our cultural record. The team conducted in-person interviews at national conferences and hosted a series of focus groups at locations across the country: Boston, Seattle, Evanston, Washington, D.C. and Richmond. About eighty library staff members with varying responsibilities for buying, processing, and/or supporting the educational use of video were included in our surveys. We welcome your comments and suggestions! This is a living document and your comments may prompt revisions. If you'd like to leave a comment, please use the Comments link on the right. Please do let me know if you have any problems accessing or using the site. http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Fair_Use_and_Video/ Best regards, Judy Thomas, University of Virginia for the Fair Use and Video Working Group: Steve Brantley, University of Illinois at Chicago Nell Chenault, Virginia Commonwealth University Carleton Jackson, University of Maryland Carrie Russell, American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy Claire Stewart, Northwestern University Judith Thomas, University of Virginia Justin Wadland, University of Washington-Tacoma Judith Thomas Director, Arts and Media Services University of Virginia Library 434.924.8814 / jtho...@virginia.edumailto:jtho...@virginia.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
Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck
Hi Gary - Thank you for all your help, and good luck in your retirement! We will miss you tremendously! Sheila Urwiler Director Starke County Public Library Knox, IN From: John Streepy john.stre...@cwu.edu To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Mon, April 2, 2012 11:07:38 AM Subject: Re: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck Gary, speaking for a all the newbies who have graced this list; I want to give a very big thank you for assisting us grow beyond being newbies. You have been a source of helpful information and I became a better public servant with the help you provided. Enjoy the next phase of your life. regards jhs John H. Streepy Library-Government Publications James E. Brooks Library Central Washington University 400 East University Way Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548 (509) 963-2861 http://www.lib.cwu.edu/Documents Hand to hand combat just goes with the territory. All part of being a librarian -- James Turner Rex Libris Transitus profusum est nocens! ghand...@library.berkeley.edu 4/2/2012 8:17 AM Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls It is with a mix of melancholy, ebullience, slight trepidation, and vast relief that I announce my forthcoming retirement from the University of California Berkeley and the Media Resources Center on June 28, 2012. Today marks my 33rd anniversary with the University, and this year my 36th as a librarian (a fact which seems more than a little surreal to me). I’ve been director of the Media Center for about 28 of those years, and there hasn’t been week, good or bad, that has gone by without my murmuring a little thanks for the cosmic hiccups that allowed me to stumble into such a cool and personally rewarding gig. I simply cannot think of anywhere that I would have been happier professionally, or another position in which I would have grown and learned and contributed as much. In some sense, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who was born during the fiery appearance of Halley’s Comet, and who went out with its reappearance, 74 years later. I began my career in media in the early 80s, at the dawn of the home video age (or the “Video Revolution” as it was often hyperbolically called in the library literature at the time). I’m bowing out of the business at a time when the technologies and economics of video production and distribution, and the video content universe itself are again in a state of radical flux. Along with these changes, video collections and service in libraries are also bound to experience major tremors and evolutionary shifts. I’m not sure whether I’m leaving the scene feeling sanguine or pessimistic about this future, but in any case it’s definitely going to be an interesting and challenging next decade. I am going to miss all my long-time professional pals profoundly, both those on the library side and the distributor side of the fence. I grew up with a number of you in this field, and along the way you’ve become a kind of extended workaday family, complete with the obstreperous get-togethers, occasional bickering, and comforting sympathy. I’m also heartened by the number of young, creative, and energetic colleagues who have hopped on board in more recent times. Definitely makes me less gloomy about prospects for the future. Not sure exactly what I’m going to do next: I’d like to continue teaching film somewhere on campus or off; I’m up for grabs as a consultant; want to write a bit; gotta catch up on all the national cinemas I’ve given short-shrift to over the years; want to log in more gym time; would like to hone my banjo and ukulele-playing chops; want to get back to freelance cartooning and illustration. At very least, I’m aiming at becoming an accomplished and well-known Berkeley flâneur and café personality. As for the fate of the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center… In light of the dire economic straits into which UC has been shoved, it is almost completely unlikely that my position will be filled any time soon. The future of the redoubtable MRC collection and website remains murky, at best. I can’t really think about all of this too much; it’s just too damn depressing to ponder, and I’ve got other things on my mind. In other words, après moi, le deluge, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. For the time being, Gisele Tanasse (MLIS), crack MRC Operations Czarina, will look after the shop. She has also graciously agreed to keep an administrative eye on videolib and videonews. (Note, however, that she’s going out on maternity leave from May until around the end of September, so you’re pretty much on your own during that hiatus. Play nice!). Gisele’s email is gtana...@library.berkeley.edu. I’ll be around and wrapping things up for the next few months. My civilian email address after June is going to be garyhand...@gmail.com and I’m also on Facebook. I’d love to stay in touch (but please don’t contact me about anything having to do with copyright or fair
[Videolib] Costs of securing AV materials
Please excuse cross-posting. Has anyone studied the costs of securing audio-visual materials, relative to the costs of lost/stolen materials? We are beginning a expansion/remodel project in our main branch, and want to compare whether it is more cost effective to continue the current practice of leaving the discs behind the Circ desk with empty cases on the shelves, or use some type of security system (locking cases, security cameras, security gates). If anyone has done this kind of study, we would appreciate the information and any conclusions you made. Thanks in advance, Sheila Urwiler Director, Starke County Public Library System Knox, IndianaVIDEOLIB 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] borrowing restrictions for movies
In my experience, this kind of policy is a holdover from when videos cost $50-$100 each. The concern was that young patrons would lose or damage them, and the repair and replacement costs were out of reach of their parents. I worked for a library with this kind of policy, and it had nothing to do with content. When the policy came up for review, I was able to successfully show that the replacement cost for DVDs should no longer be a consideration for having children check the videos out, and we changed the policy.My current library has a vocal conservative element (we are very rural), so we have an option for parents to choose whether they want their children to be able to check out videos or not. If they check "no parental consent needed", we check out any DVD, regardless of rating. If they check "parental consent required", the child cannot check out any audiovisual materials without their parent present. I still have a problem with this; however, it is worth it as a way to keep our parents happy, who are concerned that their children might check out a movie "that shows a breast.". We also do not charge any fee. Our community is very low-income, and even Netflix subscriptions are out of reach, so a $.50 or $1 charge would make it impossible for them to check out movies. Another library in the next county that charges the fee for DVD checkouts (really, rentals since they are charging) advertises that they use the money to build that collection, and they say patrons are fine with it.I'm sure you've also heard or tried to use the argument that you don't restrict the books children check out, so why restrict the DVDs (or music or video games). In my experience, this doesn't really work to convince parents. Probably because their children are less interested in smutty books than R-rated movies or M-rated video games. Good luck getting that policy changed. I hope you are successful.Sheila UrwilerPatron Services ManagerStarke County Public Library SystemKnox, IndianaFrom: Julia Churchill jchurch...@olpl.orgTo: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" videolib@lists.berkeley.eduSent: Mon, June 27, 2011 3:32:42 PMSubject: [Videolib] borrowing restrictions for movies Hello everyone, I would like your opinion on an policy that has bothered me since I took this job approximately seven years ago. Each year we revisit it and each year we keep the same policy. I work in a medium size public library that serves a population of 55,000. The borrowing policy of the library prohibits patrons under the age of eighteen from checking out any DVDs or videos. We also charge an “Insurance fee” of .50 for residents and $1.00 for non-residents per item. I know what ALA would say about restricting access to these items. However, this is not a perfect world where parents watch what their children check out from the library. We have had enough controversy at this library and I don’t think we want any more. Heaven forbid if little Johnny should take home a movie that shows a breast! We do have a vocal conservative element in the community. So my question is, what should we do? Keep the policy? Change it to allow everyone access? I should tell you that because of this policy I buy some unrated movies and plenty of R rated. Julia Churchill Audio Visual Supervisor Oak Lawn Public Library 9427 S. Raymond Ave. Oak Lawn, Illinois 60453 jchurch...@olpl.org Oak Lawn patrons can download e-books from www.mediaondemand.org 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] Foreign language materials
Hi Elizabeth - It is possible, but I know my current library would never do it - we don't have enough patrons who are interested to warrant purchasing those items, which are generally not inexpensive. At one library I worked for, the foreign language materials budget was based on census data. And I believe the % had to be pretty high - it's been several years, so I could be wrong; but I believe that our threshold was 10% of our population served had to speak a particular language for us to be able to allocate funds towards materials in that language. We had a diverse population there, so we had Spanish, Polish, Russian, and Korean materials. And still had complaints about the various languages not represented. I'm not talking about the language-learning materials, but about books, magazines, and videos published in those languages. I don't remember that we had foreign language audio books there, but I could be wrong. I would imagine that the price was prohibitive. I can certainly appreciate your frustration, and they are probably difficult to find even through interlibrary loan - but I think most libraries have difficulty spending so much money on materials very few patrons would use. Sheila From: Elizabeth Sheldon elizab...@kinolorber.com Reply-To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:46:32 -0400 To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Foreign language materials I have begged our local library to buy foreign audio books for refreshing my nascent French, German and Russian comprehension skills but my pleas have fallen on deaf ears. Is it not possible in the U.S. to order from Amazon in France or Germany and have these resources available to patrons? Best, Elizabeth Elizabeth Sheldon Vice President Kino Lorber, Inc. 333 W. 39th St., Suite 503 New York, NY 10018 (212) 629-6880 www.kiolorber.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.
