Good morning,
I'm brand new to the list. I've posted this to the PADG and Archives
list as well, but I wanted to get your thoughts on how your institution
may be handling VHS tapes. We used to have a policy in place where we
would play these tapes to prevent packing, but this hasn't been done
We maintain our VHS collection--it is actually more reliable than most DVD's we
own. We do not pack or check them on any regular basis. I have played tapes
from the 1980's that are still in very good condition. We only convert tapes
if we have permission or it is locally produced.
For all
I still have some old magnetic tape VHS from the days when they came in the
fat padded boxes. Basically the first commercial releases, and they still
play though
the transfers where never that good.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Schmitt, Mike schmi...@uwgb.edu wrote:
We maintain our VHS
We still maintain a circulating VHS collection. We will buy VHS for a faculty
member if there is no DVD available and we buying DVDs copies for VHS items
based on circulation statistics and faculty requests.
We are not actively weeding our VHS collection yet. We are allowing any VHS
tapes
It's not Friday, and it may not be a very fun topic. But i am looking for
suggestions for films related to the currently unfolding events in the
Middle East. Do you have a filmography or list or favorite film related to
Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, Arab democracy, regime change, political stability in
Hi all,
I have a faculty member who swears up and down that she use to show a doc about
Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon/ Libation bearers/ Furies) -
specifically Peter Hall's National Theatre production. It was a behind the
scenes look at the production of the play, including stage
Hi Andrew,
1) Preservation - If a user complains about a problem, we will run VHS
through the TapeChek machine to detect problems and to clean.
2) Only conversion of VHS to DVD and/or streaming so far is of ones that
were created at our institution (so we hold copyright)
3) Replacement - we
We just completed a review of the VHS holdings at ASU's west campus library.
We withdrew about 125 VHS titles for which we also had the title in DVD format.
Almost all were feature films.
We also pulled from the video stacks any VHS title that had not been borrowed
in 5 years. These titles
Are any of you up on best practices for audio reserves?
I received a question about the legalities of doing a coursepack or e-reserves
of music.
I don't have the list of songs/artists yet, but I think it's a history of pop
music class.
What resources should I take a look at for guidance?
TIA,
Hi Barbara,
You can find the Music Library Association's Statement on the Digital
Transmission of Audio Reserves @
http://copyright.musiclibraryassoc.org/Resources/DigitalReserves
In short, MLA supports the creation and transmission of digital audio file
copies of copyrighted recordings of
Hi Barb,
Hong Kong copyright law is different than USA, but if one of my faculty
members asked the question like this, I would answer this way:
If you are talking about creating a mix-CD by copying *entire tracks*, or
copying and posting entire tracks of music onto a server, it sounds like a
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