I also agree with Christine and Dorcas. We are a small art and design school.
We circulate out-of-print art and design books worth hundreds of dollars, so
the security of our mostly replaceable DVDs does not worry me too much. When I
first arrived here a handful of our more expensive DVD titles
We are re-housing our DVD collection and will have around 1,000 of the standard
packaging keep cases available. The District of Columbia does offer recycling
of DVD cases, but I just wanted to check whether anyone wants some cases for
the cost of shipping.
Thanks,
Jacqueline
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Jacqueline L.
I agree with Susan at Wabash. The hardest part about dealing with missing
DVDs is that when they go missing you don't know they've gone missing until
someone else wants it. This is also true of course with books, but usually
there is at least some approximate book that can be provided to a
Apologies for cross-posting.
We have 3M equipment for sensitizing and desensitizing 3M security
strips on VHS tapes and DVDs. We have security pass-through gates that
are supposed to go off if an item that goes through the gate has not
been desensitized, generally designed to prevent stealing.
Do you keep your DVDs in their original cases? I once set off a
detector going into the University Bookstore, because it detected the
magnetic strip inside a DVD I had purchased elsewhere (and had already
wrapped up for mailing).
Next time it happens, take a look inside the case. Or walk
Guess it's better than Stanford getting this stuff (although SU does have
Allen Ginsberg archives)
Gary
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June 15, 2011
New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers By PATRICIA
We have a slightly different problem, ours set the gates off coming back
through, when the customer is returning them. This never happens with our
videos that are tattle-taped only DVDs. We have tried troubleshooting and we
are beginning to think it is the gates, or somehow the strip gets
