Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-10 Thread Gail Fedak
Good afternoon, We routinely check our VHS tapes on an RTI Tapechek, as well. We are also evaluating the collection in call # order, approximately 1000-2000 titles per year, to determine which titles faculty want to keep and which they do not. This is a high priority for us since the

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-10 Thread Randal Baier
Ah, yes, the RTI that's the machine ... so industrial, so analogue -- indeed, a glorious beast. - Original Message - From: Gail Fedak gfe...@mtsu.edu Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:48:19 PM Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections We routinely check our VHS tapes on an RTI

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-10 Thread ghandman
: Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections We routinely check our VHS tapes on an RTI Tapechek, as well. We are also evaluating the collection ... From: Kim Stanton kim.stan...@unt.edu Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 12:20:51 PM Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections We're still regularly running

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-09 Thread CROWLEY, CHRISTINE
, February 08, 2011 3:05 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections Ditto to Sandy's practice. For years we had an employee (who has retired now) do a cleaning of VHS tapes as they were returned, so actually I think our tapes are in pretty good shape. We don't

[Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-08 Thread Andy Damico
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

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-08 Thread Schmitt, Mike
@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS Collections 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

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-08 Thread Jessica Rosner
: [Videolib] VHS Collections 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

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-08 Thread Sandra Macke
-Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Damico Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:09 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS Collections Good morning, I'm brand new to the list. I've

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-08 Thread CAPLAN Victoria F
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

Re: [Videolib] VHS Collections

2011-02-08 Thread Deg Farrelly
] VHS Collections To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 4d5186a4.6060...@rice.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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