Hello All,
We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that
our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the
classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS decks and because DVD
equipment is easier to use than tape decks; DVDs are more portable; they
, April 01, 2010 1:11 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] campus support for VHS
Hello All,
We just found out through an article published in our campus paper that
our campus equipment unit will no longer be supporting VHS in the
classrooms because it is too hard to fix the VHS
Where to start? So much stupidity, so little time to vent...
First of all, as you have wisely pointed out, they'd very likely be
breaking copyright. A unit such as the one you're talking about really
doesn't meet the requirements of Section 108 (regarding duplication of
physically-at-risk
Hmm--so it is going to be easier to convert 5000 VHS tapes to DVD than to keep
VHS players in working order? What will the resulting DVDs be like? I suspect
that digitizing and constructing a useful and reliable DVD will be more
expensive than buying a commercial one.
I recall a thread (this
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Hmm--so it is going to be easier to convert 5000
I sympathize with Beth, because it's the exact situation that we're
going through right now. I'm very new to the library, and apparently
there's a long history with the weeding of our VHS collection. The IT
department made the decision not to service VHS players, and they were
also under the
The most important group to be consulted here is the faculty using the
tapes -- if they were not, it's not too late to engage them in using the
power they have to demand the services they need to teach.
That means not only the collections libraries have, but the equipment to
view. If there's
A little off topic, but in academia have you noticed that IT departments can
unilaterally make decisions and do what ever they want, no questions asked,
ever, no matter what the impact. But if the Library makes a decision, all
faculty (whether or not the decision impacts them or not) go into
My campus is having the exact same problem! I used to be in charge of
both the campus AV support (meaning I installed and maintained all the
equipment that we used to play our collection) and our VHS tapes, audio
cassettes, CDs, and DVDs. A few years ago our IT department demanded
control of the
