Amen.
One of the reasons I found it easy to accept a retirement incentive program.
Tilting at windmills has made my arms very tired. There have got to be better
ways to exercise!
Christine Crowley
Dean of Learning Resources
Adjunct Faculty, Theatre
Northwest Vista College
3535 N. Ellison Dr.
Sorry, I forgot the link!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0140131272/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8redirect=trueqid=1305214505sr=1-1condition=all
On 5/12/2011 11:41 AM, Helen P. Mack wrote:
Here is an example of solmething for sale by a third party.
I am enormously grateful I'm in the twilight rather than the sunrise of my
career...
And for all us bouncing baby boomersThis is good ballad
material,.
Regards
Lisa Flanzraich
Media and Reference Librarian
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library
Queens College
Room 344
718-997-3673
Oh help! Help, help, help!
I have just attended a meeting at which it was mentioned in an off-handed
remark that every VHS player in our campus classrooms will be removed over the
summer.
When I objected, and asked if there was any money being set aside to pay for
the copyright permissions
I am looking for the PBS Video Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul, an
American Masters video about Edgar Allan Poe on DVD. We own it on VHS,
but I can't seem to find it on DVD. I have looked at PBS, on Amazon, at
Action! Library Media Service, and at Midwest. Any other ideas? Thanks
in advance.
I recently looked and could only get it on VHS, so I'm curious if I missed
something!
Rhonda
Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media Access Services
William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University
One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659
rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu| 310/338-4584|
Vicky,
I've never heard of a blanket license like this. I'm guessing your best bet is
to find out what content is available on DVD and repurchase in this format.
Depending on the size of your VHS collection, it could take a while to get an
estimate on this.
We had something similar happen
Vicky,
Could you do something like get a count of your popular title videos and your
expensive documentaries, then do a random sampling of how much it would cost to
replace a few titles in each area with DVDs, and then extrapolate? So, for
example, you would tell the Powers That Be: we need
Vicky! Some other factors to consider: not all documentary films issued
in VHS format have been
converted to DVD--and perhaps many never will be. This can be also true
for feature films, but is
not as great a problem.
Also: some distributors will give you a discount on purchasing DVD
versions
I feel your pain, Vicky!
Unfortunately, even big bushels of money won't help, I'm afraid...
Some of that money could be spent on re-purchasing titles that are
available in DVD. That's definitely a fairly easy thing to do.
Beyond that...
There are few, if any, blanket anythings in this
I agree with Gary, there's no easy/cheap/legal solution to this problem. We
have over 15,000 titles on VHS, many of which are still in high demand by our
faculty and are not available on DVD. When a new classroom building opened
last year without VCRs the faculty were very unhappy to discover
If you go the route of estimating cost based on a sampling, don't forget to
include in your cost estimates the cost of new catalog records and processing
for every replaced title.
I think $25 per title is a very low-ball estimate. Cataloging and processing
often cost more than mass-market
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