Re: [Videolib] When to put DVDs in security cases?

Hi Becky, Can you please give a link for this dispenser - it's news to me! I can only imagine a vendng machine! Like Red Box! And maybe explain your concomitant joy and dread over using it! And don't people fight each other to access this dispenser? And why is your cut off date 1950? That seems

[Videolib] When to put DVDs in security cases?

Sending on behalf of Pamela Bristah, pbris...@wellesley.edu --- Dear Collective Wisdom, Our library DVDs are open-stack, in security cases. We'd like to save money by not casing all our DVDs. Have other academic libraries tried this? If so, what categories of DVDs do

Re: [Videolib] When to put DVDs in security cases?

Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Gisele Genevieve Tanasse > wrote: > > Sending on behalf of Pamela Bristah, pbris...@wellesley.edu > --- > Dear Collective Wisdom, > > Our library DVDs are open-stack, in security

Re: [Videolib] When to put DVDs in security cases?

Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Gisele Genevieve Tanasse > wrote: > > Sending on behalf of Pamela Bristah, pbris...@wellesley.edu > --- > Dear Collective Wisdom, > > Our library DVDs are open-stack, in security

Re: [Videolib] When to put DVDs in security cases?

We had ours in security cases on the shelves. Unfortunately we had a large batch of our DVDs stolen. So, we just put out the cases and keep the discs behind the desk. This has not totally eliminated our theft problem but definitely reduced it. Most of the titles stolen are popular movies

Re: [Videolib] When to put DVDs in security cases?

Would you take a public library? We used to have security cases, and people still stole them. We now have DVD dispensers, and the new movies and tv shows go in them. My cut off date for movies is 1950, so everything since then is in a dispenser, with some exceptions for award winners (Gone