[Videolib] DVD approval plans
Hello Anthony I'm a distributor of documentary quality films. Your university has already purchased one of our films The Darien Dilemma. I see no point in a somebody else distributing our films , that will raise the price and the filmmaker will not get more. Yet I have sold a few copies through suppliers that take a commission from the university, I got our asking price. See our catalogue www.docsforeducation.com Cheers Nahum Laufer Sales Docs for Education Erez Laufer Films Holland st 10 Afulla 18371 Israel VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
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Music Hunter services both CD DVD standing orders efficiently at very good prices. Your search for sound video ends here! Jay Sonin, General Manager Music Hunter Distributing Company 4880 North Citation Drive, Suite # 101 Delray Beach, Florida 33445-6552 musichunter...@gmail.com mailto:musichun...@nyc.rr.com 561-450-7152 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Anderson Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:12 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] DVD approval plans Hello! Can anyone recommend a good vendor that deals with DVD approval plans? I am particularly interested in firms that cater to the academic market and can offer documentary films from a wide variety number of distributors. Or does such a company (or companies) even exist? Many thanks in advance. Cheers! Anthony *** Anthony E. Anderson Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (213) 740-1190 antho...@usc.edu Wind, regen, zon, of kou, Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] DVD approval plans
I'll echo Gary's astute observations and comments but add a few of my that may also counter his. Approval plans do not automatically select content. They serve the purpose of weeding OUT content to be considered, the library is presented only with titles that match predefined parameters. There is no single approach to approval plans. Some ship materials automatically, for example YBPs Childrens Literature Awards program (select the winners of specific awards). Others ship books on approval. These shipments are then reviewed by selectors and accepted or returned. Another approach uses slips, automatically generated from a profile, then reviewed by selectors and ordered or not. Increasingly slips plans are being conducted with online lists. Approval plans worked well when collections budgets were robust, and especially well for very large (university) libraries serving large numbers of areas of study, and for whom Just in Case was the operating mode of collection development. But at the same time these plans did not work Several studies have shown that between 40% and 60% of the monographs added to a collection are never checked out. In short, a huge expenditure from the collections budget, plus cataloging and processing plus storage costs, wasted on materials that apparently are not being used. Enter the development of Patron Driven collection development. In this scenario records are entered into the library catalog. These records are still based on an approval profile. Then if the users access an ebook X times, or requests a print book, the library purchases the item. Also not a perfect system but with PDA 100% of the items entering the collection are used. We attempted a PDA approach to Films on Demand before they had a subscription service. It was TOO successful. For a number of reasons including lack of clarity on what constituted a use, and a hair trigger for purchasing... we outstripped the funding provided for the collection. The upside, however, was that our driving FMG to offer this approach ultimately resulted in their modifying their business model to provide a subscription service. I think there is still room for experimentation in PDA for media, and for individual, larger distributors to offer some form of approval plan. But no approval plan can provide a one stop shopping experience for media collection development. I understand that the Coutts approval plan includes some video, mostly mainstream Hollywood stuff. By the wayas a comparison of monograph use in university libraries... Last year I weeded the Fletcher Library VHS collection. I reviewed all VHS titles that were added to the collection before 2005, so had been in the collection for at least 5 years. Of those videos, only 3% had NO circulation at all. My approach was not scientific... but I think it is interested in comparison to the monograph statistics. -deg deg farrelly ASU Libraries Arizona State University P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 480.965.1403 Here's a profoundly curmudegonly take on video approval plans for academic libraries. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
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Just a note of clarification, there is a slight difference between an approval plan and a standing order plan. Approval plans tend to be designed around subject or content. With books they usually begin with a call number range and are then refined from there. So something like, send me everything in PN1997 for upper undergraduates and from university presses. Standing orders tend to be designed around other parameters. In books it might be send my anything reviewed in the New York Times, for example. We did actually pilot a standing order plan for DVDs this past year. Our criteria covered specific distributors/studios (Criterion, Zeitgeist, Film Movement, etc), award-winners (Ocsars, Emmy's etc.), and film festivals (Sundance, Cannes, etc.). I was very pleased with it because it freed up a little of my time and we got DVDs that might not have come across my radar. The one downside was cost: each DVD cost around $12.00 more than if we'd gotten it from Baker and Taylor or Ingram. And I'm afraid that in these tight budget times we may not be able to continue with it. Cheers, Matt Matt Ball Media and Collections Librarian University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 mattb...@virginia.edumailto:mattb...@virginia.edu | 434-924-3812 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] on behalf of Anthony Anderson [antho...@usc.edu] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:12 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] DVD approval plans Hello! Can anyone recommend a good vendor that deals with DVD approval plans? I am particularly interested in firms that cater to the academic market and can offer documentary films from a wide variety number of distributors. Or does such a company (or companies) even exist? Many thanks in advance. Cheers! Anthony *** Anthony E. Anderson Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (213) 740-1190 antho...@usc.edumailto:antho...@usc.edu Wind, regen, zon, of kou, Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
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Hi James, Our clients set the criteria that we work with for their individual plans. Some want certain labels/studios, performers, genre, monthly budget, etc. Music Hunter carefully efficiently follows each plan providing appropriate product. We charge the same low product prices as our a la carte orders. There is never a surcharge, service charge, or handling charge at Music Hunter. Your search for sound video ends here! Jay Sonin, General Manager Music Hunter Distributing Company 4880 North Citation Drive, Suite # 101 Delray Beach, Florida 33445-6552 musichunter...@gmail.com mailto:musichun...@nyc.rr.com 561-450-7152 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:15 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] DVD approval plans Just a note of clarification, there is a slight difference between an approval plan and a standing order plan. Approval plans tend to be designed around subject or content. With books they usually begin with a call number range and are then refined from there. So something like, send me everything in PN1997 for upper undergraduates and from university presses. Standing orders tend to be designed around other parameters. In books it might be send my anything reviewed in the New York Times, for example. We did actually pilot a standing order plan for DVDs this past year. Our criteria covered specific distributors/studios (Criterion, Zeitgeist, Film Movement, etc), award-winners (Ocsars, Emmy's etc.), and film festivals (Sundance, Cannes, etc.). I was very pleased with it because it freed up a little of my time and we got DVDs that might not have come across my radar. The one downside was cost: each DVD cost around $12.00 more than if we'd gotten it from Baker and Taylor or Ingram. And I'm afraid that in these tight budget times we may not be able to continue with it. Cheers, Matt Matt Ball Media and Collections Librarian University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 mailto:mattb...@virginia.edu mattb...@virginia.edu | 434-924-3812 _ From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] on behalf of Anthony Anderson [antho...@usc.edu] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:12 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] DVD approval plans Hello! Can anyone recommend a good vendor that deals with DVD approval plans? I am particularly interested in firms that cater to the academic market and can offer documentary films from a wide variety number of distributors. Or does such a company (or companies) even exist? Many thanks in advance. Cheers! Anthony *** Anthony E. Anderson Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (213) 740-1190 antho...@usc.edu Wind, regen, zon, of kou, Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
