JoAnn, Excellent questions. We have been loaning media since I became the AV Librarian back in 1982 at WPUNJ. I'll try to answer the questions below in red.
Jane B. Hutchison Associate Director President Instruction & Research Technology CCUMC: Leadership in Media & Academic Technology William Paterson University http://www.ccumc.org Wayne, NJ 07470 973-720-2980 (work) 973-418-7727 (cell) 973-720-2585 (facs) [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jo Ann Reynolds Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] Resource sharing of media Hi Everyone, UConn is mulling over opening up the media collection to a wider interlibrary loan audience. ILL staff states: " Currently, the HBL only lends DVD and VHS media to CTW consortium members, Regional Campus Libraries, and BLC [Boston Library Consortium] libraries. Since ILL transactions are based upon reciprocity, this restriction is effecting our ability to borrow media from other libraries for our users. Opening the HBL media collection to unrestricting lending (at the discretion of the Interlibrary Lending Librarian) will enable us to better serve our users." We no longer have a media library and our media collection is open stacks and accessible to patrons. The regular loan period is seven days to all patrons. Reserve loans are 3 hour, longer for faculty who placed item on reserve. I am responsible for all types of reserve material for classes - books, purls, scans, personal copies, media, and streaming media - at the main campus. We serve apx. 31,000 enrollees in 900 courses at all campuses. I'm pretty sure this is going to happen and I am curious as to how other libraries handle this issue. Concerns for me are: 1. Material not being there when the faculty/students need it (and the expectation by same that it will be there). We have a booking system so we know what has been reserved by faculty for classes. Sometimes that happens, but very infrequently. 2. Transit and/or user damage. In all the years I've loaned media, we only had a couple of damages and they were records (LPs...remember them) and one VHS tape and they were replaced. 3. Lost/missing/long overdue items. The lending libraries are good about getting them back on time. If they don't then we don't lend to them again. 4. Re items 2 & 3, impact on hard to find/impossible to replace items. Those items that are hard to replace, we don't lend out. When we get a request, we look at each item to see whether we can or not. 5. A growing trend for placing media on Reserve. We currently process about 800 titles per year, thus ramping up #8. We do place those items that are out of print and hard to replace on Reserve and also heavily used items because they are needed throughout the semester. They go on general reserve. And we don't lend them out. 6. Competing uses - ILL and reciprocal borrowing vs. need for the collection to be available to classes. Just as in #1, we know what's historically needed for classes and we don't loan those materials and if they are already booked for classes, then we don't loan. For those with experience in either ILL and/or course reserves: 1. How do you handle this issue of competing resources? We are providing more licensed streaming media, so ILL wouldn't enter the picture and the content would be available to any faculty or student. 2. Are damaged items/no returns/long overdues problems? No, not really 3. If you do loan out your media collection via ILL, how's that working? It's working fine....we look at each request and decide whether we can let the title go or not. 4. What other solutions can you suggest, e.g. using ILL requests as purchase requests and/or placing heavily used items on permanent reserve? We do have some out of print titles on Reserve and heavily used items on Reserve; however if they are heavily used, then we see if we can purchase a license to stream to our campus. Thanks in advance for your input. Jo Ann Jo Ann Reynolds Reserve Services Coordinator University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library Storrs, CT 860-486-1406 [email protected] Question Reality
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