Excellent points. Fortunately, I have not had to deal with a budget crunch. But we did analyze circ against materials budget a couple years ago and found that media used 4-6% of the budget for monographs but accounted for 25% of the circulation.
Another tactic might be to assemble a list of the titles you don't have but would like to and request separate funding for that select list. I also recall a "Desert Island" video list - titles identified as essential, that you might compare against your holdings to help compile such a "Wish List" Let us know how you succed! -deg -- deg farrelly, Associate Librarian Arizona State University PO Box 37100 Phoenix, Arizona 85069-7100 Phone: 602.543.8522 Email: [email protected] Michael Brewer wrote: > A few things that can help are 1) to show how circulation for media compares > to print (which generally gets much better funding but generally has > circulation that is exponentially lower), 2) show how often media is used in > classes (and how broadly across disciplines, in order to combat the assumption > that it is all for recreation or only for film studies), 3) cite studies (or > faculty members at your institutions) that show how the use of media in > teaching can improve student learning/engagement. You might also want to talk > about the higher costs of some media, especially educational media. 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.
